Highway to Heaven
Season 1
24 episodes
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S01E01 Highway to Heaven
Angel Jonathan Smith arrives at a retirement home to help not only the occupants but also an employee named Leslie Gordon. However, Leslie's brother Mark, a jaded and bitter former police officer, is suspicious of Jonathan. When Mark Gordon's investigation starts getting too close, Jonathan must reveal his true identity and purpose to Mark in order to successfully complete his assignment. Note: Originally shown as a two hour Pilot TV Movie, which was later cut into two separate episodes for syndication.
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S01E02 To Touch the Moon
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.
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S01E03 The Return of the Masked Rider
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.
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S01E04 Song of the Wild West
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.
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S01E05 One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)
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.
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S01E06 One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)
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.
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S01E07 A Divine Madness
A widower who built an empire in the construction business now believes he's King Arthur, and his ambitious son is determined to have him declared incompetent.
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S01E08 Catch a Falling Star
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.
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S01E09 Help Wanted: Angel
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.
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S01E10 Dust Child
A Vietnam War veteran and his wife welcome the 15 year old girl he fathered overseas into their house. However, the couple's teenage son is not so welcoming to his Vietnamese half sister; even less so are their neighbors, and the boy's schoolmates.
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S01E11 Hotel of Dreams
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.
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S01E12 Another Song for Christmas
Jonathan and Mark become involved in their own version of Dickens' classic "Christmas Carol" ... only their "Scrooge" is a heartless used car salesman.
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S01E13 Plane Death
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.
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S01E14 One Winged Angels
Jonathan jeopardizes his assignment by falling in love with the very woman whose engagement to another man he's supposed to be overseeing.
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S01E15 Going Home, Going Home
Mark loses consciousness in an auto accident and finds himself and Jonathan back in time to when his grandfather was about to lose his ranch.
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S01E16 As Difficult as ABC
A college basketball star must face his illiteracy when a heart condition denies him a scholarship.
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S01E17 A Child of God
A young mother has two crosses to bear: a terminal illness and a minister father who's shunning his daughter and her illegitimate child.
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S01E18 A Match Made in Heaven
Jonathan's guidance helps the romance of a quadriplegic lawyer and Mark's cousin.
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S01E19 The Banker and the Bum
A big hearted bum and a cold hearted tycoon switch bodies and walk a mile in the other man's shoes.
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S01E20 The Brightest Star
Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.
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S01E21 An Investment in Caring
Jonathan comes to the aid of a neighborhood threatened by a corporate takeover.
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S01E22 The Right Thing
Already depressed by his wife's death, an elderly man loses interest in life when he's put in a rest home by his daughter-in-law.
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S01E23 Thoroughbreds (1)
On a horse breeding farm, competition develops into attraction between a trainer's daughter and the spoiled son of the owner.
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S01E24 Thoroughbreds (2)
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.
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