Television puzzles and trivia.

Television is where most of us first learned to love a story we didn't have to finish in one sitting. This category runs across all of it: the shows your parents parked you in front of, the ones you watched alone at 2 a.m., the ones you still quote without meaning to.

You'll find Columbo shuffling around a crime scene in a rumpled coat, then a few puzzles over, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air stepping off a plane into a life he didn't ask for. Slow Horses grind through spy work nobody thanks them for. A classic variety hour and a windswept period drama sit side by side, and somehow they belong on the same shelf.

Some themes are shows. Others are the language TV handed us, like Jumping the Shark, a phrase everyone uses and few can trace.

Every puzzle works the same simple way. You flip tiles, remember where the letters hide, match the pairs, and spell the theme in as few flips as you can. The subject changes, the rhythm stays.

Pick a show you love, or one you've been meaning to get to. Either way, you already know how this goes.