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

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

en
Drama
Crime
Created By

Lewis CheslerRichard RothsteinRiff Markowitz

First Aired on

Nov 01, 1983

4 seaons till Feb 22, 1991

Popularity: 9.7562
30 votes
Networks
(US)
(US)
Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: New Blood

Seasons & episodes

Total 4 seasons, 85 episodes

Season 1

Aired

26 Episodes
  • Episode 1Shattered Vows30 min

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

  • Episode 2When Morning Comes30 min

    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.

  • Episode 3Split Decision30 min

    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.

  • Episode 4Lovesounds30 min

    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.

  • Episode 5Remembering Melody30 min

    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.

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