The Hitchhiker (1983)
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
- Richard Rothstein
- Lewis Chesler
- Riff Markowitz
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Episode 1 - The Martyr
Release Date: 1989-04-22Deirdre manipulates Jacques into killing her wealthy older husband for her after getting his attention by pretending to be blind, but soon realises that things don't work out the way she planned when Jacques will not go away.
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Episode 2 - In Living Color
Release Date: 1989-04-29After photographer Eric Coleman takes pictures of an elderly woman's suicide, he takes on a new assistant named Madeleine, who may have a deeper connection to the dead woman than he could ever guess.
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Episode 3 - Dark Wishes
Release Date: 1989-07-01A mentally disturbed nurse concocts an elaborate plan to poison a woman so that she can steal her husband from her.
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Episode 4 - Garter Belt
Release Date: 1989-07-07A politician finds his life and his career in jeopardy when people start to find out about the dins in his past.
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Episode 5 - Shadow Puppets
Release Date: 1989-07-08A psychologist with a twisted bent takes the wrong track with a disturbed patient and learns that sometimes it's dangerous to play games.
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Episode 6 - Renaissance
Release Date: 1989-07-14When the Paris underworld finds their livelihoods threatened by a developer's plans, they take action of their own to stop it.
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Episode 7 - The Miracle of Alice Ames
Release Date: 1989-07-15A bogus preacher who has been making a living out of fake miracles finds his livelihood threatened when a real miracle takes place.
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Episode 8 - 3615 Code-Liz
Release Date: 1989-07-21Jane 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?
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Episode 9 - Her Finest Hour
Release Date: 1989-07-22Cheryl and Bruno are con artists who believe the world owes them something. When they face homelessness because the building they live in is about to be torn down, they find a new mark, Emilie Langlois, an old woman with a failing memory. Their goal is to take over Mrs. Langlois' home, but they soon realise that some memories are best left forgotten.
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Episode 10 - Together Forever
Release Date: 1989-07-28An emotionally unstable woman becomes obsessed with the idea that her husband is having an affair.
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Episode 11 - Phantom Zone
Release Date: 1989-08-04Young man on the brink of success is about to marry the woman of his dreams. However, his past comes calling.
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Episode 12 - Spinning Wheel
Release Date: 1989-08-05A female artists' nightmares cause her to lose herself in self-pity mixed with egotism.
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Episode 13 - Square Deal
Release Date: 1989-08-11An indebted conman meats his match.
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Episode 14 - Part of Me
Release Date: 1989-08-12A 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.
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Episode 15 - Fashion Exchange
Release Date: 1989-08-18A fashion designer demands too much from his model, which leads to her suicide. This gets all those he'd wronged to seek revenge.
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Episode 16 - Hootch
Release Date: 1989-09-16A Vietnam War vet is forced to leave his home that keeps him sane by his greedy sister. Tragedy ensues.
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Episode 17 - Coach
Release Date: 1989-09-30Tough, 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.
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Episode 18 - The Verdict
Release Date: 1989-11-04If Jennifer can convict Manuel Ortega in the drive-by shooting deaths of five people, she will have thirty-six convictions in a row. Unfortunately, there is little to no evidence against Manuel, and Jennifer is willing to do anything necessary, even break the law, to put him behind bars.
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Episode 19 - Hit & Run
Release Date: 1989-11-10A 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.
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Episode 20 - Studio 3X
Release Date: 1989-11-11When a television journalist's private fantasies start appearing in pornographic videos, there is a fine line between fantasy and reality.
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Episode 21 - Striptease
Release Date: 1989-11-17Two loners encounter each other and each believes they have found their soulmate.
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Episode 22 - Cruelest Cut
Release Date: 1989-11-18Men in the city are being knifed by a prostitute who wears all black. Sterling Jenkins is a hard-hearted prostitute who, despite herself, is intrigued when an attractive man named Jason asks for help in fixing his car. Although she tries to rebuff the sensitive man, Sterling allows herself to believe Jason when he tells her that he's fallen for her. It is only afterward that she realises appearances can be deceiving.
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Episode 23 - Dying Generation
Release Date: 1989-11-24After the suicide of their friend Katie, Adam Ross and Stephanie Duvall are faced with their own mortality. They learn from a friend, Brian, that he believes Katie was murdered, and that it had something to do with a fortune teller she had gone to see. Adam and Stephanie visit the same fortune teller, a woman who has let herself become so bitter she taints the life of everyone she comes in contact with.
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Episode 24 - My Enemy
Release Date: 1989-11-25Hollywood actress Jane Ambergris is so desperate to escape what her life has become she creates a new identity for herself, but it isn't long before she finds out that the person she tries to become is far worse than the person she is leaving behind.
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Episode 25 - Power Play
Release Date: 1989-12-09A producer's assistant meets his match when he agrees to housesit for his boss and falls for the sexy young woman who is supposed to be helping him out.
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Episode 26 - Pawns
Release Date: 1989-12-16A has-been musician who is down on his luck finally decides to pawn the only thing that means anything to him to make a few bucks, but realises that what he's sold is worth a lot more than he ever realised.