Hulu - The Outer Limits - Original: Controlled Experiment

A really fun episode. Very dry humor and all acting wonderfull. caroll o'conner is really great. loved it.

Today, this program could not be shown in prime time in the USA without significant editing. Why, you might ask?

Sex? Violence? Murder? Mayhem? Vulgarity? Depravity? No, that's all well and good; it's because...

...[Children: stop reading NOW, and go to another room] ...

...It's because this program actually shows people *smoking* -- and worse yet: they actually enjoy it! (heaven forbid!) -- Welcome to America: "home of the free and the brave."

{Otherwise, I agree with Cosmo Mancieri's review.}

This is one of those episodes which was simply ingenious, clever, and creative for that time, and masterfully shot using simple reverse picture and slo-mo techniques to come up with a winner. Barry Morse (of the later "The Fugitive and "Space: 1999" series) and of course Carroll O'Connor (from "All In The Family") worked superbly together. I'm sure thankful that those Poindexter-looking glasses were not written into the Archie Bunker character! Though there are no monsters or scary thing-a-ma-jigs, it's an imaginative and interesting episode which hold your attention.

I thought this one was a pretty cute riff on the "martian anthropologist" trope of social science. But they really should have called it anthropology, because they were doing ethnographic observation rather than experimenting. Aside from that, a refreshing break in tone from the grim, rubber-suited antagonists this series is best known for.

Have a look at Caroll O'Connor in a very different role from his famous Archie Bunker of "All in the Family."

Otherwise, this episode is pretty much unwatchable.

This episode had a lot of potential. Typically fine acting, done with an uncharacteristically humorous style. The tedious repetitions of the murder ruined it for me. Maybe it would have been better if I'd been sitting in a lounge chair rather than at a computer.

Same guy was in an "I Spy" ep on Hulu. 0' Conner's fellow Martian had a TV series in the 70's too, "Space 1999" maybe.

I think it's clever Martian's trying to observe a murder. Atomic weapons probly brought alien attention for real though.

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16	The Premonition	51:27	01/09/1965
15	The Brain of Colonel Barham	51:18	01/02/1965
14	Counterweight	51:18	12/26/1964
13	The Duplicate Man	51:31	12/19/1964
12	Keeper of the Purple Twilight	51:17	12/05/1964
11	The Inheritors, Part 2	51:18	11/28/1964
10	The Inheritors, Part 1	51:35	11/21/1964
9	I Robot	51:12	11/14/1964
8	Wolf 359	51:13	11/07/1964
7	Invisible Enemy	51:12	10/31/1964
6	Cry of Silence	51:15	10/24/1964
5	Demon With a Glass Hand	51:27	10/17/1964
4	Expanding Human	51:23	10/10/1964
3	"Behold, Eck!"	51:27	10/03/1964
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