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The Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven Season 5

Every episode of Highway to Heaven Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Highway to Heaven Season 5!

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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 5 Episode 1 - Whose Trash Is It Anyway?
    8.3/10(117 votes)

    #1 - Whose Trash Is It Anyway?

    S5:E1

    Mark and Jonathan join the campaign of a friend of Mark, whose highly honest. But his less than honest opponent is doing what he can to smear him.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 2 - Hello and Farewell (1)
    8.1/10(124 votes)

    #2 - Hello and Farewell (1)

    S5:E2

    Jonathan helps Commander Michaels deal with flashbacks of Vietnam as well as try to convince her to go to therapy. Mark deals with his fear of flying.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 3 - Hello and Farewell (2)
    7.7/10(109 votes)

    #3 - Hello and Farewell (2)

    S5:E3

    Commander Michaels continues to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder she also discovers she has son who came in to the emergency room do to a motorcycle accident. David wants to meet his biological mother but makes his adoptive parents worry about the meeting.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 4 - The Silent Bell
    7.3/10(131 votes)

    #4 - The Silent Bell

    S5:E4

    A pastor must follow a church council's decision to fire most of the staff at the school because they're not Christian.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 5 - The Reunion
    8.6/10(112 votes)

    #5 - The Reunion

    S5:E5

    Mark Gordon attends is there any five-year class reunion only to learn that it's not what he expected. An older actor uses the reunion as a press event get his career started again only to be told he isn't needed anymore. Also the prom queen feels out of place at the reunion because she's changed too much.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:David Ketchum

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  6. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 6 - The Source
    8.4/10(117 votes)

    #6 - The Source

    S5:E6

    Jonathan tries two teach two kids the right way to report a story. But after a bus accident Diane Nichols gets the bus driver in big trouble because she was angry that he was married. The two kids see the opportunity to report the story incorrectly leading to the bus driver losing his job.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 7 - The Squeaky Wheel
    8.2/10(108 votes)

    #7 - The Squeaky Wheel

    S5:E7

    Wayne seacrest is suddenly fired from his job as a computer programmer because the left on the bus breaks down. Jonathan and Mark asked for Wayne's assistance in getting better access to places for handicapped people. Wayne attends a ribbon cutting ceremony and uses the occasion to put people on notice about building ramps and widening bathroom stalls for handicapped people.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Paul W. Cooper

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  8. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 8 - Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka
    8.6/10(123 votes)

    #8 - Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka

    S5:E8

    Mr. Zelinka is a beloved teacher who is forced to retire because he has reached the retirement age of 70. The school board president feels that he's teaching responsibilities are too much for him. The students of Lincoln High School plan a birthday party and retirement party as well. They feel their efforts go down hill when their teacher doesn't want to attend the party because of the retirement notice he received. The students gathered together to form a petition to stop their teacher from retiring but face a big battle when they try to present their petition before the president of the school board who has no intention of changing his mind or listening to what the students have to say.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 9 - Choices
    8.2/10(115 votes)

    #9 - Choices

    S5:E9

    A Vietnamese couple has come back to the states from Singapore to try and take their sons back. Mr. and Mrs.Trong find it somewhat difficult to be able to just take their sons back after 12 years of living in America. The Hawkins were led to believe that Mr. and Mrs.Trong died in an internment camp 12 years ago but soon learn that the Vietnamese couple did survive and have come back to have a promise fulfilled nearly 12 years ago. Jonathan Mark must see if they can let the boys stay in the United States with the Hawkins and released from a promise made 12 years ago.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 10 - Summer Camp
    8.4/10(131 votes)

    #10 - Summer Camp

    S5:E10

    To help Mary Anders forget that she was scar and a fire Jonathan and Mark are arranged for her to work at a summer camp for the blind. Soon one of the counselors named Frank Reilly the keenest to suspect who she really is. He begins to fall in love with her later because her identity is known Mary Andrews decides to pose for a tabloid magazine that will show the burns she suffered.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 11 - The Inner Limits
    8.3/10(112 votes)

    #11 - The Inner Limits

    S5:E11

    Paul believes his brother George can do nothing because of his handicapped and because of what doctors told him and his mother. Jonathan and Mark, not to visit George and see if there is anything that can be done to find out what George has always wanted to say but never could. First Jonathan and Mark test to see if George can understand simple commands. After getting the necessary things he finally is able to tell his mother and his brother something. Two years later George writes a book "" No inner limits"".

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 12 - It's a Dog's Life
    7.6/10(115 votes)

    #12 - It's a Dog's Life

    S5:E12

    Thinking Jonathan has turned into a dog, Mark embarks alone to unite a young runaway with his family.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 13 - Merry Christmas from Grandpa
    7.8/10(144 votes)

    #13 - Merry Christmas from Grandpa

    S5:E13

    On Christmas Eve, Jonathan allows three powerful people to foresee the consequences of their actions: an energy magnate, a farmer and the President.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Whose Trash Is It Anyway?" is the best rated episode of "Highway to Heaven" season 5. It scored 8.3/10 based on 117 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/12/1988. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Hello and Farewell (1)".