Richard Rothstein
Director
The Hitchhiker (1983)
Season 4
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
Released Nov. 23, 1983
Episode 30 min
None+
Keywords: tmdb.anthology, imdb.opening-narration, imdb.morality-play, imdb.horror-host, imdb.psychotronic-series, imdb.hitchhiker, imdb.hitchhiking + 32 more, imdb.morality, imdb.violence, imdb.revenge, imdb.obsession, imdb.fear, imdb.female-topless-nudity, imdb.surprise-ending, imdb.dark-fantasy, imdb.all-star-cast, imdb.psychological-drama, imdb.supernatural-fantasy, imdb.supernatural-drama, imdb.large-breasts, imdb.male-rear-nudity, imdb.husband-and-mistress-plan-to-kill-wife, imdb.older-man-younger-woman-marriage, imdb.naked-female-breasts, imdb.mature-woman-younger-man-marriage, imdb.1980s, imdb.incest, imdb.female-pubic-hair, imdb.cheating-husband, imdb.infidelity, imdb.female-rear-nudity, imdb.older-man-younger-girl-sex, imdb.cheating-wife, imdb.mature-woman-young-boy-sex, imdb.male-teacher-female-student-sex, imdb.two-men-one-woman-love-triangle, imdb.female-full-frontal-nudity, imdb.husband-murders-his-wife-and-her-lover, imdb.nipples-visible-through-clothing
Network: HBO
S4E1 - Fading Away
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.
Sept. 21, 1990, midnight
S4E2 - Tough Guys Don't Whine
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.
Sept. 28, 1990, midnight
S4E3 - Riding the Nightmare
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.
Oct. 5, 1990, midnight
S4E4 - Strate Shooter
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.
Oct. 12, 1990, midnight
S4E5 - Hard Rhyme
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.
Oct. 19, 1990, midnight
S4E6 - Toxic Shock
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.
Oct. 26, 1990, midnight
S4E7 - New Dawn
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.
Nov. 2, 1990, midnight
S4E8 - A Function of Control
A woman in love with her boss accidentally kills his wife. From there on things spiral out of control.
Nov. 9, 1990, midnight
S4E9 - Trust Me
A conman is in over his head, when he's forced by an attractive girl to swindle her mother.
Nov. 16, 1990, midnight
S4E10 - Windows
An artist obsessed with his paintings comes to believe that the things he drew are events from the future.
Nov. 23, 1990, midnight
S4E11 - Working Girl
A housewife catches her husband in the act with another woman and decides to shoot them both, but the mistress escapes.
Nov. 30, 1990, midnight
S4E12 - White Slaves
Two college students, who can't get a date for the evening, kidnap a woman, but end up fighting each other over her.
Dec. 7, 1990, midnight
S4E13 - Tourist Trap
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.
Dec. 14, 1990, midnight
S4E14 - Homecoming
The past comes back to haunt a charismatic white supremacist.
Jan. 11, 1991, midnight
S4E15 - Living a Lie
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.
Jan. 18, 1991, midnight
S4E16 - Made In Paris
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.
Jan. 25, 1991, midnight
S4E17 - A Whole New You
A violent criminal, preparing to testify against his old boss, goes to a clinic to have plastic surgery to conceal his identity.
Feb. 1, 1991, midnight
S4E18 - Offspring
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.
Feb. 8, 1991, midnight
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S4E19 - Secrets
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.
Feb. 15, 1991, midnight
S4E20 - New Blood
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.
Feb. 22, 1991, midnight
HBO
30 min/ep
2550 min
Nov. 23, 1983
Feb. 22, 1991, midnight
Ended
NR
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