Project Immortality

"**Project Immortality**"
"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.

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

References

1 2 "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.

[Paley-1] 1 2 "Playhouse 90: Project Immortality". The Paley Center for Media. Retrieved February 20, 2021.

[CTVA-2] "Playhouse 90, Season 3". The Classic TV Archive. Retrieved October 31, 2020.

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