Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-11 (Monday)

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

The Twilight Zone S3E35 'I Sing the Body Electric' - DVR
A widower rents an android grandmother to take care of his three
children.  (Comcast)
A recent widower, needing loving care for his three young children,
orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of the children accept her,
one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.
Trivia: Ray Bradbury submitted several scripts to The Twilight Zone, but
this was the only one produced.
In the opening shot of the house, it is the same shot of the house used
in Young Man's Fancy (1962).
Ray Bradbury rewrote his teleplay as a prose story in 1969, and the
prose version became the basis for The Electric Grandmother (1982).
In the scene where Veronica Cartwright is standing on the stairs in the
family living room, behind her lining the stairway wall are several
paintings of birds. She was filming Hitchcock's "The Birds (1963)"
around this time.

Huh. All these years, I thought it was adapted from the short story. I
never realized Bradbury had written an original teleplay. It's his best
known short story!