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The Electric Grandmother

The Electric Grandmother is a television movie that originally aired January17, 1982, on NBC as a 60-minute Project Peacock special, based on the 1969 science fiction short story "I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury. It stars Maureen Stapleton and Edward Herrmann and was directed by Noel Black. Bradbury's story was originally written as a teleplay in 1962 as "I Sing the Body Electric", an episode of The Twilight Zone. The film was distributed on VHS by Coronet Video.

Plot

A widower purchases an android built in the form of a grandmother as a surrogate to his three children, Tom, Timothy and Agatha. The two boys accept the gynoid grandmother but Agatha does not until she saves her life. When the children have grown up, and no longer need her, the grandmother returns to the factory where she was built and spends time with other electric grandmothers no longer needed. She is recalled to service to help the elderly Tom, Timothy and Agatha.

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    author
    director Noel Black
    editor Dennis M. O'Connor
    genre science fiction
    keywords factory gynoid
    musicBy John Morris
    productionCompany Highgate Pictures
    publisher Coronet Video NBC