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Highway to Heaven
1984 - 1989 7.4 (181 votes) 5 Seasons
Genres
Family Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
NBC
Created By
Michael Landon
William F. Claxton

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Michael Landon

Top Cast

Michael Landon
Michael Landon

Jonathan Smith

Victor French
Victor French

Mark Gordon

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1984)

No overview available.

25 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Highway to Heaven (1)
1984-09-19

Drifter Jonathan Smith takes a job as a handyman at a nursing home.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Highway to Heaven (2)
1984-09-19

Jonathan reveals his angelic origins, then must save the nursing home from developers.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: To Touch the Moon
1984-09-26

Jonathan introduces a street-wise boy to a peer who is dying of leukemia.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: The Return of the Masked Rider
1984-10-03

A lone boxer and some aging movie heroes fight for law and order in a ghetto.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Song of the Wild West
1984-10-17

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)
1984-10-24

A cycle accident shatters a baseball star's dream of reaching the pros.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)
1984-10-31

Olympic medalist Bart Conner plays a gymnast who has a special reason to help rehabilitate an athlete injured in a motorcycle accident.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: A Divine Madness
1984-11-07

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Catch a Falling Star
1984-11-14

Jonathan and Mark tend the children of a movie star who always has the money but never the time to spend on his kids.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Help Wanted: Angel
1984-11-21

An elderly scriptwriter prays for an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Dust Child
1984-11-28

A Vietnam vet and his wife happily welcome a 15-year-old girl he fathered overseas, but their son isn't happy at all.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Hotel of Dreams
1984-12-12

At a hotel, dreams come true for some, while others get their just desserts.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Another Song for Christmas
1984-12-19

Jonathan and Mark have a dickens of a time instilling the Christmas spirit in a heartless used-car salesman.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Plane Death
1985-01-09

Mark's old buddy, now working a border drug-enforcement detail, disappears after discovering the cargo in a large model airplane.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: One Winged Angels
1985-01-16

Jonathan finds that even angels aren't above falling in love when he's assigned to help an attractive divorcée and her rebellious son.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Going Home, Going Home
1985-01-23

An auto accident renders Mark unconscious---and takes him back to the time his grandfather was about to lose his ranch.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: As Difficult as ABC
1985-01-30

The future looks bleak for an illiterate basketball star who loses his scholarship because of a heart condition.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: A Child of God
1985-02-06

A young mother has two crosses to bear: a terminal illness and a minister father who's shunning his daughter and her illegitimate child.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: A Match Made in Heaven
1985-02-20

Jonathan's friend Scotty, a quadriplegic, wonders if his relationship with a woman can succeed.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: The Banker and the Bum
1985-02-27

Divine intervention enables a park bum to trade places with a mayoral candidate who wants to turn the park into a parking lot.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: The Brightest Star
1985-03-06

Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: An Investment in Caring
1985-03-13

Jonathan comes to the aid of a neighborhood threatened by a corporate takeover.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 23: The Right Thing
1985-03-27

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 24: Thoroughbreds (1)
1985-05-01

On a horse-breeding farm, competition develops into attraction between a trainer's daughter and the spoiled son of the owner.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 25: Thoroughbreds (2)
1985-05-08

Garth and Lizzy elope to an undisclosed location, unaware that Lizzy has cancer and needs immediate treatment.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1985)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Song for Jason (1)
1985-09-18

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: A Song for Jason (2)
1985-09-25

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Bless the Boys in Blue
1985-10-02

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Cindy
1985-10-23

A modern-day retelling of the Cinderella story, An aspiring actress Cindy wants to be accepted for who she really is and not the Eliza Doolittle her well-meaning dad wants to transform her into.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: The Devil and Jonathan Smith
1985-10-30

Mark runs over a girl and overwrought with guilt, he is approached by a man named Jabez Stone, who offers to let the girl live if Mark gives his boss, the Devil, his soul. Mark signs a contract thinking that it's a con or something. But when the girl lives Mark turns to Jonathan but Jonathan says that there are rules about interefering with another entity even if it's the Devil. Mark's only hope is for them to get the contract. Jonathan enlists the aid of a grifter named C.J. Barabbas to help them. Only problem C.J.'s amoral. Now he approaches Stone and tells him of what Jonathan is planning, on the night that Stone's boss is suppose to take possession of Mark, Jonathan puts his plan in action but is caught and arrested. And Stone has the contract and his boss arrives and they go to Mark and when Stone opens the contract he is shocked to discover it isn't the contract. It seems that Barabbas' duplicity was all part of the plan. Jonathan who has the real contract, then destroys it savin

