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The Hitchhiker Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 1984 - 1987
Episode 1
Lovesounds
Tue, Nov 13, 198429 mins
Arrogant and exacting classical music composer Kurt Hoffman neglects his lovely young wife Veronica. The sad and unloved Veronica has an extramarital fling with Eric Dunlap, who's the hunky young electronics whiz who has installed a state of the art sound system in Kurt's lavish secluded lakeside home. Kurt goes off the murderous deep end after he finds out about Veronica and Eric's affair.
Episode 2
Remembering Melody
Tue, Nov 27, 198429 mins
Self-centered yuppie attorney Ted Miller is reunited with Melody, a former old flame and college roommate who still firmly clings to her 60's hippie ideals. Ted allows the jobless and destitute Melody to spend the night at his apartment, but things soon fall apart when Melody realizes that Ted has sold out his youthful beliefs in favor of greed, success, and shallow materialism.
Episode 3
Face to Face
Tue, Dec 4, 198429 mins
Desperate transgender woman Nina Russell hires prominent, sleazy arrogant plastic surgeon Dr. Christopher Hamilton to create an attractive face for her. He operates on her after a night of drugging, when he is unfit to hold a scalpel.
Episode 4
And If We Dream
Tue, Jan 15, 198529 mins
Married Todd Fields teaches a high school photography class in a quiet small country town, but has ambitions to work as a photographer in a big city. Todd gets led astray when he falls under the seductive spell of attractive new student Roseanne Lucas.
Episode 5
Petty Thieves
Tue, Jan 29, 198530 mins
Twitchy, eager, and ambitious small-time criminal Mickey aspires to work as a drug runner for slimy big time drug lord Joey Stregga. In order to achieve this goal Mickey has to set up his sweet and innocent ex-hooker girlfriend Pearl on a date with Stregga. However, Mickey winds up paying a heavy price for betraying Pearl's pure love for him.
Episode 6
Videodate
Sat, Feb 16, 198530 mins
Sleazy and duplicitous predatory womanizer Jack Rhodes is an electronics salesman who uses a video dating service to pick up lonely young women to have one night stands with. Jack meets his match in the form of the cunning and enticing Barbara, who invites Jack on a date to her remote high-rise apartment loft.
Episode 7
A Time for Rifles
Sat, Mar 2, 198527 mins
Lew Bridgeman and Joe Caldwell are two longtime best friends who served together in the Vietnam War. Lew and Joe wind clashing with each other over Lew's fetching wife Rae, whom both men are in love with.
Episode 8
Man at the Window
Tue, Mar 12, 198527 mins
Faded playwright Arthur Brown uses state-of-the-art electronic equipment to record the private conversations of other people and uses the material gleaned from said intimate conversations for his work. Brown gets in over his head when his latest subject Diane Hampton turns out to be having an extramarital affair with lesbian photographer Carla Magnuson. When Diane's abusive and possessive cop husband John finds out what's going on, everyone including Brown is placed in great danger.
Episode 9
Hired Help
Tue, Mar 26, 198528 mins
Lovely, but cold and ruthless businesswoman Kay Mason runs a garment factory where she treats her illegal Mexican immigrant workers in a very cruel and inhumane manner. Kay more than meets her match in the form of Victor, a handsome and mysterious young Mexican whom Kay develops an immediate amorous interest in.
Episode 10
Murderous Feelings
Tue, Apr 9, 198526 mins
Unethical psychiatrist Dr. Peter Milne gets romantically involved with neurotic and unstable patient Sara Kendal. Peter's manipulation of Sara's mind and emotions causes her psychosis to intensify to the point where she can't distinguish dreams from reality and Peter eventually becomes the target of Sara's murderous feelings.
