“I Sing The Body Electric” is unusual in the Bradbury canon in that it started life as a television script, became one of the author's short stories in 1969, then became a television script again when it was reimagined as the special … And when the episode is dealing with the scenes that move the plot along—like that salesman scene or the car scene or the final scene where Grandma heads back to the factory to be repurposed—there's a weird , beautiful efficiency to it.