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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!

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. Background image for Trust Me
    7.4/10(94 votes)

    #1 - Trust Me

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Dark Wishes
    7.3/10(92 votes)

    #2 - Dark Wishes

    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:Unknown
  3. Background image for Face To Face
    7.2/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Face To Face

    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:Unknown
  4. Background image for Dead Heat
    7.0/10(135 votes)

    #4 - Dead Heat

    S2:E3

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for When Morning Comes
    6.9/10(128 votes)

    #5 - When Morning Comes

    S1:E2

    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:Unknown
  6. Background image for Why Are You Here?
    6.8/10(102 votes)

    #6 - Why Are You Here?

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Hard Rhyme
    6.8/10(109 votes)

    #7 - Hard Rhyme

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Shattered Vows
    6.7/10(149 votes)

    #8 - Shattered Vows

    S1:E1

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

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    Director:Ivan Nagy
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Tough Guys Don't Whine
    6.7/10(60 votes)

    #9 - Tough Guys Don't Whine

    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:Unknown
  11. Background image for Windows
    6.7/10(84 votes)

    #10 - Windows

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Working Girl
    6.7/10(74 votes)

    #11 - Working Girl

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Doctor's Orders
    6.6/10(112 votes)

    #12 - Doctor's Orders

    S2:E6

    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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  14. Background image for Perfect Order
    6.5/10(139 votes)

    #13 - Perfect Order

    S2:E1

    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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  15. Background image for In the Name of Love
    6.5/10(96 votes)

    #14 - In the Name of Love

    S2:E8

    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:Unknown
  16. Background image for Garter Belt
    6.5/10(110 votes)

    #15 - Garter Belt

    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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    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Renaissance
    6.5/10(124 votes)

    #16 - Renaissance

    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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    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Fading Away
    6.5/10(94 votes)

    #17 - Fading Away

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Martyr
    6.4/10(140 votes)

    #18 - The Martyr

    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:Unknown
  20. Background image for Phantom Zone
    6.4/10(197 votes)

    #19 - Phantom Zone

    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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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Split Decision
    6.3/10(120 votes)

    #20 - Split Decision

    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:Unknown
  22. Background image for In Living Color
    6.3/10(101 votes)

    #21 - In Living Color

    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
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Shadow Puppets
    6.3/10(122 votes)

    #22 - Shadow Puppets

    S3:E5

    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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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Together Forever
    6.3/10(87 votes)

    #23 - Together Forever

    S3:E10

    An emotionally unstable woman becomes obsessed with the idea that her husband is having an affair.

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    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for New Dawn
    6.3/10(103 votes)

    #24 - New Dawn

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for White Slaves
    6.3/10(71 votes)

    #25 - White Slaves

    S4:E12

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Trust Me" is the best rated episode of "The Hitchhiker". It scored 7.4/10 based on 94 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/16/1990. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Dark Wishes".