Highway to Heaven
Season 5
12 episodes
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S05E01 Whose Trash Is It Anyway?
Mark's friend Pete Nelson is running for mayor against a ruthless opponent. Jealousy prompts the mayor's son to plant drugs in the locker of Pete's son Jeff, creating scandal. Mark sets out to clear Jeff's name.
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S05E02 Hello and Farewell
A nurse is still reeling from the Vietnam War and a 17 year old discovers he is adopted. Kim goes to a veterans' counseling group and Jonathan consoles Major Hastings about his son. Note: Originally shown as a feature length (90 min) episode, which was later cut into two separate episodes for syndication.
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S05E03 The Silent Bell
When the church decrees that religion be taught in his preschool, a minister faces a crisis of conscience and an exodus of ethnically mixed teachers and students.
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S05E04 The Reunion
It's Mark's high school reunion. His aging comrades from high school must come to terms with the fact that they're not the young popular people that they used to be.
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S05E05 The Source
A teenage girl tells two high school reporters (one of whom is the principal's son) that a school bus driver was coming on to her just before an accident. The story is published without verifying the facts, thus wrecking the driver's reputation and his career.
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S05E06 The Squeaky Wheel
Jonathan and Mark encourage a disabled Vietnamese veteran to work for an organization that helps disabled people.
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S05E07 Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka
A beloved, aging teacher is being forced to retire, even though he still wants to keep teaching. His students rally to save his job.
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S05E08 Choices
A Vietnamese couple come to America to find their sons after ten years of being separated. Jonathan and Mark help them achieve their goal, inadvertently tearing apart the sons' adoptive family when the elder son feels morally obligated to return to Vietnam with his biological parents.
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S05E09 Summer Camp
After suffering major burns in a freak accident, a top fashion model and actress becomes a counselor at a summer camp for blind children run by Jonathan and Mark's blind friend Frank.
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S05E10 The Inner Limits
Hoping to overcome his mother's insistence that his paralyzed brother is fully aware and get him the institutional care he needs, a young man consults a doctor, only to be advised that his brother is not only fully aware but capable of communication.
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S05E11 It's a Dog's Life
After complaining that Jonathan's angelic powers give him an unfair advantage, Mark thinks Jonathan has been turned into a dog as he deals with a runaway kid and his ditzy parents.
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S05E12 Merry Christmas from Grandpa
On Christmas Eve, Jonathan presents a future ravaged by pollution to three different people: a tycoon, a farmer and the President of the United States.
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