The Harrad Experiment is a movie about a fictional Harrad College where the students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1962 book of the same name by Robert Rimmer, this movie deals with the concept of free love during the height of the sexual revolution which took place in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The movie stars James Whitmore and Tippi Hedren as the married couple who run the school, and includes a young Don Johnson as one of the students who tries to go beyond the rules, and Melanie Griffith in one of her first film roles.... In The Wonder Years fourth-season episode "Growing Up", Kevin's hippie older sister is seen reading a copy of The Harrad Experiment during the family's vacation. In the Seinfeld episode "The Label Maker", George Costanza describes his girlfriend's having a male roommate as a "bizarre Harrad Experiment" Harrad Summer was a 1974 sequel directed by Steven Hilliard Stern in which Stanley, Sheila, Harry, and Beth spend the following summer together to get to know their families.
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| Release date: | May 11, 1973 |
| Directed by: | Ted Post, Steven Hilliard Stern |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 95 Minutes |
| Producer: | Noel Marshall |
| Cinematography: | Richard H. Kline |