Review by michaelstep2004

A lot of people here seem to believe that the fantastic 13-hour score of Victory at Sea was composed by Richard Rodgers -- it was not. Rodgers contributed 12 short themes composed on piano, which were then expanded and orchestrated by the great Robert Russell Bennett, who also wrote of lot of extra music for this show not inspired by Rodgers. Rodgers always gave the credit to Bennett, saying that he made the music sound so much better than it really was.

I watched this show repeatedly as a child, since it was rerun on TV continuously well into the 1960s. The episodes combine an obvious respect for the Allied sailors and soldiers who won the war with a sort of bumptious patriotism that was absolutely pervasive on TV in the 1950s. Good memories!