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Some powers are higher than others.
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
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Highway to Heaven premiered September 19, 1984. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people.
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Episode 1
Drifter Jonathan Smith takes a job as a handyman at a nursing home.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Michael LandonGuest stars Helen Hayes, Georgia Schmidt, Eddie Quillan, Elizabeth Kerr, Charles Lampkin
Episode 2
Jonathan reveals his angelic origins, then must save the nursing home from developers.
Guest stars Helen Hayes, Georgia Schmidt, Eddie Quillan, Joe Dorsey, Elizabeth Kerr, Charles Lampkin
Episode 3
Jonathan introduces a street-wise boy to a peer who is dying of leukemia.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Michael LandonGuest stars Carrie Snodgress, Barret Oliver, Bob Minor, Don Starr, Tony La Torre
Episode 4
A lone boxer and some aging movie heroes fight for law and order in a ghetto.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Dan GordonGuest stars Dehl Berti, Stoney Jackson, John Agar, Arnold Johnson, Carl Pitti, Ezekiel Moss
Episode 5
An aspiring singer hoping to follow in her late mother's footsteps wants to compete in a talent show, but her father won't permit it.
Directed by Victor FrenchGuest stars Michele Greene, Jerry Hardin, Clifton James, J.S. 'Joe' Young
Episode 6
A cycle accident shatters a baseball star's dream of reaching the pros.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Dan GordonGuest stars John Furlong, Bart Conner, Ken Olandt, Jim Haynie, Michael Yama, Virginia Capers, Shelby Leverington
Episode 7
Olympic medalist Bart Conner plays a gymnast who has a special reason to help rehabilitate an athlete injured in a motorcycle accident.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Dan GordonGuest stars Bart Conner, Ken Olandt, Jim Haynie, Virginia Capers, Bobbie Block, Shelby Leverington
Episode 8
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.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Dan GordonGuest stars Helen Kleeb, Jonathan Frakes, Peggy Doyle, Jean Allison, Ron Moody, Susan Silo, Victor Brandt, Barry Cahill
Episode 9
Jonathan and Mark tend the children of a movie star who always has the money but never the time to spend on his kids.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Michael LandonGuest stars Daniel Davis, André Gower, Susan Silo, Robert Jayne
Episode 10
An elderly scriptwriter prays for an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Dan GordonGuest stars Jon Lormer, Owen Bush, Al Ruscio, Manuel Benitez, Dennis Fimple, Stella Stevens, Randy Vasquez
Episode 11
A Vietnam vet and his wife happily welcome a 15-year-old girl he fathered overseas, but their son isn't happy at all.
Directed by Victor FrenchWritten by Paul W. CooperGuest stars Christian Hoff, Jenny Sullivan, Billy Jayne, James Whitmore Jr., K.C. Martel, Dan Hewitt Owens, Manuel Benitez, Leon Fan
Episode 12
At a hotel, dreams come true for some, while others get their just desserts.
Directed by Michael LandonGuest stars Brian Kerwin, Douglas Emerson, Julie Carmen, Marie Denn, Dean Dittman, Frank Farmer
Episode 13
Jonathan and Mark have a dickens of a time instilling the Christmas spirit in a heartless used-car salesman.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Dan GordonGuest stars Kellie Martin, Geoffrey Lewis, Matt Shakman, Jeff Doucette
Episode 14
Mark's old buddy, now working a border drug-enforcement detail, disappears after discovering the cargo in a large model airplane.
Directed by Victor French, Michael LandonWritten by Michael LandonGuest stars David Faustino, Ramon Bieri, Michael Bowen
Episode 15
Jonathan finds that even angels aren't above falling in love when he's assigned to help an attractive divorcée and her rebellious son.
Directed by Victor French, Michael LandonWritten by Michael LandonGuest stars Peggy McCay, Wil Wheaton, John Lawlor
Episode 16
An auto accident renders Mark unconscious---and takes him back to the time his grandfather was about to lose his ranch.
Directed by Michael LandonGuest stars John McLiam, C. Lindsay Workman, Eve McVeagh, Raymond Guth, Don Dubbins
Episode 17
The future looks bleak for an illiterate basketball star who loses his scholarship because of a heart condition.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Dan GordonGuest stars Don Dubbins, Clinton Derricks-Carroll, Beah Richards, Robert R. Shafer, Michael Cavanaugh, Raymond O'Keefe
Episode 18
A young mother has two crosses to bear: a terminal illness and a minister father who's shunning his daughter and her illegitimate child.
Directed by Michael LandonGuest stars Natalie Gregory, Patricia Smith, William Windom
Episode 19
Jonathan's friend Scotty, a quadriplegic, wonders if his relationship with a woman can succeed.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Michael LandonGuest stars Chris Hendrie
Episode 20
Divine intervention enables a park bum to trade places with a mayoral candidate who wants to turn the park into a parking lot.
Directed by Michael LandonGuest stars Joan Shawlee, Ivor Barry, Ned Beatty, Richard Stahl
Episode 21
Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Dan GordonGuest stars Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Trish Van Devere, Joseph Whipp, Michael Laskin, Carrie Wells
Episode 22
Jonathan comes to the aid of a neighborhood threatened by a corporate takeover.
Directed by Victor FrenchGuest stars Eileen Heckart, Andrew Duggan, Dane Clark, Elsa Raven, Hank Stohl
Episode 23
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.
Directed by Michael LandonGuest stars Lew Ayres, Matthew Labyorteaux, Marcia Rodd, Michael Durrell, Helen Boll
Episode 24
On a horse-breeding farm, competition develops into attraction between a trainer's daughter and the spoiled son of the owner.
Directed by Victor FrenchWritten by Michael LandonGuest stars Noble Willingham, Elizabeth Storm, Richard Bull, John Hammond, Stephen Elliott, Helen Hunt
Episode 25
Garth and Lizzy elope to an undisclosed location, unaware that Lizzy has cancer and needs immediate treatment.
Directed by Michael LandonWritten by Dan GordonGuest stars Noble Willingham, Elizabeth Storm, Tyler McVey, Richard Bull, Greg Finley, John Hammond, Stephen Elliott, Helen Hunt
Episode information updated Sep 17, 2026
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Michael LandonJonathan Smith
Victor FrenchMark Gordon
Garette Ratliff Henson
Helen Hayes
Ronne Troup
Didi ConnBirdy Belker
Robert Mandan
Noble Willingham
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