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The Worst Episodes of Highway to Heaven

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The Worst Episodes of Highway to Heaven

A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.

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  1. 6.9/10(104 votes)

    #1 - Fight for Your Life

    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.

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  2. 7.0/10(109 votes)

    #2 - Playing For Keeps

    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.

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  3. 7.1/10(109 votes)

    #3 - Love and Marriage (1)

    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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  4. 7.2/10(98 votes)

    #4 - Love and Marriage (2)

    S3:E8

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  5. 7.3/10(239 votes)

    #5 - The Return of the Masked Rider

    S1:E4

    A lone boxer and some aging movie heroes fight for law and order in a ghetto.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  6. 7.3/10(115 votes)

    #6 - Oh Lucky Man

    S3:E12

    Mark plans to give a recent windfall to a boys' club. But first he must deal with some con artists.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
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  8. 7.3/10(117 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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  9. 7.4/10(222 votes)

    #8 - Song of the Wild West

    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.

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    Director:Victor French
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  10. 7.4/10(139 votes)

    #9 - Cindy

    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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  11. 7.5/10(118 votes)

    #10 - The Torch

    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

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  12. 7.5/10(112 votes)

    #11 - Ghost Rider

    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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  13. 7.5/10(111 votes)

    #12 - The Correspondent

    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.

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  14. 7.6/10(169 votes)

    #13 - One Winged Angels

    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.

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  15. 7.6/10(181 votes)

    #14 - The Devil and Jonathan Smith

    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

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  16. 7.6/10(124 votes)

    #15 - Heaven Nose, Mister Smith

    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.

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  17. 7.6/10(98 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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  18. 7.6/10(107 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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  19. 7.7/10(183 votes)

    #18 - Catch a Falling Star

    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.

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  20. 7.7/10(183 votes)

    #19 - I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf

    S4:E5

    During Halloween night, Jonathan helps a little boy get over his fears (and in the process get even with his older sister).

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  21. 7.8/10(191 votes)

    #20 - A Divine Madness

    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.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  22. 7.8/10(150 votes)

    #21 - The Brightest Star

    S1:E21

    Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.

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    Writer:Dan Gordon
  23. 7.8/10(139 votes)

    #22 - Bless the Boys in Blue

    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.

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    Director:Victor French
    Writer:Dan Gordon
  24. 7.8/10(140 votes)

    #23 - Birds of a Feather

    S2:E6

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  25. 7.8/10(101 votes)

    #24 - Parents' Day

    S3:E21

    Jonathan and Mark work as detectives to uncover a drug problem with a family and a school.

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  26. 7.8/10(110 votes)

    #25 - Amazing Man

    S4:E7

    Mark and Jonathon are sent to help a little boy overcome the sudden death of his father. Stevie deals with his grief through his favorite superhero, Amazing Man. Jonathon and Mark help his mother realize that grief is a normal reaction and help the family begin to heal.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Fight for Your Life" is the worst rated episode of "Highway to Heaven". It scored 6.9/10 based on 104 votes. Directed by Michael Landon and written by N/A, it aired on 9/30/1987. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Playing For Keeps".