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The Hitchhiker
1983 - 1991 6.1 (30 votes) 4 Seasons
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Drama Crime
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HBO
USA Network
Created By
Lewis Chesler
Richard Rothstein
Riff Markowitz

The Hitchhiker

He takes you places you don't want to visit alone.

Overview

A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.

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Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1983)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Shattered Vows
1983-11-23

A gold-digging young man marries a dowager then falls in love with her gorgeous stepdaughter.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: When Morning Comes
1983-11-30

Bob is a married advertising executive who enjoys picking up women throughout his travels. After picking up the Hitchhiker, he runs into a beautiful blonde who he ends up spending the night with. After hearing a report on the radio that there is an escaped blonde mental patient named Ann Marie Brown on the loose who enjoys slitting men's throats, Bob becomes convinced that the woman he picked up is really the escaped mental patient, but things are not always as they seem.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Split Decision
1983-12-14

John 'Jake' McElhaney will do anything to make a sale, absolutely anything. Faced with losing his job, he decides to make his next sale really count, and thinks he has it made when he signs on to work for the Packard twins, two women who have problems sharing and so split everything directly down the middle. Frances makes it clear straight away that she likes Jake, but Jake also plays up to Priscilla, hoping to not only sell the house for the two women but sell each of them homes as well. Unfortunately, the bond between the sisters is stronger than any bond they could form with him.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Lovesounds
1984-11-13

For months, Eric Dunlap has been hard at work on a special sound system for Kurt Hoffman, a temperamental conductor who is impossible to please. During that time, he fell deeply in love with Hoffman's much younger wife, Veronica. It isn't long before Eric realises the computer he created, which only responds to him, is something special. When Veronica realises she returns Eric's feelings and the two become lovers, Hoffman learns of his wife's infidelity and exacts his revenge on the two, but Eric's creation avenges the man who gave it life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Remembering Melody
1984-11-27

Attorney Ted Miller's world falls apart when his old friend and lover Melody shows up at his door looking for a place to stay and he mistakenly turns her down.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Face To Face
1984-12-04

Dr. Christopher Hamilton, an ambitious and pompous plastic surgeon, meets his challenge in Nina Russell, a patient in the process of a gender change. He shows up to surgery the next day unprepared and he completely botches up the procedure.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: And If We Dream
1985-01-15

Todd Fields is a married high school photography teacher. One of his students, Roseanne Lucas develops a mad and obsessive crush on him. When Todd steps over the line and sleeps with her, he finds more than he ever bargained for.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Petty Thieves
1985-01-29

Mickey is a con artist only willing to commit to one way of thinking: making the quick buck. In exchange for his life, Mickey is willing to sell his soul by giving Pearl, his girlfriend, away to drug lord, Joey Stregga. What Micky doesn't realize is that he will have to pay for selling off part of his soul.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Videodate
1985-02-16

Jack Rhodes is a salesman that attempts to wear many disguises to get what he wants: women. One day, he gets a video letter from a mysterious video-artist, Monique, who challenges him to meet her. She plays him like a fiddle and takes advantage of him. Now the tables are turned and Jeff can't escape, not even with his life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: A Time For Rifles
1985-03-02

Rae Bridgeman is caught up in a love triangle with her husband Lew and his best friend Joe. Lew finds out about their affair and decides on a late night hunting trip for all three of them. Instead of killing Joe, he accidentally kills Rae. In a panic, they drive away from the scene only to find themselves in a deadly accident.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Man at the Window
1985-03-12

An ex-drug addicted screenwriter Arthur Brown steals the life and words of Diane Hampton. Diane is struggling to maintain her marriage with her abusive jealous husband John and to keep the affair with her female lover Cathrine a secret. Arthur tips John off about Diane's affair and soon finds himself the target of John's anger.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Hired Help
1985-03-26

