Episode Info
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Episode number: 3x35 Production Number: 4826 Airdate: Friday May 18th, 1962 |
Co-Guest Stars
Recap
Three children, Tom, Anne, and Karen, listen in as their Aunt Nedra talks to their father George, insisting that it's been a year since his wife died and the children aren't doing well. Anne is lacking guidance and Nedra's feels she won't be getting better. Nedra notices the children and tells them that she's not pleased with how things have been going in the house. She informs them all that she'll be in touch, particularly Anne. George admits that he might be too busy and the sitters and nurses haven't been right. He asks if they're unhappy and they deny it, but he wonders how he can provide them with the continual guidance and care that they need. Tom finds a scientific magazine article with an advertisement for a company named "Facsimiles Unlimited." The ad promises that they have developed an electronic processing system in the shape of an elderly woman, "I Sing the Body Electric," and that "she" can give love and care to a family. ..Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Dana Dillaway was also in "One for the Angels."
David White was best known as Larry Tate on Bewitched, but was also seen in another Twilight Zone episode, "A World of Difference."
Vaughn Taylor was also in "Time Enough at Last," "Still Valley," "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" and "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross."
One of only five episodes that includes additional narration partway through the episode.
Episode Quotes
Opening Narration
Narrator: They make a fairly convincing pitch here. It doesn't seem possible, though to find a woman who might be ten times better than mother in order to seem half as good - except, of course, in the Twilight Zone.
Narrator: They make a fairly convincing pitch here. It doesn't seem possible, though to find a woman who might be ten times better than mother in order to seem half as good - except, of course, in the Twilight Zone.
Grandma: She'll accept me. Eventually. You see, Mr. Rogers, children are the most complicated things in the world. I could be the greatest cook in the world, the finest most exciting playmate, the most incredibly interesting companion. But those are very tiny niches, a shelf in the stomach, a small ledge in the brain. It's the heart I have to enter. A child's heart. It's a deep place, difficult to reach. But that too will come.
Grandma: Anne, Anne. You'd be surprised, my dear, how much a machine can do besides playing and cooking. This machine for example, this machine can love.
Anne: Love? Love who.
Grandma: You, Anne. I can love you, and I do. I love you more than... more than tongue can tell.
Anne: Love? Love who.
Grandma: You, Anne. I can love you, and I do. I love you more than... more than tongue can tell.
Narrator: As of this moment, the wonderful electric grandmother moved into the lives of children and father. She became integral and important, she became the essence. As of this moment they would never see lightning, never hear poetry read, never listen to foreign tongues, without thinking of her. Everything they would ever see, hear, taste, feel, would remind them of her. She was all life, and all life was wondrous, quick, electrical, like Grandma.
Grandma: You're going off to college now, you won't need me. That's the way it should be. I'm not the world. The world's out there, and it needs you.
Grandma: For a reasonable creature, I have an unreasonable dream. Some day, after... three hundred years, if I'm very wise and very good, perhaps I'll gain the greatest gift of all. Life.
Closing Narration
Narrator: A fable? Most assuredly. But who's to say at some distant moment there might not be an assembly line producing a gentle product in the form of a grandmother whose stock in trade is love? Fable, sure - but who's to say?
Narrator: A fable? Most assuredly. But who's to say at some distant moment there might not be an assembly line producing a gentle product in the form of a grandmother whose stock in trade is love? Fable, sure - but who's to say?
Cultural References
Title: The title for this episode was taken directly from the Walt Whitman poem of the same name. The word electricity wasn't added when the poem was first released in 1855, until 1867 because the term electricity wasn't a everyday term used at the time.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Rod Serling |
| • Executive Producer | Rod Serling |
| • Producer | Buck Houghton |
| • Editor | Jason H. Bernie |
| • Music | Van Cleave |
| • Set Decorator | H. Web Arrowsmith | Henry Grace |
| • Director of Photography | George T. Clemens |
| • Art Director | Philip Barber | George W. Davis |
| • Production Manager | Ralph Nelson |
| • Sound Editor | Franklin Milton | Bill Edmondson |
| • Main Title Theme | Marius Constant |
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