Toss-up.
..between the episode where the guy gets immortality (via a deal with the devil), attempts to kill himself in all sorts of ways (which all fail), in the process ends up killing someone (his wife?), and after he’s arrested, does everything he can to get convicted of murder, flippantly declaring, “Let’s give the electric chair a whirl”. The jury verdict is guilty, and the judge sentences him to LIFE IN PRISON.
and...
I’m fuzzy on this one. A guy meets up with another guy (somehow) who claims he’ll give the first guy “just what he needs”. The first thing he gives him is a pair of scissors. The guy who gets the scissors is sort of an asshole, and is making fun of the other (meek) guy for giving him scissors. But he gets on an elevator, his suit gets caught in the door, threatening to strangle him as the elevator rises. Then he remembers the scissors, and cuts himself free.
Next, the mild-mannered guy gives him a fountain pen. But it leaks! And a-hole is mad about that... until it leaks on top of his racing form and he bets on the horse it leaked next to and wins a bundle.
I was just thinking about this the other day, and I don’t recall clearly what the last gift was. I think a pair of shoes that cause a-hole to slip at an opportune time.
Now cut me some slack on this — unlike the rest of you hi-tech folks with every episode on DVD, *I’m* recollecting my favorites from memory, probably nearly 40 years ago!
Same here. I don't remember the titles of the shows. I see one I described has been mentioned by others as "Eye of the Beholder". What a great series.
I think that is “What you need”