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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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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 1 - Highway to Heaven (1)
    8.1/10(429 votes)

    #1 - Highway to Heaven (1)

    S1:E1

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

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  2. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 2 - Highway to Heaven (2)
    8.2/10(345 votes)

    #2 - Highway to Heaven (2)

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 3 - To Touch the Moon
    8.1/10(319 votes)

    #3 - To Touch the Moon

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  4. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 4 - The Return of the Masked Rider
    7.3/10(271 votes)

    #4 - The Return of the Masked Rider

    S1:E4

    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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  5. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 5 - Song of the Wild West
    7.5/10(254 votes)

    #5 - Song of the Wild West

    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.

    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 6 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)
    8.1/10(243 votes)

    #6 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)

    S1:E6

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

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  7. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 7 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)
    8.2/10(229 votes)

    #7 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)

    S1:E7

    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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  8. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 8 - A Divine Madness
    7.7/10(212 votes)

    #8 - A Divine Madness

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  9. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 9 - Catch a Falling Star
    7.7/10(202 votes)

    #9 - Catch a Falling Star

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  10. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 10 - Help Wanted: Angel
    8.1/10(223 votes)

    #10 - Help Wanted: Angel

    S1:E10

    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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  11. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 11 - Dust Child
    8.4/10(245 votes)

    #11 - Dust Child

    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.

    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Paul W. Cooper

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  12. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 12 - Hotel of Dreams
    7.9/10(211 votes)

    #12 - Hotel of Dreams

    S1:E12

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

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 13 - Another Song for Christmas
    8.4/10(233 votes)

    #13 - Another Song for Christmas

    S1:E13

    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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  14. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 14 - Plane Death
    8.0/10(196 votes)

    #14 - Plane Death

    S1:E14

    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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  15. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 15 - One Winged Angels
    7.7/10(188 votes)

    #15 - One Winged Angels

    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.

    Directors:Victor French, Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  16. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 16 - Going Home, Going Home
    8.5/10(187 votes)

    #16 - Going Home, Going Home

    S1:E16

    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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  17. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 17 - As Difficult as ABC
    8.0/10(163 votes)

    #17 - As Difficult as ABC

    S1:E17

    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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  18. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 18 - A Child of God
    8.1/10(187 votes)

    #18 - A Child of God

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 19 - A Match Made in Heaven
    8.2/10(177 votes)

    #19 - A Match Made in Heaven

    S1:E19

    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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  20. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 20 - The Banker and the Bum
    8.4/10(187 votes)

    #20 - The Banker and the Bum

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 21 - The Brightest Star
    7.9/10(162 votes)

    #21 - The Brightest Star

    S1:E21

    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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  22. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 22 - An Investment in Caring
    8.3/10(178 votes)

    #22 - An Investment in Caring

    S1:E22

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

    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 23 - The Right Thing
    7.9/10(188 votes)

    #23 - The Right Thing

    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.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 24 - Thoroughbreds (1)
    8.4/10(189 votes)

    #24 - Thoroughbreds (1)

    S1:E24

    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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  25. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 25 - Thoroughbreds (2)
    8.6/10(182 votes)

    #25 - Thoroughbreds (2)

    S1:E25

    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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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 429 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)".