The Hitchhiker Episode Rating Graph
Nov 1983 - Feb 1991
Nov 1983 - Feb 1991
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Browse episode ratings trends for The Hitchhiker. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of The Hitchhiker's 85 episodes.
S3 Ep13
7.3
11th Aug 1989
An indebted conman meats his match.
S3 Ep19
7.0
10th Nov 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.
S1 Ep6
7.0
4th Dec 1984
Dr. Christopher Hamilton, an ambitious and pompous plastic surgeon, meets his challenge in Nina Russell, a patient in the process of a gender change. He shows up to surgery the next day unprepared and he completely botches up the procedure.
S1 Ep3
7.0
14th Dec 1983
John 'Jake' McElhaney will do anything to make a sale, absolutely anything. Faced with losing his job, he decides to make his next sale really count, and thinks he has it made when he signs on to work for the Packard twins, two women who have problems sharing and so split everything directly down the middle. Frances makes it clear straight away that she likes Jake, but Jake also plays up to Priscilla, hoping to not only sell the house for the two women but sell each of them homes as well. Unfortunately, the bond between the sisters is stronger than any bond they could form with him.
S1 Ep2
6.9
30th Nov 1983
Bob is a married advertising executive who enjoys picking up women throughout his travels. After picking up the Hitchhiker, he runs into a beautiful blonde who he ends up spending the night with. After hearing a report on the radio that there is an escaped blonde mental patient named Ann Marie Brown on the loose who enjoys slitting men's throats, Bob becomes convinced that the woman he picked up is really the escaped mental patient, but things are not always as they seem.
S3 Ep25
6.8
9th Dec 1989
A 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.
S4 Ep17
6.8
1st Feb 1991
A violent criminal, preparing to testify against his old boss, goes to a clinic to have plastic surgery to conceal his identity.
S1 Ep1
6.7
23rd Nov 1983
A gold-digging young man marries a dowager then falls in love with her gorgeous stepdaughter.
S3 Ep26
6.6
16th Dec 1989
A 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.
S1 Ep22
6.6
25th Feb 1986
Jerry Maclachlan is the owner of a rundown apartment building who promises Serita, a tenant, that he will make repairs to the building. After he becomes involved with a strange woman Tanya, he discovers a snake tattoo on his body. Both Serita and Tanya tell him how to get rid of the snake. He realizes that the two women are the same person.
S4 Ep16
6.5
25th Jan 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.
S4 Ep15
6.5
18th Jan 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.
S4 Ep13
6.5
14th Dec 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.
S2 Ep2
6.5
24th Feb 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?
S1 Ep18
6.4
10th Dec 1985
Richard Shepard is kicked out of his house by his wife Eleanor. He takes in a stray dog that begins killing off Richard's enemies. When the dog goes for Eleanor, Richard tries to keep the dog from killing the woman he loves.
S4 Ep5
6.4
19th Oct 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.
S3 Ep23
6.4
24th Nov 1989
After 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.
S4 Ep12
6.3
7th Dec 1990
Two college students, who can't get a date for the evening, kidnap a woman, but end up fighting each other over her.
S4 Ep3
6.3
5th Oct 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.
S4 Ep2
6.3
28th Sep 1990
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.
S1 Ep4
6.3
13th Nov 1984
For months, Eric Dunlap has been hard at work on a special sound system for Kurt Hoffman, a temperamental conductor who is impossible to please. During that time, he fell deeply in love with Hoffman's much younger wife, Veronica. It isn't long before Eric realises the computer he created, which only responds to him, is something special. When Veronica realises she returns Eric's feelings and the two become lovers, Hoffman learns of his wife's infidelity and exacts his revenge on the two, but Eric's creation avenges the man who gave it life.
S1 Ep5
6.1
27th Nov 1984
Attorney Ted Miller's world falls apart when his old friend and lover Melody shows up at his door looking for a place to stay and he mistakenly turns her down.
S1 Ep19
6.1
7th Jan 1986
Jeffrey Hunt will resort to anything to create a lucrative career as a novelist, even if it means faking his own death. His wife Debby believes he is dead and continues her affair with Tony, Jeffrey's editor. By the end, everyone must pay for their own deceptions.
S1 Ep7
6.1
15th Jan 1985
Todd Fields is a married high school photography teacher. One of his students, Roseanne Lucas develops a mad and obsessive crush on him. When Todd steps over the line and sleeps with her, he finds more than he ever bargained for.
S4 Ep10
6.0
23rd Nov 1990
An artist obsessed with his paintings comes to believe that the things he drew are events from the future.
S4 Ep4
6.0
12th Oct 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.
S2 Ep3
3.2
3rd Mar 1987
A sculptor uses a drifter and his own abused girlfriend to recreate a murder/suicide.
