Project Immortality

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"Project Immortality"

Playhouse 90 episode

Episode no.

Season 3
Episode 36

Directed by

Fielder Cook

Written by

Loring Mandel

Original air date

June 11, 1959

Guest appearances

Lee J. Cobb as Lawrence Doner
Michael Landon as Arthur Doner

Episode chronology

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"Project Immortality" is an American television play broadcast on June 11, 1959 as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. The cast includes Lee J. Cobb and Michael Landon.

Plot

A brilliant man, Professor Lawrence Doner, is dying of leukemia. He is offered an opportunity for immortality by having his brain pattern used as the model for a computer program.

Cast

The cast includes the following:^[1]

Lee J. Cobb … Lawrence Doner
Kenneth Haigh … Martin Schramm
Gusti Huber … Eva Doner
Michael Landon … Arthur Doner
Patty McCormack … Ketti Doner
Paul Fix … General
Richard Carlyle … Schoonover
Frank Ferguson … DeKlasch
Barney Phillips … Colonel Bender
Don Keefer … Leech
Frederick Worlock … Dr. Samman
Joseph Sargent … Liggett
Sheridan Comerate … Driver
Azaria Port … Agassiz
Donald Foster … Laniel
William Boyett … Weiner

Production

The program aired on June 11, 1959, on the CBS television series Playhouse 90. Loring Mandel was the writer and Fielder Cook the director.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Playhouse 90: Project Immortality". The Paley Center for Media. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
^ "Playhouse 90, Season 3". The Classic TV Archive. Retrieved October 31, 2020.

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