Highway to Heaven

Jonathan Smith is a probationary angel sent back to Earth to help people. During the series' first episode, he meets embittered ex-policeman Mark Gordon (as Jonathan is walking along a little-used road, on which Mark happens to be driving). Jonathan helps reform Mark, with the grateful Mark agreeing to become Jonathan's right-hand associate in carrying out the heavenly mission. The two begin traveling the country as itinerant workers, receiving assignments from "the Boss" (an unseen associate only Jonathan could communicate with), with their mission being to deliver love, understanding and humility to the people they encountered. Typical episodes stressed moral, Christian themes; though many episodes dealt with common human failings, such as egotism, bitterness and greed, some shows addressed such topics as racism and cancer. A few shows, however, were played mainly for laughs (such as Landon recreating his first famous starring role in a takeoff of his 1957 film I Was a Teenage Werewolf).

Cast

• Michael Landon
• Victor French
• Conrad Hurtt
• James Troesh
• David Ackroyd
• John Bleifer
• Elisabeth Harnois
• Margie Impert
• Leann Hunley
• Peter Billingsley
• Ken Olandt
• Helen Hunt
• H. Richard Greene
• Herb Edelman
• Mary McCusker
• Stan Ivar
• Jim Haynie
• Brian Lane Green
• Dorothy McGuire
• Natalie Gregory
• John Hammond
• Shelby Leverington
• Noble Willingham
• Andy Romano

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Highway to Heaven: Part 1
  Jonathan Smith: [hoisting into the air the man who has punched him on both sides of his face with no...
• Episode 2: Highway to Heaven: Part 2
  In the clips from Part One at the beginning of Part Two, a clip from a scene between Mark and Leslie...
• Episode 3: To Touch the Moon
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• Episode 4: The Return of the Masked Rider
  Jonathan Smith: [after three gang members thump their car hood] Look at those guys. They don't exact...
• Episode 5: Song of the Wild West
  Mark Gordon: [Driving along a stretch of highway on a hot afternoon] Whew! Hotter than hell out here...
• Episode 6: One Fresh Batch of Lemonade: Part 1
  A high school baseball star is being scouted by the pros, much to his delight and that of his father...
• Episode 7: One Fresh Batch of Lemonade: Part 2
  To help Deke find a reason for living after his accident and shattered dreams, Jonathan enlists the ...
• Episode 8: A Divine Madness
  Linda Krock: One morning he woke up in the castle he built for his wife and he didn't know who he wa...
• Episode 9: Catch a Falling Star
  Lance Gaylord: [after learnign that his son Brock has run away] My son had better be all right!::Jon...
• Episode 10: Help Wanted: Angel
  Petros: Wait, wait. We make movie with amateurs, with neighbors?::Martin Lamm: Well, it's all about ...
• Episode 11: Dust Child
  The episode's title "Dust Child" refers to a name given to children born of American soldiers and Vi...
• Episode 12: Hotel of Dreams
  Script completed: October 16, 1984....
• Episode 13: Another Song for Christmas
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• Episode 14: Plane Death
  Jonathan Smith: It's all over, Mark.::Mark Gordon: Thanks for not letting me...::Jonathan Smith: I d...
• Episode 15: One Winged Angels
  Jonathan Smith: [after God drenches Mark and the cigarette he attempted to light up] Y'know, He must...
• Episode 16: Going Home, Going Home
  Mark Gordon: [Encouraging young Mark to listen to his grandfather's stories] That old man is a book,...
• Episode 17: As Difficult as ABC
  A promising basketball player whose coach has been making sure his grades are OK so he can play, lea...
• Episode 18: A Child of God
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• Episode 19: A Match Made in Heaven
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• Episode 20: The Banker and the Bum
  Mark Gordon: Aw, don't tell me that bum is our next assignment?::Jonathan Smith: That's right. He ha...
• Episode 21: The Brightest Star
  Mark Gordon: The kid's got everything she could want.::Jonathan Smith: You're right; she's got every...
• Episode 22: An Investment in Caring
  Helen: [At the cemetery, talking to the tombstone of her late husband] Katie is still at me to move ...
• Episode 23: The Right Thing
  Jonathan and Mark help a family struggling to do the right thing with an aging parent in their home....
• Episode 24: Thoroughbreds: Part 1
  Hidden Valley, Thousand Oaks, California, USA...