S2 Ep6
3.7
24th Mar 1987
Jake Purly's main platform for his campaign is to rid the world of pornography. But when his brother is found making a pornographic film, the media begins to bang on his door. To make matters worse, the actress in the film opens a flood gate of memories that Jake would rather not remember.
S2 Ep4
3.9
10th Mar 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.
S1 Ep13
4.0
9th Apr 1985
Dr. Peter Milne, an unethical psychiatrist, abuses his position to manipulate a female patient. His mind-bending medical practices only intensify her psychosis as she can no longer distinguish reality from dream. When he finally has her act out her dreams, Dr. Peter Milne finds himself the victim of her murderous feelings.
S2 Ep5
4.0
17th Mar 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.
S3 Ep1
4.0
22nd Apr 1989
Deirdre 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.
S1 Ep21
4.2
11th Feb 1986
Claudia now a famous novelist, returns home for her high school reunion and opens old wounds in Lee, the sheriff. Claudia finds out that Lance, her town-appointed escort, is really the son of a former high school boyfriend who blames her for his father's death. Fighting over her, Lance and Lee replay the fateful event that killed Lance's father, but this time, it is the sheriff who loses his life to Dead Man's Curve.
S3 Ep3
4.2
1st Jul 1989
A mentally disturbed nurse concocts an elaborate plan to poison a woman so that she can steal her husband from her.
S3 Ep5
4.3
8th Jul 1989
A psychologist with a twisted bent takes the wrong track with a disturbed patient and learns that sometimes it's dangerous to play games.
S1 Ep8
4.3
29th Jan 1985
Mickey is a con artist only willing to commit to one way of thinking: making the quick buck. In exchange for his life, Mickey is willing to sell his soul by giving Pearl, his girlfriend, away to drug lord, Joey Stregga. What Micky doesn't realize is that he will have to pay for selling off part of his soul.
S1 Ep9
4.4
16th Feb 1985
Jack Rhodes is a salesman that attempts to wear many disguises to get what he wants: women. One day, he gets a video letter from a mysterious video-artist, Monique, who challenges him to meet her. She plays him like a fiddle and takes advantage of him. Now the tables are turned and Jeff can't escape, not even with his life.
S1 Ep26
4.4
22nd Apr 1986
Miranda and Sean are two desperate songwriters trying to make a career in the record business. When a record executive, Robbie shows interest in one of their songs, they think they are on their way. Miranda becomes a ruthless businesswoman and must face the alter ego she has created for the video.
S2 Ep7
4.4
31st Mar 1987
Jane L. is willing to dig up anything on someone just to ruin their lives and get her a story. One night, her photographer gets her interested in Billy Baltimore, a musician who supposedly died back in the 70's but is rumored to be living in their area. But soon Jane realizes that when you enter someone's life, you should always make sure there's an exit.
S3 Ep8
4.5
21st Jul 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?
S3 Ep4
4.6
7th Jul 1989
A politician finds his life and his career in jeopardy when people start to find out about the dins in his past.
S3 Ep15
4.7
18th Aug 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.
S1 Ep25
4.8
8th Apr 1986
Jill McGuiness is a lonely daydreaming bank officer who constantly fantasizes about her dream lover. When she dreams about murders and finds that they actually happened, she is unable to distinguish dream from reality. When she finally meets Mr. Right, Jim, she snaps out of her dream world and catches him.
S4 Ep14
4.8
11th Jan 1991
The past comes back to haunt a charismatic white supremacist.
S2 Ep10
4.8
21st Apr 1987
Peter believes that the way to win a girl's heart is have a good sense of humor. But when he tries to win back the love of his ex-wife using only pranks and elaborate setups, he learns that sometimes laughter doesn't make everything better.
S1 Ep12
4.9
26th Mar 1985
Kay Mason is an abusive owner of a dressmaking sweatshop. One day she is cursed by an angry worker who exclaims that she will be paid back by the devil for her actions. When Kay hires a mysterious stranger to do some odd jobs around the house, she doesn't realize that she has hired a devil in disguise.
S1 Ep14
5.0
15th Oct 1985
A ruthless nurse works at old folks' homes. Along with her boyfriend, she steals jewelry from the residents, who can do nothing to stop her. The couple gets an unpleasant surprise when her newest victim is an old man who is actually a supernatural creature that feeds on blood.
S1 Ep16
5.0
12th Nov 1985
Meg is a paraplegic who is ignored by her family. When she finds everyone but her brother, Jonathan, dead she assumes he killed them. While trying to figure out who is responsible, what she remembers is not what she expected.
S1 Ep17
5.0
26th Nov 1985
Reverend Nolan Powers is a money hungry radio evangelist preaching on the air waves about the bible. 0ff the air, he's a self-righteous greedy man. A tabloid news reporter, Sato, digs up the story about how the Reverend killed his brother, Gerald. Gerald's ghost comes back to haunt the Reverend, ruin his career and pay him back for causing his death.
