Highway to Heaven - Episode Guide

Angel Jonathan Smith arrives at a retirement home to help not only the occupants but also an employee named Leslie Gordon. However, Leslie's brother Mark, a jaded and bitter former police officer, is suspicious of Jonathan. When Mark Gordon's investigation starts getting too close, Jonathan must reveal his true identity and purpose to Mark in order to successfully complete his assignment.

Note: Originally shown as a two hour Pilot TV Movie, which was later cut into two separate episodes for syndication.

A terminally ill boy takes in another boy who's continually in trouble with the law in an effort to help both his mother and the troubled boy.

The Satan's Helpers street gang terrorizes its neighborhood, bullying a young boxer to throw the big fight. Jonathan and Mark attempt to motivate aging Western movie stars the gang has mugged to muster the courage to be the heroes they once were and stand up to the thugs.

Jonathan and Mark come to a country-western bar where they provide an angelic assist to a young country singer emulating her lost mother, a former country star hoping to find her lost glory, and a widow mourning her lost husband.

A high school baseball star is being scouted by the pros, much to his delight and that of his father who's been coaching him, but a tragic motorcycle accident permanently shatters both their dreams and Jonathan must find a way to help the boy make lemonade from this crop of lemons.

To help Deke find a reason for living after his accident and shattered dreams, Jonathan enlists the aid of a gymnast who has reasons of his own to help rehabilitate Deke. In the meantime, Jonathan and Mark must find a way to reunite Deke's parents, who have also been affected by Deke's accident but in a different way.

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.

A movie star always has the money to spend on his kids but never the time to spend with or be a real father to them, and Jonathan and Mark (who have been hired to look after the children) must show him the error of his ways before it's too late.

An advertisement brings Jonathan and Mark to a neighborhood where an elderly scriptwriter needs an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood, but making the film may mean tragedy for Mark when Jonathan receives news from higher up about a woman in the neighborhood and movie whom Mark has fallen in love with.

A Vietnam War veteran and his wife welcome the 15 year old girl he fathered overseas into their house. However, the couple's teenage son is not so welcoming to his Vietnamese half sister; even less so are their neighbors, and the boy's schoolmates.

Barry Rudd, an aimless young man dubbed Rudd the Dud, is given a hotel to manage by his wealthy father. Jonathan and Mark are on hand as bellhops and when not assisting Barry contend with a tyrannical boss, a bratty kid and a snooty guest.

Jonathan and Mark become involved in their own version of Dickens' classic "Christmas Carol" ... only their "Scrooge" is a heartless used car salesman.

Between assignments, Jonathan and Mark drive to a small town to visit an old buddy of Mark's. They find the friend has disappeared and their search for clues encountering a conspiracy of silence.

Jonathan jeopardizes his assignment by falling in love with the very woman whose engagement to another man he's supposed to be overseeing.

Mark loses consciousness in an auto accident and finds himself and Jonathan back in time to when his grandfather was about to lose his ranch.

A college basketball star must face his illiteracy when a heart condition denies him a scholarship.

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

Jonathan's guidance helps the romance of a quadriplegic lawyer and Mark's cousin.

A big hearted bum and a cold hearted tycoon switch bodies and walk a mile in the other man's shoes.

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

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

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.

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

Lizzy finds out she has cancer, and on top of it, she learns she's also pregnant. She pushes her new husband away, even though she really loves him. Jonathan and Mark help the new couple pull together and move forward.

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.

Camp Good Times is helping both Gary and Curtis in different ways, but Jason may have lost his will to keep going when his best friend is rushed to the hospital and his father still refuses to deal with Jason's illness.

When Mark wishes that Jonathan be a mortal cop "for just a little while", "The Boss" takes him up on his wish with the result that Jonathan must relinquish his angelic powers...which, considering the dangers of being a police officer, may not be a good idea.

A modern day Hollywood retelling of the Cinderella story, only this 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.

Jonathan recruits a con artist's help after Jabez Stone tricks Mark into selling his soul in order to save a little boy's life, but The Devil has another agenda - acquiring the soul of an angel.

Out of fear of losing their jobs, workers at a factory ignore ground water contamination (even though the contamination is making their children sick), and Jonathan must resort to drastic measures to force them to face the facts - but the consequences may be just as fatal to him.

Jonathan and Mark come to the aid of a minor league baseball team that's never won a game and an old vendor, once a player for the black leagues, who gets kicked out of the stadium.

Jonathan is as skeptical as everybody else when the lead actor in a failing Broadway play claims that God is attending the show's performances, sitting in a third row orchestra seat.

When Jonathan must return to Heaven to face disciplinary action, Mark is left on his own to help when the daughter of his friends learns that she's adopted and sets out to find her real mother.

While visiting their friend who is a quadriplegic attorney with marriage problems, Jonathan and Mark meet a young blind woman and learn about a local recluse who is regarded as a monster.

Scotty must defend Julian after he is accused of assaulting Rachel....and it appears the odds are not in either man's favor.

