Brimstone

Brimstone (1998-1999) is a short-lived Fox television series, featuring a dead police detective whose mission (assigned by the Devil) is to return 113 spirits who have escaped from Hell to Earth. In 1983, Ezekiel "Zeke" Stone (played by Peter Horton) was a New York City Police detective whose wife was rape. He tracked down and arrested the offender, named Gilbert Jax, who was cleared of the charges. Furious, Stone then murdered Jax in cold blood. Two months later, Stone was killed in an unrelated event and went to Hell for Jax's death. The Devil explains in the Pilot episode that this was both because he responded to rape with murder, and because he took pleasure in the killing, which prevented it from being justice. He died one of the most decorated cops in NYC history. Fifteen years later, a breakout from Hell occurs, led by a pagan priestess named Ashur Badaktu, and 113 spirits escape. Because the Devil (played to much fan acclaim by John Glover) is powerless on Earth, he makes... full article at wikipedia