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Birds of a Feather
1985-11-06

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Popcorn, Peanuts and CrackerJacks
1985-11-13

Popcorn, peanuts, and crackerjacks Jonathan and Mark have to try and help a team that can never seem to win a single game and give and give a former baseball star the glory he once knew some 40 years ago.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: The Smile in the Third Row
1985-11-20

A new play about a man who dies and speaks to God opens. Jonathan is now a priest while Mark is now the dresser for, Fred Fusco, the actor who plays the lead. Fusco's a little morose. But after the plays first performance, he changes; he claims that God was in the audience. People think that he is trying to generate some publicity for the fledgling play, including Jonathan. But nevertheless it seems to work, the play is a smash and Fusco is changing especially after meeting a boy who has cancer. After the boy dies Fusco decides to bequeath all of his property and assets to an endownment in the boy's name. which makes his sister and nephew unhappy, cause they rely on him for their necessities. When he also announces that he will die soon, his sister tries to have him committed. And Jonathan who after telling Fusco that he thinks that he is a fraud and that he is an angel, and Fusco then apologizes to him after God tells him that Jonathan told him was true, decides to speak to God and as

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: The Secret
1985-11-27

While on their way to visit Mark's friends, Jonathan lashes back at some bullies. Because of this, Jonathan gets recalled. When Mark reaches his friends, he inadvertently slips out a bit of info that leads his friends to reveal to their eldest daughter that she was adopted. She then sets out fo find her birth mother. She then discovers that her adopted mother is her birth mother. It seems that years ago, she got pregnant and her aunt, who was her guardian forced her into putting her baby up for adoption. When she married her husband, she told him that she couldn't have children, so they adopted her. And when their second daughter was born she said it was a miracle. The husband upon hearing of this decides to leave her and the younger daughter joins him. Mark tries to help him but he refuses. Later Jonathan appears to Mark and tells him to go somewhere, and it turns out to be at an abortion clinic, and Mark's friend arrests the protesters. When he tells Mark that he agrees with what the

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: The Monster (1)
1985-12-04

Jonathon and Mark connect a young blind woman with a disfigured artist.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: The Monster (2)
1985-12-11

Scotty is under pressure when Julian goes on trial.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: The Good Doctor
1985-12-18

Jonathan and Mark go to work for a football team. Their mission is to help Alex Carpenter, a player, who is worried that he might be cut, so he takes pills. Dr. Hickey, the team doctor, who supplies him with the pills he takes, is also taking pills. His son, Neal who works with his father, who is constantly being pressured by his father to do better, is also taking pills, without his father's knowledge. When his son nearly dies, and learning that it's because of him that he is an addict. He admits that he is an addict too. When Alex admits his addiction, he goes to a support group meeting, and he is shocked to see his dealer, Dr. Hickey there, and is the guest speaker, but is stunned and moved when both he and his son admit their addiction.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Alone
1986-01-08

A RETARDED TEENAGER WHO IS HOMELESS AND LIVING IN A BOX WITH THOMAS(THE CAT) AND ARNIE WAS MAKING A BIRTHDAY WISH HAS HE BLOWS OUT HIS CANDLE MARK AND JONATHON APPEARS FROM NO WHERE TO MAKE HIS DREAM COME TRUE TO FIND HAPPINESS WITH LOVING FAMILY

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind
1986-01-15

Jonathon and Mark are assigned to help UFO watcher Harvey Milsap gain custody of his recently orphaned grandson, Adam. Harvey's across-the-street neighbor Mildred Kelsey, who is furious when Harvey fools with his radio equipment while her soap is on, slowly but surely falls in love with him.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Change of Life
1986-01-29

After he and Jonathon are assigned to protect the famous actress Linda Blackwell, Mark and the actress switch bodies to see what the other has to go through. Sam Quigley is an old friend of Mark who likes Linda, but is afraid to tell her. When Mark and Linda switch bodies, Sam isn't sure that Linda is the Linda he likes.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Keep Smiling
1986-02-05