The doctor for a football team who got a player addicted to painkillers and pep pills is forced to confront his own addictions.

Jonathan places a homeless, mentally impaired teen with a wealthy, but troubled, family.

To help a UFO watcher keep custody of his grandson, Jonathan and Mark convince the boy they are aliens.

While working for Linda Blackwell, a beautiful movie star with a very low opinion of men, Mark and Linda both wish "to God" that each could have the other's life ... with the result that "The Boss" takes them at their word and switches Mark and Linda into each other's bodies.

Jonathan is given one of the most emotional assignments he's ever had ... to help his own widow regain her love for life.

Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment involves Harold, an errant angel who's been on probation for two centuries because in spreading happiness he's forever breaking the rules.

Jonathan and Mark help a whole town to remember how a young soldier who was killed in Vietnam touched their lives when the attempts of his father to have a memorial made to commemorate his son are ignored.

When Mark thinks he's the cause for two tragic deaths, Jonathan grants his wish for a world without the tragedies.

Mark and Jonathan try to reunite a mother with her son who is now the Deputy 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.

The son of a Nazi death camp survivor clashes with a Neo Nazi who disputes the Holocaust with tragic results.

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

A home for unwed mothers is endangered when a sensationalist reporter uncovers a secret about the past of the woman who runs the home, and a teenage boy must come to terms with the fact that he's a father.

Jonathan and Mark are substitute teachers in a high school where a lesson on true friendship is underscored by Jonathan's assigning an ostracized overweight girl to tutor a brash baseball star in danger of flunking out of school.

Jonathan and Mark talk a youngster named Todd into joining the Special Olympics and help out a couple who are unable to have children.

Scotty and Diane want to and are determined to adopt Todd, but Todd's parents won't agree and both sides are prepared to fight it out in court with both Todd and his older brother caught in the middle.

A dog leads Johnathan and Mark to his owners, who are trapped in a car.

Despite sponsoring their immigration, a cab driver wants nothing to do with the wife and child his deceased son left in Vietnam. A lonely older neighbor takes them to a carnival and offers to share his apartment.

Two orphans have hopes of being adopted by an actor on their favorite TV show.

Jonathan and Mark help another angel on a difficult assignment when they become recreation directors at a retirement community.

When three generations of couples call it quits, Jonathan and Mark work angelic wonders to bring them back together.

Note: Originally shown as a feature length (90 min) episode, which was later cut into two separate episodes for syndication.

Jonathan and Mark head to college; Jonathan helps a 12-year-old 'freak' genius and Mark takes care of a rowdy dorm.

A tycoon who is dying of leukemia tries to mend his relationship with his teenage son.

A Senator is bent on getting a bill through Congress that would cut funds required for the production of drugs to cure rare diseases, but learns that passage of the bill will have fatal consequences affecting his family.

Mark and Jonathan become the target of con artists after Mark wins five million dollars.

Jonathan and Mark spend Christmas Eve with a cynical New York columnist to help him see the good in mankind.

A hustler finds a case containing a million dollars, dresses as a priest to escape from the gangsters who lost the case and then hides out with the money in the same church where "Father" Jonathan and "Father" Mark are helping victims of an urban fire.

Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is Wally, a lovable elderly hobo and street puppeteer whose caring and goodness have made him, without his knowing it, an angel. But he may be powerless to help a critically ill little boy ... unless he appeals to a higher authority.

Jazz musician Gabe Wilson is reunited with his old flame. He finds out that after all these years, the woman he once loved has changed.

Mark and Jonathan help Danny and Kate overcome their height issues as they get ready for prom.

Jonathan will be promoted to Heaven if he succeeds in reuniting a movie star with her daughter, who's writing a vicious expose of her mother, and Mark, who doesn't want Jonathan to go, is thinking of sabotaging the assignment.

Controversy and misunderstanding split a neighborhood when a halfway house for mental patients opens.

A veteran feels like society let him down because he needs some dental work done which he can't afford. He was hoping his Veterans' benefits would pay for it but because his dental problems are not related to his military service he is denied.

Jonathan and Mark pose as police detectives investigating drug selling in schools. They become involved when the son of a famous news anchorman and leading anti-drug proponent learns that his father is a secret cocaine user and informs the police, leading to a cover-up and betrayal of trust by the father.

Mark and Jonathan's vacation leads them to Mark's old friends who are coping with a comatose son and a daughter who blames herself.

Jonathan and Mark play matchmaker for two young people, a reckless young man and an unmarried, pregnant teenager; they learn a lesson about love and responsibility.

A lonely female novelist is in love with a legendary spy hero who has been dead for 20 years. She buys his sports car that is being auctioned off, only to find out that his ghost comes with the car. She is overjoyed until she finds out that his personality is less charming than what she imagined.

On assignment as bodyguards, Jonathan and Mark have to make a wealthy, ruthless businessman see the error of his ways.

