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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!