Highway to Heaven
We Have Forever (1)
TV Flash files “We Have Forever (1)” as hour 89 of 108 in the TV Flash guide — Highway to Heaven (1984–1989) on NBC, season 4, episode 17, aired 1988-02-10, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E17: listed hour 89 of 108 in the Highway to Heaven guide, hour 17 of 24 in season 4. It aired 1988-02-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Back to Oakland” (S04E16). Next is “We Have Forever (2)” (S04E18).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When his former wife passes away, Jonathan hopes that he'll be released from his duties to be reunited with her in Heaven, but "The Boss" wants him to stay on Earth. When Jonathan becomes so enraged at "The Boss" that he refuses to obey, he is stripped of his angelic powers and turned into a mortal.
Viewer FAQ
Where does We Have Forever (1) sit in the Highway to Heaven guide?
S04E17 is listed hour 89 of 108 — hour 17 of 24 in season 4, season 4 episode 17.
When did Highway to Heaven S04E17 air?
We Have Forever (1) aired 1988-02-10 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
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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…