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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!

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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 16 - Keep Smiling
    9.2/10(225 votes)

    #1 - Keep Smiling

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  2. Highway to Heaven Season 4 Episode 18 - We Have Forever (2)
    9.2/10(203 votes)

    #2 - We Have Forever (2)

    S4:E18

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  3. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 13 - Alone
    9.1/10(264 votes)

    #3 - Alone

    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

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  4. Highway to Heaven Season 3 Episode 15 - Wally
    9.0/10(207 votes)

    #4 - Wally

    S3:E15

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

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  5. Highway to Heaven Season 3 Episode 25 - The Gift of Life
    8.9/10(146 votes)

    #5 - The Gift of Life

    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

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  6. Highway to Heaven Season 4 Episode 17 - We Have Forever (1)
    8.9/10(193 votes)

    #6 - We Have Forever (1)

    S4:E17

    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...

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  7. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 18 - To Bind the Wounds
    8.7/10(175 votes)

    #7 - To Bind the Wounds

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  8. Highway to Heaven Season 4 Episode 13 - A Mother's Love
    8.7/10(150 votes)

    #8 - A Mother's Love

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 25 - Thoroughbreds (2)
    8.6/10(183 votes)

    #9 - Thoroughbreds (2)

    S1:E25

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

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  10. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 11 - The Monster (2)
    8.6/10(163 votes)

    #10 - The Monster (2)

    S2:E11

    Scotty is under pressure when Julian goes on trial.

    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  11. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 24 - Friends
    8.6/10(155 votes)

    #11 - Friends

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  12. Highway to Heaven Season 3 Episode 3 - For the Love of Larry
    8.6/10(187 votes)

    #12 - For the Love of Larry

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  13. Highway to Heaven Season 4 Episode 2 - Man's Best Friend (2)
    8.6/10(136 votes)

    #13 - Man's Best Friend (2)

    S4:E2

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  14. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 5 - The Reunion
    8.6/10(113 votes)

    #14 - The Reunion

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:David Ketchum

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  15. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 8 - Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka
    8.6/10(124 votes)

    #15 - Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 16 - Going Home, Going Home
    8.5/10(187 votes)

    #16 - Going Home, Going Home

    S1:E16

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

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 2 - A Song for Jason (2)
    8.5/10(175 votes)

    #17 - A Song for Jason (2)

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  18. Highway to Heaven Season 3 Episode 1 - A Special Love (1)
    8.5/10(177 votes)

    #18 - A Special Love (1)

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  19. Highway to Heaven Season 3 Episode 2 - A Special Love (2)
    8.5/10(178 votes)

    #19 - A Special Love (2)

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  20. Highway to Heaven Season 3 Episode 13 - Basinger's New York
    8.5/10(161 votes)

    #20 - Basinger's New York

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Highway to Heaven Season 3 Episode 19 - Normal People
    8.5/10(132 votes)

    #21 - Normal People

    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

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Paul W. Cooper

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  22. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 11 - Dust Child
    8.4/10(247 votes)

    #22 - Dust Child

    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.

    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Paul W. Cooper

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  23. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 13 - Another Song for Christmas
    8.4/10(235 votes)

    #23 - Another Song for Christmas

    S1:E13

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

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  24. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 20 - The Banker and the Bum
    8.4/10(187 votes)

    #24 - The Banker and the Bum

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 24 - Thoroughbreds (1)
    8.4/10(189 votes)

    #25 - Thoroughbreds (1)

    S1:E24

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

    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Michael Landon

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Best Episodes Summary

"Keep Smiling" is the best rated episode of "Highway to Heaven". It scored 9.2/10 based on 225 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by Michael Landon, it aired on 2/5/1986. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "We Have Forever (2)".