• Episode 25: Thoroughbreds: Part 2
  Hidden Valley, Thousand Oaks, California, USA...
• Season 2
• Episode 1: A Song for Jason: Part 1
  USA...
• Episode 2: A Song for Jason: Part 2
  USA...
• Episode 3: Bless the Boys in Blue
  Mark Gordon: [to "The Boss" after learning that his wish has been granted] What do you listen to me ...
• Episode 4: Cindy
  Vinny DeGeralimo: I don't know how you found me, but you're a Godsend!::Jonathan Smith: Well, actual...
• Episode 5: The Devil and Jonathan Smith
  USA...
• Episode 6: Birds of a Feather
  Out of fear of losing their jobs, workers at a factory ignore ground-water contamination (even thoug...
• Episode 7: Popcorn, Peanuts and CrackerJacks
  This episode was filmed at Hi Corbett Field, In Tuscon, Arizona; Home of the then-Tuscon Toros of th...
• Episode 8: The Smile in the Third Row
  When the lead actor in a failing Broadway play claims that God is attending the show's performances,...
• Episode 9: The Secret
  Script completed: August 7, 1985....
• Episode 10: The Monster: Part 1
  The two-part episode "The Monster" concerns the intertwining plot lines of Julian Bradley, a young a...
• Episode 11: The Monster: Part 2
  Julian is arrested and charge with attacking Rachel who is in a coma. When the lawyer whom his mothe...
• Episode 12: The Good Doctor
  Jonathan and Mark go to work at a football team. And one of the players whose worried about getting ...
• Episode 13: Alone
  Mark Gordon: The world could sure use a few more like Arnie.::Jonathan Smith: Well, just use use the...
• Episode 14: Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind
  Jonathan Smith: [Stepping from the smoking crater, Adam staring in wonder] That's all right, son, do...
• Episode 15: Change of Life
  While working for Linda Blackwell, a beautiful movie star with a very low opinion of men, Mark and L...
• Episode 16: Keep Smiling
  Jonathan learns his latest assignment is the woman he was married to when he was a mortal. He sees t...
• Episode 17: The Last Assignment
  USA...
• Episode 18: To Bind the Wounds
  The father of a young soldier killed in Vietnam tries to have a memorial made to commemorate his son...
• Episode 19: Heaven on Earth
  Mark becomes deeply stricken with grief after believing he caused two tragedies involving young girl...
• Episode 20: Summit
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• Episode 21: The Torch
  Everett Solomon, a Nazi death camp survivor, is engaged in a series of speeches warning people about...
• Episode 22: Sail Away
  USA...
• Episode 23: Children's Children
  USA...
• Episode 24: Friends
  Jonathan Smith: Life's a game you'll be playing a long time after you hang up the cleats. A game you...
• Season 3
• Episode 1: A Special Love: Part 1
  Jonathan and Mark persuade a youngster with Down's Syndrome to join the Special Olympics. Coached by...
• Episode 2: A Special Love: Part 2
  When Scotty and Diane try to adopt Todd, they learn that his biological parents didn't relinquish th...
• Episode 3: For the Love of Larry
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• Episode 4: Another Kind of War, Another Kind of Peace
  USA...
• Episode 5: That's Our Dad
  Bill Cassidy is a model TV dad of the hit series, "That's Our Dad, a show known for its closing (whe...
• Episode 6: Love at Second Sight
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• Episode 7: Love and Marriage: Part 1
  Mark's invited to attend the wedding of a friend. Mark is keen on his friend because he and his wife...
• Episode 8: Love and Marriage: Part 2
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• Episode 9: Code Name: FREAK
  Jonathan is working as a teacher at a college. And the focus of his assignment is a a young boy geni...
• Episode 10: Man to Man
  Dardanelle Resort, Stanislaus National Forest, California, USA...
• Episode 11: Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington
  J. Edward McKinley's last performance....
• Episode 12: Oh Lucky Man
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• Episode 13: Basinger's New York
  It's Christmas and Jonathan and Mark's assignment is try to show a columnist named Basinger, who's b...
• Episode 14: All That Glitters
  Jonathan Smith: [to "The Boss" after "The Boss" has dealt with two hoodlums who tried to shoot Jonat...
• Episode 15: Wally
  Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is Wally, a lovable elderly hobo and street puppeteer whose ca...
