I Sing the Body Electric (The Twilight Zone)
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| “I Sing the Body Electric” | |||||||
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 Scene from "I Sing the Body Electric" |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 100 |
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| Written by | Ray Bradbury (Based on his short story.) | ||||||
| Directed by | James Sheldon and William Claxton | ||||||
| Guest stars | Josephine Hutchinson : Grandma David White : Father Vaughn Taylor : Salesman Doris Packer : Nedra Veronica Cartwright : Anne (age 11) Susan Crane : Anne (age 19) Charles Herbert : Tom (age 12) Paul Nesbitt : Tom (age 20) Dana Dillaway : Karen (age 10) Judy Morton : Karen (age 18) |
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| Featured music | Nathan Van Cleave | ||||||
| Production no. | 4826 | ||||||
| Original airdate | May 18, 1962 | ||||||
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"I Sing the Body Electric" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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[edit] Opening narration
| “ | They make a fairly convincing pitch here. It doesn't seem possible though, to find a woman who might be ten times better than mother in order to seem half as good—except, of course, in the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] Synopsis
The father of a trio of motherless children takes the children to a factory, Facsimile, Ltd., to pick out a new robotic grandmother. When she arrives, young Tom and Karen are quickly smitten by the magical "grandmother." But older daughter Anne is initially reluctant; "Grandma" reminds her too much of her own mother, who died and left her a bitter young girl. Anne tries to run away, and accidentally runs in front of an oncoming van. Grandma throws herself in front of the van and is struck, saving the girl. Anne grows to love her when she realizes that Grandma is indestructible and will not leave them like their own mother had.
Years later, when the children are grown and leaving for college, the grandmother robot explains to the children she knows her job is done. Although she will return to the factory and be recycled into a new robot to look after other children, she will share with the other electric grandmothers her experiences she has had with Anne, Karen, and Tom.
[edit] Closing narration
| “ | A fable? Most assuredly. But who's to say at some distant moment there might not be an assembly line producing a gentle product in the form of a grandmother whose stock in trade is love? Fable, sure—but who's to say? | ” |
[edit] Trivia
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- Although Ray Bradbury contributed several scripts to The Twilight Zone, this was the only one produced.
- While Serling narrated the opening and closing portions of every other Twilight Zone episode, this one is notable as one where his narration appears in the middle of the story, as he describes how the children spent years happily with their android grandmother, and eventually they grew up. Other episodes to feature Serling's narration in the middle of the episode are "Walking Distance", "Time Enough At Last", and "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air".
- "I Sing the Body Electric" is a quote from the poet Walt Whitman.
- This was the 100th Twilight Zone episode.
