The Hitchhiker has had
two three Canadian Exclusive DVD releases.
The Hitchhiker was HBO's first dramatic series and won eight ACE Awards to become the highest-ranking series on pay television.
The Sopranos,
The Wire and
Six Feet Under are all indebted to this pioneering cable television show. The series presented sophisticated tales of terror, horror and suspense with each story linked by the infamous hitchhiker, played by Page Fletcher, who introduces and closes each episode in the style of Rod Serling or Alfred Hitchcock.
The Hitchhiker was broadcast on HBO between 1983 and 1990. There have been a couple of USA releases through HBO, but those are "best of" sets. These Canadian Exclusive boxed sets are full runs. But there are a few confusing twists. The Complete First Season set was actually the first 3 seasons on HBO.
Koch Canada released
two three sets
The Hitchhiker: The Complete First Season which I previously mentioned, and
The Hitchhiker: The Complete Third Season which covering the third Canadian season (which aired as season five on HBO) and
The Hitchhiker: The Complete Fourth Season (the sixth Season on HBO).
"So what happened to Season 2?", You ask (which would have been season 4 on HBO). It looks like Season 2 became a victim of a copyright dispute. We may never see it released on DVD in any country.
New player in the Canadian Exclusive DVD market, Visual Entertainment, Inc. (VEI) operating out of Toronto, Ontario, has announced the first season DVD set of Hardcastle & McCormick, the ABC show. Expected delivery is in February 2006. This was a Stephen J. Cannell Productions series that started in 1983 and ran for three years. Expected is a 5-DVD set with approx 17.5 Hours of 21 regular episodes and the the 2-hour pilot.
