AW: "Stolen Time" on the Simpsons

[Cord Wiljes]

Larry Giver wrote:

> I just watched the latest(?) Simpsons episode, in which
> Bart had a stop-watch just like the one the Beagle Boys
> had in Rosa's "On Stolen Time".  He and Milhous could
> click the stopwatch once to stop time for everyone
> except themselves, then click it again to resume real
> time for all.   Did the Simpson creators steal this idea
> from Don's story?

There already was a "Twilight Zone" episode called "A Kind 
of Stop Watch" filmed back in 1963 which featured a stopwatch
which could stop time.

And I really wouldn't be suprised if the idea could be traced 
back still further to one of the old SF pulp magazines like 
"Astounding".

Cord