8.6/10114 votes#1 - Man's Best Friend (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1987
Jenny's dog Jake runs away after chasing a cat. Jonathan and Mark find the dog and take him over to orphanage to help cheer up the kids. Jonathan and Mark must try to get Alex to become active again. They use Jake and get him to play with the other kids. They soon learn that Alex is afraid that if he touches anything it will be taken away from him.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
8.6/10116 votes#2 - Man's Best Friend (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1987
Alex finally meets the family of his dreams, those dreams are soon shattered when the turners want to adopt Alex. Alex wants to take Jake with him but the Foster family lives in a place where dogs aren't allowed. In order to make his dream come true Alex runs away with Jake back to the family he first fell in love with. Michele and Paul had been hoping to have a baby on their own but soon learn that adoption maybe their best option.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
6.9/1098 votes#3 - Fight for Your Life
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1987
Jonathan and Mark train Morty to be a price-fighting boxer. His brother Jerry is hiding a dangerous secret from his brother. Jerry services as his brother's trainer/manager in hopes of figuring out how to pay off some debts. Jerry that everything on someone who is already a prizefighter, while never having faith in his own brother.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.0/10120 votes#4 - The People Next Door
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1987
The people next door the people of Mission Estates don't know that one of their own is hiding to secrets. Nine years ago Dr. Martin denied his wife, and his son of their heritage. Anna Martinez lives across the street from her son and grandson Bobby Martin. He kept the secrets so he could live in Mission Estates. Mission Estates is an exclusive subdivision that "" allows the right kind of people "".
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
7.7/10177 votes#5 - I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1987
During Halloween night, Jonathan helps a little boy get over his fears (and in the process get even with his older sister).
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
7.1/10102 votes#6 - Playing For Keeps
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1987
Jonathan tries to reunite a father and son who are a comedian and an actor, respectively together by getting to star in a community theatre play about an estranged father and son. But the comedian's antics drives his son mad.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: James Kearns
7.9/10105 votes#7 - Amazing Man
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1987
Mark and Jonathon are sent to help a little boy overcome the sudden death of his father. Stevie deals with his grief through his favorite superhero, Amazing Man. Jonathon and Mark help his mother realize that grief is a normal reaction and help the family begin to heal.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.1/10108 votes#8 - All the Colors of the Heart
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1987
Frank Reilly wants to get his sight back but soon realizes that the procedure the doctor wants to perform will do him no good. Meanwhile Scotty is just about to lose his sight and isn't sure what his future will be like without sight. Before he loses his sight he must learn to do things as a blind person would do. Frank and Scott must help each other realize that even though both of their dreams are ending they still have their own futures to find.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
7.9/10102 votes#9 - Why Punish the Children?
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1987
Jonathan and Mark see if they can change reforms that only allow mothers in prison to see their kids behind a glass wall. Market and Jonathan have trouble convincing the warden that the present policy needs to change to allow mothers in prison to see their kids without a glass wall. During the night one of the warden's children is scared and begins screaming for her father only to find out that the father can't touch his own child to comfort her.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Paul W. Cooper
7.9/10105 votes#10 - A Dream of Wild Horses
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1987
Jonathan and Mark are hired to help honor ranch. They must try to convince a grandfather that he is still needed and isn't too old to do anything just because he thinks he is.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
7.8/10104 votes#11 - In With the 'In' Crowd
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1987
Denise Kelly is a cop going undercover to stop a drug ring at a local high school. Jonathan and Mark pose as counselors to see if they can find who is bringing cocaine to school. Mark and Jonathan set up surveillance outside party between Denise and Mike to see if he knows anything about the cocaine. When Mark and Jonathan later meet with a faculty of the high school they find out everyone isn't pleased with the tactics used in trying to figure out who is bringing the cocaine in to school. Mark learns he made a big mistake when the parents of one of the students asks him to play the tape between Denise and Mike he later learns that he stopped the tape because they weren't talking about drugs. This mistake nearly costs Mark & Jonathan their jobs and almost costs Mark his life.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.1/10116 votes#12 - With Love, the Claus
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/23/1987
It's Christmas time and Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is to try and get two divorce parents who are still bickering and using their son as pawn against each other to stop and start being parents. They go and work for the father who is a lawyer. They bring their son to a department store and there the new store Santa is upset at the store for promoting toy guns, and when the boy tells Santa what he wants, he tells him that he can't be sure if he can give that. Later the store throws him out cause of his bellowing. He later goes back and is arrested, Jonathan offers to defend him, and the boys father sees this as an opportunity to get back at his wife who is the store's counsel. While in jail the Santa manages to lift the spirits of some of the people he meets there including one of the guards. Mark thinking that if he really is, ""the Claus"", why doesn't he just whisk himself out of here. But saying that it would not be a good message for the children says he won't, they will hav
