The Experiment (1969 film)

The Experiment is a television play produced for the CBS Playhouse series. Broadcast in 1969, it starred Michael Douglas (credited as "M. K. Douglas") as a young scientist who puts aside his liberal principles to work for a cutting-edge chemical company.

The Experiment was broadcast in February 1969, as Michael Douglas's first television role and the only CBS Playhouse installment written by a woman, Ellen M. Violett, which earned her an Emmy award nomination.