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The Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven Season 1

Every episode of Highway to Heaven Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven Season 1!

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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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8.5/10(2 votes)
#1 - Highway to Heaven (1)
S1:E19/19/1984
Drifter Jonathan Smith takes a job as a handyman at a nursing home.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
8.5/10(2 votes)
#2 - Highway to Heaven (2)
S1:E29/19/1984
Jonathan reveals his angelic origins, then must save the nursing home from developers.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Writer:Unknown
8.0/10(2 votes)
#3 - To Touch the Moon
S1:E39/26/1984
Jonathan introduces a street-wise boy to a peer who is dying of leukemia.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
8.0/10(2 votes)
#4 - The Return of the Masked Rider
S1:E410/3/1984
A lone boxer and some aging movie heroes fight for law and order in a ghetto.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
7.0/10(1 votes)
#5 - Song of the Wild West
S1:E510/17/1984
An aspiring singer hoping to follow in her late mother's footsteps wants to compete in a talent show, but her father won't permit it.
Director:Victor French
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Victor French
Writer:Unknown
0.0/10(0 votes)
#6 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)
S1:E610/24/1984
A cycle accident shatters a baseball star's dream of reaching the pros.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon

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#7 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)
S1:E710/31/1984
Olympic medalist Bart Conner plays a gymnast who has a special reason to help rehabilitate an athlete injured in a motorcycle accident.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
0.0/10(0 votes)
#8 - A Divine Madness
S1:E811/7/1984
A widower who built an empire in the construction business now believes he's King Arthur, and his ambitious son is determined to have him declared incompetent.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
0.0/10(0 votes)
#9 - Catch a Falling Star
S1:E911/14/1984
Jonathan and Mark tend the children of a movie star who always has the money but never the time to spend on his kids.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
0.0/10(0 votes)
#10 - Help Wanted: Angel
S1:E1011/21/1984
An elderly scriptwriter prays for an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
0.0/10(0 votes)
#11 - Dust Child
S1:E1111/28/1984
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
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Director:Victor French
Writer:Paul W. Cooper
1.0/10(2 votes)
#12 - Hotel of Dreams
S1:E1212/12/1984
At a hotel, dreams come true for some, while others get their just desserts.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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Writer:Unknown
8.0/10(1 votes)
#13 - Another Song for Christmas
S1:E1312/19/1984
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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Writer:Dan Gordon
0.0/10(0 votes)
#14 - Plane Death
S1:E141/9/1985
Mark's old buddy, now working a border drug-enforcement detail, disappears after discovering the cargo in a large model airplane.
Directors:Victor French, Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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Writer:Michael Landon
0.0/10(0 votes)
#15 - One Winged Angels
S1:E151/16/1985
Jonathan finds that even angels aren't above falling in love when he's assigned to help an attractive divorcée and her rebellious son.
Directors:Victor French, Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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Writer:Michael Landon
0.0/10(0 votes)
#16 - Going Home, Going Home
S1:E161/23/1985
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:Unknown
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0.0/10(0 votes)
#17 - As Difficult as ABC
S1:E171/30/1985
The future looks bleak for an illiterate basketball star who loses his scholarship because of a heart condition.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Writer:Dan Gordon
0.0/10(0 votes)
#18 - A Child of God
S1:E182/6/1985
A young mother has two crosses to bear: a terminal illness and a minister father who's shunning his daughter and her illegitimate child.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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0.0/10(0 votes)
#19 - A Match Made in Heaven
S1:E192/20/1985
Jonathan's friend Scotty, a quadriplegic, wonders if his relationship with a woman can succeed.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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Writer:Michael Landon
0.0/10(0 votes)
#20 - The Banker and the Bum
S1:E202/27/1985
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:Unknown
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0.0/10(0 votes)
#21 - The Brightest Star
S1:E213/6/1985
Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
0.0/10(0 votes)
#22 - An Investment in Caring
S1:E223/13/1985
Jonathan comes to the aid of a neighborhood threatened by a corporate takeover.
Director:Victor French
Writer:Unknown
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0.0/10(0 votes)
#23 - The Right Thing
S1:E233/27/1985
Already depressed by his wife's death, an elderly man loses interest in life when he's put in a rest home by his daughter-in-law.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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0.0/10(0 votes)
#24 - Thoroughbreds (1)
S1:E245/1/1985
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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Director:Victor French
Writer:Michael Landon
0.0/10(0 votes)
#25 - Thoroughbreds (2)
S1:E255/8/1985
Garth and Lizzy elope to an undisclosed location, unaware that Lizzy has cancer and needs immediate treatment.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Writer:Dan Gordon

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Highway to Heaven (1)" is the best rated episode of "Highway to Heaven" season 1. It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by Michael Landon, it aired on 9/19/1984. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Highway to Heaven (2)".