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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.

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#1 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)
S1:E610/24/1984
A cycle accident shatters a baseball star's dream of reaching the pros.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#2 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)
S1:E710/31/1984
Olympic medalist Bart Conner plays a gymnast who has a special reason to help rehabilitate an athlete injured in a motorcycle accident.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#3 - Dust Child
S1:E1111/28/1984
A Vietnam vet and his wife happily welcome a 15-year-old girl he fathered overseas, but their son isn't happy at all.
Director:Victor French
Writer:Paul W. Cooper
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Director:Victor French
Writer:Paul W. Cooper
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#4 - Plane Death
S1:E141/9/1985
Mark's old buddy, now working a border drug-enforcement detail, disappears after discovering the cargo in a large model airplane.
Directors:Victor French, Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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Directors:Victor French, Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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#5 - One Winged Angels
S1:E151/16/1985
Jonathan finds that even angels aren't above falling in love when he's assigned to help an attractive divorcée and her rebellious son.
Directors:Victor French, Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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Directors:Victor French, Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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#6 - As Difficult as ABC
S1:E171/30/1985
The future looks bleak for an illiterate basketball star who loses his scholarship because of a heart condition.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon

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#7 - A Child of God
S1:E182/6/1985
A young mother has two crosses to bear: a terminal illness and a minister father who's shunning his daughter and her illegitimate child.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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#8 - A Match Made in Heaven
S1:E192/20/1985
Jonathan's friend Scotty, a quadriplegic, wonders if his relationship with a woman can succeed.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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#9 - The Banker and the Bum
S1:E202/27/1985
Divine intervention enables a park bum to trade places with a mayoral candidate who wants to turn the park into a parking lot.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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#10 - The Brightest Star
S1:E213/6/1985
Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#11 - An Investment in Caring
S1:E223/13/1985
Jonathan comes to the aid of a neighborhood threatened by a corporate takeover.
Director:Victor French
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Victor French
Writer:Unknown
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#12 - The Right Thing
S1:E233/27/1985
Already depressed by his wife's death, an elderly man loses interest in life when he's put in a rest home by his daughter-in-law.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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#13 - Thoroughbreds (1)
S1:E245/1/1985
On a horse-breeding farm, competition develops into attraction between a trainer's daughter and the spoiled son of the owner.
Director:Victor French
Writer:Michael Landon
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Director:Victor French
Writer:Michael Landon
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#14 - Thoroughbreds (2)
S1:E255/8/1985
Garth and Lizzy elope to an undisclosed location, unaware that Lizzy has cancer and needs immediate treatment.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#15 - A Song for Jason (1)
S2:E19/18/1985
Jonathan and Mark become counselors at Camp Good Times, a summer camp for children with cancer, to help two cancer patients: a frightened little boy with an overprotective mother and an angry teenage athlete who may lose his leg to bone cancer.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#16 - A Song for Jason (2)
S2:E29/25/1985
Jonathan tries to get Jason's dad Miki to get to know his son little bit better and forget that he has cancer. Jason's dad wants to forget he has son altogether and continue going on tour.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#17 - Bless the Boys in Blue
S2:E310/2/1985
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
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Director:Victor French
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#18 - Cindy
S2:E410/23/1985
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
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#19 - The Devil and Jonathan Smith
S2:E510/30/1985
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
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#20 - Birds of a Feather
S2:E611/6/1985
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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#21 - Popcorn, Peanuts and CrackerJacks
S2:E711/13/1985
Popcorn, peanuts, and crackerjacks Jonathan and Mark have to try and help a team that can never seem to win a single game and give and give a former baseball star the glory he once knew some 40 years ago.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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#22 - The Smile in the Third Row
S2:E811/20/1985
A new play about a man who dies and speaks to God opens. Jonathan is now a priest while Mark is now the dresser for, Fred Fusco, the actor who plays the lead. Fusco's a little morose. But after the plays first performance, he changes; he claims that God was in the audience. People think that he is trying to generate some publicity for the fledgling play, including Jonathan. But nevertheless it seems to work, the play is a smash and Fusco is changing especially after meeting a boy who has cancer. After the boy dies Fusco decides to bequeath all of his property and assets to an endownment in the boy's name. which makes his sister and nephew unhappy, cause they rely on him for their necessities. When he also announces that he will die soon, his sister tries to have him committed. And Jonathan who after telling Fusco that he thinks that he is a fraud and that he is an angel, and Fusco then apologizes to him after God tells him that Jonathan told him was true, decides to speak to God and as
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Lan O'Kun
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Lan O'Kun
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#23 - The Secret
S2:E911/27/1985
While on their way to visit Mark's friends, Jonathan lashes back at some bullies. Because of this, Jonathan gets recalled. When Mark reaches his friends, he inadvertently slips out a bit of info that leads his friends to reveal to their eldest daughter that she was adopted. She then sets out fo find her birth mother. She then discovers that her adopted mother is her birth mother. It seems that years ago, she got pregnant and her aunt, who was her guardian forced her into putting her baby up for adoption. When she married her husband, she told him that she couldn't have children, so they adopted her. And when their second daughter was born she said it was a miracle. The husband upon hearing of this decides to leave her and the younger daughter joins him. Mark tries to help him but he refuses. Later Jonathan appears to Mark and tells him to go somewhere, and it turns out to be at an abortion clinic, and Mark's friend arrests the protesters. When he tells Mark that he agrees with what the
Director:William F. Claxton
Writer:Paul W. Cooper
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Director:William F. Claxton
Writer:Paul W. Cooper
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#24 - The Monster (1)
S2:E1012/4/1985
Jonathon and Mark connect a young blind woman with a disfigured artist.
Director:Victor French
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Victor French
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#25 - The Monster (2)
S2:E1112/11/1985
Scotty is under pressure when Julian goes on trial.
Director:Victor French
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Victor French
Writer:Dan Gordon

Worst Episodes Summary

"One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)" is the worst rated episode of "Highway to Heaven". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by Dan Gordon, it aired on 10/24/1984. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)".