The Hitchhiker

Fictional stories are told in this television series by The Hitchhiker. Each story is usually a mysterious thriller.

Cast:Page Fletcher , Nicholas Campbell , Vincent Grass , Kirstie Alley , Shannon Tweed , Andrew Gillies , Jean-Pierre Stewart , Jill Hennessy , Daniel Briquet , Laura Favali , Garwin Sanford , Carolyn Dunn , Nadia Capone , Huguette Faget , Philippe Loffredo , Krista Bridges , Tom Heaton , Lawrence Bayne

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Lovesounds

Tue, Nov 13, 1984

Handsome audio engineer Eric Dunlap hired to install his strange top notch sound system with a mind of its own for an egotistical music conductor Kurt Hoffman, but falls hard for Hoffman's beautiful, neglected wife Veronica.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Remembering Melody

Tue, Nov 27, 1984

Self-centered yuppie lawyer Ted Miller reunites with Melody, a former flame who clings to her 60's hippie ideals. He lets her stay at his apartment, but she sees that he sold out his youthful beliefs in favor of greed and materialism.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Face to Face

Tue, Dec 4, 1984

Desperate transgender woman Nina Russell hires prominent, sleazy arrogant plastic surgeon Dr. Christopher Hamilton to create an attractive face for her. He operates on her after a night of drugging, when he is unfit to hold a scalpel.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ And If We Dream

Tue, Jan 15, 1985

Married Todd Fields teaches a high school photography class in a small quiet country town, but aspires to work in a big city and gets led astray when he falls under the seductive spell of attractive new student Roseanne Lucas.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Petty Thieves

Tue, Jan 29, 1985

Small-time crook Mickey aspires to work as a runner for drug lord Joey Stregga. To achieve this aim, Mickey sets up his innocent ex-hooker girlfriend Pearl on a date with Stregga but pays heavily for betraying her pure love for him.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Videodate

Sat, Feb 16, 1985

Predatory electronics salesman Jack Rhodes uses a video dating service to pick up lonely young women for one-night stands, but meets his match in cunning enticing Barbara, who invites Jack on a date to her high-rise apartment loft.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ A Time for Rifles

Sat, Mar 2, 1985

Lew Bridgeman and Joe Caldwell are two longtime best friends who served together in the Vietnam War. Lew and Joe wind clashing with each other over Lew's fetching wife Rae, whom both men are in love with.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Man at the Window

Tue, Mar 12, 1985

Faded playwright Arthur Brown uses electronic equipment to record private chats of other people as inspiration for his work. His subject Diane is having an affair with Carla Magnuson. When Diane's husband finds out, everyone is in danger.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Hired Help

Tue, Mar 26, 1985

Cold ruthless Kay Mason runs a garment factory and treats her illegal Mexican immigrant workers in a cruel inhumane manner. Kay meets her match in Victor, a handsome mysterious young Mexican in whom Kay develops an amorous interest.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Murderous Feelings

Tue, Apr 9, 1985

Unethical psychiatrist Dr. Peter Milne gets romantically involved with unstable Sara Kendal. His manipulation of her mind and emotions makes her illness worsen. When she can't tell dreams from reality, he becomes her rage's target.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Nightshift

Tue, Oct 15, 1985

Mean retirement home nurse Jane Reynolds runs the night shift with an iron fist and makes extra money selling the residents' jewelry to pawnshops. Jane and boyfriend Johnny try to steal a new patient's sparkling ring and trouble begins.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Out of the Night

Tue, Oct 29, 1985

After a shooting, a young teenage boy on the run from police stumbles into a hotel where the tenants are not normal.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Killer

Tue, Nov 12, 1985

Lovely young invalid Meg Kinderly has to fend for herself after she gets trapped in her spacious family mansion with a vicious killer who has just wiped out most of her family and all of the servants. But things aren't that simple.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ W.G.O.D.

Tue, Nov 26, 1985

Reverend Nolan Powers is a fire and brimstone evangelist who has achieved tremendous fame, wealth, and power from his radio program that's broadcast on a national basis from his station WGOD. A team of TV journalists do a story on Powers and his increasing popularity with the masses. However, a long-suppressed shameful secret from his dark family past threatens to destroy Powers and his current high profile status.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Man's Best Friend

Tue, Dec 10, 1985

Down on his luck yuppie Richard Shepard crashes at his buddy Carl's swanky seaside abode after he gets thrown out of his home by his fed-up wife Eleanor. Richard develops a strong bond with a mysterious large white dog who not only becomes his new best friend, but also kills anyone who angers Richard.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Ghostwriter

