TWILIGHT ZONE I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC SERIES

She adds a nice touch of humanity to her robot even if it's a bit forced. Hutchinson does her best with a limited role. The performances are mostly routine although Ms. Not much here except a lesser known story by legendary sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury. But by then, the kids have all grown up as well-adjusted adults and they cheerfully see her off to the junk-pile. They all live happily ever after until the parts start to wear out on old granny. Not until 'grandma' has a near fatal accident and bounces up with nary a scratch does the child realize the benefits of having a substitute parent that can weather any storm or situation. That isn't enough for one of the children (Veronica Cartwright) who is repelled by the 'machine' and becomes even more withdrawn. Played by old-time actress Josephine Hutchinson, this mechanical lady is nothing short of miraculous in what she can do and possesses practically infinite knowledge. Afraid that his kids will feel deserted by the loss of their mother, the man (David White of 'Larry Tate' fame from 'Bewitched') acquires a robotic 'grandmother' for them. The futuristic but simple plot evolves around a widower and his three children. It's quite a unique poem, but this episode of the Twilight Zone falls a bit flat in its execution and in what it's trying to say. Back in those days, the term 'electric' was relatively new and mostly unused. The title of this entry, 'I Sing the Body Electric,' was taken from a Walt Whitman poem written nearly 100 years earlier. Did Grandma finish the job of raising the kids in a loving environment so they could move on with their lives? There's a subtlety to the ending that offers more questions than answers, and I wonder if Serling might have given his audience more to think about than he originally intended. Was he just not around, or had he died? It's an interesting question posed for the viewer to decide. What I found particularly intriguing was that the father wasn't present at the finale as the adult children were getting ready to head off to college. So was a robot the best choice to help save the day? I don't know, other writers would have handled it differently, but this was an outside the box sort of episode. But he tackled a lot here - the death of a wife, the deep resentment a child feels for the unexplainable loss of a mother, and the attempt by a father to do the right thing for his children at a crucial point in their lives. It might seem like he did this one on the fly and fairly simplistically, and in some respects he did. I realize that Rod Serling had a challenge to distill his stories down to a mere twenty five minutes without much room for character development. Rogers (David White) understand that it will take some time to reach young Annie (Veronica Cartwright) - 'It's the heart I have to enter, a child's heart. The message of this story is expressed in Grandma's (Josephine Hutchinson) attempt to help Mr. I'm thinking of a line in Simon and Garfunkel's hit song Sounds of Silence - 'People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening'.

I wonder sometimes if reviewers of Twilight Zone episodes have really paid attention to the story. This is a sentimental episode with humor and joy, a great reminder of simpler days.

Fable? Certainly! Untrue? Not if you're lucky enough like me to have known some terrific older women who gave love unconditionally because they wanted to, not because they had to. She's angry at her late mother for leaving her, but when Nanny Doris Packer leaves, father David White realizes that they need the loving care of someone who truly cares, and that comes in the form of a computerized grandmother, played by Hutchinson. 'You're just old junk' young Veronica Cartwright screams, unable to accept the love of a mechanical grandmother. Whether or not this episode of 'The Twilight Zone' is a classic is in the eyes of the viewer, But for me, it certainly is, sentimental and nostalgic, a reminder of real grandmothers, surrogate mothers and grandmothers who showed love even without blood relation, and their memory remains decades later. But, no matter what, it's 'a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination'.A longtime Warner Brothers contract actress in the 1930's, Josephine Hutchinson didn't have the career of Bette Davis, but in checking out her credits, she certainly made her share of classics. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. They may be scary or just thought-provoking.

TWILIGHT ZONE I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC SERIES

The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. s03e23 - The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank.s03e14 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit.The Twilight Zone (1959) Season 3 Episodes. A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

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