The Electric Grandmother (1982)
1h
Running Time
January 17, 1982Release Date
The Electric Grandmother (1982)
1h
Running Time
January 17, 1982Release Date
Plot.
To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarre way. They receive three pieces, that when joined together, give a recording for an offer for an electric grandmother. They go to a bizarre factory, where they customize their new grandmother, and within a short time, she arrives. The android is equipped with everything needed as a parent and the boys are charmed. The daughter, however, still misses her mother and she bears no welcome for this interloper.
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Cast & Crew.
Maureen Stapleton
Grandmother
Edward Herrmann
Father
Robert MacNaughton
Tom
Paul Benedict
Guido Fantoccini
Tara Kennedy
Agatha
Noel Black
Director
Charles Fields
Timothy
Madeleine Sherwood
Aunt Clara
Ray Bradbury
Writer
Truman Gaige
Old Tom / Narrator
Jeffrey Kindley
Writer
Doro Bachrach
Producer
Richard Whiting
Old Timothy
John Morris
Composer
Dortha Duckworth
Grandma Neighbor
Mike Fash
Cinematographer
Details.
Wiki.
The Electric Grandmother is a television movie that originally aired January 17, 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.