Project Immortality

"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.

"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 (1959-06-11)
Guest appearances
Lee J. Cobb as Lawrence Doner Michael Landon as Arthur Doner
Episode chronology

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]