9.2/10173 votesLoading...#1 - We Have Forever (2)
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1988
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
9.1/10197 votesLoading...#2 - Keep Smiling
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1986
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
9.0/10234 votesLoading...#3 - Alone
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1986
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
9.0/10180 votesLoading...#4 - Wally
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1987
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
9.0/10132 votesLoading...#5 - A Mother's Love
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1988
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: N/A
8.9/10125 votesLoading...#6 - The Gift of Life
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/6/1987
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
8.8/10151 votesLoading...#7 - To Bind the Wounds
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1986
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
8.8/10168 votesLoading...#8 - We Have Forever (1)
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1988
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
8.7/10153 votesLoading...#9 - A Special Love (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1986
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
8.6/10166 votesLoading...#10 - Thoroughbreds (2)
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/8/1985
Garth and Lizzy elope to an undisclosed location, unaware that Lizzy has cancer and needs immediate treatment.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.6/10143 votesLoading...#11 - The Monster (2)
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1985
Scotty is under pressure when Julian goes on trial.
Director: Victor French
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.6/10138 votesLoading...#12 - Friends
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/7/1986
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
8.6/10153 votesLoading...#13 - A Special Love (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1986
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
8.6/10158 votesLoading...#14 - For the Love of Larry
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1986
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
8.6/10126 votesLoading...#15 - All That Glitters
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1987
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
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.6/10114 votesLoading...#16 - Man's Best Friend (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1987
Jenny's dog Jake runs away after chasing a cat. Jonathan and Mark find the dog and take him over to orphanage to help cheer up the kids. Jonathan and Mark must try to get Alex to become active again. They use Jake and get him to play with the other kids. They soon learn that Alex is afraid that if he touches anything it will be taken away from him.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
8.6/10116 votesLoading...#17 - Man's Best Friend (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1987
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
8.5/10162 votesLoading...#18 - Going Home, Going Home
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/23/1985
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: N/A
8.5/10158 votesLoading...#19 - A Song for Jason (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1985
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
8.5/10133 votesLoading...#20 - Heaven on Earth
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1986
Sarah is the name of the little girl that was killed by a drunk driver. Wendy is the girl who helps her parents and the B & B.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/10142 votesLoading...#21 - Basinger's New York
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1986
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: N/A
8.5/10115 votesLoading...#22 - Normal People
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1987
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
8.5/1098 votesLoading...#23 - The Reunion
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 6/2/1989
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
8.4/10220 votesLoading...#24 - Dust Child
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1984
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
8.4/10169 votesLoading...#25 - The Banker and the Bum
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/27/1985
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: N/A
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!
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
Genres:FamilyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"We Have Forever (2)" is the best rated episode of "Highway to Heaven". It scored 9.2/10 based on 173 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by Michael Landon, it aired on 2/17/1988. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Keep Smiling".