By Peter Covino

Entertainment Editor

Last week it was the Superman Anthology. This week dad really, really wants The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Extended Edition Blu-ray for Father’s Day.

He is going to have to wait a few weeks yet. This 15-disc set, with more than 26 hours of special features arrived in the mail a few days ago, and other than oooh and ahhh at the packaging I just haven’t had time to begin the watching process.

But I already know it has to be very good. The greatest trilogy ever comes to retail outlets June 28.

I will return with a review of just how Lord of the Rings stacks up against other Blu-rays in a few weeks, for now here are a few other last minute DVDs that dad might like to own.

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It is hard to take anything FBI director J. Edgar Hoover did serious/y after all of those allegations about him wearing woman’s clothing.

But The FBI, one of the more popular crime dramas of the 1960s, goes back in time to when Hoover was one of the most powerful men in America, with or without a dress.

Made with the backing of Hoover’s office and from actual FBI files, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was the rock of this popular show.

The first part of the first season  (it aired from 1965-74) is now available from The Warner Archive.

Zimbalist plays agent Lewis Erskine, Philip Abbot is his boss and Stephen Brooks was special agent Jim Rhodes. Most likely to attract a wider audience, Erskine had an adult daughter, played by Lynn Loring, who also served as Rhodes love interest.

That format was fortunately soon dropped because it was the actual FBI cases that people wanted to see.

And there were plenty of them even in these first episodes, everything from bankrobbers to kidnappers.

Among the early guest stars in these 16 episodes are Robert Blake, Beau Bridges, Dabney Coleman, Robert Duvall, Jack Klugman, Leslie Neilsen and Burt Reynolds.

Warner Archive Collection DVDS are manufactured on demand and are only available from the website www.WarnerArchive.com.

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You can see just how far crime dramas have come from the conservative FBI series to the more hip and raw Southland series.

This is season two  of the show which is very much adult in content and language.

If you liked season one, and I very much did, this is more of the same, as it follows a police unit from the beaches of Malibu  to east Los Angeles.

The show cast includes  John Cooper (Michel Cudlitz), a seasoned Los Angeles cop, is assigned to train rookie Ben Sherman (Ben McKenzie). C Regina King, Tom Everett Scott, Michael McGrady, Kevin Alejandro and Shawn Hatosy and Jenny Gago.

The two-disc features all six episodes from the second season. A fourth season will return on TNT as well.

Southland is available from the Warner Archive Collection at www.WarnerArchive.com.

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Dad might also like The Adjustment Bureau, Matt Damon’s latest effort, but he will have to wait until it’s Tuesday Blu-ray/DVD release (Universal).

This isn’t the perfect thriller, but if you like movies such as The Matrix, Minority Report and Inception, The Adjustment Bureau should satisfy nicely.

Damon is a Kennedy-like politician — very popular with voters, but with a sometimes troubling past. He is already a New York congressman and about to win the U.S. Senator race from the state, when his past catches up with him.

But it is all part of the plan.

Men with hats follow everyone, and make sure that fate never intervenes, everything is pre-planned.

So when Damon falls in love with a dancer, played by Emily Blount, The Adjusement Bureau is up in arms. That is not part of the plan and they will do everything possible to stop it.

This is another good Blu-ray choice with a soundtrack that blasts off a home theater system. The Blu-ray also includes a bonus digital copy, always a good thing to have for personal viewing on a portable device.

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There are more dad favorites already available on Blu-ray for the first time from Universal.

Two Adam Sandler classics  Billy Madison (1995) and Happy Gilmore (1996) are a good way to make dad happy on his day. Add a six-pack and if the special guy in your life, will be in heaven if his likes silly comedy of the Saturday Night Live variety.

Billy Madison has Sandler repeating grades 1-12 if he is ever going to take over his father’s company.

Happy Gilmore, features  Sandler as  a hockey player who starts playing golf to raise money to get grandma out of a retirement home.

Both films have developed cult status through the years.