Jonathan runs into his wife but because he has a new name and form she doesn't recognize him. He goes to see her and asks if he and Mark could stay. She at first wouldn't let them but when he says, ""keep smiling"" which is something he always says in his ld form, she let them in. They see that she is lonely and their daughter lives far away and doesn't want to take the time to visit. Jonathan sends Mark to see his daughter and asks her to come visit her mother but she and her husband refuse to do so. When Jonathan learns of this he goes to her in the guise of a gigolo, and he riles them and they visit her.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: The Last Assignment
1986-02-12

Jonathan assists a misguided angel who has been trying to get his wings for 200 years.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: To Bind the Wounds
1986-02-19

A man's son has been MIA in Vietnam since 1968. When his remains are found, no one in his town comes to his funeral. He then tries to establish a scholarship in his son's name but the people who don't want to be reminded of the war, don't want to be a part of it. But Jonathan invades their dreams and reminds them of how much his son has done for them, like the man whose place he took in the draft and he didn't have to, the son of the town banker whose life he saved, and so on. After the scholarship for his son is established, Jonathan tells him that it's time for him to thank God, so Jonathan places him in an old bomber plane and it takes off, with Jonathan with him. Along the way Jonathan vanishes and his son appears and they go on together.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Heaven on Earth
1986-02-26

Sarah is the name of the little girl that was killed by a drunk driver. Wendy is the girl who helps her parents and the B & B.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Summit
1986-03-05

Mark and Jonathan try to reunite a mother with her son who is now the premier of the U.S.S.R. When he is told that his mom would like to see him he believes Jonathan is with the CIA and not an angel.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: The Torch
1986-03-12

Everett Soloman is a Nazi death camp survivor, who talks about his experience. Jan Baltic is a neo-Nazi. He was having one of his gatherings wherein he says that the Holocaust was a hoax. And at this thing is Soloman's son David, who calls Baltic a liar. Then Cal one of Baltic's people shoots David. He dies and when word reaches Soloman, he has a heart attack. Baltic and Cal are in Baltic's basement gloating about what they did and planning their next move. Then Baltic's son grabs one of the guns Baltic's has there and shoots them. Jonathan goes to Baltic's wife, who is trying to wipe the blood off the walls. She says that Jan was not always that way and Jonathan asks her when did he change and she says after he lost his job. He said that it was the Jews who were out to get him. Jonathan asks her if she would be willing to donate her husband's heart to Everett Soloman, who needs a transplant, she agrees. But Soloman upon learning that it's Baltic heart he will be getting, refuses. Jona

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: Sail Away
1986-04-02

Jonathan helps a novelist and his son both find inspiration in writing their next books and connecting with each other again.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 23: Children's Children
1986-04-30

An overzealous TV reporter files a report on a home for teen-age mothers. The report threatens the very existance of the home. Also, a high school senior seeks advice from Jonathan on how to handle his future education, his angry father, and his pregnant girlfriend and unborn son.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 24: Friends
1986-05-07

Jonathan helps a brainy but severly obese girl named Jenny gain self-esteem and deal with ridicule from her ""friends."" At one point, the snotty girls invite Jenny over to model a swimsuit, predictably leading to humiliation and the girl to gorge herself with doughnuts. Jonathan tells her the girls aren't her friends and helps her see that she has many other gifts people appreciate. Meanwhile, the angel sees that the jock (named Jack) that Jenny is tutoring needs to have his ego shaken, particularly since he considers the girl unsightly due to her weight. Jack had wanted to have a pretty cheerleader help him, but of course Jonathan can see where that is headed.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1986)

No overview available.

25 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Special Love (1)
1986-09-24

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: A Special Love (2)
1986-10-01

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: For the Love of Larry
1986-10-08

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Another Kind of War, Another Kind of Peace
1986-10-15

Jonathan informs a man, Mr. Clancy that his son who died in Vietnam fathered a child. Now he is still hurting over losing his son, that he doesn't want them. But nevetheless brings them over. Now the boy is being shook down by some bullies who want his lunch money. Now the man's anger reaches it's boiling point and he throws them out. Jonathan then informs him of what his grandson has been going through. He goes out there to tell them to stop shaking him down. They try to rough them up but Jonathan gives a little bit of power to fight back. Later the man and his grandson finally reconcile.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: That's Our Dad
1986-10-29