Kay Mason is an abusive owner of a dressmaking sweatshop. One day she is cursed by an angry worker who exclaims that she will be paid back by the devil for her actions. When Kay hires a mysterious stranger to do some odd jobs around the house, she doesn't realize that she has hired a devil in disguise.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Murderous Feelings
1985-04-09

Dr. Peter Milne, an unethical psychiatrist, abuses his position to manipulate a female patient. His mind-bending medical practices only intensify her psychosis as she can no longer distinguish reality from dream. When he finally has her act out her dreams, Dr. Peter Milne finds himself the victim of her murderous feelings.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Nightshift
1985-10-15

A ruthless nurse works at old folks' homes. Along with her boyfriend, she steals jewelry from the residents, who can do nothing to stop her. The couple gets an unpleasant surprise when her newest victim is an old man who is actually a supernatural creature that feeds on blood.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Out of the Night
1985-10-29

A young man on the run from the police takes refuge in a mysterious building where a bizarre woman, Angelica, torments him with visions of his past life while another woman tries to help him. Condemned by jeering circles of audience members, the young man is jeered on to give one final performance...only to wake up to find he is on the verge of death on an operating room table. He is at St. Angelica's Hospital, and the statue of the woman looks strangely familiar.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: The Killer
1985-11-12

Meg is a paraplegic who is ignored by her family. When she finds everyone but her brother, Jonathan, dead she assumes he killed them. While trying to figure out who is responsible, what she remembers is not what she expected.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: W.G.O.D.
1985-11-26

Reverend Nolan Powers is a money hungry radio evangelist preaching on the air waves about the bible. 0ff the air, he's a self-righteous greedy man. A tabloid news reporter, Sato, digs up the story about how the Reverend killed his brother, Gerald. Gerald's ghost comes back to haunt the Reverend, ruin his career and pay him back for causing his death.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Man's Best Friend
1985-12-10

Richard Shepard is kicked out of his house by his wife Eleanor. He takes in a stray dog that begins killing off Richard's enemies. When the dog goes for Eleanor, Richard tries to keep the dog from killing the woman he loves.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Ghostwriter
1986-01-07

Jeffrey Hunt will resort to anything to create a lucrative career as a novelist, even if it means faking his own death. His wife Debby believes he is dead and continues her affair with Tony, Jeffrey's editor. By the end, everyone must pay for their own deceptions.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: O.D. Feelin'
1986-01-28

Rat witnesses a group murder among feuding drug dealers, steals the drugs from the dead bodies and leaves the scene of the crime. The Wise Man and The Fool find her laying dead and take the package of cocaine. Unbeknownst to all of them, Mr. Big, the original owner, sends his henchmen out to retrieve it at any cost.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Dead Man's Curve
1986-02-11

Claudia now a famous novelist, returns home for her high school reunion and opens old wounds in Lee, the sheriff. Claudia finds out that Lance, her town-appointed escort, is really the son of a former high school boyfriend who blames her for his father's death. Fighting over her, Lance and Lee replay the fateful event that killed Lance's father, but this time, it is the sheriff who loses his life to Dead Man's Curve.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: The Curse
1986-02-25

Jerry Maclachlan is the owner of a rundown apartment building who promises Serita, a tenant, that he will make repairs to the building. After he becomes involved with a strange woman Tanya, he discovers a snake tattoo on his body. Both Serita and Tanya tell him how to get rid of the snake. He realizes that the two women are the same person.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: True Believer
1986-03-11

A non-believer in the supernatural, Detective Frank Sheen must investigate a priest's suspicious suicide. Upon questioning Father Dowling he learns that the convent is demonically possessed. Unbeknownst to the detective, the site used to be a convent that closed down when a Sister Theresa committed suicide. After one night in the place, he soon begins having his own suicidal feelings.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: Last Scene
1986-03-25

Alex, a former actor, tries to prove his abilities as a first-time director. In his first film he must deal with a first-time actress, Leda Bidell. When Leda realizes his scheme, she enacts the last scene with him in reality and instills in him a fear that haunts him for the rest of his life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: Man of Her Dreams
1986-04-08

