The Hitchhiker Videodate (1983–1991) watch online HD

"Videodate" clearly is one of the better and most memorable episodes of the "Hitchhiker" series. One of my favorites too, mostly because this one features the hot and ever sexy Shannon Tweed. Plus the story is well written as the plot is centered around revenge and it's justly so. Greg Henry stars as Jack Rhodes a TV and electronics salesman who has a little hobby on the side of love making and romancing young women all done thru a video dating service. One by one after one night stands, Jack drops each and every one like a hot potato and he leaves each ladies heart crushed. Only one day he meets a mysterious woman named Barbara who's sent him a video at his apartment doorstep and she shows her goods on the tape and arranges a date. Barbara is drop dead gorgeous(played perfect and fitting by ex playboy playmate Shannon Tweed she's every man's fantasy!) soon Jack will find that he's found his match only learning that when you play with fire you get burned his little game finally backfires! Great episode that shows the tables turn on manipulators and revenge hurts. Mostly memorable due to the sexy scenes of Shannon Tweed especially seeing her in the black teddy and silk stalkings were just so fine and hot.

Shannon Tweed and Gregg Henry are both well cast in this episode of The Hitchhiker as a "video artist" and "video pickup artist" respectively. The overall story isn't particularly extraordinary or all that unpredictable (I think most will see where this is going the moment Henry gets that video tape from Tweed) but the two principles get the job done with their parts. Henry is one of those male chauvinist scumbags who tricks women into bed, then has nothing else to do with them once he gets laid. Tweed has her own "video art gallery", quite renowned and growing in fame, and Henry is her "new experiment". She loathes "his kind" and will use her seductive wiles to lure him into her trap…think Venus Fly Trap in the guise of a major babe. I think that is pretty much the gist of the plot to tell you the truth. When the episode opens, he has a video that really impacts a lonely schoolteacher (Linda Smith) looking for love. He has charm and is handsome, earns the teacher's trust (and eventually body), using an elegant posh apartment lent to him by a bellboy (!), and after bedding her, feels quite proud of yet another conquest…he has added a new notch to his "chick" belt. In actuality, Henry is just a television/VCR/electronics salesman who lives in a blah apartment. Tweed, on the other hand, lives a life of luxury and will put what she has (a fab body and warm smile) to good use. There's this "challenge" between the two of them that seems playful—who is the victor that will come out on top—regarding matters of the sex, and Henry is truly oblivious to Tweed's endgame. Tweed fans can rest assured: she shows her tits and is scantily clad several times. Henry is damn good as the asshole: I'm afraid he's so good that people would believe that is how he really is in real life. I think Tweed is better utilized as the fox with ulterior motives: see "Scorned" as an example. I think "I Heart the 80s" fans will eat this episode up: the fashions, hair, electronics, and video dating craze will have those who lived in the decade and were of a certain age remembering all of these quite well, perhaps with fondness. I did.

Sleazy and duplicitous predatory womanizer Jack Rhodes (ably played with smarmy charm to spare by Gregg Henry) 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 (insanely beautiful 1982 "Playboy" Playmate of the Year Shannon Tweed in peak ravishing and desirable form), who invites Jack on a date to her remote high-rise apartment loft. When Jack shows up for said date, Barbara turns the tables on the no-count scuzzball in a very clever, nasty, and satisfying way. Writer/director Richard Rothstein relates the absorbing story at a constant quick pace and does an ace job of creating and sustaining an extremely creepy and voyeuristic tone (the use of hand-held black-and-white video camera POV shots is especially cool and effective). This episode is given an extra sizzling erotic charge by Tweed's searingly hot and smoldering presence; Shannon looks absolutely delectable in a tight black leather teddy and even does a fleeting, yet still tasty topless scene. Henry makes for a terrifically slimy heel while Tweed rates as a positively irresistible femme fatale and a half. Thomas Burstyn's slick cinematography gives the show an attractive glossy look. Michel Rubini's percolating synthesizer score provides an appropriately eerie and hypnotic underlying buzz. One of the sexiest and hence most worthwhile episodes in the entire series.