Good Heavens
In this comedy anthology series, Mr. Angel was an emissary of Heaven who came down to Earth each week to grant wishes to those who had performed good deeds.
- 1976-1976
- 1 season
- ABC
- Comedy, Fantasy
In this comedy anthology series, Mr. Angel was an emissary of Heaven who came down to Earth each week to grant wishes to those who had performed good deeds.
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1976
Episode 1
Mr. Right
Sun, Feb 29, 1976 30 mins
Mr. Angel gives a lonely young woman who offers her bus seat to an elderly man the chance to meet Mr. Right.
Episode 2
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Mon, Mar 8, 1976 30 mins
An expectant father is presented with his wished-for opportunity to become a professional baseball player--just as his wife goes into labor.
Episode 3
Good Neighbor Maxine
Mon, Mar 15, 1976 30 mins
When Maxine wishes for more adventure in her life, she gets more than she can handle, including a dune-buggy ride and unwanted advances from a truck driver.
Episode 4
I Want Nancy!
Mon, Mar 22, 1976 30 mins
Timid bank teller Harold asks Mr. Angel for help in attracting Nancy, the teller at the next window. Mr. Angel grants Harold his wish and Nancy agrees to a date--except that she chooses a restaurant on the 26th floor, and Harold is claustrophobic and secretly terrified of elevators.
Episode 5
See Jane Run
Mon, Mar 29, 1976 30 mins
A woman named Jane is about to get an inheritance, but she wants to find her long-lost twin sister first, to make sure that she gets her share, but so far she hasn't been successful. When she helps someone, Mr. Angel shows up to grant her a wish. She wishes to find her sister. Mr. Angel tells her that he can't make her find her sister just like that, but he can make sure she's on the right track. This takes her to people who know her sister--but some aren't so fond of her.
Episode 6
Jack the Ribber and Me
Mon, Apr 5, 1976 30 mins
An orphan gives his suitcase to another orphan who is being adopted. Mr. Angel goes to see him and offers him a wish, and he wishes for a family, but he's at the age that most people don't want to adopt. He runs away from the orphanage and is taken in by a man who runs a rib joint, and they bond.
Episode 7
A Night with Brockton
Sat, May 22, 1976 30 mins
Mr. Angel grants a Midwestern farm girl's wish to spend the night with her favorite actor, but the circumstances of their meeting are not what she had in mind.
Episode 8
Superscoop
Sat, May 29, 1976 30 mins
A young writer wants to be published. And when his boss sends him out of town on an errand, he discovers that he is delivering some sensitive material and there are people trying to get it from him.
Episode 9
The Big Break
Sat, Jun 5, 1976 30 mins
When a singer-guitarist asks Mr. Angel for a "big break" in show business, she winds up breaking her foot instead. However, her visit to the hospital ultimately leads to her long-desired break.
Episode 10
Mixed Doubles
Sat, Jun 12, 1976 30 mins
Eager to free himself from burdensome alimony payments, Adam Hastings wishes for his wife to remarry. The granting of this wish leads to new worries, however, with a stepfather now in his children's lives.
Episode 11
The Queen's Rook Club
Sat, Jun 19, 1976 30 mins
When a tailor gives a young man credit on a suit he made for him, Mr. Angel comes to see him and offers him a wish. He wants to win something special. The man is also a chess enthusiast and owns a very expensive chess set. At a place where he goes to play chess, an arrogant chess champion puts his cup on the chess set and, thinking that getting the cup is his wish, he challenges the man for his cup against his chess set. But on the day he's supposed to play, he breaks his glasses and can't see.
Episode 12
Coffee, Tea, or Gloria
Sat, Jun 26, 1976 30 mins
Exhausted by the constant quarreling with his wife, Brad wishes to find out what his life would be like if he'd married his college sweetheart Gloria.
Episode 13
Funny Fellow
Fri, Jul 2, 1976 30 mins
Shoe-store owner Henry wishes for an opportunity to break into show business as a comedian.