Season 5 Episode 25
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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, December 9, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Power Play” premiered”Season 5 Episode 24
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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 25, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “My Enemy” premiered”Season 5 Episode 23
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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 24, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Dying Generation” premiered”Season 5 Episode 22
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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 18, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Cruelest Cut” premiered”Season 5 Episode 21
Two loners encounter each other and each believes they have found their soulmate.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 17, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Striptease” premiered”Season 5 Episode 20
When a television journalist’s private fantasies start appearing in pornographic videos, there is a fine line between fantasy and reality.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 11, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Studio 3X” premiered”Season 5 Episode 19
A pedestrian dies in a hit and run and his killer can’t put it out of his mind.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 10, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Hit & Run” premiered”Season 5 Episode 18
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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 4, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Verdict” premiered”Season 5 Episode 17
A coach’s players learn more about his track record with other teams when his sadistic tendencies make themselves known.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, September 30, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Coach” premiered”Season 5 Episode 16
Things start to go wrong when a greedy woman decides to kick out her brother, a Vietnam war veteran.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, September 16, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Hootch” was released in theaters”Season 5 Episode 15
A designer struggles to maintain control after the suicide of one of his models.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 18, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Fashion Exchange” premiered”Season 5 Episode 14
All isn’t well in the hamburger world when a restauranteur learns that not everything is easy.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 12, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Part of Me” premiered”Season 5 Episode 13
A con artist finds out that sometimes there are limits as to how far one can go.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 11, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Square Deal” premiered”Season 5 Episode 12
A young performance artists tries to move forward, but is consumed with a series of disturbing nightmares.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 5, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Spinning Wheel” premiered”Season 5 Episode 11
A secret involving a long ago scandal with his friends causes trouble for a recent university graduate as he prepares to marry the woman of his dreams.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 4, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Phantom Zone” premiered”Season 5 Episode 10
A woman can’t get past the thought that her husband is unfaithful, and it begins to rule her life.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 28, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Together Forever” premiered”Season 5 Episode 9
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 realize that some memories are best left forgotten.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 22, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Her Finest Hour” premiered”Season 5 Episode 8
A jealous husband finds himself at the mercy of a computer answering service.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 21, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Code-Liz” premiered”Season 5 Episode 7
A bogus preacher who has been making a living out of fake miracles and the young girls he forces into prostitution finds his livelihood threatened when a real miracle takes place and one of his girls develops the stigmata.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 15, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Miracle of Alice Ames” premiered”Season 5 Episode 6
When the Paris underworld finds their livelihoods threatened by a developer’s plans, they take action of their own to stop it.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 14, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Renaissance” premiered”Season 5 Episode 5
A psychologist with a twisted bent takes the wrong track with a disturbed patient and learns that sometimes it’s dangerous to play games.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 8, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Shadow Puppets” was released in theaters”Season 5 Episode 4
A politician finds his life and his career in jeopardy when people start to find out about the dins in his past.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 7, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Garter Belt” premiered”Season 5 Episode 3
A mentally disturbed nurse concocts an elaborate plan to poison a woman so that she can steal her husband from her.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 1, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Dark Wishes” premiered”Season 1 Episode 6
An uptight elderly man (M. Emmet Walsh) retires and soon discovers his wife’s (Audra Lindley) obsession with adopting animals into their home, leading him to use the animals for a hobby of his own.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 28, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Collection Completed” premiered”Season 1 Episode 5
A newlywed couple (Amanda Plummer and Stephen Shellen) retreats to the mansion of the wife’s aunt in which the husband plans to kill her for her inheritance, but he soon learns that his wife’s family has a dark past and that the wife herself is not who she seems to be.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 21, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Lover Come Hack to Me” premiered”Season 1 Episode 4
A young self-obsessed prostitute (Lea Thompson) “sells” her looks to a voodoo-dabbling pawnbroker (Britt Leach) so that she can use the money in order to snag a rich bachelor (Brett Cullen), but she soon regrets it four months later when her own face begins to shockingly and unexpectedly age at an accelerated rate.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 14, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Only Sin Deep” premiered”Season 1 Episode 3
A carnival daredevil (Joe Pantoliano) is buried alive for his grand finale. Through flashbacks, he tells the viewers on how he was formerly a homeless man who had undergone a doctor’s experiment in order to transfer a cat’s nine lives into him. He suddenly remembers that he forgot that he only has eight lives, because the cat had to die the first time. However its too late.
Also starring Robert Wuhl.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 10, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Dig That Cat… He’s Real Gone” premiered”Season 1 Episode 2
A greedy philandering wife (Mary Ellen Trainor) kills her second husband (Marshall Bell) for his insurance money. Upon getting rid of the body, she is unexpectedly attacked by a hideous escaped mental patient (Larry Drake) dressed as Santa Claus who has been going around killing women. She soon realizes that her own young daughter is in complete danger from within the horrific situation.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 10, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “And All Through the House” premiered”Season 1 Episode 1
A prison executioner named Niles Talbot (William Sadler) is laid off from his job and begins administering his own style of justice to acquitted murder suspects. He gets caught and soon after that, is executed by his former colleaugues.
Also starring Gerrit Graham and Roy Brocksmith.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 10, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Man Who Was Death” premiered”Season 5 Episode 2
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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 29, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “In Living Colour” premiered”
