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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!

The Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven Season 1

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

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  1. 8.6/10(168 votes)

    #1 - Thoroughbreds (2)

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    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
  2. 8.5/10(169 votes)

    #2 - Going Home, Going Home

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    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:N/A
  3. 8.4/10(224 votes)

    #3 - Dust Child

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    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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  4. 8.4/10(175 votes)

    #4 - The Banker and the Bum

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    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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  5. 8.4/10(174 votes)

    #5 - Thoroughbreds (1)

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    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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  6. 8.3/10(210 votes)

    #6 - Another Song for Christmas

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    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
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  8. 8.3/10(164 votes)

    #7 - An Investment in Caring

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    S1:E22

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

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    Director:Victor French
    Writer:N/A
  9. 8.2/10(309 votes)

    #8 - Highway to Heaven (2)

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    S1:E2

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

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  10. 8.1/10(383 votes)

    #9 - Highway to Heaven (1)

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    S1:E1

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

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  11. 8.1/10(285 votes)

    #10 - To Touch the Moon

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    S1:E3

    Jonathan introduces a street-wise boy to a peer who is dying of leukemia.

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  12. 8.1/10(202 votes)

    #11 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)

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    S1:E7

    Olympic medalist Bart Conner plays a gymnast who has a special reason to help rehabilitate an athlete injured in a motorcycle accident.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  13. 8.1/10(203 votes)

    #12 - Help Wanted: Angel

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    S1:E10

    An elderly scriptwriter prays for an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  14. 8.1/10(174 votes)

    #13 - A Child of God

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    S1:E18

    A young mother has two crosses to bear: a terminal illness and a minister father who's shunning his daughter and her illegitimate child.

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    Writer:N/A
  15. 8.1/10(161 votes)

    #14 - A Match Made in Heaven

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    S1:E19

    Jonathan's friend Scotty, a quadriplegic, wonders if his relationship with a woman can succeed.

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  16. 8.0/10(216 votes)

    #15 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)

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    S1:E6

    A cycle accident shatters a baseball star's dream of reaching the pros.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  17. 7.9/10(191 votes)

    #16 - Hotel of Dreams

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    S1:E12

    At a hotel, dreams come true for some, while others get their just desserts.

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  18. 7.9/10(180 votes)

    #17 - Plane Death

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    S1:E14

    Mark's old buddy, now working a border drug-enforcement detail, disappears after discovering the cargo in a large model airplane.

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  19. 7.9/10(151 votes)

    #18 - As Difficult as ABC

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    S1:E17

    The future looks bleak for an illiterate basketball star who loses his scholarship because of a heart condition.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  20. 7.9/10(173 votes)

    #19 - The Right Thing

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    S1:E23

    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.

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  21. 7.8/10(191 votes)

    #20 - A Divine Madness

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    S1:E8

    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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  22. 7.8/10(150 votes)

    #21 - The Brightest Star

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    S1:E21

    Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  23. 7.7/10(183 votes)

    #22 - Catch a Falling Star

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    S1:E9

    Jonathan and Mark tend the children of a movie star who always has the money but never the time to spend on his kids.

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  24. 7.6/10(169 votes)

    #23 - One Winged Angels

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    S1:E15

    Jonathan finds that even angels aren't above falling in love when he's assigned to help an attractive divorcée and her rebellious son.

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  25. 7.4/10(222 votes)

    #24 - Song of the Wild West

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    S1:E5

    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.

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    Director:Victor French
    Writer:N/A
  26. 7.3/10(239 votes)

    #25 - The Return of the Masked Rider

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    S1:E4

    A lone boxer and some aging movie heroes fight for law and order in a ghetto.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Thoroughbreds (2)" is the best rated episode of "Highway to Heaven" season 1. It scored 8.6/10 based on 168 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by Dan Gordon, it aired on 5/8/1985. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Going Home, Going Home".