8.1/10372 votes#1 - Highway to Heaven (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1984
Drifter Jonathan Smith takes a job as a handyman at a nursing home.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
8.2/10301 votes#2 - Highway to Heaven (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1984
Jonathan reveals his angelic origins, then must save the nursing home from developers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10277 votes#3 - To Touch the Moon
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1984
Jonathan introduces a street-wise boy to a peer who is dying of leukemia.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
7.3/10227 votes#4 - The Return of the Masked Rider
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1984
A lone boxer and some aging movie heroes fight for law and order in a ghetto.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
7.4/10214 votes#5 - Song of the Wild West
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1984
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: N/A
8.0/10209 votes#6 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1984
A cycle accident shatters a baseball star's dream of reaching the pros.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.1/10197 votes#7 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1984
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
7.8/10183 votes#8 - A Divine Madness
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1984
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
7.7/10176 votes#9 - Catch a Falling Star
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1984
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
8.1/10196 votes#10 - Help Wanted: Angel
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1984
An elderly scriptwriter prays for an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.4/10220 votes#11 - 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
7.9/10185 votes#12 - Hotel of Dreams
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1984
At a hotel, dreams come true for some, while others get their just desserts.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.3/10203 votes#13 - Another Song for Christmas
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1984
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
7.9/10173 votes#14 - Plane Death
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1985
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
7.6/10165 votes#15 - One Winged Angels
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/16/1985
Jonathan finds that even angels aren't above falling in love when he's assigned to help an attractive divorcée and her rebellious son.
Director: Michael Landon, Victor French
Writer: Michael Landon
8.5/10162 votes#16 - 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
8.0/10146 votes#17 - As Difficult as ABC
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/30/1985
The future looks bleak for an illiterate basketball star who loses his scholarship because of a heart condition.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.1/10168 votes#18 - A Child of God
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/6/1985
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: N/A
8.1/10154 votes#19 - A Match Made in Heaven
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/20/1985
Jonathan's friend Scotty, a quadriplegic, wonders if his relationship with a woman can succeed.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
8.4/10169 votes#20 - 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
7.8/10146 votes#21 - The Brightest Star
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/6/1985
Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.3/10159 votes#22 - An Investment in Caring
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/13/1985
Jonathan comes to the aid of a neighborhood threatened by a corporate takeover.
Director: Victor French
Writer: N/A
7.9/10169 votes#23 - The Right Thing
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/27/1985
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: N/A
8.4/10170 votes#24 - Thoroughbreds (1)
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/1/1985
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
8.6/10166 votes#25 - 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
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!
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
Genres:FamilyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Highway to Heaven (1)" is the best rated episode of "Highway to Heaven" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 372 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by Michael Landon, it aired on 9/19/1984. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Highway to Heaven (2)".