Forgotten TV: The Hitchhiker- O.D. Feelin'

As a purveyor of older, forgotten Shows, this was an interesting find.  Here's a brief bit of history...

The Hitchhiker was a Sci-Fi/Horror Anthology Show that ran on HBO from 1983 to 1987.  It was later run on the USA Network from 1989 to 1991, which is where a wider audience saw it.  The only connective threads is the presence of the titular Character.

In this Episode, a drug deal in a Detroit-looking City goes awry.

He (even though it is played by Sandra Bernhard) finds some drugs and takes the bag.

After all of that, our Host shows up to, well, not do anything.

I get that Rod Steiger and others never interfered, but the Show also wasn't named after them.  It's just weird that he has no interaction with anyone.

That begins a chain of events over the night as people kill the person who has the bag, find another...

…(including this guy from SCTV) and then kill the next person.  It all leads to...

Mr. Big (Gene Simmons).

He's the 'owner' of the powerful drugs and, naturally, kills the last guy who had it.

While celebrating his victory, he starts to choke up as something strange happens with the drugs!

When the coast clears (and the Cleaning Lady shows up), the men are somehow skeletons in a room full of cocaine!  Alright then!  The End.

A good, if repetitive Episode.  For starters, this has a real strong '80s feel to it.  It is supposedly set in a Dystopian-looking City, but it is very much '80s.  The fact that the whole thing is about a bag of cocaine, for one.  The Setting and Tone here is really interesting, looking both gritty and real.  The Acting is all nice here too.  The whole thing has an interesting feel to it, if that makes any sense.  I can't possibly explain the Ending, but the moral is pretty clear.  All in all, the Episode is an interesting look back at '80s TV Shows and a forgotten piece of TV History.  Plus it is back when HBO wasn't 'too cool' to go by their full name...

I've got two whole Discs of Episodes to go through, so let's see if anything else catches my interest.  For now, keep ignoring those Hitchhikers- they're more likely to kill you than narrate a Show.