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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Highway to Heaven Season 4 Episode 6 - Playing For Keeps
    7.0/10(127 votes)

    S4:E6

    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

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  2. Highway to Heaven Season 4 Episode 3 - Fight for Your Life
    7.1/10(116 votes)

    S4:E3

    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:Unknown

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  3. Highway to Heaven Season 3 Episode 7 - Love and Marriage (1)
    7.2/10(122 votes)

    S3:E7

    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

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  4. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 4 - The Return of the Masked Rider
    7.3/10(275 votes)

    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 3 Episode 8 - Love and Marriage (2)
    7.3/10(107 votes)

    S3:E8

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    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Dan Gordon

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  6. Highway to Heaven Season 3 Episode 12 - Oh Lucky Man
    7.3/10(130 votes)

    S3:E12

    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

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  7. Highway to Heaven Season 4 Episode 19 - The Correspondent
    7.3/10(125 votes)

    S4:E19

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 4 - The Silent Bell
    7.3/10(141 votes)

    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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  9. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 4 - Cindy
    7.4/10(155 votes)

    S2:E4

    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

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  10. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 12 - It's a Dog's Life
    7.4/10(121 votes)

    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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  11. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 5 - Song of the Wild West
    7.5/10(257 votes)

    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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  12. Highway to Heaven Season 3 Episode 24 - Ghost Rider
    7.5/10(121 votes)

    S3:E24

    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

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  13. Highway to Heaven Season 4 Episode 23 - Heaven Nose, Mister Smith
    7.5/10(136 votes)

    S4:E23

    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:Lan O'Kun

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  14. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 12 - The Good Doctor
    7.6/10(145 votes)

    S2:E12

    Jonathan and Mark go to work for a football team. Their mission is to help Alex Carpenter, a player, who is worried that he might be cut, so he takes pills. Dr. Hickey, the team doctor, who supplies him with the pills he takes, is also taking pills. His son, Neal who works with his father, who is constantly being pressured by his father to do better, is also taking pills, without his father's knowledge. When his son nearly dies, and learning that it's because of him that he is an addict. He admits that he is an addict too. When Alex admits his addiction, he goes to a support group meeting, and he is shocked to see his dealer, Dr. Hickey there, and is the guest speaker, but is stunned and moved when both he and his son admit their addiction.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Rift Fournier

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  15. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 21 - The Torch
    7.6/10(132 votes)

    S2:E21

    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:Unknown

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  16. Highway to Heaven Season 4 Episode 5 - I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf
    7.6/10(199 votes)

    S4:E5

    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

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  17. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 8 - A Divine Madness
    7.7/10(215 votes)

    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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  18. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 9 - Catch a Falling Star
    7.7/10(211 votes)

    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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  19. Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episode 15 - One Winged Angels
    7.7/10(195 votes)

    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:Michael Landon, Victor French
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  20. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 5 - The Devil and Jonathan Smith
    7.7/10(193 votes)

    S2:E5

    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

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  21. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 17 - The Last Assignment
    7.7/10(136 votes)

    S2:E17

    Jonathan assists a misguided angel who has been trying to get his wings for 200 years.

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Michael Landon

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  22. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 3 - Hello and Farewell (2)
    7.7/10(115 votes)

    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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  23. Highway to Heaven Season 5 Episode 13 - Merry Christmas from Grandpa
    7.7/10(151 votes)

    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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  24. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 3 - Bless the Boys in Blue
    7.8/10(156 votes)

    S2:E3

    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

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  25. Highway to Heaven Season 2 Episode 6 - Birds of a Feather
    7.8/10(157 votes)

    S2:E6

    No description available

    Director:Michael Landon
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Playing For Keeps" is the worst rated episode of "Highway to Heaven". It scored 7/10 based on 127 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by James Kearns, it aired on 11/4/1987. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Fight for Your Life".