Bill Cassidy is a model TV dad of the hit series, ""That's Our Dad, a show known for its closing (where he ""adopts"" two orphaned children at the end of each show). At least on-screen Cassidy is the model TV dad. Off the set is a little different story. Bill is an egotistical jerk who verbally abuses his co-stars and crew members ... and even the children he was said to have adopted. His off-screen attitude is put to the test when two orphans, who happen to be fans of ""That's Our Dad,"" and especially Bill Cassidy. The two track down Bill and ask if he'd consider adopting them ... especially because they have taken the closing segments to heart. When Bill refuses to speak to them, and later tells them to get lost, the children enlist Jonathan and Mark's help in talking with Bill and setting his attitude straight.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Love at Second Sight
1986-11-05

Jonathan and Mark are on their way to their next assignment and meet another angel, Ted, whom Jonathan knows, and they both arrive at their destination. When Ted learns that the subject of his mission is his wife Laura and that it involves pairing her with a guy named Roy; not only does he refuse to do it but he sabotages any chances Roy may have had with her. He then romances her himself but Jonathan steps in and shows what damage he has done and so to fix, he starts acting like a jerk which inspires Roy to tell him to leave Laura alone and their romance begins.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Love and Marriage (1)
1986-11-12

Jonathan and Mark taken a couple back in time to help them understand what life would of been like had they not met each other 49 years earlier. Clarence and rose are about to divorce each other because they have fallen out of love.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Love and Marriage (2)
1986-11-12

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Code Name: FREAK
1986-11-19

Jonathan is tasked with being a college Professor to help a 12-year-old child prodigy be accepted as a college student.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Man to Man
1986-11-26

Jonathan and Mark try to get a father and son to get to know each other again before Gary loses his father due to leukemia. Jonathan tries to make these tycoons live life to the fullest and not work so hard.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington
1986-12-03

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Oh Lucky Man
1986-12-10

Mark plans to give a recent windfall to a boys' club. But first he must deal with some con artists.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Basinger's New York
1986-12-17

It's Christmas time and Jonathan and Mark's assignment is to prove to a cynical reporter, who doesn't believe that there's any goodness in the world, that there is.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: All That Glitters
1987-01-07

When a major fire threatens a neighborhood, Jonathan and Mark (in the guise of priests) re-open an abandoned church as a shelter, and one of the people who take shelter there is a hustler also disguised as a priest who has found a briefcase containing $1 million and needs a place to hide from the hoods who lost it

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Wally
1987-01-14

Jonathan and Mark tag along with an elderly street puppeteer who's also an angel - but doesn't know it.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: A Song of Songs
1987-01-21

James Earl Jones stars as Gabe Wilson, an old friend of Mark's and down-and-out jazz pianist who tries to re-build his life after suffering a heart attack. Gabe reconnects with an old flame named Ellie, a God-fearing widow who is having problems trying to relate to her daughter, Vanessa, the vocalist in a rock band. When Gabe tries to encourage Vanessa to pursue her dreams, he unwittingly strains the not-so-harmonious mother-daughter relationship even more. After Vanessa runs away without leaving a note, Ellie lashes out at Gabe, telling him that God made him blind to make him pay for his sins (he had become blind after a drunk driver struck his vehicle years earlier). It is up to Jonathan to reunite Ellie and Vanessa and set them both straight.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: A Night to Remember
1987-01-28

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: A Mother and a Daughter
1987-02-04

Jonathan and Mark's assignment to reunite a Hollywood actress who is estranged from her daughter, who is also writing a book about her life with her mother which paints her mother in a bad light. They meet another angel who reveals to Mark that if Jonathan does well he will be moved up, which makes Mark to see Jonathan fail but Jonathan tells him that they have to abide with what the boss wants. They go see the daughter who says that she hates her mother because she drove her father away, whom she's fond of. But the mother says that there are things about her father that she never told her. When her daughter is watching a film, it turns into the night that her mother and father were having a viscous argument, and her father revealed himself to be not the caring parent her daughter thinks he is. She later goes to her mother and asks why she didn't tell her about her father. And her mother says that she values a daughter's relationship with her father because she had a great father. Moth

