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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 - A Divine Madness
S1:E811/7/1984
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
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#4 - Catch a Falling Star
S1:E911/14/1984
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
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Michael Landon
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#5 - Help Wanted: Angel
S1:E1011/21/1984
An elderly scriptwriter prays for an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Dan Gordon
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#6 - 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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Writer:Paul W. Cooper

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#7 - 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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Writer:Michael Landon
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#8 - 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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Writer:Michael Landon
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#9 - Going Home, Going Home
S1:E161/23/1985
An auto accident renders Mark unconscious---and takes him back to the time his grandfather was about to lose his ranch.
Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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#10 - 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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Writer:Dan Gordon
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#11 - 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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#12 - 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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#13 - 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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#14 - 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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#15 - 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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#16 - 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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#17 - 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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#18 - 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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#19 - 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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#20 - 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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Writer:Dan Gordon
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#21 - 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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Writer:Dan Gordon
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#22 - 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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#23 - 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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Writer:Dan Gordon
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#24 - Birds of a Feather
S2:E611/6/1985
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Director:Michael Landon
Writer:Unknown
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#25 - 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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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)".