8.5/101 votesLoading...#1 - Face To Face
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/4/1984
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.
Director: David Wickes
Writer: N/A
7.6/1086 votesLoading...#2 - Dark Wishes
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/1/1989
A mentally disturbed nurse concocts an elaborate plan to poison a woman so that she can steal her husband from her.
Director: John Laing
Writer: N/A
7.4/1087 votesLoading...#3 - Trust Me
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1990
A conman is in over his head, when he's forced by an attractive girl to swindle her mother.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10130 votesLoading...#4 - Dead Heat
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/3/1987
A sculptor uses a drifter and his own abused girlfriend to recreate a murder/suicide.
Director: Kees Van Oostrum
Writer: N/A
6.9/10122 votesLoading...#5 - When Morning Comes
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/30/1983
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.
Director: Ivan Nagy
Writer: N/A
6.9/1056 votesLoading...#6 - Tough Guys Don't Whine
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1990
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.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: N/A
6.8/1098 votesLoading...#7 - Why Are You Here?
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/10/1987
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.
Director: Chris Thomson
Writer: N/A
6.8/10104 votesLoading...#8 - Hard Rhyme
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/1067 votesLoading...#9 - Working Girl
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1990
A housewife catches her husband in the act with another woman and decides to shoot them both, but the mistress escapes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10105 votesLoading...#11 - Doctor's Orders
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/24/1987
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.
Director: Reynaldo Villalobos
Writer: Thomas Baum
6.7/10103 votesLoading...#12 - Garter Belt
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 7/7/1989
A politician finds his life and his career in jeopardy when people start to find out about the dins in his past.
Director: Roger Andrieux
Writer: N/A
6.7/1078 votesLoading...#13 - Windows
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1990
An artist obsessed with his paintings comes to believe that the things he drew are events from the future.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1092 votesLoading...#14 - In the Name of Love
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 4/7/1987
International hit woman Jackie Dresser makes a living traveling all over the world and bumping people off for a substantial fee. Complications arise when the lonely and love-starved Jackie falls for hunky fitness instructor Johnnie while on vacation in a foreign country.
Director: John Laing
Writer: N/A
6.5/10132 votesLoading...#15 - Perfect Order
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/1987
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.
Director: Daniel Vigne
Writer: Marjorie David
6.5/10113 votesLoading...#16 - Shadow Puppets
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 7/8/1989
A psychologist with a twisted bent takes the wrong track with a disturbed patient and learns that sometimes it's dangerous to play games.
Director: Roger Andrieux
Writer: N/A
6.5/10116 votesLoading...#17 - Renaissance
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 7/14/1989
When the Paris underworld finds their livelihoods threatened by a developer's plans, they take action of their own to stop it.
Director: Bruno Gantillon
Writer: N/A
6.5/1086 votesLoading...#18 - Fading Away
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/10131 votesLoading...#19 - The Martyr
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/22/1989
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.
Director: Phillip Noyce
Writer: N/A
6.4/10191 votesLoading...#20 - Phantom Zone
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 8/4/1989
Young man on the brink of success is about to marry the woman of his dreams. However, his past comes calling.
Director: George Mihalka
Writer: N/A
6.4/1048 votesLoading...#21 - Toxic Shock
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/1067 votesLoading...#22 - White Slaves
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/7/1990
Two college students, who can't get a date for the evening, kidnap a woman, but end up fighting each other over her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.3/10114 votesLoading...#23 - Split Decision
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/14/1983
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.
Director: Ivan Nagy
Writer: N/A
6.3/1094 votesLoading...#24 - Minuteman
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/24/1987
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?
Director: Chris Thomson
Writer: N/A
6.3/1076 votesLoading...#25 - The Legendary Billy B.
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/31/1987
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.
Director: Chris Thomson
Writer: Marjorie David
The Best Episodes of The Hitchhiker
Every episode of The Hitchhiker ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Hitchhiker!
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
Genres:DramaCrime
Best Episodes Summary
"Face To Face" is the best rated episode of "The Hitchhiker". It scored 8.5/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by David Wickes and written by N/A, it aired on 12/4/1984. This episode scored 0.9 points higher than the second highest rated, "Dark Wishes".
