Touched by an Angel
Interview with an Angel
TV Flash files “Interview with an Angel” as a desk essential hour — Touched by an Angel (1994–2003) on CBS, season 2, episode 1, aired 1995-09-23, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 12 of 211 in the Touched by an Angel guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 1995-09-23 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Hero” (S01E11). Next is “Trust” (S02E02).
Essential hour: “Interview with an Angel”. Interview with an Angel: faith drama as appointment comfort, case files still the actual plot.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Tess tells Monica she must answer a newspaper ad looking for an angel. Monica replies and says she is an angel. Callie is someone who doubts. Monica tells Callie about a case she has worked on.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Interview with an Angel sit in the Touched by an Angel guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 12 of 211 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did Touched by an Angel S02E01 air?
Interview with an Angel aired 1995-09-23 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is it preachy?
Faith-based comfort drama: weekly crises as ministry, but built to play as appointment TV rather than a lecture you had to sit through.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Angels with case files and handkerchief ratings: Della Reese’s wisdom voice, Roma Downey’s hush, and CBS faith drama as appointment comfort. Spiritual television that treated strangers’ crises as weekly ministry without becoming a lecture you had to sit through. Nineties network sincerity at industrial scale — tearful, sturdy, and proof that grace could still win a mainstream hour.
Flash: angels with case files, handkerchief ratings, Della Reese's wisdom voice already the brand that made a CBS hour feel like a hush you showed up for. Developed primarily under Martha Williamson's stewardship (1994–2003), with John Masius in the creator file, the series made Roma Downey's hush and Reese's voice synonymous with the genre. John Dye's Andrew, later Valerie Bertinelli's Gloria. Angels arrive as ordinary people to help humans through crises with gentle miracles. **Grace as a mainstream hour**, not…
Filed against
- Roma Downey as Monica
Roma Downey's Monica hushed Touched by an Angel into appointment comfort — angels with case files, Della Reese's wisdom voice, CBS faith drama as handkerchief ratings. Spiritual television that treated strangers' crises as weekly ministry…
- Della Reese as Tess
Della Reese’s Della Rogers gave Chico and the Man a wisdom voice in an East L.A. garage orbit — 1970s catalog odd-couple sitcom, then Touched by an Angel turning the same authority into CBS faith-drama comfort. TV Flash files her as the…
- John Dye as Andrew
John Dye’s Andrew completed Touched by an Angel’s case-file trinity — Della Reese’s wisdom voice, Roma Downey’s hush, CBS faith drama as appointment comfort. Angels with handkerchief ratings, strangers’ crises as weekly ministry without…
- Valerie Bertinelli as Gloria
Valerie Bertinelli’s Barbara Cooper grew up in One Day at a Time’s Indianapolis apartment — Bonnie Franklin’s newly divorced Ann, Schneider’s tool-belt chorus, women’s lib as weekly multi-cam — then walked Touched by an Angel’s…