As usual, I was checking on some other things and found the following on "The
Outer Limits" Egroups Mailing List. This item concerns Leslie Stevens'
association with Orson Welles and Burgess Meredith:

>"In 1939, at the age of 15, Leslie Stevens participated in a writing contest
sponsored >by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and he won.
>
>The name of his play was: 'The Mechanical Rat': a proto-science fiction
story with >robots!
>
>Then, he went on tour with Welles' team as a gofer, extra, stand-in and
assistant to >lighting. Among the Mercury Theatre people there were Burgess
Meredith and >Agnes Moorehead."

Steven's connection to Burgess Meredith apparently goes WAY back! As Johnny
Carson would say, "I did not know that!"

Can anyone find a copy of "The Mechanical Rat" by Leslie Stevens? Sounds
like the basis for "The Outer Limits" started quite early!

The address for the above quote is:
http://www.egroups.com/message/the_outer_limits_1960s/121?

Some of the above information is verifiable at MGM's Page devoted to "The
Outer Limits":
http://www.theouterlimits.com/episodes/season_old_1960s/index.html

Other documentation of aspects of the above can be found at:
http://www.towson.edu/~flynn/tol.html

Burgess Meredith's association with Orson Welles can be confirmed at:
http://www.otrsite.com/logs/special/Orsonwel.htm

When you get to this page, use your "Find" or "Find in Top Window" command,
put in the name 'Burgess Meredith' and the productions he did for and with
Orson Welles will appear. Apparently, recordings of some or all of these old
radio shows can be obtained through this site.

Don
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