The Hitchhiker - Season 4
1 - Fading Away
Air Date: September 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.
2 - Tough Guys Don't Whine
Air Date: September 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.
3 - Riding the Nightmare
Air Date: October 5, 1990
A cutthroat career woman who's having an affair with her sister's husband starts suffering from strange nightmares about a white horse symbolizing death. The ensuing melodrama blurs the lines between the psychological and witchcraft.
4 - Strate Shooter
Air Date: October 12, 1990
A young man, who likes to always have his way, tries to emulate his favorite TV show and save a girl from the clutches of the criminal underworld.
5 - Hard Rhyme
Air Date: October 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.
6 - Toxic Shock
Air Date: October 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.
7 - New Dawn
Air Date: November 2, 1990
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.
8 - A Function of Control
Air Date: November 9, 1990
A woman in love with her boss accidentally kills his wife. From there on things spiral out of control.
9 - Trust Me
Air Date: November 16, 1990
A conman is in over his head, when he's forced by an attractive girl to swindle her mother.
10 - Windows
Air Date: November 23, 1990
An artist obsessed with his paintings comes to believe that the things he drew are events from the future.
11 - Working Girl
Air Date: November 30, 1990
A housewife catches her husband in the act with another woman and decides to shoot them both, but the mistress escapes.
12 - White Slaves
Air Date: December 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.
13 - Tourist Trap
Air Date: December 14, 1990
A Parisian conman, who rips off tourists, who arrive in town for the first time, finds that his latest mark has turned the tables on him.
14 - Homecoming
Air Date: January 11, 1991
The past comes back to haunt a charismatic white supremacist.
15 - Living a Lie
Air Date: January 18, 1991
A bartender steals one of his customer's credit card and uses it to fulfill his every whim and need. What he doesn't realize is that he's just a pawn in someone's game.
16 - Made In Paris
Air Date: January 25, 1991
The manager of a factory that hires illegal immigrants becomes responsible for the death of one of them. His becomes paranoid and believes that vengeful employees have cast a curse on him.
17 - A Whole New You
Air Date: February 1, 1991
A violent criminal, preparing to testify against his old boss, goes to a clinic to have plastic surgery to conceal his identity.
18 - Offspring
Air Date: February 8, 1991
A meek man is being dominated all his life by his selfish mother, who wants him to stay with her forever. He reaches the breaking point after having an oedipal nightmare, during sleep one night.
19 - Secrets
Air Date: February 15, 1991
A woman and her lover try to get her husband's insurance money after he suffers a deadly accident. However, they get an unexpected visitor.
20 - New Blood
Air Date: February 22, 1991
An aspiring actress is prepared to sell her soul just to be accepted into a popular unique theater troupe. However, that might actually be the actual price to be paid in this case.