Jill McGuiness is a lonely daydreaming bank officer who constantly fantasizes about her dream lover. When she dreams about murders and finds that they actually happened, she is unable to distinguish dream from reality. When she finally meets Mr. Right, Jim, she snaps out of her dream world and catches him.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: One Last Prayer
1986-04-22

Miranda and Sean are two desperate songwriters trying to make a career in the record business. When a record executive, Robbie shows interest in one of their songs, they think they are on their way. Miranda becomes a ruthless businesswoman and must face the alter ego she has created for the video.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1987)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Perfect Order
1987-02-17

Simon Hopper is considered a genius in the art world, but the demands for his models are always insanely hard to meet. Christina will do anything to be the model in his next project. But when she does get her chance, it turns out that Simon has raised the bar to a new level.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Minuteman
1987-02-24

Overbearing control freak Jeremy and his long-suffering wife Julie are a squabbling young rich couple who encounter unexpected trouble in the form of a scruffy biker and his pregnant girlfriend while embarking on a road trip to Sunnyvale. Can a surprise journey through time enable the obsessive Jeremy to successfully avert a tragic disaster?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Dead Heat
1987-03-03

A sculptor uses a drifter and his own abused girlfriend to recreate a murder/suicide.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Why Are You Here?
1987-03-10

Smarmy and opportunistic reality TV show host Jerry Rulac does an expose on the wild punk nightclub scene for the latest segment of his television program "Why Are You Here?". Jerry uncovers more than he bargained for when he decides to focus on troubled wealthy party girl Donette and her unpredictable gaggle of scary friends.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Homebodies
1987-03-17

Vicious and ruthless killer Ron and his antsy wimp partner Jimmy Lee Stoler are a couple of escaped convicts on the lam from the law. The dangerous duo break into a model home in search of a safe only to discover a family residing in said swanky abode.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Doctor's Orders
1987-03-24

Jake Purly's main platform for his campaign is to rid the world of pornography. But when his brother is found making a pornographic film, the media begins to bang on his door. To make matters worse, the actress in the film opens a flood gate of memories that Jake would rather not remember.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: The Legendary Billy B.
1987-03-31

Jane L. is willing to dig up anything on someone just to ruin their lives and get her a story. One night, her photographer gets her interested in Billy Baltimore, a musician who supposedly died back in the 70's but is rumored to be living in their area. But soon Jane realizes that when you enter someone's life, you should always make sure there's an exit.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: In the Name of Love
1987-04-07

International hit woman Jackie Dresser makes a living traveling all over the world and bumping people off for a substantial fee. Complications arise when the lonely and love-starved Jackie falls for hunky fitness instructor Johnnie while on vacation in a foreign country.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Made For Each Other
1987-04-14

Two killers briefly become friends.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Joker
1987-04-21

Peter believes that the way to win a girl's heart is have a good sense of humor. But when he tries to win back the love of his ex-wife using only pranks and elaborate setups, he learns that sometimes laughter doesn't make everything better.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Best Shot
1987-04-28

Cocky lawyer Steve and his passive buddy Brett indulge behave irresponsibly on a cross country joyride and film their exploits. After Steve runs down a man on the road and tries to hide it, consequences catch up at a remote redneck bar.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Secret Ingredient
1987-05-05

A smooth talking vitamin salesman contends with a rival, and a mysterious woman he follows home.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Cabin Fever
1987-05-12

A young gigolo stays with a washed up film director and his lonely abused wife on an isolated island.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1989)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Martyr
1989-04-22

Deirdre manipulates Jacques into killing her wealthy older husband for her after getting his attention by pretending to be blind, but soon realises that things don't work out the way she planned when Jacques will not go away.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: In Living Color
1989-04-29

