Highway to Heaven
Heaven on Earth
TV Flash files “Heaven on Earth” as hour 43 of 108 in the TV Flash guide — Highway to Heaven (1984–1989) on NBC, season 2, episode 19, aired 1986-02-26, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E19: listed hour 43 of 108 in the Highway to Heaven guide, hour 19 of 24 in season 2. It aired 1986-02-26 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “To Bind the Wounds” (S02E18). Next is “Summit” (S02E20).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Mark thinks he's the cause for two tragic deaths, Jonathan grants his wish for a world without the tragedies.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Heaven on Earth sit in the Highway to Heaven guide?
S02E19 is listed hour 43 of 108 — hour 19 of 24 in season 2, season 2 episode 19.
When did Highway to Heaven S02E19 air?
Heaven on Earth aired 1986-02-26 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is it just Little House on a highway?
Spiritual-successor energy, same preacher. Landon wrote, directed, and kept the sincerity. The partnership with Victor French is the new instrument — kindness as a job, not Walnut Grove.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Michael Landon as a probationary angel and Victor French as the bitter ex-cop riding shotgun: weekly redemption on American highways when grit was the fashion. Landon wrote, directed, and preached with Little House sincerity intact. If you can stomach the lump-in-throat moral, the partnership is the real miracle — two men treating kindness as a job.
The instrument is a sermon the decade did not dress for. NBC's *Highway to Heaven* (1984–1989) puts Michael Landon as probationary angel Jonathan Smith and Victor French as retired cop Mark Gordon on American highways when grit was the fashion. Landon writing, directing, and preaching with Little House sincerity intact. Spiritual-successor energy to those prairie values, now in a car. The lump-in-the-throat moral is the house style. The blotter will file the multi-hyphenate control. The text is two men treating…
Filed against
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- Victor French as Mark Gordon
Victor French’s Mark Gordon rode shotgun on Highway to Heaven — Michael Landon as a probationary angel, a bitter ex-cop on American highways when grit was the fashion. Landon wrote, directed, and preached with Little House sincerity…