A runaway dog helps bring together a boy in an orphanage whom nobody wants and the dog's human family, the parents of which are trying to have another child through a surrogate mother.

The orphan boy has formed an attachment to the dog, although he is going away to living with a new foster family.

A young prizefighter puts his career on the line and learns an unsavory truth about his manager-brother.

When a black family tries to move next door to a successful doctor in an exclusive community, Jonathan and Mark must help the doctor confront a secret he's kept from everyone, including his own family.

Jonathan, dressed as a werewolf, comes to the rescue when drunken teenagers harass a young trick-or-treater.

Jonathan and Mark are on an assignment to reconcile a father and son by getting them to share the stage in a play.

A police officer's death in the line of duty causes his young son to retreat into fantasy.

A counselor at a camp for the blind enlists Jonathan to prevent the suicide of a man losing his sight.

Jonathan and Mark clash with a warden over reforms that would unite female inmates with their children.

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.

A high school girl dies from drugs; Jonathan and Mark are sent to the high school as police counselors and get teamed up with a female officer who goes undercover as a student to find the source of drugs.

Jonathan and Mark are on assignment to help two divorced lawyers whose son is caught in a custody battle; at the same time, they meet up with Santa who gets caught in a legal battle against a department store.

When four boys whose mother just died are told that they're going to become wards of the state and will be placed in different homes, they run away. Jonathan and Mark help get them together with a teacher who's about to retire and with no family.

A small town doctor is in bad health but he can't afford to retire and there is no one else to take his place.

A lawyer who's hit rock bottom agrees to defend his friend, another homeless man who's charged with robbing a liquor store.

As part of the latest assignment, Mark returns to Oakland to become a police officer again and is reunited with his old partner, but things are not the way he left it when he finds his old beat has become a storm of racial hatred.

When his former wife passes away, Jonathan hopes that he'll be released from his duties to be reunited with her in Heaven, but "The Boss" wants him to stay on Earth. When Jonathan becomes so enraged at "The Boss" that he refuses to obey, he is stripped of his angelic powers and turned into a mortal.

When an embittered Jonathan, now a mortal, turns his back on everything and everyone, including Mark, a young woman offers him shelter and with the power of love helps him to recover his lost faith and hope.

A war correspondent who can't resist going on just one more story finds himself imprisoned and facing execution, and Jonathan and Mark must show him what's he's missed and lost during his life by putting work ahead of family.

A handicapped ex-singer from Hawaii yearns for home but will not return as she will not go because her trip to the mainland to find fame failed; then her regular maintenance cheques stop coming.

A young teenaged girl is dying, and has one more chance for a life saving operation. She has one dream that she would like to fulfill, in case she doesn't make it.

A teenage girl goes through an operation that may not be successful. Mark helps her fulfill her dream of saving the dolphins.

Jonathan has to stop an angel who's back on Earth and intent on breaking up his son's marriage. To stop him, Jonathan must enlist aid of a special kind.

Jonathan intermediates for a football coach whose attitude about winning at all costs has alienated his son.

Mark's friend Pete Nelson is running for mayor against a ruthless opponent. Jealousy prompts the mayor's son to plant drugs in the locker of Pete's son Jeff, creating scandal. Mark sets out to clear Jeff's name.

A nurse is still reeling from the Vietnam War and a 17 year old discovers he is adopted. Kim goes to a veterans' counseling group and Jonathan consoles Major Hastings about his son.

Note: Originally shown as a feature length (90 min) episode, which was later cut into two separate episodes for syndication.

When the church decrees that religion be taught in his preschool, a minister faces a crisis of conscience and an exodus of ethnically mixed teachers and students.

It's Mark's high school reunion. His aging comrades from high school must come to terms with the fact that they're not the young popular people that they used to be.

A teenage girl tells two high school reporters (one of whom is the principal's son) that a school bus driver was coming on to her just before an accident. The story is published without verifying the facts, thus wrecking the driver's reputation and his career.

Jonathan and Mark encourage a disabled Vietnamese veteran to work for an organization that helps disabled people.

A beloved, aging teacher is being forced to retire, even though he still wants to keep teaching. His students rally to save his job.

A Vietnamese couple come to America to find their sons after ten years of being separated. Jonathan and Mark help them achieve their goal, inadvertently tearing apart the sons' adoptive family when the elder son feels morally obligated to return to Vietnam with his biological parents.

After suffering major burns in a freak accident, a top fashion model and actress becomes a counselor at a summer camp for blind children run by Jonathan and Mark's blind friend Frank.

Hoping to overcome his mother's insistence that his paralyzed brother is fully aware and get him the institutional care he needs, a young man consults a doctor, only to be advised that his brother is not only fully aware but capable of communication.

After complaining that Jonathan's angelic powers give him an unfair advantage, Mark thinks Jonathan has been turned into a dog as he deals with a runaway kid and his ditzy parents.

On Christmas Eve, Jonathan presents a future ravaged by pollution to three different people: a tycoon, a farmer and the President of the United States.