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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.
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  1. 7.4/10(89 votes)

    #1 - Trust Me

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    S4:E9

    A conman is in over his head, when he's forced by an attractive girl to swindle her mother.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  2. 7.3/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Face To Face

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    S1:E6

    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.

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    Director:David Wickes
    Writer:N/A
  3. 7.3/10(90 votes)

    #3 - Dark Wishes

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    S3:E3

    A mentally disturbed nurse concocts an elaborate plan to poison a woman so that she can steal her husband from her.

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    Director:John Laing
    Writer:N/A
  4. 7.0/10(133 votes)

    #4 - Dead Heat

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    A sculptor uses a drifter and his own abused girlfriend to recreate a murder/suicide.

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    Writer:N/A
  5. 6.9/10(125 votes)

    #5 - When Morning Comes

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    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.

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    Director:Ivan Nagy
    Writer:N/A
  6. 6.8/10(101 votes)

    #6 - Why Are You Here?

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    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.

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    Director:Chris Thomson
    Writer:N/A
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  8. 6.8/10(107 votes)

    #7 - Hard Rhyme

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    S4:E5

    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.

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    Director:N/A
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  9. 6.7/10(147 votes)

    #8 - Shattered Vows

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    A gold-digging young man marries a dowager then falls in love with her gorgeous stepdaughter.

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    Director:Ivan Nagy
    Writer:N/A
  10. 6.7/10(110 votes)

    #9 - Doctor's Orders

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    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.

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  11. 6.7/10(58 votes)

    #10 - Tough Guys Don't Whine

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    S4:E2

    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.

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    Director:Jorge Montesi
    Writer:N/A
  12. 6.7/10(71 votes)

    #11 - Working Girl

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    S4:E11

    A housewife catches her husband in the act with another woman and decides to shoot them both, but the mistress escapes.

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    Director:N/A
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  13. 6.6/10(109 votes)

    #12 - Garter Belt

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    S3:E4

    A 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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  14. 6.6/10(82 votes)

    #13 - Windows

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    S4:E10

    An artist obsessed with his paintings comes to believe that the things he drew are events from the future.

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  15. 6.5/10(138 votes)

    #14 - Perfect Order

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    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.

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  16. 6.5/10(95 votes)

    #15 - In the Name of Love

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    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.

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    Director:John Laing
    Writer:N/A
  17. 6.5/10(122 votes)

    #16 - Renaissance

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    S3:E6

    When 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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  18. 6.4/10(137 votes)

    #17 - The Martyr

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    S3:E1

    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.

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    Director:Phillip Noyce
    Writer:N/A
  19. 6.4/10(119 votes)

    #18 - Shadow Puppets

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    A 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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  20. 6.4/10(196 votes)

    #19 - Phantom Zone

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    S3:E11

    Young man on the brink of success is about to marry the woman of his dreams. However, his past comes calling.

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  21. 6.4/10(91 votes)

    #20 - Fading Away

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    S4:E1

    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.

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  22. 6.3/10(99 votes)

    #21 - In Living Color

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    S3:E2

    After 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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    Director:John Laing
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  23. 6.3/10(99 votes)

    #22 - New Dawn

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    S4:E7

    An 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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    Director:N/A
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  24. 6.3/10(69 votes)

    #23 - White Slaves

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    Two 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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    Director:N/A
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  25. 6.2/10(118 votes)

    #24 - Split Decision

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    S1:E3

    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.

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    Director:Ivan Nagy
    Writer:N/A
  26. 6.2/10(100 votes)

    #25 - Minuteman

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    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?

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    Director:Chris Thomson
    Writer:N/A

Best Episodes Summary

"Trust Me" is the best rated episode of "The Hitchhiker". It scored 7.4/10 based on 89 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/16/1990. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Face To Face".