• Episode 16: A Song of Songs
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• Episode 17: A Night to Remember
  USA...
• Episode 18: A Mother and a Daughter
  A much-beloved movie star is being honored, but her estranged daughter is writing a vengeful expose ...
• Episode 19: Normal People
  Jonathan and Mark next assignment takes them to a halfway house for people who were confined to ment...
• Episode 20: The Hero
  A veteran feels like society let him down because he needs some dental work done which he can't affo...
• Episode 21: Parents' Day
  Jonathan and Mark, as police detectives investigating drug selling in schools, become involved when ...
• Episode 22: A Father's Faith
  When Jonathan and Mark decide to take some time off, they visit Mark's friends to go fishing. When t...
• Episode 23: Heavy Date
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• Episode 24: Ghost Rider
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• Episode 25: The Gift of Life
  Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is to try and get cold hearted businessman R.R. Benson to chan...
• Season 4
• Episode 1: Man's Best Friend: Part 1
  Agoura, California, USA...
• Episode 2: Man's Best Friend: Part 2
  Agoura, California, USA...
• Episode 3: Fight for Your Life
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• Episode 4: The People Next Door
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• Episode 5: I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf
  The episode title is a sly dig at the film _I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)_ (qv) which starred 'Mic...
• Episode 6: Playing for Keeps
  Malibu, California, USA...
• Episode 7: Amazing Man
  A little boy's father has died, and now His Mother and grandfather are shielding Him from focusing o...
• Episode 8: All the Colors of the Heart
  Malibu Lagoon State Beach - 23200 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, California, USA...
• Episode 9: Why Punish the Children?
  Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment has them going to a women's prison. It seems that the inmates ...
• Episode 10: A Dream of Wild Horses
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• Episode 11: In with the 'In' Crowd
  Jonathan and Mark go to a school as policemen trying to help find who is selling drugs that killed a...
• Episode 12: With Love, the Claus
  It's Christmas and Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is to try and get a divorced couple who are...
• Episode 13: A Mother's Love
  When four boys whose mother just died are told that they're going to become wards of the state and w...
• Episode 14: Country Doctor
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• Episode 15: Time in a Bottle
  When a homeless man is arrested for robbery, Jonathan tries to get the man's friend, another homeles...
• Episode 16: Back to Oakland
  Long Beach, California, USA...
• Episode 17: We Have Forever: Part 1
  When his former wife passes away, Jonathan hopes that he'll be released from his duties to be reunit...
• Episode 18: We Have Forever: Part 2
  Malibu Lagoon State Beach - 23200 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, California, USA...
• Episode 19: The Correspondent
  A famous newspaper war correspondent has promised his wife that he won't take any more assignments, ...
• Episode 20: Aloha
  Marina del Rey, California, USA...
• Episode 21: A Dolphin Song for Lee: Part 1
  Malibu, California, USA...
• Episode 22: A Dolphin Song for Lee: Part 2
  Malibu, California, USA...
• Episode 23: Heaven Nose, Mister Smith
  'Bob Hope (I)' (qv)'s last acting appearance on television or film....
• Episode 24: The Whole Nine Yards
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• Season 5
• Episode 1: Whose Trash Is It Anyway?
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• Episode 2: Hello and Farewell: Part 1
  Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California, USA...
• Episode 3: Hello and Farewell: Part 2
  Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California, USA...
• Episode 4: The Silent Bell
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• Episode 5: The Reunion
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• Episode 6: The Source
  Jonathan latest assignment has him working as the faculty adviser at a school paper. 2 student journ...
• Episode 7: The Squeaky Wheel
  Mark Gordon: [Mark and Jonathan walking on the Hollywood Walk of Fame] Oh, look. Here's another one ...
• Episode 8: Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka
  USA...
• Episode 9: Choices
  Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment has them as private investigators. And their clients are a Vie...
• Episode 10: Summer Camp
  After suffering major body burns in a freak accident, a top fashion model and actress tried to hide ...
• Episode 11: The Inner Limits
  A young man is considering institutionalizing his brother, who has been completely paralyzed and spe...
• Episode 12: It's a Dog's Life
  Mark seems to be on his own on this assignment when "The Boss" has apparently turned Jonathan into a...
• Episode 13: Merry Christmas from Grandpa
  Last show of the series....