Horror History: Friday, October 26, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Toxic Shock” premiered

Season 6 Episode 6

After years of illegal dumping, the poison’s in the land start to leech into the mind.

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Horror History: Friday, October 19, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Hard Rhyme” premiered

Season 6 Episode 5

A teacher steals the writings of an inmate in a class he’s teaching at prison, but he’ll soon learn that all criminals have to pay the price.

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Horror History: Friday, October 12, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Strate Shooter” premiered

Season 6 Episode 4

Johnny Mattel thinks only about himself. He keeps himself busy stealing, sleeping around, and generally doing whatever he wants to do. After meeting a beautiful young woman at a bar, he becomes obsessed with a television show, “Strate Shooter”, and is determined to ‘rescue’ the young woman. Nothing is as it seems though, which Johnny soon learns after he manages to get the young woman out of the house and back to his father’s home.

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Horror History: Friday, October 5, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Riding the Nightmare” premiered

Season 6 Episode 3

A woman obsessed with climbing the professional ladder eliminates her romantic rival much the same way she would eliminate a business rival.

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Horror History: Friday, September 28, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Tough Guys Don’t Whine” premiered

Season 6 Episode 2

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.

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Horror History: Friday, September 21, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Fading Away” premiered

Season 6 Episode 1

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.

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Horror History: Saturday, December 16, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Pawns” premiered

Season 5 Episode 26

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 realizes that what he’s sold is worth a lot more than he ever realized.

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Horror History: Saturday, December 9, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Power Play” premiered

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.

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Horror History: Saturday, November 25, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “My Enemy” 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.

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Horror History: Friday, November 24, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Dying Generation” 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.

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Horror History: Saturday, November 18, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Cruelest Cut” 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.

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Horror History: Saturday, November 11, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Studio 3X” 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.

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Horror History: Saturday, November 4, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Verdict” 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.

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Horror History: Saturday, September 30, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Coach” 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.

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Horror History: Saturday, September 16, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Hootch” was released in theaters

Season 5 Episode 16

Things start to go wrong when a greedy woman decides to kick out her brother, a Vietnam war veteran.

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Horror History: Friday, August 18, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Fashion Exchange” premiered

Season 5 Episode 15

A designer struggles to maintain control after the suicide of one of his models.

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Horror History: Saturday, August 12, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Part of Me” premiered

Season 5 Episode 14

All isn’t well in the hamburger world when a restauranteur learns that not everything is easy.

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