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 - Fading Away
Release Date: 1990-09-21When 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.
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Episode 2 - Tough Guys Don't Whine
Release Date: 1990-09-28Mickey 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.
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Episode 3 - Riding the Nightmare
Release Date: 1990-10-05A 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.
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Episode 4 - Strate Shooter
Release Date: 1990-10-12A 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.
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Episode 5 - Hard Rhyme
Release Date: 1990-10-19A 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.
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Episode 6 - Toxic Shock
Release Date: 1990-10-26A 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.
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Episode 7 - New Dawn
Release Date: 1990-11-02An 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.
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Episode 8 - A Function of Control
Release Date: 1990-11-09A woman in love with her boss accidentally kills his wife. From there on things spiral out of control.
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Episode 9 - Trust Me
Release Date: 1990-11-16A conman is in over his head, when he's forced by an attractive girl to swindle her mother.
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Episode 10 - Windows
Release Date: 1990-11-23An artist obsessed with his paintings comes to believe that the things he drew are events from the future.
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Episode 11 - Working Girl
Release Date: 1990-11-30A housewife catches her husband in the act with another woman and decides to shoot them both, but the mistress escapes.
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Episode 12 - White Slaves
Release Date: 1990-12-07Two college students, who can't get a date for the evening, kidnap a woman, but end up fighting each other over her.
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Episode 13 - Tourist Trap
Release Date: 1990-12-14A 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.
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Episode 14 - Homecoming
Release Date: 1991-01-11The past comes back to haunt a charismatic white supremacist.
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Episode 15 - Living a Lie
Release Date: 1991-01-18A 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.
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Episode 16 - Made In Paris
Release Date: 1991-01-25The 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.
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Episode 17 - A Whole New You
Release Date: 1991-02-01A violent criminal, preparing to testify against his old boss, goes to a clinic to have plastic surgery to conceal his identity.
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Episode 18 - Offspring
Release Date: 1991-02-08A 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.
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Episode 19 - Secrets
Release Date: 1991-02-15A woman and her lover try to get her husband's insurance money after he suffers a deadly accident. However, they get an unexpected visitor.
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Episode 20 - New Blood
Release Date: 1991-02-22An 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.