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Highway to Heaven Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1984 - 1985
Episode 1
Highway to Heaven: Part 1
Wed, Sep 19, 198460 mins
Jonathan Smith, an angel, arrives at a retirement home which is in danger of being sold and torn down. His assignment is to help not only the occupants but also the administrator Leslie Gordon. However, when Leslie shows a romantic interest in Jonathan, her brother Mark, a jaded and bitter former police officer who lives with her, is suspicious and begins his own private investigation of the retirement home's new "handyman".
Episode 2
Highway to Heaven: Part 2
Wed, Sep 19, 198460 mins
Mark Gordon continues his investigation and what he learns makes him even more suspicious about Jonathan. When Mark actually breaks into Jonathan's apartment to snoop around, he is caught by Jonathan who must reveal his true identity and purpose to a disbelieving Mark in order to successfully complete his assignment, which will require a "long shot" ... and in the process change one more life than previously expected.
Episode 3
To Touch the Moon
Wed, Sep 26, 198460 mins
A terminally ill boy takes in another boy who's continually in trouble with the law in an effort to help both his mother and the troubled boy.
Episode 4
The Return of the Masked Rider
Wed, Oct 3, 198460 mins
The Satan's Helpers street gang terrorizes its neighborhood, bullying a young boxer to throw the big fight. Jonathan and Mark attempt to motivate aging Western movie stars the gang has mugged to muster the courage to be the heroes they once were and stand up to the thugs.
Episode 5
Song of the Wild West
Wed, Oct 17, 198460 mins
Jonathan and Mark come to a country-western bar where they provide an angelic assist to a young country singer emulating her lost mother, a former country star hoping to find her lost glory, and a widow mourning her lost husband.
Episode 6
One Fresh Batch of Lemonade: Part 1
Wed, Oct 24, 198460 mins
A high school baseball star is being scouted by the pros, much to his delight and that of his father who's been coaching him, but a tragic motorcycle accident permanently shatters both their dreams and Jonathan must find a way to help the boy make lemonade from this crop of lemons.
Episode 7
One Fresh Batch of Lemonade: Part 2
Wed, Oct 31, 198460 mins
To help Deke find a reason for living after his accident and shattered dreams, Jonathan enlists the aid of a gymnast who has reasons of his own to help rehabilitate Deke. In the meantime, Jonathan and Mark must find a way to reunite Deke's parents, who have also been affected by Deke's accident but in a different way.
Episode 8
A Divine Madness
Wed, Nov 7, 198448 mins
A construction magnate now convinced he is King Arthur is in danger of being declared incompetent by his estranged son. Can Jonathan work a reconciliation between his royal highness and reality and especially with his son and heir to his empire?
Episode 9
Catch a Falling Star
Wed, Nov 14, 198460 mins
A movie star always has the money to spend on his kids but never the time to spend with or be a real father to them, and Jonathan and Mark (who have been hired to look after the children) must show him the error of his ways before it's too late.
Episode 10
Help Wanted: Angel
Wed, Nov 21, 198460 mins
An advertisement brings Jonathan and Mark to a neighborhood where an elderly scriptwriter needs an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood, but making the film may mean tragedy for Mark when Jonathan receives news from higher up about a woman in the neighborhood and movie whom Mark has fallen in love with.
Episode 11
Dust Child
Wed, Nov 28, 198460 mins
A former Vietnam vet learns that he has a half-American/half-Vietnamese daughter and brings her to the States to live with his family, but Jonathan and Mark must intervene when the racial prejudice she encounters from all sides, including her new family, is almost too much to bear.
Episode 12
Hotel of Dreams
Wed, Dec 12, 198460 mins
Barry Rudd, an aimless young man dubbed Rudd the Dud, is given a hotel to manage by his wealthy father. Jonathan and Mark are on hand as bellhops and when not assisting Barry contend with a tyrannical boss, a bratty kid and a snooty guest.
Episode 13
Another Song for Christmas
Wed, Dec 19, 198460 mins
Jonathan and Mark become involved in their own version of Dickens' classic "Christmas Carol" ... only their "Scrooge" is a heartless used car salesman.
Episode 14
Plane Death
Wed, Jan 9, 198560 mins
Between assignments, Jonathan and Mark drive to a small town to visit an old buddy of Mark's. They find the friend has disappeared and their search for clues encountering a conspiracy of silence.
Episode 15
One Winged Angels
Wed, Jan 16, 198560 mins
Jonathan jeopardizes his assignment by falling in love with the very woman whose engagement to another man he's supposed to be overseeing.
Episode 16
Going Home, Going Home
Wed, Jan 23, 198550 mins
God sends Mark and Jonathan back to the 1940s in order to give Mark a second chance to tell his grandfather how much he loved him.
Episode 17
As Difficult as ABC
Wed, Jan 30, 198560 mins
A promising basketball player whose coach has been making sure his grades are OK so he can play, learns he has a condition that means he can't play basketball anymore. His coach then casts him aside. He loses his scholarship and doesn't know what he's going to do because he's illiterate. Jonathan then gets him to join a special class so that he could learn to read. He gets him a job coaching kids. He's also worried about a drug dealer that's plaguing the neighborhood and has his sights set on some of the kids he is coaching and wants to stop him. Jonathan tries to help him with that.
Episode 18
A Child of God
Wed, Feb 6, 198551 mins
A woman returns to her home to reconnect with her parents but it seems her father doesn't want to see her. Because she has a child out of wedlock. She then asks them to take her child because she's not well.
Episode 19
A Match Made in Heaven
Wed, Feb 20, 198560 mins
Jonathan's friend Scotty, a quadriplegic, wonders if his relationship with a woman can succeed, and while Jonathan is delighted to help Mark isn't so keen about it ... since the woman in question is his cousin Diane.
Episode 20
The Banker and the Bum
Wed, Feb 27, 198545 mins
A big-hearted bum and a cold-hearted tycoon switch bodies and walk a mile in the other man's shoes.
Episode 21
The Brightest Star
Wed, Mar 6, 198545 mins
Jonathan and Mark chasten a child actress whose fame is making her into a monster, fracturing her family and robbing her of her childhood.
Episode 22
An Investment in Caring
Wed, Mar 13, 198545 mins
A heartless corporation plans to buy up and tear down an old neighborhood. Jonathan and Mark rally its aging residents to fight the buyout and at the same time they bring together in a common cause a lonely widow and widower.
Episode 23
The Right Thing
Wed, Mar 27, 198560 mins
Jonathan and Mark help a family struggling to do the right thing with an aging parent in their home. The daughter in-law demands he be put in a retirement home or she'll leave. Their caring teenage son is caught in the middle of the muddle.
Episode 24
Thoroughbreds: Part 1
Wed, May 1, 198560 mins
A young woman with a passion for horses, finds out she has cancer.
Episode 25
Thoroughbreds: Part 2
Wed, May 8, 198560 mins
Lizzy finds out she has cancer, and on top of it, she learns she's also pregnant. She pushes her new husband away, even though she really loves him. Jonathan and Mark help the new couple pull together and move forward.
