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PURCHASE THE DVD: Tales from the Crypt: The Man Who Was Death (1989)

The first season (1989) of one of my favorite TV shows was just released on the DVD Tales from the Crypt: The Complete First Season. It contains six episodes, but unfortunately, and despite what you may have read on other sites, only one episode contained nudity, and that was "The Man Who Was Death". Even so, all the episodes are great and worth watching.

The Man Who Was Death tells of a state executioner who had been happily frying people in the electric chair when suddenly capital punishment was outlawed in the state. After many years of faithful service, he was dumped by his warden, who felt he would not be able to get along with inmates as a regular guard, because he had cooked so many of them.

Bored and annoyed, he sets out to make things right by executing people who are acquitted of murder, unjustly he feels. Naturally, there's a nice gruesome twist at the end, making this and all the episodes a lot of fun.