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Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  unknown
Year: 1983  |  1984  |  1985  |  1986  |  1987  |  1988  |  1989  |  1990  |  1991  |  unknown

Season 1

"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 1: Episode 1 -- A young man marries a wealthy older woman and then plots to do away with her. The plan goes well....at first.

Season 1, Episode 1: Shattered Vows

Original Air Date—23 November 1983
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 1: Episode 2 -- A philandering film maker finds a beautiful woman at his hunting cabin. He revels in his luck until he suspects that he is the hunted.

Season 1, Episode 2: When Morning Comes

Original Air Date—30 November 1983
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 1: Episode 3 -- A desperate real estate salesman gives his pitch to identical twins who share everything, including their men.

Season 1, Episode 3: Split Decision

Original Air Date—14 December 1983

Season 2

"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 2: Episode 1 -- A cheating wife must face the music of a deadly passion.

Season 2, Episode 1: Lovesounds

Original Air Date—13 November 1984
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 2: Episode 2 -- A spurned lover's revenge becomes a nightmare.

Season 2, Episode 2: Remembering Melody

Original Air Date—27 November 1984
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 2: Episode 3 -- A surgeon (Robert Vaughn) falls for a scheming woman (Sonja Smit).

Season 2, Episode 3: Face to Face

Original Air Date—4 December 1984
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 2: Episode 4 -- A happily married high school teacher finds himself fatefully tempted when a beautiful new student enrols in his journalism class.

Season 2, Episode 4: And If We Dream

Original Air Date—15 January 1985
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 2: Episode 5 -- Railsback stars as a hustler looking for easy money and who scores a big surprise.

Season 2, Episode 5: Petty Thieves

Original Air Date—29 January 1985
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 2: Episode 6 -- An eerie tale of a man who preys on lonely women's desires.

Season 2, Episode 6: Videodate

Original Air Date—16 February 1985
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 2: Episode 7 -- A lusty, unsettling story of two Vietnam veterans who go to war again, this time over the woman they both love.

Season 2, Episode 7: A Time for Rifles

Original Air Date—2 March 1985
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 2: Episode 8 -- A fading playwright looking for new material uncovers a scandalous affair....and becomes the author of his own undoing.

Season 2, Episode 8: Man at the Window

Original Air Date—12 March 1985
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 2: Episode 9 -- A beautiful, domineering factory owner who abuses her workers finds her desire kindled by a mysterious newcomer.

Season 2, Episode 9: Hired Help

Original Air Date—26 March 1985
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 2: Episode 10 -- A provocative tale of desire and deception. The married lover of a high-strung woman is her psychiatrist, a man driven by ambition as much as lust.

Season 2, Episode 10: Murderous Feelings

Original Air Date—9 April 1985

Season 3

"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 1 -- A cruel nurse at a retirement home bullies her patients to suite her whim. She and her boyfriend have it made until new "patient" Darren McGavin prescribes some treatment of his own.

Season 3, Episode 1: Nightshift

Original Air Date—15 September 1985
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 2 -- A quarrel....a gunshot....and a young man flees into the night down a lonely road. Looking for the one man who can help him, he comes to a small inn where he soon finds that all is not what it seems.

Season 3, Episode 2: Out of the Night

Original Air Date—29 October 1985
After a shooting, a young teenage boy on the run from police stumbles into a hotel where the tenants are not normal.
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 3 -- A family mansion becomes a horror chamber for a beautiful young invalid when she is stalked by a ruthless killer.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Killer

Original Air Date—12 November 1985
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 4 -- Who'll save a radio evangelist from his own sinful past? A telling and timely drama.

Season 3, Episode 4: W.G.O.D.

Original Air Date—26 November 1985
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 5 -- Kicked out by his wife and blaming the world for his troubles, Richard bunks at a friend's beach pad. The stray dog he takes in becomes more than just a pet.

Season 3, Episode 5: Man's Best Friend

Original Air Date—10 December 1985
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 6 -- A struggling author fakes his own death. But when his cheating wife and best friend make it real, somebody's dying for revenge.

Season 3, Episode 6: Ghostwriter

Original Air Date—7 January 1986
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 7 -- A mysterious packet of white powder leaves a trail of death, betrayal and deceit in this futuristic thriller.

Season 3, Episode 7: O.D. Feelin'

Original Air Date—28 January 1986
The various unlucky owners of a strange bag of cocaine are followed over the course of a night.
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 8 -- An infamous novelist's life takes a nightmarish twist when she attends her high school reunion.

Season 3, Episode 8: Dead Man's Curve

Original Air Date—11 February 1986
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 9 -- A voodoo curse changes a slumlord's destiny.

Season 3, Episode 9: The Curse

Original Air Date—25 February 1986
A flashy businessman finds out he owns a slum apartment building, and is unwilling to make repairs until strange things begin to happen to him.
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 10 -- A detective's past returns to haunt him as he investigates a bizarre murder in a "haunted" convent.

Season 3, Episode 10: True Believer

Original Air Date—11 March 1986
A troubled investigator looks into the suicide of a priest in an abandoned convent.
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 11 -- The chilling story of a movie director who will do anything to get a good performance out of his leading lady.

Season 3, Episode 11: Last Scene

Original Air Date—25 March 1986
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 12 -- When "Mr. Right" comes along, will a beautiful woman find herself in the arms of a lover - or in the hands of a murderer?