Tue, Jan 7, 1986

Struggling writer Jeffrey Hunt fakes his own death in order to achieve literary immortality. His unfaithful wife Debby has been having an adulterous affair with Jeffrey's publicist and best friend Tony Lynch. Debby and Tony try to make Jeffrey's staged death real, but the plan backfires.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ O.D. Feelin'

Tue, Jan 28, 1986

The various unlucky owners of a strange bag of cocaine are followed over the course of a night.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Dead Man's Curve

Sat, Nov 1, 1986

Successful romance novelist Claudia returns to her small hometown of Bolton to attend her high school reunion. Claudia gets involved in a steamy affair with handsome young resident stud Lance. However, trouble materializes in the form of jealous and sinister ex-boyfriend turned local sheriff Lee.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Curse

Tue, Feb 25, 1986

A flashy businessman finds out he owns a slum apartment building, and is unwilling to make repairs until strange things begin to happen to him.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ True Believer

Tue, Mar 11, 1986

A troubled investigator looks into the suicide of a priest in an abandoned convent.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Last Scene

Tue, Mar 25, 1986

Ambitious first-time film director Alex Nolan is having trouble eliciting a good and believable performance out of lovely, but inexperienced lead actress Leda Bedell. Alex decides to use unorthodox methods to coax more credible and effective acting from Leda for the crucial final scene of the horror movie they're working on together.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Man of Her Dreams

Tue, Apr 8, 1986

A stressed out bank employee begins having premonitions concerning a serial killer, who could be any one of the men in her life.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ One Last Prayer

Tue, Apr 22, 1986

Sweet singer Miranda and her musician partner Sean are a couple of struggling songwriters who are trying desperately to break into the rock music business. Miranda creates a sexy new image for herself in order to achieve the fame and success she desires. However, Miranda winds up paying an extremely heavy spiritual price because of said sexy image.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Perfect Order

Tue, Feb 17, 1987

A model desperate for fame hooks up with a crazed fashion photographer.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Minuteman

Tue, Feb 24, 1987

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?

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Dead Heat

Tue, Mar 3, 1987

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

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Why Are You Here?

Tue, Mar 10, 1987

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.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Homebodies

Tue, Mar 17, 1987

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.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Doctor's Orders

Tue, Mar 24, 1987

Puritanical small town mayor Jake Purly is running for reelection on a strict platform that vehemently opposes sex and pornography. However, a dark secret from Purly's shady past threatens to resurface and destroy his credibility in the form of lovely escort Dr. Rita de Roy.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ The Legendary Billy B.

Tue, Mar 31, 1987

Eager and unscrupulous tabloid newspaper reporter Jane L. will go to any length to score a juicy scoop. Jane L. gets in way over her head when she goes snooping around a remote rural mansion in search of Billy Baltimore, a legendary 60s acid rock guitarist who reportedly died twenty years ago.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ In the Name of Love

Tue, Apr 7, 1987

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.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Made for Each Other

Tue, Apr 14, 1987

Loud, arrogant, and obnoxious criminal Trout feels a strong kinship with and develops an immediate affinity for nerdy, mild-mannered, and soft-spoken serial killer Wax. However, the close bond between these two radically contrasting lunatics falls apart after the pair pick up a brash prostitute.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Joker

Tue, Apr 21, 1987

Deranged Peter relentlessly stalks and terrorizes Teresa, a lovely young lady who Peter thinks is his ex-wife Melissa. Peter frightens Teresa out of her wits by playing a series of cruel jokes on her.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Best Shot

Tue, Apr 28, 1987

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.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Secret Ingredient

Tue, May 5, 1987

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

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Cabin Fever

Tue, May 12, 1987

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

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ The Martyr

Sat, Apr 22, 1989

A faux blind woman uses a young man obsessed with her to get rid of her husband.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ In Living Color

Sat, Apr 29, 1989

A photographer decides not to stop a woman from committing suicide in order to get some good pictures of the tragedy. His new female assistant makes him face his lack of empathy.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Dark Wishes

Sat, Jul 1, 1989

A nurse wants the husband of her patient for herself, so she delves into black magic to get rid of her patient. However, her plan backfires.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Garter Belt

Fri, Jul 7, 1989

American diplomat in Paris, who built his career on shady dealings, loses everything when everyone suddenly become aware of the skeletons in his closet.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ Shadow Puppets

Sat, Jul 8, 1989

A psychologist causes the terrors of a disturbed patient he's treating to haunt him.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ Renaissance

Fri, Jul 14, 1989

The Parisian underworld clashes with a greedy developer, whose plans are not in line with theirs.

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ The Miracle of Alice Ames

Tue, Jan 9, 1990

Bogus preacher Brother Charles preys upon the misfortune of attractive young homeless women by leading them toward prostitution under the guise of spreading "brotherly love." The fake priest's scam comes to a sudden halt when mysterious stigmata appear on the hands of his latest flock member Alice Ames as she performs her "mission."

