The Day the Earth Stood Still made an early foray into electronic music, one year before Karlheinz Stockhausen and three years before Edgard Varèse, something that was overlooked by the classical elite. 20th Century Fox later reused the Bernard Herrmann title theme in the original pilot episode of Irwin Allen's 1965 TV series "Lost in Space"; the music was also used extensively in Allen's "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" series episode, "The Indestructible Man". Danny Elfman noted "The Day the Earth Stood Still"s score inspired his interest in film composing, and made him a fan of Herrmann. "Variety" praised the documentary style of "The
The Man Who Lost the Sea head ...", "If you were the kid ..."). Shortly after its original appearance in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction", "The Man Who Lost the Sea" appeared in issue 74 (January 1960) of the French-language magazine "Fiction" (under the title "L'homme qui a perdu la mer"). Its first appearance in Britain was in the October 1963 issue of "Venture Science Fiction". "The Man Who Lost the Sea" appeared in two best-of-the-year anthologies—"The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction" (Ninth Series, 1960) and "The Best American Short Stories, 1960", as well as being reprinted in "The Fifth Annual of the