6.4/10131 votes#1 - 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
6.3/1093 votes#2 - In Living Color
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/29/1989
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.
Director: John Laing
Writer: N/A
7.6/1086 votes#3 - 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
6.7/10103 votes#4 - 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
6.5/10113 votes#5 - 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 votes#6 - 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
5.7/1094 votes#7 - The Miracle of Alice Ames
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 7/15/1989
A bogus preacher who has been making a living out of fake miracles finds his livelihood threatened when a real miracle takes place.
Director: Bruno Gantillon
Writer: N/A
5.4/1081 votes#8 - 3615 Code-Liz
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 7/21/1989
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?
Director: Bruno Gantillon
Writer: N/A
6.3/1080 votes#9 - Her Finest Hour
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 7/22/1989
Cheryl and Bruno are con artists who believe the world owes them something. When they face homelessness because the building they live in is about to be torn down, they find a new mark, Emilie Langlois, an old woman with a failing memory. Their goal is to take over Mrs. Langlois' home, but they soon realise that some memories are best left forgotten.
Director: Aline Issermann
Writer: N/A
6.3/1080 votes#10 - Together Forever
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 7/28/1989
An emotionally unstable woman becomes obsessed with the idea that her husband is having an affair.
Director: Aline Issermann
Writer: N/A
6.4/10190 votes#11 - 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
6.1/1076 votes#12 - Spinning Wheel
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 8/5/1989
A female artists' nightmares cause her to lose herself in self-pity mixed with egotism.
Director: George Mihalka
Writer: N/A
5.9/1057 votes#13 - Square Deal
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 8/11/1989
An indebted conman meats his match.
Director: Bruno Gantillon
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#14 - Part of Me
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 8/12/1989
A fast food owner has only one goal in life - to utterly destroy and humiliate his competition. However, he gets a taste of his own medicine.
Director: Bruno Gantillon
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#15 - Fashion Exchange
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 8/18/1989
A fashion designer demands too much from his model, which leads to her suicide. This gets all those he'd wronged to seek revenge.
Director: John Laing
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#16 - Hootch
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 9/16/1989
A Vietnam War vet is forced to leave his home that keeps him sane by his greedy sister. Tragedy ensues.
Director: Leon Marr
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#17 - Coach
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 9/30/1989
Tough, fierce, and intimidating high school track coach Billy Bolt zealously clings to his track record that's remained unbeaten for twenty-five years. When his runner son Kenny threatens to break his legendary mark, Bolt buckles under the pressure and risks having his heretofore spotless reputation ruined.
Director: Eric Till
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#18 - The Verdict
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 11/4/1989
If Jennifer can convict Manuel Ortega in the drive-by shooting deaths of five people, she will have thirty-six convictions in a row. Unfortunately, there is little to no evidence against Manuel, and Jennifer is willing to do anything necessary, even break the law, to put him behind bars.
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#19 - Hit & Run
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 11/10/1989
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.
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#20 - Studio 3X
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 11/11/1989
When a television journalist's private fantasies start appearing in pornographic videos, there is a fine line between fantasy and reality.
Director: Ryszard Bugajski
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#21 - Striptease
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 11/17/1989
Two loners encounter each other and each believes they have found their soulmate.
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#22 - Cruelest Cut
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 11/18/1989
Men in the city are being knifed by a prostitute who wears all black. Sterling Jenkins is a hard-hearted prostitute who, despite herself, is intrigued when an attractive man named Jason asks for help in fixing his car. Although she tries to rebuff the sensitive man, Sterling allows herself to believe Jason when he tells her that he's fallen for her. It is only afterward that she realises appearances can be deceiving.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Rebecca Taylor
NaN/100 votes#23 - Dying Generation
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 11/24/1989
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.
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#24 - My Enemy
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 11/25/1989
Hollywood actress Jane Ambergris is so desperate to escape what her life has become she creates a new identity for herself, but it isn't long before she finds out that the person she tries to become is far worse than the person she is leaving behind.
Director: René Bonnière
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#25 - Power Play
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 12/9/1989
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.
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Hitchhiker Season 3
Every episode of The Hitchhiker Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Hitchhiker Season 3!
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
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"The Martyr" is the best rated episode of "The Hitchhiker" season 3. It scored 6.4/10 based on 131 votes. Directed by Phillip Noyce and written by N/A, it aired on 4/22/1989. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "In Living Color".