7 gifts for the buzzer-beating, bodega-visiting, truth-seeking TV lover

The late ’s memoir, , is a more pertinent read than ever. His was a life extraordinarily well lived, one that included a remarkable 37-year tenure as the host of Jeopardy!. Trebek started his career by making the most of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation opportunities, but he eventually came to foster a love of knowledge in audiences the world over. That intellectual curiosity should lead those viewers to this memoir, which is packed with anecdotes and Trebek’s thoughts on some of the show’s most memorable contestants. The Answer Is… is bound to give the TV lover in your life a new way to appreciate the medium.List price $26, plus shipping; and other online book retailers (if you’re going independent, be sure to order early). 

or visiting for the first time, Steven Universe: The Complete Collection promises 30-plus hours of singalongs, emotionally resonant storytelling, irrepressible warmth, and daring adventures. You could stream the show, but The Complete Collection offers pages upon pages of custom-made art by Chromosphere along with 160 episodes. This DVD plenty of bonus content: minisodes, animatics, commentary for selected episodes, videos, and a singalong version of . Seriously, if you’re not staging an at-home production of “” by the end of your watch, we’ll eat our cheeseburger backpacks. $74.99, plus shipping, at , , and ; also available for purchase at

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is a bit like Hart To Hart, if Jonathan Hart died and Jennifer Hart continued their “wealthy people who solve crimes on vacation” work on her own. But the show is actually based on Kerry Greenwood’s historical mystery novels: Essie Davis stars as the forward-thinking Phryne Fisher, a very clever, very stylish (and rich) private detective who investigates crimes in the midst of the burgeoning women’s movement. You could pick up a subscription to ($59.99/year) and stream at your leisure, but this Complete Collection comes with magnetic dolls that’ll let you take Miss Fisher from tracking murderers by day to finding them guilty by night (with some great hat selections).$119.99, plus shipping, at; also available at

It’s the end of the year, and maybe you’re feeling more than a little worse for wear. You look for a new episode of , the late-night talk show equivalent of talking shit with your friends on your stoop, but somehow, you’ve already watched every new installment on Showtime (to say nothing of the Viceland iteration). Thankfully, the Bodega Boys put together a collection of life lessons and Bronx bon mots in God-Level Knowledge Darts, a ripping read that should tide you over until season three premieres (sometime in the future), and help you navigate the socially distant holiday season. When a group of 10 or more people shows up at your house trying to throw an impromptu Christmas dinner, . List price $26, plus shipping; and other online book retailers (if you’re going independent, be sure to order early). 

Generations of Star Trek captains meet to discuss the creation and evolution of Gene Roddenberry’s groundbreaking sci-fi franchise in Shout Factory!’s The Captains Collection, a series of documentaries. William Shatner, who helped launch the series in 1965 as the original James T. Kirk, interviews all the captains who have come since: Patrick Stewart (), Avery Brooks (Benjamin Sisko), Kate Mulgrew (Kathryn Janeway), Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), and Chris Pine (who plays the Kelvin timeline Kirk.) The five-disc Captains Collection includes a making-of documentary (for those who really want to go down the wormhole, er, rabbithole), “close-ups” with the actors, and a bonus disc loaded with extras, including interviews with Walter Koenig, Melissa Snodgrass, and Ira Steven Behr.$74.98, plus shipping, via

Threatening to “expose the truth” under the Christmas tree is a loaded proposition in today’s political climate. But The X-Files: The Official Archives harkens back to a more innocent—and much more fun—era of extraterrestrial cover-ups and cryptozoological phenomena. Arranged as a series of case files in the style of Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier, this book allows fans to pore over the evidence from 50 classic X-Files episodes, including season three’s “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” and season four’s “Home.” (There’s also the chupacabra episode, but that’s okay.) The emphasis here is on monsters of the week rather than the series’ overarching mythology, with clippings and commentary from Agents Mulder and Scully “stapled” to the pages of reports “damaged” in the fire set by the Cigarette-Smoking Man in the season five finale. List price $50, plus shipping; and other online book retailers (if you’re going independent, be sure to order early).