- "Who hasn't seen the dark corners of great cities, whose small and shabby creatures wander without purpose in the secret corners of the night? Without purpose? There are those whose purpose reaches far beyond our wildest dreams."
- ―Narrator
"Controlled Experiment" | |
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Series The Outer Limits Season 1, Episode 16 | |
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Air date | January 13th, 1964 |
Writers | Leslie Stevens |
Director | Leslie Stevens |
Starring | Barry Morse; Carroll O'Connor; Grace Lee Whitney; Robert Fortier; Linda Hutchins |
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"Controlled Experiment" is the sixteenth episode of season one of the science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits. It was written and directed by Leslie Stevens and first aired on ABC on January 13th, 1964. In this episode, the inhabitants of the planet Mars send two representatives, Phobos and Deimos, to the planet Earth to research humanity's capacity to commit murder - a concept that they find completely strange to their culture.
Synopsis[]
Cast[]
Actor | Role |
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Barry Morse | Phobos One |
Carroll O'Connor | Deimos |
Grace Lee Whitney | Carla Duveen |
Robert Fortier | Bert Hamill |
Linda Hutchins | Arlene Schnabel |
Leslie Stevens | Martian computer control |
Notes & Trivia[]
- Director Leslie Stevens is uncredited in this episode.
- Actor Barry Morse will go on to play the role of Professor Victor Bergman in the 1970s TV series Space: 1999.
- Actor Carroll O'Connor is best known for playing racist blue-collar worker Archie Bunker on the 1970s-80s sitcom All in the Family.
- First sci-fi work for actor Robert Fortier. He also appears in the episodes, "Production and Decay of Strange Particles" and "Demon With a Glass Hand"
- First sci-fi work for actress Grace Lee Whitney. She will go on to play the role of Yeoman Janice Rand on Star Trek.
- Actress Linda Hutchins also appears in the season two episode, "The Inheritors (Part 1)", where she plays a nurse.
Allusions[]
- Phobos and Deimos are named after two of Mars' moons.
Bloopers[]
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See also[]
External Links[]
- "Controlled Experiment" at IMDB
- "Controlled Experiment" at Wikipedia
- "Controlled Experiment" at the TV IV
- "Controlled Experiment" at TV.com guide
- "Controlled Experiment" at TV Rage.com
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