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: Normal People
1987-02-11

Jonathan and Mark go to work at a halfway house where people who have mental problems that have been institutionalized but unfortunately due to need of space, the ones who are deemed no longer a danger to society, but not really treated are released. So the halfway house is a place where they can treated before going back to their former lives. Now the residents of the neighborhood where they are situated don't want them there and are vocal about it. But when the son of one of them, hits it off with one of them, he thinks that they are a little hasty. And another woman meets one of them at the grocery and hit it off with her too, and is shocked to see that she is one of them, and Jonathan tells her why she was committed. Some of the children are playing with a catapult and set fire to what they are launching, eventually they set fire to a truck and one of them, who was jogging comes across it and tries to help but when the authorities arrive, they suuspect that he was responsible. With

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: The Hero
1987-02-18

Joe Mason is a Vietnam Vet who is trying to get the VA to help him pay expensive dental work but because his condition is not related to his military service, he is denied.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: Parents' Day
1987-02-25

Jonathan and Mark work as detectives to uncover a drug problem with a family and a school.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: A Father's Faith
1987-03-04

When Jonathan and Mark decide to take some time off, they visit Mark's friends to go fishing.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 23: Heavy Date
1987-03-18

Jonathan and Mark have an interesting assignment as they try to give Gary and Alice a new direction in their lives. As Gary begins to fall in love with Alice he soon discovers a secret that suddenly makes him a father. Alice makes plans to give up her baby for adoption but as the birth of the baby gets closer she begins to have second thoughts about giving the baby up.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 24: Ghost Rider
1987-04-01

Birdy Belker a mystery writer gets to meet the man of her dreams. She meets Roger bolt who was slain in 1968. Jonathan grants birdy's wish to actually meet the man she writes about. She said learns that meeting the man she writes about isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 25: The Gift of Life
1987-05-06

Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is R.R. Benson, a cold and heartless businessman, who is polluting the oceans, maintains apartments which are below living standards, just to name a few. When he proved to be a tough nut to crack, Jonathan decides to take the direct approach and reveal to Benson that he is an angel and at the rate he is going he won't make it to heaven. But Benson is still unmoved, and the last thing Jonathan tells him is to read the Bible. That while sleeping a burglar breaks into Benson's home and shoots him. Benson runs into Jonathan asking him what happened, Jonathan shows him that he is a spirit and that he died. Jonathan shows him exactly the kind of life that he's been leading and how it affects others, and how people really feel about him like his girlfriend, who has another guy and who is planning a palimony suit. Jonathan then takes him back to his office and tells him that his ""boss"" is giving him the opportunity to relive the final week of his life. He

Runtime: 45 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1987)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Man's Best Friend (1)
1987-09-16

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Man's Best Friend (2)
1987-09-23

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Fight for Your Life
1987-09-30

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: The People Next Door
1987-10-21

The people next door the people of Mission Estates don't know that one of their own is hiding to secrets. Nine years ago Dr. Martin denied his wife, and his son of their heritage. Anna Martinez lives across the street from her son and grandson Bobby Martin. He kept the secrets so he could live in Mission Estates. Mission Estates is an exclusive subdivision that "" allows the right kind of people "".

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf
1987-10-28

During Halloween night, Jonathan helps a little boy get over his fears (and in the process get even with his older sister).

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Playing For Keeps
1987-11-04

Jonathan tries to reunite a father and son who are a comedian and an actor, respectively together by getting to star in a community theatre play about an estranged father and son. But the comedian's antics drives his son mad.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Amazing Man
1987-11-11

Mark and Jonathon are sent to help a little boy overcome the sudden death of his father. Stevie deals with his grief through his favorite superhero, Amazing Man. Jonathon and Mark help his mother realize that grief is a normal reaction and help the family begin to heal.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: All the Colors of the Heart
1987-11-18

Frank Reilly wants to get his sight back but soon realizes that the procedure the doctor wants to perform will do him no good. Meanwhile Scotty is just about to lose his sight and isn't sure what his future will be like without sight. Before he loses his sight he must learn to do things as a blind person would do. Frank and Scott must help each other realize that even though both of their dreams are ending they still have their own futures to find.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Why Punish the Children?
1987-11-25

Jonathan and Mark see if they can change reforms that only allow mothers in prison to see their kids behind a glass wall. Market and Jonathan have trouble convincing the warden that the present policy needs to change to allow mothers in prison to see their kids without a glass wall. During the night one of the warden's children is scared and begins screaming for her father only to find out that the father can't touch his own child to comfort her.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: A Dream of Wild Horses
1987-12-02

