Highway to Heaven
A Song of Songs
TV Flash files “A Song of Songs” as hour 63 of 108 in the TV Flash guide — Highway to Heaven (1984–1989) on NBC, season 3, episode 15, aired 1987-01-21, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E15: listed hour 63 of 108 in the Highway to Heaven guide, hour 15 of 24 in season 3. It aired 1987-01-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Wally” (S03E14). Next is “A Night to Remember” (S03E16).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jazz musician Gabe Wilson is reunited with his old flame. He finds out that after all these years, the woman he once loved has changed.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Song of Songs sit in the Highway to Heaven guide?
S03E15 is listed hour 63 of 108 — hour 15 of 24 in season 3, season 3 episode 15.
When did Highway to Heaven S03E15 air?
A Song of Songs aired 1987-01-21 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…