Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) was one of the movies" greatest musical dramatists. He had the remarkable ability to see a film, imagine its musical possibilities, and translate them into a compelling dramatic score that enhanced and often deepened the story being told. For fifteen years in the late 1950s and the 1960s, television also benefited from Herrmann"s genius. Much of that work was accomplished under the auspices of the television and radio arm of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Starting in late 1956, Bernard Herrmann received several television commissions from CBS. Herrmann was, when he wrote most of this music, at a high point in his cinema career, between scores for Alfred Hitchcock ("The Man Who Knew Too Much" was behind him, "Vertigo" just ahead) and the great Ray Harryhausen fantasy films (he would soon embark on "Seventh Voyage of Sinbad").