8.6/10149 votes#1 - A Special Love (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1986
Jonathan and Mark taken interest in Todd who has no desire to be in Special Olympics because he feels he can't do anything. Tries to convince Todd to get into Special Olympics to prove to himself that he can do things. Scotty and Diane learn whether they can have children or if they will have to adopt children. Diane learns her fate and it decides to adopt children but Scotty is against adoption because he wants to have a baby that looks like him and can run and play.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.7/10149 votes#2 - A Special Love (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1986
Now that Diane and Scotty want to have children they decided to adopt Todd but learn that his natural parents don't want anyone to adopt him. Todd's natural parents were told some years ago that they had to put him out for adoption because he his handicapped.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.6/10151 votes#3 - For the Love of Larry
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1986
After his owners are trapped at the bottom of a hill in car accident, a precocious dog tries to lead Jonathon and Mark to them.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
8.2/10121 votes#4 - Another Kind of War, Another Kind of Peace
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1986
Jonathan informs a man, Mr. Clancy that his son who died in Vietnam fathered a child. Now he is still hurting over losing his son, that he doesn't want them. But nevetheless brings them over. Now the boy is being shook down by some bullies who want his lunch money. Now the man's anger reaches it's boiling point and he throws them out. Jonathan then informs him of what his grandson has been going through. He goes out there to tell them to stop shaking him down. They try to rough them up but Jonathan gives a little bit of power to fight back. Later the man and his grandson finally reconcile.
Director: Dan Gordon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.0/10118 votes#5 - That's Our Dad
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1986
Bill Cassidy is a model TV dad of the hit series, ""That's Our Dad, a show known for its closing (where he ""adopts"" two orphaned children at the end of each show). At least on-screen Cassidy is the model TV dad. Off the set is a little different story. Bill is an egotistical jerk who verbally abuses his co-stars and crew members ... and even the children he was said to have adopted. His off-screen attitude is put to the test when two orphans, who happen to be fans of ""That's Our Dad,"" and especially Bill Cassidy. The two track down Bill and ask if he'd consider adopting them ... especially because they have taken the closing segments to heart. When Bill refuses to speak to them, and later tells them to get lost, the children enlist Jonathan and Mark's help in talking with Bill and setting his attitude straight.
Director: Victor French
Writer: Geoffrey Fischer
7.9/10106 votes#6 - Love at Second Sight
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1986
Jonathan and Mark are on their way to their next assignment and meet another angel, Ted, whom Jonathan knows, and they both arrive at their destination. When Ted learns that the subject of his mission is his wife Laura and that it involves pairing her with a guy named Roy; not only does he refuse to do it but he sabotages any chances Roy may have had with her. He then romances her himself but Jonathan steps in and shows what damage he has done and so to fix, he starts acting like a jerk which inspires Roy to tell him to leave Laura alone and their romance begins.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: James Kearns
7.1/10105 votes#7 - Love and Marriage (1)
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1986
Jonathan and Mark taken a couple back in time to help them understand what life would of been like had they not met each other 49 years earlier. Clarence and rose are about to divorce each other because they have fallen out of love.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
7.3/1094 votes#8 - Love and Marriage (2)
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1986
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Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.4/10116 votes#9 - Code Name: FREAK
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1986
Jonathan is tasked with being a college Professor to help a 12-year-old child prodigy be accepted as a college student.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Vince Gutierrez
8.4/10115 votes#10 - Man to Man
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1986
Jonathan and Mark try to get a father and son to get to know each other again before Gary loses his father due to leukemia. Jonathan tries to make these tycoons live life to the fullest and not work so hard.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Robert Schaefer
8.3/10111 votes#11 - Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1986
No description available
Director: Dan Gordon
Writer: N/A
7.4/10110 votes#12 - Oh Lucky Man
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1986
Mark plans to give a recent windfall to a boys' club. But first he must deal with some con artists.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.5/10137 votes#13 - Basinger's New York
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1986
It's Christmas time and Jonathan and Mark's assignment is to prove to a cynical reporter, who doesn't believe that there's any goodness in the world, that there is.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.7/10122 votes#14 - All That Glitters
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1987
When a major fire threatens a neighborhood, Jonathan and Mark (in the guise of priests) re-open an abandoned church as a shelter, and one of the people who take shelter there is a hustler also disguised as a priest who has found a briefcase containing $1 million and needs a place to hide from the hoods who lost it
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
9.0/10177 votes#15 - Wally
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1987
Jonathan and Mark tag along with an elderly street puppeteer who's also an angel - but doesn't know it.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
8.3/10117 votes#16 - A Song of Songs
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1987
