TV Sound and Image

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Irish Times	[4]
New Zealand Herald	[5]

From contemporary reviews, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic found the album contained "a fair chunk of the classics from this golden age" with "sometimes perhaps tipping a little too heavily into the recognizable" but declared that it led to the soundtrack being not "only an entertaining nostalgia trip -- either for those who lived through the era or those who have always romanticized it -- but a good introduction to the pleasures of Library Music".^[1] Jim Carroll of The Irish Times gave the album a four-star review, noting that the music and themes have "endured long after plotlines or story arcs have been lost in the mists of time." and that how "the set of themes and incidental music is how downright funky some of those breaks were, a fact which has not escaped crate-diggers over the years."^[4] The review in the New Zealand Herald proclaimed it as a "inspired, head-nodding, and groove-generating stuff, though it sure owes a debt to Issac Hayes's 1969 classic Hot Buttered Soul."^[5] The review concluded that "every track is a killer, and other highlights, apart from Spiral and many of the well-known catchy ones, include Keith Papworth's fun-loving funk and bubbling bass tune Hardhitter and the lounge soul of Bullet's The Contract Man. This is more than just music to mooch too."^[5]

Track listing adapted from back of album sleeve and liner notes.^[2]

• Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Soul Jazz Records Presents: TV Sound and Image (British TV, Film and Library Composers-1956-80)". AllMusic. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
• Carroll, Jim (June 29, 2012). "Various". Irish Times. Retrieved February 15, 2021.