On the back cover of the book, the author asks if the reader can identify no less than forty theme songs of television shows from over the past five decades. Only five escaped my memory. Thus, my "musical quotient", a term coined by the author, is pretty high.In a time when the "hummable" and recognizable theme song seems to be a thing of the past, with only a few on-air shows today possessing them, this book is an excellent reflection of the theme as well as the accompanying scores and the musicians that composed them. Names like Morton Stevens, Gil Melle', Billy Goldenberg, Bruce Boughton, as well as film composers that occasionally dabbled in television (Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Franz Waxman, and Alex North) abound in the fact-filled book.Divided into ten chapters, including a foreword and afterward, the book also has a list of "suggested listenings" wherein the reader can obtain recordings of respective themes and scores.As I said in the title, the book is a delight for those of us with fond memories of the music of the "boob tube".Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Hi, Yo, Silver!The Birth of TV Music2. Crime to a BeatCop and Detective Shows3. Head 'Em Up! Move 'Em Out!The Westerns4. You Are Traveling Through Another DimensionFantasy and Sci-Fi5. Man, Woman, Birth, Death, InfinityDrama6. Just Sit Right Back and You'll Hear a TaleThe Sitcoms7. Your Mission, Should You Decide to Accept ItAction-Adventure8. You Are ThereDocumentaries and News Programming9. Flintstones! Meet the FlintstonesCartoons in Prime Time10. My Name is Kunta KinteMade-for-TV Movies and MiniseriesAfterwardSourcesSuggested ListeningIndex