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Code Liz

Fri, Jul 21, 1989

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?

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ Her Finest Hour

Sat, Jul 22, 1989

A homeless conman couple tries to swindle a seemingly senile old lady out of her home by trying to convince her that the war is still on. Big mistake.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ Together Forever

Fri, Jul 28, 1989

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

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ Phantom Zone

Fri, Aug 4, 1989

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

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ Spinning Wheel

Sat, Aug 5, 1989

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

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ Square Deal

Fri, Aug 11, 1989

An indebted conman meats his match.

14Season 5

S5.E14 ∙ Part of Me

Sat, Aug 12, 1989

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.

15Season 5

S5.E15 ∙ Fashion Exchange

Fri, Aug 18, 1989

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

16Season 5

S5.E16 ∙ Hootch

Sat, Sep 16, 1989

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

17Season 5

S5.E17 ∙ Coach

Sat, Sep 30, 1989

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.

18Season 5

S5.E18 ∙ The Verdict

Sat, Nov 4, 1989

Jennifer, a public prosecutor with an amazing conviction record, tried to get an alleged gang member convicted at any cost in order to keep her record impressive.

19Season 5

S5.E19 ∙ Hit and Run

Fri, Nov 10, 1989

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.

20Season 5

S5.E20 ∙ Studio 3X

Sat, Nov 11, 1989

A journalist in need of an exclusive tries to turn an artsy pornographer into one, but her own fantasies end up exposed and she can't handle that.

21Season 5

S5.E21 ∙ Striptease

Fri, Nov 17, 1989

A man who enjoys his solitude considers whether or not to let a woman with similar look on life into his world.

22Season 5

S5.E22 ∙ Cruelest Cut

Sat, Nov 18, 1989

A hardened prostitute decides to accept advances of a nice young man, who seems frank about his feelings toward her. Meanwhile, someone is killing men who frequent prostitutes.

23Season 5

S5.E23 ∙ Dying Generation

Fri, Nov 24, 1989

Two teens investigate a bitter fortune-teller, whose younger clients, including their friend, ended up committing suicide.

24Season 5

S5.E24 ∙ My Enemy

Sat, Feb 24, 1990

A successful actress is tired of her life, so she decides to pretend to be someone else. However, she loses control over her new life.

25Season 5

S5.E25 ∙ Power Play

Sat, Dec 9, 1989

Movie producer asks his newly appointed assistant to watch his house for a little while. There, he meets an attractive woman with the same task as his and things take a strange turn.

26Season 5

S5.E26 ∙ Pawns

Sat, Dec 16, 1989

A has-been rock star with financial troubles arrives at a pawn shop to pawn his trademark guitar. However, an attractive woman asks him to rob the place.

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ Fading Away

Fri, Sep 21, 1990

An ex-marine believes he's been abandoned by his peers while on a dangerous assignment.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ Tough Guys Don't Whine

Fri, Sep 28, 1990

A movie director, who sees himself as a tough guy, hooks up with the girl of a local gangbanger. The gang goes after him and he gets to test his self-image.

3Season 6

S6.E3 ∙ Riding the Nightmare

Fri, Oct 5, 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.

4Season 6

S6.E4 ∙ Strate Shooter

Fri, 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.

5Season 6

S6.E5 ∙ Hard Rhyme

Fri, 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.

6Season 6

S6.E6 ∙ Toxic Shock

Fri, 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.

7Season 6

S6.E7 ∙ New Dawn

Fri, Nov 2, 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.

8Season 6

S6.E8 ∙ A Function of Control

Fri, Nov 9, 1990

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

9Season 6

S6.E9 ∙ Trust Me

Fri, Nov 16, 1990

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

10Season 6

S6.E10 ∙ Windows

Fri, Nov 23, 1990

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

11Season 6

S6.E11 ∙ Working Girl

Fri, Nov 30, 1990

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

12Season 6

S6.E12 ∙ White Slaves

Fri, Dec 7, 1990

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

13Season 6

S6.E13 ∙ Tourist Trap

Fri, 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.

14Season 6

S6.E14 ∙ Homecoming

Fri, Jan 11, 1991

The past comes back to haunt a charismatic white supremacist.

15Season 6

S6.E15 ∙ Living a Lie

Fri, 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.

16Season 6

S6.E16 ∙ Made in Paris

Fri, 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.

17Season 6

S6.E17 ∙ A Whole New You

Fri, Feb 1, 1991

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

18Season 6

S6.E18 ∙ Offspring

Fri, Feb 8, 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.

19Season 6

S6.E19 ∙ Secrets

Fri, 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.

20Season 6

S6.E20 ∙ New Blood

Fri, 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.