After photographer Eric Coleman takes pictures of an elderly woman's suicide, he takes on a new assistant named Madeleine, who may have a deeper connection to the dead woman than he could ever guess.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Dark Wishes
1989-07-01

A mentally disturbed nurse concocts an elaborate plan to poison a woman so that she can steal her husband from her.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Garter Belt
1989-07-07

A politician finds his life and his career in jeopardy when people start to find out about the dins in his past.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Shadow Puppets
1989-07-08

A psychologist with a twisted bent takes the wrong track with a disturbed patient and learns that sometimes it's dangerous to play games.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Renaissance
1989-07-14

When the Paris underworld finds their livelihoods threatened by a developer's plans, they take action of their own to stop it.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: The Miracle of Alice Ames
1989-07-15

A bogus preacher who has been making a living out of fake miracles finds his livelihood threatened when a real miracle takes place.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: 3615 Code-Liz
1989-07-21

Jane works for a company that provides various online services including sex chat with an online sex operator. Her deadbeat husband Robert obsessively chats with operator named Liz. She tells him to kill his wife. Or is he imagining it?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Her Finest Hour
1989-07-22

Cheryl and Bruno are con artists who believe the world owes them something. When they face homelessness because the building they live in is about to be torn down, they find a new mark, Emilie Langlois, an old woman with a failing memory. Their goal is to take over Mrs. Langlois' home, but they soon realise that some memories are best left forgotten.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Together Forever
1989-07-28

An emotionally unstable woman becomes obsessed with the idea that her husband is having an affair.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Phantom Zone
1989-08-04

Young man on the brink of success is about to marry the woman of his dreams. However, his past comes calling.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Spinning Wheel
1989-08-05

A female artists' nightmares cause her to lose herself in self-pity mixed with egotism.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Square Deal
1989-08-11

An indebted con-man meets his match.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Part of Me
1989-08-12

A fast food owner has only one goal in life - to utterly destroy and humiliate his competition. However, he gets a taste of his own medicine.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Fashion Exchange
1989-08-18

A fashion designer demands too much from his model, which leads to her suicide. This gets all those he'd wronged to seek revenge.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Hootch
1989-09-16

A Vietnam War vet is forced to leave his home that keeps him sane by his greedy sister. Tragedy ensues.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Coach
1989-09-30

Tough, fierce, and intimidating high school track coach Billy Bolt zealously clings to his track record that's remained unbeaten for twenty-five years. When his runner son Kenny threatens to break his legendary mark, Bolt buckles under the pressure and risks having his heretofore spotless reputation ruined.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: The Verdict
1989-11-04

If Jennifer can convict Manuel Ortega in the drive-by shooting deaths of five people, she will have thirty-six convictions in a row. Unfortunately, there is little to no evidence against Manuel, and Jennifer is willing to do anything necessary, even break the law, to put him behind bars.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Hit & Run
1989-11-10

A deadbeat, who's abandoned his family and is on his way to meet the girl he likes, ends up in a hit and run situation. However, the man he ran over begins to haunt his conscious.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Studio 3X
1989-11-11

When a television journalist's private fantasies start appearing in pornographic videos, there is a fine line between fantasy and reality.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Striptease
1989-11-17

Two loners encounter each other and each believes they have found their soulmate.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: Cruelest Cut
1989-11-18

Men in the city are being knifed by a prostitute who wears all black. Sterling Jenkins is a hard-hearted prostitute who, despite herself, is intrigued when an attractive man named Jason asks for help in fixing his car. Although she tries to rebuff the sensitive man, Sterling allows herself to believe Jason when he tells her that he's fallen for her. It is only afterward that she realises appearances can be deceiving.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Dying Generation
1989-11-24

After the suicide of their friend Katie, Adam Ross and Stephanie Duvall are faced with their own mortality. They learn from a friend, Brian, that he believes Katie was murdered, and that it had something to do with a fortune teller she had gone to see. Adam and Stephanie visit the same fortune teller, a woman who has let herself become so bitter she taints the life of everyone she comes in contact with.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: My Enemy
1989-11-25

