The Hitchhiker
The Hitchhiker: Season 4

Air Date

September 21, 1990

Episodes

20 episodes

The Hitchhiker

Season 4

Episodes

Fading Away

1. Fading Away

September 21, 1990
30 min

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.

Tough Guys Don't Whine

2. Tough Guys Don't Whine

September 28, 1990
30 min

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.

Riding the Nightmare

3. Riding the Nightmare

October 5, 1990
30 min

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.

Strate Shooter

4. Strate Shooter

October 12, 1990
30 min

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.

Hard Rhyme

5. Hard Rhyme

October 19, 1990
30 min

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.

Toxic Shock

6. Toxic Shock

October 26, 1990
30 min

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.

New Dawn

7. New Dawn

November 2, 1990
30 min

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.

A Function of Control

8. A Function of Control

November 9, 1990
30 min

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

Trust Me

9. Trust Me

November 16, 1990
30 min

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

Windows

10. Windows

November 23, 1990
30 min

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

Working Girl

11. Working Girl

November 30, 1990
30 min

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

White Slaves

12. White Slaves

December 7, 1990
30 min

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

Tourist Trap

13. Tourist Trap

December 14, 1990
30 min

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.

Homecoming

14. Homecoming

January 11, 1991
30 min

The past comes back to haunt a charismatic white supremacist.

Living a Lie

15. Living a Lie

January 18, 1991
30 min

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.

Made In Paris

16. Made In Paris

January 25, 1991
30 min

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.

A Whole New You

17. A Whole New You

February 1, 1991
30 min

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

Offspring

18. Offspring

February 8, 1991
30 min

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.

Secrets

19. Secrets

February 15, 1991
30 min

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.

New Blood

20. New Blood

February 22, 1991
30 min

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.