Bradbury's story was originally written as a teleplay in 1962 as "I Sing the Body Electric", an episode of The Twilight Zone.
Widower Henry purchases an android built in the form of a grandmother as a surrogate to his three children, Tom, Timothy and Agatha.
— School Library Journal[5] Washington DC musical duo The Electric Grandmother took their name from the film.
[6][7][8] The 1987 telemovie Elektroninė senelė [lt] (Electronic Grandmother), also based on the Ray Bradbury story, aired on Central Television in Russia.
Directed by Algimantas Puipa, it starred Lithuanian actress Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė in the lead role.