Jonathan and Mark are hired to help honor ranch. They must try to convince a grandfather that he is still needed and isn't too old to do anything just because he thinks he is.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: In With the 'In' Crowd
1987-12-09

Denise Kelly is a cop going undercover to stop a drug ring at a local high school. Jonathan and Mark pose as counselors to see if they can find who is bringing cocaine to school. Mark and Jonathan set up surveillance outside party between Denise and Mike to see if he knows anything about the cocaine. When Mark and Jonathan later meet with a faculty of the high school they find out everyone isn't pleased with the tactics used in trying to figure out who is bringing the cocaine in to school. Mark learns he made a big mistake when the parents of one of the students asks him to play the tape between Denise and Mike he later learns that he stopped the tape because they weren't talking about drugs. This mistake nearly costs Mark & Jonathan their jobs and almost costs Mark his life.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: With Love, the Claus
1987-12-23

It's Christmas time and Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is to try and get two divorce parents who are still bickering and using their son as pawn against each other to stop and start being parents. They go and work for the father who is a lawyer. They bring their son to a department store and there the new store Santa is upset at the store for promoting toy guns, and when the boy tells Santa what he wants, he tells him that he can't be sure if he can give that. Later the store throws him out cause of his bellowing. He later goes back and is arrested, Jonathan offers to defend him, and the boys father sees this as an opportunity to get back at his wife who is the store's counsel. While in jail the Santa manages to lift the spirits of some of the people he meets there including one of the guards. Mark thinking that if he really is, ""the Claus"", why doesn't he just whisk himself out of here. But saying that it would not be a good message for the children says he won't, they will hav

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: A Mother's Love
1988-01-06

Four boys whose parents just died recently are informed by the social worker assigned to their case, that the younger children will be placed in different foster homes. The elder brother decides to take them away and take care of them himself; he will find a job while the others go school.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 14: Country Doctor
1988-01-13

A country doctor tries to teach the value of been a small-town doctor and excepting anything for pay. Dr. Hudsboth has to work hard to pay off a mortgage.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 15: Time in a Bottle
1988-01-20

A district attorney clashes with a lawyer who agrees to defend a friend charged with stealing.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 16: Back to Oakland
1988-02-03

Jonathan and Mark return to Mark's old hometown of Oakland and they go visit his old precinct. They learn that there a case of ""the blue flu"" and Mark's old Captain asks him if he could fill in for awhile. He his teamed up with an old friend whom he discovers is a racist. Jonathan then goes to an apartment building that is need of a new handyman and Jonathan meets the (black) woman who is the manager. Now she has two sons, the elder hates anyone white and is practically a delinquent.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 17: We Have Forever (1)
1988-02-10

Jonathon gets a 'feeling' while he and Mark are driving towards their next job. He goes to the hospital to find his wife is near death and was calling for him. After she passes away Jonathon believes that he will no longer be working for the 'boss' and will go to be with his wife. To the answer of lightning and thunder he finds out otherwise and becomes enraged. He is then stripped of his 'stuff' and has to live as a mere mortal. While at the beach one night he sees a young woman who he thinks is the spirit of his wife. As he runs to her he sees a beautiful young woman who walks into the ocean attempting to kill herself. Jonathon saves her and the 2 forge a friendship... To Be Continued...

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 18: We Have Forever (2)
1988-02-17

Jonathan is still angry with God for not letting him go heaven to see Jane one last time. Jonathan becomes human after being dead for 40 years. Jennifer has fallen in love with Jonathan and now must help him understand that he will always have Jane in his heart regardless of the job he chooses. Jennifer suddenly finds a letter from Jane and as a way of saying goodbye to him he understands that until his job is finished they will always have forever.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 19: The Correspondent
1988-02-24

Hale Stoddard get the unique look at live through his wife's eyes. Hale is sitting in jail writing to his editor, which he believes he will never receive because he is covering all war. Jonathan than answers his request to hold his wife in his arms again. Jonathan first sends Hale back to the basement of his own home. He then gets a unique look at life through Martha's dream. First he learns that his wife always sleeps in his steady where his pictures are because that is all she has of him because he is a way a lot. Second he learns that while he is gone his wife sometimes fantasizes about Eleanor (A fellow journalist that often accompanied Hale on many trips.) Third Hale sees Louis before the accident that caused him to lose his arm. As he sees his son he begins to understand why his wife wanted him home all the time but also wanted him to be happy.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 20: Aloha
1988-03-02

