The Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven Season 1

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

Director: Michael Landon

Writer: Michael Landon

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

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Michael Landon

Writer: Michael Landon

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

Director: Michael Landon

Writer: Dan Gordon

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: N/A

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

Director: Michael Landon

Writer: Dan Gordon

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

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

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

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

Director: Michael Landon

Writer: Dan Gordon

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

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

Director: Michael Landon

Writer: N/A

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

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

Director: Michael Landon, Victor French

Writer: Michael Landon

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

Director: Michael Landon, Victor French

Writer: Michael Landon

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

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

Director: Michael Landon

Writer: Dan Gordon

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: N/A

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

Director: Michael Landon

Writer: Michael Landon

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

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

Director: Michael Landon

Writer: Dan Gordon

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

Director: Victor French

Writer: N/A

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: N/A

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

Garth and Lizzy elope to an undisclosed location, unaware that Lizzy has cancer and needs immediate treatment.

Director: Michael Landon

Writer: Dan Gordon