Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."
William Shatner
as Prof. Stephen Turner
Lynn Carlin
as Barbara
Ossie Davis
as Reed
Viveca Lindfors
as Mrs. Schnagel
Estelle Parsons
as Crossland
Roy Poole
as Dr. Goodman
Mike Kellin
as Mancuso
Richard McKenzie
as Mr. Dennison
Fred J. Scollay
as Dr. McBride
Stephen Macht
as Dahlquist
Lindsay Crouse
as Karen
Charles White
as Harry Vogel