Mark and Jonathan travel to Hawaii to help Aulani a former singer and actress to try and thank people more often. A friend of hers just learned he has AIDS. Danny tells Jonathan he contracted the disease due to a blood transfusion.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 21: A Dolphin Song For Lee (1)
1988-03-16

A dying teen raises funds for her operation as well as for other children with cancer.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 22: A Dolphin Song For Lee (2)
1988-03-23

A teen aged girl goes through an operation, that may not be successful. Mark helps Her fulfill Her dream of saving the dolphins.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 23: Heaven Nose, Mister Smith
1988-03-30

Jonathan has to suddenly fix a computer glitch that causes Angels to go out on the wrong assignments. Jonathan must try to stop Max from ending his son's marriage. Jonathan then suggests that Maxi's wife Sarah also finish the assignment.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 24: The Whole Nine Yards
1988-04-27

Ricky Diller is pressured by his father to win at everything and not enjoy losing a game once in awhile.

Runtime: 45 min
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Season 5 (1988)

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13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Whose Trash Is It Anyway?
1988-10-12

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Hello and Farewell (1)
1988-12-07

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Hello and Farewell (2)
1988-12-07

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.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: The Silent Bell
1989-03-21

A pastor must follow a church council's decision to fire most of the staff at the school because they're not Christian.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: The Reunion
1989-06-02

Mark Gordon attends is there any five-year class reunion only to learn that it's not what he expected. An older actor uses the reunion as a press event get his career started again only to be told he isn't needed anymore. Also the prom queen feels out of place at the reunion because she's changed too much.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: The Source
1989-06-09

Jonathan tries two teach two kids the right way to report a story. But after a bus accident Diane Nichols gets the bus driver in big trouble because she was angry that he was married. The two kids see the opportunity to report the story incorrectly leading to the bus driver losing his job.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: The Squeaky Wheel
1989-06-16

Wayne seacrest is suddenly fired from his job as a computer programmer because the left on the bus breaks down. Jonathan and Mark asked for Wayne's assistance in getting better access to places for handicapped people. Wayne attends a ribbon cutting ceremony and uses the occasion to put people on notice about building ramps and widening bathroom stalls for handicapped people.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka
1989-06-23

Mr. Zelinka is a beloved teacher who is forced to retire because he has reached the retirement age of 70. The school board president feels that he's teaching responsibilities are too much for him. The students of Lincoln High School plan a birthday party and retirement party as well. They feel their efforts go down hill when their teacher doesn't want to attend the party because of the retirement notice he received. The students gathered together to form a petition to stop their teacher from retiring but face a big battle when they try to present their petition before the president of the school board who has no intention of changing his mind or listening to what the students have to say.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Choices
1989-06-30

A Vietnamese couple has come back to the states from Singapore to try and take their sons back. Mr. and Mrs.Trong find it somewhat difficult to be able to just take their sons back after 12 years of living in America. The Hawkins were led to believe that Mr. and Mrs.Trong died in an internment camp 12 years ago but soon learn that the Vietnamese couple did survive and have come back to have a promise fulfilled nearly 12 years ago. Jonathan Mark must see if they can let the boys stay in the United States with the Hawkins and released from a promise made 12 years ago.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Summer Camp
1989-07-14

To help Mary Anders forget that she was scar and a fire Jonathan and Mark are arranged for her to work at a summer camp for the blind. Soon one of the counselors named Frank Reilly the keenest to suspect who she really is. He begins to fall in love with her later because her identity is known Mary Andrews decides to pose for a tabloid magazine that will show the burns she suffered.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: The Inner Limits
1989-07-21

Paul believes his brother George can do nothing because of his handicapped and because of what doctors told him and his mother. Jonathan and Mark, not to visit George and see if there is anything that can be done to find out what George has always wanted to say but never could. First Jonathan and Mark test to see if George can understand simple commands. After getting the necessary things he finally is able to tell his mother and his brother something. Two years later George writes a book "" No inner limits"".

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: It's a Dog's Life
1989-07-28

Thinking Jonathan has turned into a dog, Mark embarks alone to unite a young runaway with his family.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 13: Merry Christmas from Grandpa
1989-08-04

On Christmas Eve, Jonathan allows three powerful people to foresee the consequences of their actions: an energy magnate, a farmer and the President.

Runtime: 45 min

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