 Herschel Burke Gilbert

Herschel Burke Gilbert (April 20, 1918 – June 8, 2003) was a prolific orchestrator, musical supervisor, and composer of film and television scores and theme songs, including "The Rifleman" (starring Chuck Connors), "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater", and "The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor".Gilbert once estimated that his compositions had been used in at least three thousand individual episodes of various television series.