Series synopsis
Highway to Heaven is an American family drama sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on NBC on September 19, 1984. It ended on August 4, 1989. It was created by William F. Claxton, Michael Landon. It stars Michael Landon and Victor French.
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
Premise
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
Premise: Some powers are higher than others.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Michael Landon as Jonathan Smith
- Victor French as Mark Gordon
Guest cast
- Garette Ratliff Henson
- Helen Hayes
- Ronne Troup
- Didi Conn as Birdy Belker
- Robert Mandan
- Noble Willingham
- Barry Williams
- William Schallert
- Tom Sullivan
- Michael Constantine as Dr. Dan Hickey
- Alyson Croft
- Darren McGavin
Episodes
This series spans 6 seasons with 113 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 2 | ||
| Season 1 | 25 | September 19, 1984 | May 8, 1985 |
| Season 2 | 24 | September 18, 1985 | May 7, 1986 |
| Season 3 | 25 | September 24, 1986 | May 6, 1987 |
| Season 4 | 24 | September 16, 1987 | April 27, 1988 |
| Season 5 | 13 | October 12, 1988 | August 4, 1989 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Outtakes Funny outtakes caught on camera while filming Highway to Heaven. |
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| 2 |
Remembering Michael Landon and Highway to Heaven Cast and Crew talking about their time on the show and what it was like to work with Michael Langdon. |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Highway to Heaven (1) Drifter Jonathan Smith takes a job as a handyman at a nursing home. |
September 19, 1984 |
| 2 |
Highway to Heaven (2) Jonathan reveals his angelic origins, then must save the nursing home from developers. |
September 19, 1984 |
| 3 |
To Touch the Moon Jonathan introduces a street-wise boy to a peer who is dying of leukemia. |
September 26, 1984 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A Song for Jason (1) Jonathan and Mark become counselors at Camp Good Times, a summer camp for children with cancer, to help two cancer patients: a frightened little boy with an overprotective mother and an angry teenage athlete who may lose his leg to bone cancer. |
September 18, 1985 |
| 2 |
A Song for Jason (2) Jonathan tries to get Jason's dad Miki to get to know his son little bit better and forget that he has cancer. Jason's dad wants to forget he has son altogether and continue going on tour. |
September 25, 1985 |
| 3 |
Bless the Boys in Blue Mark asks God to make Jonathan a cop for while. After 40 years Jonathan becomes human only to realize only to realize the harsh realities of being a policeman. Also Jonathan helps a police officer rid himself of his guilt after shooting a teenager while the teenager had an empty gun. When the police officer holds people hostage the father of the slain teenager tells why there were no bullets in see the gun his son was carrying. |
October 2, 1985 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A Special Love (1) Jonathan and Mark taken interest in Todd who has no desire to be in Special Olympics because he feels he can't do anything. Tries to convince Todd to get into Special Olympics to prove to himself that he can do things. Scotty and Diane learn whether they can have children or if they will have to adopt children. Diane learns her fate and it decides to adopt children but Scotty is against adoption because he wants to have a baby that looks like him and can run and play. |
September 24, 1986 |
| 2 |
A Special Love (2) Now that Diane and Scotty want to have children they decided to adopt Todd but learn that his natural parents don't want anyone to adopt him. Todd's natural parents were told some years ago that they had to put him out for adoption because he his handicapped. |
October 1, 1986 |
| 3 |
For the Love of Larry After his owners are trapped at the bottom of a hill in car accident, a precocious dog tries to lead Jonathon and Mark to them. |
October 8, 1986 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Man's Best Friend (1) Jenny's dog Jake runs away after chasing a cat. Jonathan and Mark find the dog and take him over to orphanage to help cheer up the kids. Jonathan and Mark must try to get Alex to become active again. They use Jake and get him to play with the other kids. They soon learn that Alex is afraid that if he touches anything it will be taken away from him. |
September 16, 1987 |
| 2 |
Man's Best Friend (2) Alex finally meets the family of his dreams, those dreams are soon shattered when the turners want to adopt Alex. Alex wants to take Jake with him but the Foster family lives in a place where dogs aren't allowed. In order to make his dream come true Alex runs away with Jake back to the family he first fell in love with. Michele and Paul had been hoping to have a baby on their own but soon learn that adoption maybe their best option. |
September 23, 1987 |
| 3 |
Fight for Your Life Jonathan and Mark train Morty to be a price-fighting boxer. His brother Jerry is hiding a dangerous secret from his brother. Jerry services as his brother's trainer/manager in hopes of figuring out how to pay off some debts. Jerry that everything on someone who is already a prizefighter, while never having faith in his own brother. |
September 30, 1987 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Whose Trash Is It Anyway? Mark and Jonathan join the campaign of a friend of Mark, whose highly honest. But his less than honest opponent is doing what he can to smear him. |
October 12, 1988 |
| 2 |
Hello and Farewell (1) Jonathan helps Commander Michaels deal with flashbacks of Vietnam as well as try to convince her to go to therapy. Mark deals with his fear of flying. |
December 7, 1988 |
| 3 |
Hello and Farewell (2) Commander Michaels continues to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder she also discovers she has son who came in to the emergency room do to a motorcycle accident. David wants to meet his biological mother but makes his adoptive parents worry about the meeting. |
December 7, 1988 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | NBC |
|---|---|
| First aired | September 19, 1984 |
| Last aired | August 4, 1989 |
| Runtime | 45 minutes |
| Status | ended |