The Hitchhiker — Season 4

Aired 21 September 1990 • 30 min

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.

Aired 28 September 1990 • 30 min

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.

Aired 5 October 1990 • 30 min

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.

Aired 12 October 1990 • 30 min

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.

Aired 19 October 1990 • 30 min

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.

Aired 26 October 1990 • 30 min

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.

Aired 2 November 1990 • 30 min

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.

Aired 9 November 1990 • 30 min

A woman in love with her boss accidentally kills his wife. From there on things spiral out of control.

Aired 16 November 1990 • 30 min

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

Aired 23 November 1990 • 30 min

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

Aired 30 November 1990 • 30 min

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

Aired 7 December 1990 • 30 min

Two college students, who can't get a date for the evening, kidnap a woman, but end up fighting each other over her.

Aired 14 December 1990 • 30 min

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.

Aired 11 January 1991 • 30 min

The past comes back to haunt a charismatic white supremacist.

Aired 18 January 1991 • 30 min

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.

Aired 25 January 1991 • 30 min

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.

Aired 1 February 1991 • 30 min

A violent criminal, preparing to testify against his old boss, goes to a clinic to have plastic surgery to conceal his identity.

Aired 8 February 1991 • 30 min

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.

Aired 15 February 1991 • 30 min

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.

Aired 22 February 1991 • 30 min

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.