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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. 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 Alone
    9.1/10(251 votes)

    #2 - 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

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  3. Background image for Keep Smiling
    9.1/10(209 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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    9.0/10(194 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.

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  5. Background image for The Gift of Life
    8.8/10(137 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

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  6. Background image for To Bind the Wounds
    8.7/10(163 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
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  8. Background image for For the Love of Larry
    8.7/10(171 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. Background image for The Monster (2)
    8.6/10(154 votes)

    #8 - The Monster (2)

    S2:E11

    Scotty is under pressure when Julian goes on trial.

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    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Dan Gordon
  10. Background image for A Special Love (2)
    8.6/10(168 votes)

    #9 - 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
  11. Background image for Highway to Heaven (1)
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Highway to Heaven (1)

    S1:E1

    Drifter Jonathan Smith takes a job as a handyman at a nursing home.

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  12. Background image for Highway to Heaven (2)
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #11 - 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
  13. Background image for A Song for Jason (2)
    8.5/10(166 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  14. Background image for Friends
    8.5/10(146 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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  15. Background image for A Special Love (1)
    8.5/10(166 votes)

    #14 - 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
  16. Background image for Basinger's New York
    8.5/10(152 votes)

    #15 - 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
  17. Background image for Normal People
    8.5/10(122 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. Background image for The Reunion
    8.5/10(105 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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  20. Background image for Code Name: FREAK
    8.4/10(125 votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. Background image for Man to Man
    8.4/10(125 votes)

    #20 - 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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  22. Background image for Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka
    8.4/10(115 votes)

    #21 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Summer Camp
    8.4/10(125 votes)

    #22 - Summer Camp

    S5:E10

    To help Mary Anders forget that she was scar and a fire Jonathan and Mark are arranged for her to work at a summer camp for the blind. Soon one of the counselors named Frank Reilly the keenest to suspect who she really is. He begins to fall in love with her later because her identity is known Mary Andrews decides to pose for a tabloid magazine that will show the burns she suffered.

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Monster (1)
    8.3/10(182 votes)

    #23 - The Monster (1)

    S2:E10

    Jonathon and Mark connect a young blind woman with a disfigured artist.

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    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Dan Gordon
  25. Background image for Heaven on Earth
    8.3/10(142 votes)

    #24 - Heaven on Earth

    S2:E19

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington
    8.3/10(123 votes)

    #25 - Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington

    S3:E11

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    Director:Dan Gordon
    Writer:Unknown

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 0.9 points higher than the second highest rated, "Alone".