Leslie Stevens

Leslie Stevens
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Role:	Supervising Producer Writer
BSG Universe:	Original Series
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Leslie Stevens (3 February 1924—24 April 1998) was the supervising producer for the Original Series.

In addition to producing, he was also a director and writer for various series, amongst them McCloud, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Gemini Man.

Stevens is probably best known for his work on the 1963-65 science fiction anthology series, The Outer Limits, which he wrote and produced under Daystar Productions, an independent company that he created.

Battlestar Galactica

According to Alan J. Levi, Stevens "wrote the 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."

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."

It is known that Stevens wrote the never-to-be-produced two-hour episode, "The Beta Pirates."

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.