Highway to Heaven
A Dream of Wild Horses
TV Flash files “A Dream of Wild Horses” as a desk essential hour — Highway to Heaven (1984–1989) on NBC, season 4, episode 10, aired 1987-12-02, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E10: listed hour 82 of 108 in the Highway to Heaven guide, hour 10 of 24 in season 4. It aired 1987-12-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Why Punish the Children?” (S04E09). Next is “In With the 'In' Crowd” (S04E11).
Essential hour: “A Dream of Wild Horses”. A Dream of Wild Horses is mid-to-late lyric title: Little House sincerity intact, the shotgun-seat cop still the secret engine.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jonathan and Mark are hired to help honor ranch. They must try to convince a grandfather that he is still needed and isn't too old to do anything just because he thinks he is.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Dream of Wild Horses sit in the Highway to Heaven guide?
S04E10 is listed hour 82 of 108 — hour 10 of 24 in season 4, season 4 episode 10.
When did Highway to Heaven S04E10 air?
A Dream of Wild Horses aired 1987-12-02 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
- Michael Landon as Jonathan Smith
Michael Landon’s Little Joe Cartwright is the matinee face of Bonanza — the youngest son as Sunday-night color, the through-line who remained when the Ponderosa roster broke. NBC’s glossy family western treated the ranch like a parish;…
- 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…