S2 Ep1
5.0
17th Feb 1987
Simon Hopper is considered a genius in the art world, but the demands for his models are always insanely hard to meet. Christina will do anything to be the model in his next project. But when she does get her chance, it turns out that Simon has raised the bar to a new level.
S3 Ep7
5.0
15th Jul 1989
A bogus preacher who has been making a living out of fake miracles finds his livelihood threatened when a real miracle takes place.
S3 Ep10
5.0
28th Jul 1989
An emotionally unstable woman becomes obsessed with the idea that her husband is having an affair.
S1 Ep1
6.7
23rd Nov 1983
A gold-digging young man marries a dowager then falls in love with her gorgeous stepdaughter.
S1 Ep2
6.9
30th Nov 1983
Bob is a married advertising executive who enjoys picking up women throughout his travels. After picking up the Hitchhiker, he runs into a beautiful blonde who he ends up spending the night with. After hearing a report on the radio that there is an escaped blonde mental patient named Ann Marie Brown on the loose who enjoys slitting men's throats, Bob becomes convinced that the woman he picked up is really the escaped mental patient, but things are not always as they seem.
S1 Ep3
7.0
14th Dec 1983
John 'Jake' McElhaney will do anything to make a sale, absolutely anything. Faced with losing his job, he decides to make his next sale really count, and thinks he has it made when he signs on to work for the Packard twins, two women who have problems sharing and so split everything directly down the middle. Frances makes it clear straight away that she likes Jake, but Jake also plays up to Priscilla, hoping to not only sell the house for the two women but sell each of them homes as well. Unfortunately, the bond between the sisters is stronger than any bond they could form with him.
S1 Ep4
6.3
13th Nov 1984
For months, Eric Dunlap has been hard at work on a special sound system for Kurt Hoffman, a temperamental conductor who is impossible to please. During that time, he fell deeply in love with Hoffman's much younger wife, Veronica. It isn't long before Eric realises the computer he created, which only responds to him, is something special. When Veronica realises she returns Eric's feelings and the two become lovers, Hoffman learns of his wife's infidelity and exacts his revenge on the two, but Eric's creation avenges the man who gave it life.
S1 Ep5
6.1
27th Nov 1984
Attorney Ted Miller's world falls apart when his old friend and lover Melody shows up at his door looking for a place to stay and he mistakenly turns her down.
S1 Ep6
7.0
4th Dec 1984
Dr. Christopher Hamilton, an ambitious and pompous plastic surgeon, meets his challenge in Nina Russell, a patient in the process of a gender change. He shows up to surgery the next day unprepared and he completely botches up the procedure.
S1 Ep7
6.1
15th Jan 1985
Todd Fields is a married high school photography teacher. One of his students, Roseanne Lucas develops a mad and obsessive crush on him. When Todd steps over the line and sleeps with her, he finds more than he ever bargained for.
S1 Ep8
4.3
29th Jan 1985
Mickey is a con artist only willing to commit to one way of thinking: making the quick buck. In exchange for his life, Mickey is willing to sell his soul by giving Pearl, his girlfriend, away to drug lord, Joey Stregga. What Micky doesn't realize is that he will have to pay for selling off part of his soul.
S1 Ep9
4.4
16th Feb 1985
Jack Rhodes is a salesman that attempts to wear many disguises to get what he wants: women. One day, he gets a video letter from a mysterious video-artist, Monique, who challenges him to meet her. She plays him like a fiddle and takes advantage of him. Now the tables are turned and Jeff can't escape, not even with his life.
S1 Ep10
5.8
2nd Mar 1985
Rae Bridgeman is caught up in a love triangle with her husband Lew and his best friend Joe. Lew finds out about their affair and decides on a late night hunting trip for all three of them. Instead of killing Joe, he accidentally kills Rae. In a panic, they drive away from the scene only to find themselves in a deadly accident.
S1 Ep11
5.4
12th Mar 1985
An ex-drug addicted screenwriter Arthur Brown steals the life and words of Diane Hampton. Diane is struggling to maintain her marriage with her abusive jealous husband John and to keep the affair with her female lover Cathrine a secret. Arthur tips John off about Diane's affair and soon finds himself the target of John's anger.
S1 Ep12
4.9
26th Mar 1985
Kay Mason is an abusive owner of a dressmaking sweatshop. One day she is cursed by an angry worker who exclaims that she will be paid back by the devil for her actions. When Kay hires a mysterious stranger to do some odd jobs around the house, she doesn't realize that she has hired a devil in disguise.
