Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
This is a 3-disc box set containing the complete first season of the mid-80s suspense series "The Hitchhiker" featuring Page Fletcher as The Hitchhiker. Although the series continued with further seasons, it's really just the first season you need. In the style of such shows as "Twilight Zone" and "Tales from the Crypt", "The Hitchhiker" offers a new short story in every episode - always with a fatal twist at the end. Page Fletcher appears as the mysterious hitchhiker, who is the quiet yet all-seeing observer that keeps the series together. Supernatural elements are present every so often, but not at all in the same extent as in "Twilight Zone" och "Tales..." - when they appear it is more in the form of allegories for feelings such as guilt or revenge, or serve as poetic justice. The episodes normally have different sorts of moral implications, and the typical lesson to be learned is: "Cheat on a loved one and you will regret it". Most viewers would probably watch it for it's violent ironic twists though. Add a pair of nude breasts in every episode and you have the fantasy TV show of any straight mid-80s teenage boy. More than anything else, "The Hitchhiker" is a prime example of 1980s sleaze-TV. The clothing, the hairstyles, the settings, the characters and the plots are all so horribly dated that your skin will curl with delight. The special effects are of course bad, sometimes on the brink of appalling, but there is a strong sense of humour throughout the programme that keeps it from being just another piece of empty nostalgia. This box set should be purchased by anyone with a taste for the quirky and the bizarre, and with a strong love of the 1980s. If David Cronenberg's "Videodrome" had been 25 minutes long, it would have made a nice example of an "Hitchhiker" episode. This box set isn't for everyone, but for those who like the show it's priceless.Read full review
I loved this show on HBO when it came in the late 80's or early 90's, So I was so excited when I found out that the DVD was out.