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| '''Leslie Stevens''' (3 February 1924—24 April 1998) was the supervising producer for the [[Original Series]]. | | '''Leslie Stevens''' (born 3 February 1924) is... |
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| In addition to producing, he was also a director and writer for various series, among them ''[[w:McCloud|McCloud]]'', ''[[buckwiki:Buck Rogers in the 25th Century|Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]'', ''[[w:Gemini Man|Gemini Man]]''.
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| Stevens is probably best known for his work on the 1963-65 science fiction anthology series, ''[[w:The Outer Limits|The Outer Limits]]'', which he wrote and produced under Daystar Productions, an independent company that he created.
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| == Prior to ''Battlestar Galactica'' ==
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| Stevens wrote a few plays in 1950s, such as ''Bullfight'' and ''The Lovers''. While reflecting upon ''Bullfight,'' [[Richard Colla]] remarked that "he had a lovely poetry and a lovely sense of human value."<ref>{{cite book/sswa|48}}</ref>
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| In addition to his later work in the 1960s on ''Outer Limits'', Stevens (as L. Clark Stevens) also wrote ''[[w:est: The Steersman Handbook|est: The Steersman Handbook]]'', a science fiction novel written as a non-fictional study that described a future society that arose as a result of "est people." Such "est people," with "est" meaning "Electronic Social Transformation," were described as technically minded, eclectic, and computer literate.
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| The book lead to Stevens being consulted on numerous "futurist" topics, ranging from ecology, energy, and related fields. Further, Dean Gengle notes that ''est'' "did more to liberate media-created hippies than just about any other work of its time."<reF>{{cite book | last = Gengle | first = Dean | title = The Netweaver's Sourcebook: A Guide to Micro Networking and Communications | url = https://archive.org/details/netweaverssource00geng | url-access = registration | publisher = [[Addison-Wesley]] | year = 1984 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/netweaverssource00geng/page/215 215], 322 }}</ref>
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| == ''Battlestar Galactica'' ==
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| According to [[Alan J. Levi]], Stevens "wrote the [[Saga of a Star World|original script]]. Leslie was one of my best friends. I do know that Leslie had told me at one time way before he ever got into the script that he had this great idea for a script that he was going to take to [[Glen Larson]] and talk about. Now whether in a court of law that would mean that Leslie came up with it and took it to Glen and Glen said, ‘Fine, we’re going to co-do it’ or not, I can’t tell you. I wasn’t there."<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.geocities.ws/sjpaxton/ajl.html|title=Battlestar zone interview with Alan J. Levi|date=|accessdate=30 April 2008|last=Paxton|first=Susan J.|format=|language=}}</ref>
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| Additional interviews conducted for the ''[[So Say We All: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Battlestar Galactica]]'' lead to elaboration by Levi on the above point: "The one thing about Glen [Larson] is that Glen was always the star. There was a little bit of tension between the two of them because Leslie always felt that he had made more of a contribution towards the original ''Galactica'' being done than what he had been given credit for."<ref>{{cite book/sswa|47}}</ref>
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| It is known that Stevens wrote the never-to-be-produced two-hour episode, "[[The Beta Pirates]]."
| | == Biographical Notes == |
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| Additionally, Stevens was one of two people responsible for recruiting [[Richard Colla]] as director for "[[Saga of a Star World]]," even though Colla believed that the story never rose above being "a comic book" as it pertained to the depth of story telling and characterization.<ref>{{ibid|48}}</ref>
| | == Director credits for "Battlestar Galactica" == |
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| == Notable Works ==
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| === Plays ===
| | ''See also: [[:Category:Episodes directed by Leslie Stevens|Episodes directed by Leslie Stevens]]'' |
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| * ''Champagne Complex'', 1955 CE<ref>{{cite_web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEribohfC5EC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Champagne Complex: A Light-headed Farce in Three Acts
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| * ''The Lovers'', 1956 CE<ref>{{cite_web|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Lovers.html?id=OqfPAAAAMAAJ|title=The Lovers: A Play in Three Acts
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| * ''Bullfight'', 1958 CE<ref>{{cite_web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qilO-rqPL2kC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The Marriage-Go-Round|date=11 October 2020|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>
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| === Books ===
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| * ''[[w:est: The Steersman Handbook|est: The Steersman Handbook]]'', 1970 CE
| | ''See also: [[:Category:Episodes written by Leslie Stevens|Episodes written by Leslie Stevens]]'' |
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