Skip to content
TVTitles

The Hitchhiker

1983–1991HBOHorror

Rate it

HBO's first original series: an anthology introduced by a man on a road who never explains himself.

The Hitchhiker opens with a main title sequence of 70 seconds.

At 70 seconds, it opens well above the 50-second median for horror sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on HBO in 1983, when Fraggle Rock was also on the network.

1 sequence106th most looked up of 248 in the 1980sIMDb ↗
XFacebookPinterest

The opening titles

Season 1

70s

Fan upload of the 1983 credits.

More horror opening titles from the 1980s

Still from the opening titles of Tales from the Crypt1 sequence

Tales from the Crypt

1989–1996HBOHorror

A crawl through a derelict house towards a coffin, which opens — Danny Elfman's theme, and a host who was a puppet.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Tales from the Darkside1 sequence

Tales from the Darkside

1983–1988SyndicationHorror

George Romero's anthology, opened by pastoral countryside that turns to negative while a narrator explains why.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Friday the 13th: The Series1 sequence

Friday the 13th: The Series

1987–1990SyndicationHorror

An antiques shop recovering cursed objects, sharing nothing with the films but a title.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Freddy's Nightmares1 sequence

Freddy's Nightmares

1988–1990SyndicationHorror

An anthology hosted by Freddy Krueger, made while the films were still coming out and stranger than any of them.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Monsters1 sequence

Monsters

1988–1991SyndicationHorror

A half-hour anthology from the Tales from the Darkside producers, with a creature in every episode and a budget for none of them.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Hammer House of Horror1 sequence

Hammer House of Horror

1980ITVHorror

Hammer's one television anthology, made after the films had stopped and shot on the same estate.

  • Season 1