Playhouse 90 - PROJECT IMMORTALITY

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That's our own episode reviewing this (fine!) program and its early score by the great film composer, Jerry Goldsmith. If you enjoyed this video, consider giving our podcast “The Goldsmith Odyssey” a listen. Our central focus is the work of composer Jerry Goldsmith. In addition to talking about the music, we also spend some time discussing the work the music was written for. So if you found this rare slice of vintage TV interesting and would like to hear some further conversation on it, give the show a listen and let us know what you think.

Additionally, many Goldsmith-scored episodes have proven difficult to find. We’ve been fortunate enough to uncover quite a few of them, and we’d greatly appreciate any help with digging up the rest. At the bottom are a number of missing items we’re currently searching for. If you have any information on how we might be able to track these down, please leave us a comment or send us an email at [email protected]

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Having scored a number of radio programs for CBS since 1954, in 1957, Jerry Goldsmith added writing for the live television programs Climax! and Studio One, and had scored one feature film, Black Patch. By the start of 1959, he had already scored his next two pictures, City of Fear (recorded in August) and Face of a Fugitive (recorded at the year's end).

Then we have a gap through May of 1959. This might be a fiction, as there are many projects about which we don't know, and mostly in this area, to boot, but it's still a strange looking gap in the face of 1958's Toccata for Solo Guitar, three radio programs, seven television plays and two features, and the 17 TV productions he scored from May through the end of 1959. Did he keep himself open, hoping for more features? Then in May did he kick into gear, taking every TV job he could?

It's a question, not history, barely even speculation. Just laying possible groundwork for this, his fourth project in less than a month's time after the apparent gap, the broadcast schedule as below:

1959-05-14 - Playhouse 90 - A Marriage of Strangers
1959-05-19 - Peck's Bad Girl - Lips That Touch Lipstick
1959-05-28 - Playhouse 90 - The Rank and File
1959-06-11 - Playhouse 90 - Project Immortality

It boasts a really nice, calm, un-angry performance by Lee J. Cobb, this one.

I did a little work on the picture, to make it less washed out (no loss of detail, don't worry) and boosted the volume from the original file source, so your next auto-play video or computer sound won't hit you like an alarm clock. Other uploads have the commercials intact. This particular play is best allowed to continue apace, so those aren't here. If you want the '50s TV Experience, plenty of these exist with cigarette ads intact, but this is, in my opinion, a special show, and subtleties have less effect when they're broken away from.

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We're looking for:

1/26/1956 Climax! - The Secret of River Lane
3/29/1956 Climax! - An Episode of Sparrows
4/26/1956 Climax! - Sit Down with Death
9/20/1956 Climax! - The Garsten Case
6/27/1957 Climax! - The Trial of Captain Wirtz
12/26/1957 Climax! - Shadow of a Memory
1/16/1958 Climax! - Thieves over Tokyo
2/10/1958 Studio One - Presence of the Enemy
3/3/1958 Studio One - The Fair-Haired Boy
10/16/1958 Playhouse 90 - The Long March
2/5/1959 Playhouse 90 - Child of Our Time
5/5/1959 Playhouse 90 - Made in Japan
5/28/1959 Playhouse 90 - The Rank and File
9/30/1959 The Lineup - Wake Up to Terror
10/4/1959 General Electric Theater - Hitler's Secret
10/29/1959 Playhouse 90 - Misalliance
11/18/1959 The Lineup - Lonesome as Midnight
11/22/1959 General Electric Theater - The Last Dance
11/25/1959 The Lineup - The Strange Return of Army Armitage
12/10/1959 Playhouse 90 - The Tunnel
12/10/1959 Playhouse 90 - The Tunnel
1/3/1960 General Electric Theater - Sarah's Laughter
1/17/1960 General Electric Theater - The Committeeman
1/21/1960 Playhouse 90 - A Dream of Treason
2/9/1960 Playhouse 90 - To the Sound of Trumpets
2/24/1960 Playhouse 90 - The Cruel Day
2/4/1962 GGeneral Electric Theater - Shadow of a Hero
3/6/1962 Alcoa Premiere - Of This Time, of This Place
4/15/1962 General Electric Theater "The Bar Mitzvah of Major Orlovsky" 4/15/62
4/29/1962 General Electric Theater - Mister Doc
1962-09 The Expendables (TV Movie)
6/19/1963 Kraft Mystery Theater - Shadow of a Man
9/18/1963 Ben Casey - Justice to a Microbe
1/6/1964 Breaking Point - A Little Anger Is a Good Thing
12/13/1965 The Legend of Jesse James - The Man Who Was
10/15/1968 CBS Playhouse - The People Next Door
1968 Nick Quarry
2/20/1975 Archer - Pilot “Shades of Blue” (aired as third or fourth episode)
1983 Dusty (1983 obscure TV pilot, perhaps a faulty IMDb credit?)