The Outer Limits
Controlled Experiment
TV Flash files “Controlled Experiment” as hour 16 of 49 in the TV Flash guide — The Outer Limits (1963–1965) on ABC, season 1, episode 16, aired 1964-01-13, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E16: listed hour 16 of 49 in the The Outer Limits guide, hour 16 of 32 in season 1. It aired 1964-01-13 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Mice” (S01E15). Next is “Don't Open Till Doomsday” (S01E17).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Two undercover Martians use a time-control device to analyze the quaint human custom of murder.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Controlled Experiment sit in the The Outer Limits guide?
S01E16 is listed hour 16 of 49 — hour 16 of 32 in season 1, season 1 episode 16.
When did The Outer Limits S01E16 air?
Controlled Experiment aired 1964-01-13 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Any Control Voice cold open is the contract: do not adjust the picture. Pick a monster-forward hour from the Stefano stretch if you want literate pulp; the series is anthology, so order is optional.
In the series
Why this series still plays
There is nothing wrong with your television set — except Leslie Stevens is about to seize it. ABC's Outer Limits delivered creature-driven sci-fi anthology dread with a Control Voice cold open that still raises neck hair. The darker twin bill to Twilight Zone: more monster, slightly less sermon, two seasons that stamped a later revival.
There is nothing wrong with your television set — except Leslie Stevens is about to seize it. ABC's *The Outer Limits* (1963–1965) ran **two seasons, 49 episodes** of science-fiction anthology dread: monster-of-the-week creatures, Cold War paranoia, and a Control Voice cold open (Vic Perrin) that still raises neck hair. Joseph Stefano's producing stretch pushed literate pulp. Budget monsters became beloved anyway. Rex will twin-bill it with Serling and call the decade a sermon. Where Serling moralized, *Outer…
Filed against
- Vic Perrin as Control Voice
Vic Perrin’s Control Voice seized The Outer Limits before the picture started — there is nothing wrong with your television set, except Leslie Stevens is about to take it. ABC’s creature-driven sci-fi anthology, a cold open that still…