Episodes

1. Highway to Heaven (1)

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

2. Highway to Heaven (2)

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

3. To Touch the Moon

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

4. The Return of the Masked Rider

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

5. 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.

6. One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Help Wanted: Angel

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

11. 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.

12. Hotel of Dreams

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

13. Another Song for Christmas

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

14. Plane Death

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

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

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

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

18. 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.

19. A Match Made in Heaven

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

20. 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.

21. The Brightest Star

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

22. An Investment in Caring

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

23. 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.

24. Thoroughbreds (1)

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

25. Thoroughbreds (2)

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

Overview

A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.

Details

Genres

Family, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Language

EN

First Air Date

1984-09-19

Seasons

5

Episodes

111

Available On

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Cast

Michael Landon

Victor French

David Ackroyd

H. Richard Greene