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
Robert Drasnin notable TV shows as "The Twilight Zone", "Mission: Impossible", "Wild, Wild West", "Hawaii Five-0", "Time Tunnel", "Lost In Space", "Mannix", "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea". Robert Drasnin served as music supervisor at CBS for such TV shows as "Gunsmoke", "Wagon Train", "The Twilight Zone" and a host of made for TV movies. In 1959 Robert Drasnin received his M.A. in Music from UCLA in Los Angeles. That same year, while working at Tops Records, Drasnin was approached by David Pell, the head of the label, to create an Exotica album. Pell wanted a