Tom Brevoort (@tombrevoort.bsky.social)

The Twilight Zone: The Hitch-Hiker There were some episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE that I saw when I was a young boy and which stayed with me, haunted me almost, long after the show had disappeared from the nightly airwaves. But there were others that I only came to later on, once I'd found it in…

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The Twilight Zone: The Hitch-Hiker There were some episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE that I saw when I was a young boy and which stayed with me, haunted me almost, long after the show had disappeared from the nightly airwaves. But there were others that I only came to later on, once I'd found it in reruns and began to consume the whole of its 156 episodes. Of these, the one that arrests my attention whenever I come across it is this early Season One episode, "The Hitch-Hiker" On the whole, it's a relatively sedate episode in the series, but between the way it creates, maintains and builds its tension and the manner in which it uses the cinematography of its landscapes--the production wasn't 100% studio-bound for this one, they went out and filmed on roads and highways--in addition to an absolute bravura jump-scare shot, it remains as a favorite. http://tombrevoort.com/2026/02/14/the-twilight-zone-the-hitch-hiker/