S1 Ep13
4.0
9th Apr 1985
Dr. Peter Milne, an unethical psychiatrist, abuses his position to manipulate a female patient. His mind-bending medical practices only intensify her psychosis as she can no longer distinguish reality from dream. When he finally has her act out her dreams, Dr. Peter Milne finds himself the victim of her murderous feelings.
S1 Ep14
5.0
15th Oct 1985
A ruthless nurse works at old folks' homes. Along with her boyfriend, she steals jewelry from the residents, who can do nothing to stop her. The couple gets an unpleasant surprise when her newest victim is an old man who is actually a supernatural creature that feeds on blood.
S1 Ep15
5.4
29th Oct 1985
A young man on the run from the police takes refuge in a mysterious building where a bizarre woman, Angelica, torments him with visions of his past life while another woman tries to help him. Condemned by jeering circles of audience members, the young man is jeered on to give one final performance...only to wake up to find he is on the verge of death on an operating room table. He is at St. Angelica's Hospital, and the statue of the woman looks strangely familiar.
S1 Ep16
5.0
12th Nov 1985
Meg is a paraplegic who is ignored by her family. When she finds everyone but her brother, Jonathan, dead she assumes he killed them. While trying to figure out who is responsible, what she remembers is not what she expected.
S1 Ep17
5.0
26th Nov 1985
Reverend Nolan Powers is a money hungry radio evangelist preaching on the air waves about the bible. 0ff the air, he's a self-righteous greedy man. A tabloid news reporter, Sato, digs up the story about how the Reverend killed his brother, Gerald. Gerald's ghost comes back to haunt the Reverend, ruin his career and pay him back for causing his death.
S1 Ep18
6.4
10th Dec 1985
Richard Shepard is kicked out of his house by his wife Eleanor. He takes in a stray dog that begins killing off Richard's enemies. When the dog goes for Eleanor, Richard tries to keep the dog from killing the woman he loves.
S1 Ep19
6.1
7th Jan 1986
Jeffrey Hunt will resort to anything to create a lucrative career as a novelist, even if it means faking his own death. His wife Debby believes he is dead and continues her affair with Tony, Jeffrey's editor. By the end, everyone must pay for their own deceptions.
S1 Ep20
5.3
28th Jan 1986
Rat witnesses a group murder among feuding drug dealers, steals the drugs from the dead bodies and leaves the scene of the crime. The Wise Man and The Fool find her laying dead and take the package of cocaine. Unbeknownst to all of them, Mr. Big, the original owner, sends his henchmen out to retrieve it at any cost.
S1 Ep21
4.2
11th Feb 1986
Claudia now a famous novelist, returns home for her high school reunion and opens old wounds in Lee, the sheriff. Claudia finds out that Lance, her town-appointed escort, is really the son of a former high school boyfriend who blames her for his father's death. Fighting over her, Lance and Lee replay the fateful event that killed Lance's father, but this time, it is the sheriff who loses his life to Dead Man's Curve.
S1 Ep22
6.6
25th Feb 1986
Jerry Maclachlan is the owner of a rundown apartment building who promises Serita, a tenant, that he will make repairs to the building. After he becomes involved with a strange woman Tanya, he discovers a snake tattoo on his body. Both Serita and Tanya tell him how to get rid of the snake. He realizes that the two women are the same person.
S1 Ep23
5.5
11th Mar 1986
A non-believer in the supernatural, Detective Frank Sheen must investigate a priest's suspicious suicide. Upon questioning Father Dowling he learns that the convent is demonically possessed. Unbeknownst to the detective, the site used to be a convent that closed down when a Sister Theresa committed suicide. After one night in the place, he soon begins having his own suicidal feelings.
S1 Ep24
5.4
25th Mar 1986
Alex, a former actor, tries to prove his abilities as a first-time director. In his first film he must deal with a first-time actress, Leda Bidell. When Leda realizes his scheme, she enacts the last scene with him in reality and instills in him a fear that haunts him for the rest of his life.
S1 Ep25
4.8
8th Apr 1986
Jill McGuiness is a lonely daydreaming bank officer who constantly fantasizes about her dream lover. When she dreams about murders and finds that they actually happened, she is unable to distinguish dream from reality. When she finally meets Mr. Right, Jim, she snaps out of her dream world and catches him.
S1 Ep26
4.4
22nd Apr 1986
Miranda and Sean are two desperate songwriters trying to make a career in the record business. When a record executive, Robbie shows interest in one of their songs, they think they are on their way. Miranda becomes a ruthless businesswoman and must face the alter ego she has created for the video.
The first episode of The Hitchhiker aired on November 01, 1983.
The last episode of The Hitchhiker aired on February 22, 1991.
There are 85 episodes of The Hitchhiker.
There are 4 seasons of The Hitchhiker.
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The Hitchhiker has ended.