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
Produced byPeter Kortner
Original air dateJune 11, 1959 (1959-06-11)
Guest appearances
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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.

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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]

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Playhouse 90: Project Immortality". The Paley Center for Media. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  2. "Playhouse 90, Season 3". The Classic TV Archive. Retrieved October 31, 2020.