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Alternate title(s): I Sing the Body Electric
Original release / air date: 17 January 1982
Runtime: 60 minutes
Country / region: United States
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: NBC
Production company / studio: Highgate Pictures; Project Peacock
Distributor / platform: NBC
Artificial character(s): Grandmother
Performer(s): Selina Jones
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Gynoid

Overview

After the death of their mother, three children and their widowed father order a custom-built artificial grandmother. The human-looking android is designed to raise and care for the children, although daughter Agatha initially rejects her.

ASFR Content

Grandmother is a purpose-built gynoid whose appearance, voice and characteristics are selected for the family at the factory. She lives in the home as an apparently ordinary grandmother but possesses artificial capabilities and durability beyond a human. After the children grow up she returns to the factory, where other electric grandmothers wait to be needed again.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Major

The family customises their electric grandmother

The children and their father visit the manufacturer and select characteristics for the artificial grandmother who will join their household.

Character(s): Grandmother
Scene 3
Key ASFR scene

Grandmother saves Agatha

Agatha finally accepts the artificial grandmother after Grandmother intervenes to save the child's life, demonstrating the caregiver's commitment and non-human physical capabilities.

Character(s): Grandmother
Scene 4
Major

Grandmother returns to the factory

Once the children have grown up and no longer need her, Grandmother returns to the factory and spends time with other electric grandmothers awaiting future service.

Character(s): Grandmother

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