Highway to Heaven
Season 1
1984 • 25 Episodes
Episodes
1. Highway to Heaven (1)
September 19, 1984
Drifter Jonathan Smith takes a job as a handyman at a nursing home.
2. Highway to Heaven (2)
September 19, 1984
Jonathan reveals his angelic origins, then must save the nursing home from developers.
3. To Touch the Moon
September 26, 1984
Jonathan introduces a street-wise boy to a peer who is dying of leukemia.
4. The Return of the Masked Rider
October 3, 1984
A lone boxer and some aging movie heroes fight for law and order in a ghetto.
5. Song of the Wild West
October 17, 1984
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.
6. One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)
October 24, 1984
A cycle accident shatters a baseball star's dream of reaching the pros.
7. One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)
October 31, 1984
Olympic medalist Bart Conner plays a gymnast who has a special reason to help rehabilitate an athlete injured in a motorcycle accident.
8. A Divine Madness
November 7, 1984
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.
9. Catch a Falling Star
November 14, 1984
Jonathan and Mark tend the children of a movie star who always has the money but never the time to spend on his kids.
10. Help Wanted: Angel
November 21, 1984
An elderly scriptwriter prays for an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood.
11. Dust Child
November 28, 1984
A Vietnam vet and his wife happily welcome a 15-year-old girl he fathered overseas, but their son isn't happy at all.
12. Hotel of Dreams
December 12, 1984
At a hotel, dreams come true for some, while others get their just desserts.
13. Another Song for Christmas
December 19, 1984
Jonathan and Mark have a dickens of a time instilling the Christmas spirit in a heartless used-car salesman.
14. Plane Death
January 9, 1985
Mark's old buddy, now working a border drug-enforcement detail, disappears after discovering the cargo in a large model airplane.
15. One Winged Angels
January 16, 1985
Jonathan finds that even angels aren't above falling in love when he's assigned to help an attractive divorcée and her rebellious son.
16. Going Home, Going Home
January 23, 1985
An auto accident renders Mark unconscious---and takes him back to the time his grandfather was about to lose his ranch.
17. As Difficult as ABC
January 30, 1985
The future looks bleak for an illiterate basketball star who loses his scholarship because of a heart condition.
18. A Child of God
February 6, 1985
A young mother has two crosses to bear: a terminal illness and a minister father who's shunning his daughter and her illegitimate child.
19. A Match Made in Heaven
February 20, 1985
Jonathan's friend Scotty, a quadriplegic, wonders if his relationship with a woman can succeed.
20. The Banker and the Bum
February 27, 1985
Divine intervention enables a park bum to trade places with a mayoral candidate who wants to turn the park into a parking lot.
21. The Brightest Star
March 6, 1985
Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.
22. An Investment in Caring
March 13, 1985
Jonathan comes to the aid of a neighborhood threatened by a corporate takeover.
23. The Right Thing
March 27, 1985
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.
24. Thoroughbreds (1)
May 1, 1985
On a horse-breeding farm, competition develops into attraction between a trainer's daughter and the spoiled son of the owner.
25. Thoroughbreds (2)
May 8, 1985
Garth and Lizzy elope to an undisclosed location, unaware that Lizzy has cancer and needs immediate treatment.