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The Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven

Every episode of Highway to Heaven ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven!

The Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven

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

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  1. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - A Mother's Love

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    S4:E13

    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.

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  2. 9.1/10(201 votes)

    #2 - Keep Smiling

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    S2:E16

    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.

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  3. 9.0/10(241 votes)

    #3 - Alone

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    S2:E13

    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

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  4. 9.0/10(187 votes)

    #4 - Wally

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    S3:E15

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

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  5. 8.9/10(133 votes)

    #5 - The Gift of Life

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    S3:E25

    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

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  6. 8.7/10(155 votes)

    #6 - To Bind the Wounds

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    S2:E18

    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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
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  8. 8.7/10(155 votes)

    #7 - A Special Love (2)

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    S3:E2

    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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  9. 8.6/10(168 votes)

    #8 - Thoroughbreds (2)

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    S1:E25

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

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  10. 8.6/10(147 votes)

    #9 - The Monster (2)

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    S2:E11

    Scotty is under pressure when Julian goes on trial.

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    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Dan Gordon
  11. 8.6/10(141 votes)

    #10 - Friends

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    S2:E24

    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.

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  12. 8.6/10(160 votes)

    #11 - For the Love of Larry

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    S3:E3

    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.

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  13. 8.5/10(169 votes)

    #12 - Going Home, Going Home

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    S1:E16

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

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  14. 8.5/10(159 votes)

    #13 - A Song for Jason (2)

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    S2:E2

    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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  15. 8.5/10(159 votes)

    #14 - A Special Love (1)

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    S3:E1

    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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  16. 8.5/10(149 votes)

    #15 - Basinger's New York

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    S3:E13

    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.

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  17. 8.5/10(120 votes)

    #16 - Normal People

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    S3:E19

    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

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  18. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf

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    S4:E5

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

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  19. 8.5/10(102 votes)

    #18 - The Reunion

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    S5:E5

    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.

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  20. 8.4/10(224 votes)

    #19 - Dust Child

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    S1:E11

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

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  21. 8.4/10(175 votes)

    #20 - The Banker and the Bum

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    S1:E20

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

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  22. 8.4/10(174 votes)

    #21 - Thoroughbreds (1)

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    S1:E24

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

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  23. 8.4/10(122 votes)

    #22 - Code Name: FREAK

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    S3:E9

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

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  24. 8.4/10(122 votes)

    #23 - Man to Man

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    S3:E10

    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.

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  25. 8.4/10(113 votes)

    #24 - A Mother and a Daughter

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    S3:E18

    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

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  26. 8.4/10(109 votes)

    #25 - Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka

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    S5:E8

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"A Mother's Love" is the best rated episode of "Highway to Heaven". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by N/A, it aired on 1/6/1988. This episode scored 0.9 points higher than the second highest rated, "Keep Smiling".