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The Best Episodes of The Hitchhiker Season 3

Every episode of The Hitchhiker Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Hitchhiker Season 3!

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A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 1 - The Martyr
    6.4/10(149 votes)

    #1 - The Martyr

    S3:E1

    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.

    Director:Phillip Noyce
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 2 - In Living Color
    6.3/10(107 votes)

    #2 - In Living Color

    S3:E2

    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.

    Director:John Laing
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 3 - Dark Wishes
    7.4/10(99 votes)

    #3 - Dark Wishes

    S3:E3

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

    Director:John Laing
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 4 - Garter Belt
    6.5/10(120 votes)

    #4 - Garter Belt

    S3:E4

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

    Director:Roger Andrieux
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 5 - Shadow Puppets
    6.3/10(128 votes)

    #5 - Shadow Puppets

    S3:E5

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

    Director:Roger Andrieux
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 6 - Renaissance
    6.5/10(133 votes)

    #6 - Renaissance

    S3:E6

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

    Director:Bruno Gantillon
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 7 - The Miracle of Alice Ames
    5.7/10(110 votes)

    #7 - The Miracle of Alice Ames

    S3:E7

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

    Director:Bruno Gantillon
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 8 - 3615 Code-Liz
    5.3/10(95 votes)

    #8 - 3615 Code-Liz

    S3:E8

    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?

    Director:Bruno Gantillon
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 9 - Her Finest Hour
    6.3/10(92 votes)

    #9 - Her Finest Hour

    S3:E9

    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.

    Director:Aline Issermann
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 10 - Together Forever
    6.3/10(91 votes)

    #10 - Together Forever

    S3:E10

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

    Director:Aline Issermann
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 11 - Phantom Zone
    6.4/10(207 votes)

    #11 - Phantom Zone

    S3:E11

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

    Director:George Mihalka
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 12 - Spinning Wheel
    5.9/10(88 votes)

    #12 - Spinning Wheel

    S3:E12

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

    Director:George Mihalka
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 13 - Square Deal
    5.8/10(66 votes)

    #13 - Square Deal

    S3:E13

    An indebted con-man meets his match.

    Director:Bruno Gantillon
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 14 - Part of Me
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Part of Me

    S3:E14

    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.

    Director:Bruno Gantillon
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 15 - Fashion Exchange
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Fashion Exchange

    S3:E15

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

    Director:John Laing
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 16 - Hootch
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Hootch

    S3:E16

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

    Director:Leon Marr
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 17 - Coach
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Coach

    S3:E17

    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.

    Director:Eric Till
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 18 - The Verdict
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - The Verdict

    S3:E18

    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.

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 19 - Hit & Run
    1.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Hit & Run

    S3:E19

    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.

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 20 - Studio 3X
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Studio 3X

    S3:E20

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

    Director:Ryszard Bugajski
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 21 - Striptease
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Striptease

    S3:E21

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

    Director:Jerry Ciccoritti
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 22 - Cruelest Cut
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Cruelest Cut

    S3:E22

    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.

    Director:Michael Robison
    Writer:Rebecca Taylor

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  23. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 23 - Dying Generation
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Dying Generation

    S3:E23

    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.

    Director:Timothy Bond
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 24 - My Enemy
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - My Enemy

    S3:E24

    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.

    Director:René Bonnière
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Hitchhiker Season 3 Episode 25 - Power Play
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Power Play

    S3:E25

    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.

    Director:Jerry Ciccoritti
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Martyr" is the best rated episode of "The Hitchhiker" season 3. It scored 6.4/10 based on 149 votes. Directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/22/1989. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "In Living Color".