James Earl Jones stars as Gabe Wilson, an old friend of Mark's and down-and-out jazz pianist who tries to re-build his life after suffering a heart attack. Gabe reconnects with an old flame named Ellie, a God-fearing widow who is having problems trying to relate to her daughter, Vanessa, the vocalist in a rock band. When Gabe tries to encourage Vanessa to pursue her dreams, he unwittingly strains the not-so-harmonious mother-daughter relationship even more. After Vanessa runs away without leaving a note, Ellie lashes out at Gabe, telling him that God made him blind to make him pay for his sins (he had become blind after a drunk driver struck his vehicle years earlier). It is up to Jonathan to reunite Ellie and Vanessa and set them both straight.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
7.9/10110 votes#17 - A Night to Remember
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1987
No description available
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.4/10106 votes#18 - A Mother and a Daughter
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1987
Jonathan and Mark's assignment to reunite a Hollywood actress who is estranged from her daughter, who is also writing a book about her life with her mother which paints her mother in a bad light. They meet another angel who reveals to Mark that if Jonathan does well he will be moved up, which makes Mark to see Jonathan fail but Jonathan tells him that they have to abide with what the boss wants. They go see the daughter who says that she hates her mother because she drove her father away, whom she's fond of. But the mother says that there are things about her father that she never told her. When her daughter is watching a film, it turns into the night that her mother and father were having a viscous argument, and her father revealed himself to be not the caring parent her daughter thinks he is. She later goes to her mother and asks why she didn't tell her about her father. And her mother says that she values a daughter's relationship with her father because she had a great father. Moth
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.5/10114 votes#19 - Normal People
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1987
Jonathan and Mark go to work at a halfway house where people who have mental problems that have been institutionalized but unfortunately due to need of space, the ones who are deemed no longer a danger to society, but not really treated are released. So the halfway house is a place where they can treated before going back to their former lives. Now the residents of the neighborhood where they are situated don't want them there and are vocal about it. But when the son of one of them, hits it off with one of them, he thinks that they are a little hasty. And another woman meets one of them at the grocery and hit it off with her too, and is shocked to see that she is one of them, and Jonathan tells her why she was committed. Some of the children are playing with a catapult and set fire to what they are launching, eventually they set fire to a truck and one of them, who was jogging comes across it and tries to help but when the authorities arrive, they suuspect that he was responsible. With
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Paul W. Cooper
8.3/10110 votes#20 - The Hero
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1987
Joe Mason is a Vietnam Vet who is trying to get the VA to help him pay expensive dental work but because his condition is not related to his military service, he is denied.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
7.8/1094 votes#21 - Parents' Day
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1987
Jonathan and Mark work as detectives to uncover a drug problem with a family and a school.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: David Thoreau
8.3/10103 votes#22 - A Father's Faith
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1987
When Jonathan and Mark decide to take some time off, they visit Mark's friends to go fishing.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.3/10102 votes#23 - Heavy Date
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1987
Jonathan and Mark have an interesting assignment as they try to give Gary and Alice a new direction in their lives. As Gary begins to fall in love with Alice he soon discovers a secret that suddenly makes him a father. Alice makes plans to give up her baby for adoption but as the birth of the baby gets closer she begins to have second thoughts about giving the baby up.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
7.6/10106 votes#24 - Ghost Rider
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 4/1/1987
Birdy Belker a mystery writer gets to meet the man of her dreams. She meets Roger bolt who was slain in 1968. Jonathan grants birdy's wish to actually meet the man she writes about. She said learns that meeting the man she writes about isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.9/10122 votes#25 - The Gift of Life
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/6/1987
Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is R.R. Benson, a cold and heartless businessman, who is polluting the oceans, maintains apartments which are below living standards, just to name a few. When he proved to be a tough nut to crack, Jonathan decides to take the direct approach and reveal to Benson that he is an angel and at the rate he is going he won't make it to heaven. But Benson is still unmoved, and the last thing Jonathan tells him is to read the Bible. That while sleeping a burglar breaks into Benson's home and shoots him. Benson runs into Jonathan asking him what happened, Jonathan shows him that he is a spirit and that he died. Jonathan shows him exactly the kind of life that he's been leading and how it affects others, and how people really feel about him like his girlfriend, who has another guy and who is planning a palimony suit. Jonathan then takes him back to his office and tells him that his ""boss"" is giving him the opportunity to relive the final week of his life. He
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
The Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven Season 3
Every episode of Highway to Heaven Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven Season 3!
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 3 Ratings Summary
"A Special Love (1)" is the best rated episode of "Highway to Heaven" season 3. It scored 8.6/10 based on 149 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by Dan Gordon, it aired on 9/24/1986. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "A Special Love (2)".