Season 3, Episode 12: Man of Her Dreams

Original Air Date—8 April 1986
A stressed out bank employee begins having premonitions concerning a serial killer, who could be any one of the men in her life.
"The Hitchhiker" (1983): Season 3: Episode 13 -- Is rock music stardom worth the price of a sexy new image? Sweet pop singer (Lisa Blount) is about to learn the tragic answer.

Season 3, Episode 13: One Last Prayer

Original Air Date—22 April 1986

Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: Perfect Order

Original Air Date—17 February 1987
A model desperate for fame hooks up with a crazed fashion photographer.

Season 4, Episode 2: Minuteman

Original Air Date—24 February 1987

Season 4, Episode 3: Dead Heat

Original Air Date—3 March 1987
A sculptor uses a drifter and his own abused girlfriend to recreate a murder/suicide.

Season 4, Episode 4: Why Are You Here?

Original Air Date—10 March 1987

Season 4, Episode 5: Homebodies

Original Air Date—17 March 1987

Season 4, Episode 6: Doctor's Orders

Original Air Date—24 March 1987

Season 4, Episode 7: The Legendary Billy B.

Original Air Date—31 March 1987

Season 4, Episode 8: In the Name of Love

Original Air Date—7 April 1987

Season 4, Episode 9: Made for Each Other

Original Air Date—14 April 1987

Season 4, Episode 10: Joker

Original Air Date—21 April 1987

Season 4, Episode 11: Best Shot

Original Air Date—28 April 1987

Season 4, Episode 12: Secret Ingredient

Original Air Date—5 May 1987
A smooth talking vitamin salesman contends with a rival, and a mysterious woman he follows home.

Season 4, Episode 13: Cabin Fever

Original Air Date—12 May 1987
A young gigolo stays with a washed up film director and his lonely abused wife on an isolated island.

Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: The Martyr

Original Air Date—22 May 1989

Season 5, Episode 2: In Living Color

Original Air Date—29 April 1989

Season 5, Episode 3: Dark Wishes

Original Air Date—1 July 1989

Season 5, Episode 4: Garter Belt

Original Air Date—9 July 1989

Season 5, Episode 5: Shadow Puppets

Original Air Date—8 July 1989

Season 5, Episode 6: Renaissance

Original Air Date—14 July 1989

Season 5, Episode 7: Miracle of Alice Ames

Original Air Date—15 July 1989

Season 5, Episode 8: Code Liz

Original Air Date—21 July 1989

Season 5, Episode 9: Her Finest Hour

Original Air Date—22 July 1989

Season 5, Episode 10: Together Forever

Original Air Date—28 July 1989

Season 5, Episode 11: Phantom Zone

Original Air Date—4 August 1989

Season 5, Episode 12: Spinning Wheel

Original Air Date—5 August 1989

Season 5, Episode 13: Square Deal

Original Air Date—11 August 1989

Season 5, Episode 14: Part of Me

Original Air Date—12 August 1989

Season 5, Episode 15: Fashion Exchange

Original Air Date—1988

Season 5, Episode 16: Hootch

Original Air Date—16 September 1989

Season 5, Episode 17: Coach

Original Air Date—30 September 1989

Season 5, Episode 18: Episode #5.18

Original Air Date—????

Season 5, Episode 19: Hit and Run

Original Air Date—10 November 1989

Season 5, Episode 20: Studio 3X

Original Air Date—11 November 1989

Season 5, Episode 21: Striptease

Original Air Date—17 November 1989

Season 5, Episode 22: The Cruelest Cut

Original Air Date—18 November 1989

Season 5, Episode 23: The Dying Generation

Original Air Date—24 November 1989

Season 5, Episode 24: My Enemy

Original Air Date—25 November 1989

Season 5, Episode 25: Power Play

Original Air Date—9 December 1989

Season 5, Episode 26: Pawns

Original Air Date—16 December 1989

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 1: Fading Away

Original Air Date—21 September 1990

Season 6, Episode 2: Tough Guys Don't Whine

Original Air Date—28 September 1990

Season 6, Episode 3: Riding the Nightmare

Original Air Date—5 October 1990

Season 6, Episode 4: Strate Shooter

Original Air Date—12 October 1990

Season 6, Episode 5: Hard Rhyme

Original Air Date—19 October 1990

Season 6, Episode 6: Toxic Shock

Original Air Date—26 October 1990

Season 6, Episode 7: New Dawn

Original Air Date—2 November 1990

Season 6, Episode 8: A Function of Control

Original Air Date—9 November 1990

Season 6, Episode 9: Trust Me

Original Air Date—16 November 1990

Season 6, Episode 10: Windows

Original Air Date—23 November 1990

Season 6, Episode 11: Working Girl

Original Air Date—30 November 1990

Season 6, Episode 12: White Slaves

Original Air Date—7 December 1990

Season 6, Episode 13: Tourist Trap

Original Air Date—14 December 1990

Season 6, Episode 14: Homecoming

Original Air Date—11 January 1991

Season 6, Episode 15: Living a Lie

Original Air Date—18 January 1991

Season 6, Episode 16: Made in Paris

Original Air Date—25 January 1991

Season 6, Episode 17: A Whole New You

Original Air Date—1 February 1991
A violent criminal, preparing to testify against his old boss, goes to a clinic to have plastic surgery to conceal his identity.

Season 6, Episode 18: Offspring

Original Air Date—8 February 1991

Season 6, Episode 19: Secrets

Original Air Date—15 February 1991

Season 6, Episode 20: New Blood

Original Air Date—22 February 1991

Unknown Season

The Verdict

Original Air Date—18 August 1989

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