The Electric Grandmother (1982)

The Electric Grandmother

1982

TV Movie Science Fiction Family

Synopsis

To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarre way. They receive three pieces, that when joined together, give a recording for an offer for an electric grandmother. They go to a bizarre factory, where they customize their new grandmother, and within a short time, she arrives. The android is equipped with everything needed as a parent and the boys are charmed. The daughter, however, still misses her mother and she bears no welcome for this interloper.

Credits

Director

Noel Black

Cast

Charles Fields as Timothy

Dortha Duckworth as Grandma Neighbor

Edward Herrmann as Father

Madeleine Sherwood as Aunt Clara

Maureen Stapleton as Grandmother

Paul Benedict as Guido Fantoccini

Richard Whiting as Old Timothy

Robert MacNaughton as Tom