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
9.0/10132 votes#13 - A Mother's Love
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1988
Four boys whose parents just died recently are informed by the social worker assigned to their case, that the younger children will be placed in different foster homes. The elder brother decides to take them away and take care of them himself; he will find a job while the others go school.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.0/10108 votes#14 - Country Doctor
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1988
A country doctor tries to teach the value of been a small-town doctor and excepting anything for pay. Dr. Hudsboth has to work hard to pay off a mortgage.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.2/10101 votes#15 - Time in a Bottle
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/20/1988
A district attorney clashes with a lawyer who agrees to defend a friend charged with stealing.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.3/10106 votes#16 - Back to Oakland
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1988
Jonathan and Mark return to Mark's old hometown of Oakland and they go visit his old precinct. They learn that there a case of ""the blue flu"" and Mark's old Captain asks him if he could fill in for awhile. He his teamed up with an old friend whom he discovers is a racist. Jonathan then goes to an apartment building that is need of a new handyman and Jonathan meets the (black) woman who is the manager. Now she has two sons, the elder hates anyone white and is practically a delinquent.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.8/10168 votes#17 - We Have Forever (1)
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1988
Jonathon gets a 'feeling' while he and Mark are driving towards their next job. He goes to the hospital to find his wife is near death and was calling for him. After she passes away Jonathon believes that he will no longer be working for the 'boss' and will go to be with his wife. To the answer of lightning and thunder he finds out otherwise and becomes enraged. He is then stripped of his 'stuff' and has to live as a mere mortal. While at the beach one night he sees a young woman who he thinks is the spirit of his wife. As he runs to her he sees a beautiful young woman who walks into the ocean attempting to kill herself. Jonathon saves her and the 2 forge a friendship... To Be Continued...
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
9.2/10173 votes#18 - We Have Forever (2)
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1988
Jonathan is still angry with God for not letting him go heaven to see Jane one last time. Jonathan becomes human after being dead for 40 years. Jennifer has fallen in love with Jonathan and now must help him understand that he will always have Jane in his heart regardless of the job he chooses. Jennifer suddenly finds a letter from Jane and as a way of saying goodbye to him he understands that until his job is finished they will always have forever.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Michael Landon
7.5/10105 votes#19 - The Correspondent
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1988
Hale Stoddard get the unique look at live through his wife's eyes. Hale is sitting in jail writing to his editor, which he believes he will never receive because he is covering all war. Jonathan than answers his request to hold his wife in his arms again. Jonathan first sends Hale back to the basement of his own home. He then gets a unique look at life through Martha's dream. First he learns that his wife always sleeps in his steady where his pictures are because that is all she has of him because he is a way a lot. Second he learns that while he is gone his wife sometimes fantasizes about Eleanor (A fellow journalist that often accompanied Hale on many trips.) Third Hale sees Louis before the accident that caused him to lose his arm. As he sees his son he begins to understand why his wife wanted him home all the time but also wanted him to be happy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10103 votes#20 - Aloha
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/2/1988
Mark and Jonathan travel to Hawaii to help Aulani a former singer and actress to try and thank people more often. A friend of hers just learned he has AIDS. Danny tells Jonathan he contracted the disease due to a blood transfusion.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.3/10110 votes#21 - A Dolphin Song For Lee (1)
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 3/16/1988
A dying teen raises funds for her operation as well as for other children with cancer.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
8.0/10106 votes#22 - A Dolphin Song For Lee (2)
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/23/1988
A teen aged girl goes through an operation, that may not be successful. Mark helps Her fulfill Her dream of saving the dolphins.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
7.6/10120 votes#23 - Heaven Nose, Mister Smith
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/30/1988
Jonathan has to suddenly fix a computer glitch that causes Angels to go out on the wrong assignments. Jonathan must try to stop Max from ending his son's marriage. Jonathan then suggests that Maxi's wife Sarah also finish the assignment.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
8.0/10104 votes#24 - The Whole Nine Yards
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 4/27/1988
Ricky Diller is pressured by his father to win at everything and not enjoy losing a game once in awhile.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven Season 4
Every episode of Highway to Heaven Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven Season 4!
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 4 Ratings Summary
"Man's Best Friend (1)" is the best rated episode of "Highway to Heaven" season 4. It scored 8.6/10 based on 114 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by Michael Landon, it aired on 9/16/1987. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Man's Best Friend (2)".