Hollywood actress Jane Ambergris is so desperate to escape what her life has become she creates a new identity for herself, but it isn't long before she finds out that the person she tries to become is far worse than the person she is leaving behind.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: Power Play
1989-12-09

A producer's assistant meets his match when he agrees to housesit for his boss and falls for the sexy young woman who is supposed to be helping him out.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: Pawns
1989-12-16

A has-been musician who is down on his luck finally decides to pawn the only thing that means anything to him to make a few bucks, but realises that what he's sold is worth a lot more than he ever realised.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1990)

No overview available.

20 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Fading Away
1990-09-21

When an ex-marine realises he is all on his own, he becomes convinced that he's on a dangerous mission and has been abandoned by his commanding officers.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Tough Guys Don't Whine
1990-09-28

Mickey Black is a film director with everything going for him until he seduces a woman away from her gangster boyfriend. He promises her all the glory in the world, but things take a dangerous turn when her boyfriend refuses to give her up.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Riding the Nightmare
1990-10-05

A cutthroat career woman who's having an affair with her sister's husband starts suffering from strange nightmares about a white horse symbolizing death. The ensuing melodrama blurs the lines between the psychological and witchcraft.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Strate Shooter
1990-10-12

A young man, who likes to always have his way, tries to emulate his favorite TV show and save a girl from the clutches of the criminal underworld.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Hard Rhyme
1990-10-19

A poet, who works as a teacher in prisons, steals some poetry he likes from a convict, who came up with it. He soon realizes that it is carrying some serious baggage.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Toxic Shock
1990-10-26

A man catches his friend Raskin illegally dumping toxic waste near their small town. They fight and the man is killed, but Raskin becomes exposed to the toxic materials by accident and begins hallucinating and losing his grip on reality.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: New Dawn
1990-11-02

An unfaithful husband, who lives with his wife in an artist colony, faces false accusation of murder, when his wife has had enough of his sexcapades.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: A Function of Control
1990-11-09

A woman in love with her boss accidentally kills his wife. From there on things spiral out of control.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Trust Me
1990-11-16

A conman is in over his head, when he's forced by an attractive girl to swindle her mother.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Windows
1990-11-23

An artist obsessed with his paintings comes to believe that the things he drew are events from the future.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Working Girl
1990-11-30

A housewife catches her husband in the act with another woman and decides to shoot them both, but the mistress escapes.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: White Slaves
1990-12-07

Two college students, who can't get a date for the evening, kidnap a woman, but end up fighting each other over her.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Tourist Trap
1990-12-14

A Parisian conman, who rips off tourists, who arrive in town for the first time, finds that his latest mark has turned the tables on him.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Homecoming
1991-01-11

The past comes back to haunt a charismatic white supremacist.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Living a Lie
1991-01-18

A bartender steals one of his customer's credit card and uses it to fulfill his every whim and need. What he doesn't realize is that he's just a pawn in someone's game.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Made In Paris
1991-01-25

The manager of a factory that hires illegal immigrants becomes responsible for the death of one of them. His becomes paranoid and believes that vengeful employees have cast a curse on him.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: A Whole New You
1991-02-01

A violent criminal, preparing to testify against his old boss, goes to a clinic to have plastic surgery to conceal his identity.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Offspring
1991-02-08

A meek man is being dominated all his life by his selfish mother, who wants him to stay with her forever. He reaches the breaking point after having an oedipal nightmare, during sleep one night.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Secrets
1991-02-15

A woman and her lover try to get her husband's insurance money after he suffers a deadly accident. However, they get an unexpected visitor.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: New Blood
1991-02-22

An aspiring actress is prepared to sell her soul just to be accepted into a popular unique theater troupe. However, that might actually be the actual price to be paid in this case.

Runtime: 30 min

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