I Sing the Body Electric (The Twilight Zone)
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| The Twilight Zone episode | |||
 Scene from "I Sing the Body Electric" |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 100 |
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| Directed by | James Sheldon and William Claxton | ||
| Written by | Ray Bradbury (Based on his short story.) | ||
| Featured music | Nathan Van Cleave | ||
| Production code | 4826 | ||
| Original air date | May 18, 1962 | ||
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Josephine Hutchinson: Grandma |
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"I Sing the Body Electric" is the 100th episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The script was written by Ray Bradbury, and based on his short story of the same name, itself named after a Walt Whitman poem. Although Bradbury contributed several scripts to The Twilight Zone, this was the only one produced. Later, in 1982, the hour-long NBC television movie The Electric Grandmother was also based on the short story.
Rod Serling's narration is notable in this episode because it also appears in the middle of the story, to describe how the children spent years happily with their android grandmother and eventually grow up. Other episodes to feature Serling's narration in the middle are "Walking Distance", "Time Enough At Last", and "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air".
[edit] Plot
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.
[edit] References
- DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360
- Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090
[edit] External links
- "I Sing the Body Electric" at the Internet Movie Database
- TV.com episode page
- Full video of the episode at CBS.com
