The Hitchhiker — Season 3

Aired 22 April 1989 • 30 min

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.

Aired 29 April 1989 • 30 min

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.

Aired 1 July 1989 • 30 min

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

Aired 7 July 1989 • 30 min

A politician finds his life and his career in jeopardy when people start to find out about the dins in his past.

Aired 8 July 1989 • 30 min

A psychologist with a twisted bent takes the wrong track with a disturbed patient and learns that sometimes it's dangerous to play games.

Aired 14 July 1989 • 30 min

When the Paris underworld finds their livelihoods threatened by a developer's plans, they take action of their own to stop it.

Aired 15 July 1989 • 30 min

A bogus preacher who has been making a living out of fake miracles finds his livelihood threatened when a real miracle takes place.

Aired 21 July 1989 • 30 min

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?

Aired 22 July 1989 • 30 min

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.

Aired 28 July 1989 • 30 min

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

Aired 4 August 1989 • 30 min

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

Aired 5 August 1989 • 30 min

A female artists' nightmares cause her to lose herself in self-pity mixed with egotism.

Aired 11 August 1989 • 30 min

An indebted con-man meets his match.

Aired 12 August 1989 • 30 min

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.

Aired 18 August 1989 • 30 min

A fashion designer demands too much from his model, which leads to her suicide. This gets all those he'd wronged to seek revenge.

Aired 16 September 1989 • 30 min

A Vietnam War vet is forced to leave his home that keeps him sane by his greedy sister. Tragedy ensues.

Aired 30 September 1989 • 30 min

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.

Aired 4 November 1989 • 30 min

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.

Aired 10 November 1989 • 30 min

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.

Aired 11 November 1989 • 30 min

When a television journalist's private fantasies start appearing in pornographic videos, there is a fine line between fantasy and reality.

Aired 17 November 1989 • 30 min

Two loners encounter each other and each believes they have found their soulmate.

Aired 18 November 1989 • 30 min

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.

Aired 24 November 1989 • 30 min

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.

Aired 25 November 1989 • 30 min

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.

Aired 9 December 1989 • 30 min

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.

Aired 16 December 1989 • 30 min

A has-been musician who is down on his luck finally decides to pawn the only thing that means anything to him to make a few bucks, but realises that what he's sold is worth a lot more than he ever realised.