6.9/1098 votesLoading...#1 - 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
7.1/10105 votesLoading...#2 - 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
7.1/10102 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.3/10226 votesLoading...#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
7.3/1094 votesLoading...#5 - Love and Marriage (2)
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1986
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Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
7.3/10110 votesLoading...#6 - The Silent Bell
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 3/21/1989
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: N/A
7.4/10213 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.4/10134 votesLoading...#8 - Cindy
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1985
A modern-day retelling of the Cinderella story, An aspiring actress Cindy wants to be accepted for who she really is and not the Eliza Doolittle her well-meaning dad wants to transform her into.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
7.4/10110 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.5/10112 votesLoading...#10 - The Torch
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/1986
Everett Soloman is a Nazi death camp survivor, who talks about his experience. Jan Baltic is a neo-Nazi. He was having one of his gatherings wherein he says that the Holocaust was a hoax. And at this thing is Soloman's son David, who calls Baltic a liar. Then Cal one of Baltic's people shoots David. He dies and when word reaches Soloman, he has a heart attack. Baltic and Cal are in Baltic's basement gloating about what they did and planning their next move. Then Baltic's son grabs one of the guns Baltic's has there and shoots them. Jonathan goes to Baltic's wife, who is trying to wipe the blood off the walls. She says that Jan was not always that way and Jonathan asks her when did he change and she says after he lost his job. He said that it was the Jews who were out to get him. Jonathan asks her if she would be willing to donate her husband's heart to Everett Soloman, who needs a transplant, she agrees. But Soloman upon learning that it's Baltic heart he will be getting, refuses. Jona
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
7.5/10105 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.6/10165 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.6/10174 votesLoading...#13 - The Devil and Jonathan Smith
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1985
Mark runs over a girl and overwrought with guilt, he is approached by a man named Jabez Stone, who offers to let the girl live if Mark gives his boss, the Devil, his soul. Mark signs a contract thinking that it's a con or something. But when the girl lives Mark turns to Jonathan but Jonathan says that there are rules about interefering with another entity even if it's the Devil. Mark's only hope is for them to get the contract. Jonathan enlists the aid of a grifter named C.J. Barabbas to help them. Only problem C.J.'s amoral. Now he approaches Stone and tells him of what Jonathan is planning, on the night that Stone's boss is suppose to take possession of Mark, Jonathan puts his plan in action but is caught and arrested. And Stone has the contract and his boss arrives and they go to Mark and when Stone opens the contract he is shocked to discover it isn't the contract. It seems that Barabbas' duplicity was all part of the plan. Jonathan who has the real contract, then destroys it savin
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: Dan Gordon
7.6/10106 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.6/10120 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.6/1093 votesLoading...#16 - Hello and Farewell (2)
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 12/7/1988
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: N/A
7.7/10176 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.7/10135 votesLoading...#18 - Bless the Boys in Blue
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1985
Mark asks God to make Jonathan a cop for while. After 40 years Jonathan becomes human only to realize only to realize the harsh realities of being a policeman. Also Jonathan helps a police officer rid himself of his guilt after shooting a teenager while the teenager had an empty gun. When the police officer holds people hostage the father of the slain teenager tells why there were no bullets in see the gun his son was carrying.
Director: Victor French
Writer: Dan Gordon
7.7/10176 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.7/10103 votesLoading...#20 - It's a Dog's Life
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 7/28/1989
Thinking Jonathan has turned into a dog, Mark embarks alone to unite a young runaway with his family.
Director: Michael Landon
Writer: N/A
7.8/10183 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.8/10146 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.8/1094 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.8/10104 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.9/10173 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Highway to Heaven
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A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
Genres:FamilyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Fight for Your Life" is the worst rated episode of "Highway to Heaven". It scored 6.9/10 based on 98 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by N/A, it aired on 9/30/1987. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Love and Marriage (1)".