The Hitchhiker

1983
The Hitchhiker

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 Fading Away Sep 21, 1990

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.

EP2 Tough Guys Don't Whine Sep 28, 1990

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.

EP3 Riding the Nightmare Oct 05, 1990

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.

EP4 Strate Shooter Oct 12, 1990

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.

EP5 Hard Rhyme Oct 19, 1990

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.

EP6 Toxic Shock Oct 26, 1990

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.

EP7 New Dawn Nov 02, 1990

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.

EP8 A Function of Control Nov 09, 1990

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

EP9 Trust Me Nov 16, 1990

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

EP10 Windows Nov 23, 1990

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

EP11 Working Girl Nov 30, 1990

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

EP12 White Slaves Dec 07, 1990

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

EP13 Tourist Trap Dec 14, 1990

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.

EP14 Homecoming Jan 11, 1991

The past comes back to haunt a charismatic white supremacist.

EP15 Living a Lie Jan 18, 1991

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.

EP16 Made In Paris Jan 25, 1991

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.

EP17 A Whole New You Feb 01, 1991

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

EP18 Offspring Feb 08, 1991

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.

EP19 Secrets Feb 15, 1991

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.

EP20 New Blood Feb 22, 1991

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.
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Released: 01 November 1983 Ended
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Country: France
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Official Website: http://www.thehitchhiker.com
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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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aldunisch Do this show, with a female with a cute butt and new stories.
Aaron1375 "Tales from the Crypt" seemed like it was on longer, while this one to me seemed like it was on for only a brief amount of time in the 1980's. From the look of it, it had a rather nice run and for the most part it was an okay show. A bit more adult oriented than say a "Tales from the Darkside" this one was on HBO so there was quite a bit of nudity to be found. The episodes I am afraid though were not always that memorable, as I have a hard time remembering the plots to most of the ones I saw. I also seem to mix up shows from "Tales from the Crypt" with this one too. It did have a similar setup to that show, however, as each episode was introduced and then summed up by a sort of host...in this case the enigmatic hitchhiker character. However, it was unlike Tales in that the show was usually more suspense and thriller oriented rather than horror oriented like both crypt and the host of other weekly shows that tended to focus on creepy things. Still, I wish I could find this on DVD and watch them again and see them uncut as most of the episodes I saw were on USA.
ScottP47 This old 1980's show from HBO is 10 times better than the stuff the studio puts out today, like Sex in the City and Sopranos. The problem is it was well ahead of its time as proven by the success of a similar show, the X-Files.The series was basically a set of independent shows, the only common them was the pre- and post-show dialogue from a mysterious hitchhiker who passes through each episode. Creepy and sexy, each show had its own moral as some (usually more than one) character would get their come-upance in the end. All sorts of Hollywood stars signed up for guest appearances, Gary Busey, Harry Hamlin, Kirstie Alley, Willem Dafoe, even KISS lead singer Gene Simmons, and many many more.I've caught rebroadcasts recently on one of the gazillion HBO channels now being broadcast (HBO Zone is what I think it is called), so it is out there someplace. The last poster and I agree on one episode "The Legend of Billy B." was my favorite too. If I remember right, it starred Kirstie Alley as a reporter trying to track down an Elvis-like rock star who was supposedly dead.Catch this show if you can.
Rachel Manning The Hitchhiker was a television series that was truly imaginative with every episode. Each episode was unique in that you as the viewer did not know what to expect. One episode you could be scared as hell and next could leave you in a state of bewilderment. This series also launched many successful acting careers such as Helen Hunt, Gary Busey and others. "The Hitchhiker" was a series that was ahead of its time. It is certainly one of the most underrated shows that I know of....not to mention the most frightening opening songs which helped set the tone for the viewer and the "hitchhiker's" journey in each episode.