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The Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven

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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. Background image for A Mother's Love
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Wally
    9.0/10(191 votes)

    #2 - Wally

    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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  3. Background image for The Gift of Life
    8.8/10(135 votes)

    #3 - 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

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  4. Background image for Thoroughbreds (2)
    8.6/10(170 votes)

    #4 - Thoroughbreds (2)

    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
  5. Background image for A Special Love (2)
    8.6/10(165 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  6. Background image for For the Love of Larry
    8.6/10(166 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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  8. Background image for Going Home, Going Home
    8.5/10(171 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for A Special Love (1)
    8.5/10(164 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  10. Background image for Basinger's New York
    8.5/10(150 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Normal People
    8.5/10(120 votes)

    #10 - 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

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  12. Background image for I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf

    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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  13. Background image for Dust Child
    8.4/10(229 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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  14. Background image for The Banker and the Bum
    8.4/10(176 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Thoroughbreds (1)
    8.4/10(176 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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  16. Background image for Code Name: FREAK
    8.4/10(123 votes)

    #15 - Code Name: FREAK

    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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  17. Background image for Man to Man
    8.4/10(122 votes)

    #16 - Man to Man

    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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  18. Background image for A Mother and a Daughter
    8.4/10(113 votes)

    #17 - A Mother and a Daughter

    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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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Another Song for Christmas
    8.3/10(214 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  20. Background image for An Investment in Caring
    8.3/10(166 votes)

    #19 - An Investment in Caring

    S1:E22

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

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    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington
    8.3/10(119 votes)

    #20 - Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington

    S3:E11

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    Director:Dan Gordon
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for All That Glitters
    8.3/10(132 votes)

    #21 - All That Glitters

    S3:E14

    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

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  23. Background image for A Father's Faith
    8.3/10(111 votes)

    #22 - A Father's Faith

    S3:E22

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Heavy Date
    8.3/10(111 votes)

    #23 - Heavy Date

    S3:E23

    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.

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  25. Background image for Highway to Heaven (2)
    8.2/10(316 votes)

    #24 - Highway to Heaven (2)

    S1:E2

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Hero
    8.2/10(121 votes)

    #25 - The Hero

    S3:E20

    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.

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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 Unknown, it aired on 1/6/1988. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Wally".