If Santa didn't bring you a gift you were crazy about at Christmas, here's a few great new items you might like to treat yourself to.

The Doors have just issued a limited edition boxed set entitled "Perception" which includes all 6 of their studio albums. Remastered and remixed, the sound improvement is quite noticeable. Numerous (28) bonus tracks and a dozen rare live concert and music video clips are contained on 6 DVD's which also contain 5.1 Surround Sound mixes of the studio albums. All this is housed in a sharp looking box to commemorate the band's 40th anniversary. Quite a staggering body of quality work, accomplished in only 4 years as a band. As you may know, the best part is that a native Chicagoan (Ray Manzarek) was the founder and keyboardist/bassist in the band. Ray is a great guy and has shared many colorful stories with me about Jim Morrison and the band over the years. Now these stories have been gathered together with other recollections from Robbie Krieger and John Densmore and published along with many never before seen photographs in a new 304 page accompanying coffee table book called "The Doors by The Doors."

Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin also gets the boxed set treatment with all 9 of his solo works in a set called "Nine Lives." Bonus tracks (21) and a DVD with a documentary of Robert's solo career and 20 of his music videos rounds out another great collection.

Speaking of DVD's, the hit spy-spoof television series "Get Smart" created by Mel Brooks and starring the late Don Adams (who also provided the cartoon voices of "Tennessee Tuxedo" and "Inspector Gadget") is now available in single seasons, or as a complete set of all 186 episodes spread over 25 discs. As with the "Gilligan's Island" sets, the picture and sound quality have been boosted here too, and are superb. Many out-takes and special features (including the series pilot) are contained on each disc. This series spawned many catch-phrases that included "Sorry about that, Chief!", "Would you believe...?", "Missed it by THAT much!" among others. The show won 7 Emmy Awards while being nominated for 21 more and 2 Golden Globe's during it's 5 year run. Guess I wasn't the only one who liked it!