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Highway to Heaven
"Some powers are higher than others."
Overview
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
Status
Ended
Created By
William F. Claxton, Michael Landon
Network
NBC
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes
Highway to Heaven (1)
Drifter Jonathan Smith takes a job as a handyman at a nursing home.
Highway to Heaven (2)
Jonathan reveals his angelic origins, then must save the nursing home from developers.
To Touch the Moon
Jonathan introduces a street-wise boy to a peer who is dying of leukemia.
The Return of the Masked Rider
A lone boxer and some aging movie heroes fight for law and order in a ghetto.
Song of the Wild West
An aspiring singer hoping to follow in her late mother's footsteps wants to compete in a talent show, but her father won't permit it.
One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)
A cycle accident shatters a baseball star's dream of reaching the pros.
One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)
Olympic medalist Bart Conner plays a gymnast who has a special reason to help rehabilitate an athlete injured in a motorcycle accident.
A Divine Madness
A widower who built an empire in the construction business now believes he's King Arthur, and his ambitious son is determined to have him declared incompetent.
Catch a Falling Star
Jonathan and Mark tend the children of a movie star who always has the money but never the time to spend on his kids.
Help Wanted: Angel
An elderly scriptwriter prays for an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood.
Dust Child
A Vietnam vet and his wife happily welcome a 15-year-old girl he fathered overseas, but their son isn't happy at all.
Hotel of Dreams
At a hotel, dreams come true for some, while others get their just desserts.
Another Song for Christmas
Jonathan and Mark have a dickens of a time instilling the Christmas spirit in a heartless used-car salesman.
Plane Death
Mark's old buddy, now working a border drug-enforcement detail, disappears after discovering the cargo in a large model airplane.
One Winged Angels
Jonathan finds that even angels aren't above falling in love when he's assigned to help an attractive divorcée and her rebellious son.
Going Home, Going Home
An auto accident renders Mark unconscious---and takes him back to the time his grandfather was about to lose his ranch.
As Difficult as ABC
The future looks bleak for an illiterate basketball star who loses his scholarship because of a heart condition.
A Child of God
A young mother has two crosses to bear: a terminal illness and a minister father who's shunning his daughter and her illegitimate child.
A Match Made in Heaven
Jonathan's friend Scotty, a quadriplegic, wonders if his relationship with a woman can succeed.
The Banker and the Bum
Divine intervention enables a park bum to trade places with a mayoral candidate who wants to turn the park into a parking lot.
The Brightest Star
Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.
An Investment in Caring
Jonathan comes to the aid of a neighborhood threatened by a corporate takeover.
The Right Thing
Already depressed by his wife's death, an elderly man loses interest in life when he's put in a rest home by his daughter-in-law.
Thoroughbreds (1)
On a horse-breeding farm, competition develops into attraction between a trainer's daughter and the spoiled son of the owner.
Thoroughbreds (2)
Garth and Lizzy elope to an undisclosed location, unaware that Lizzy has cancer and needs immediate treatment.
Top Cast
Michael Landon
Jonathan Smith
Victor French
Mark Gordon
