Inger Stevens plays a beautiful young woman named Nan Adams who is traveling by car from New York to Los Angeles when she has a blowout in Pennsylvania. After the car is repaired, Nan starts seeing a mysterious little hitchhiker who is always waiting on the road in front of her, no matter how many miles she travels. Nan becomes increasingly frightened by this, and has a difficult time getting anyone to believe her story, and her sanity. Nan will later come to realize the truth of things after she makes a fateful phone call home to her mother... Classic episode is a perfectly realized ghost story, with a spooky atmosphere and fine acting, made even more poignant by the tragic real-life fate of Inger Stevens.
Review of The Hitch-Hiker
