The BEST episodes of Highway to Heaven season 2
Every episode of Highway to Heaven season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Highway to Heaven season 2!
The series stars Michael Landon as Jonathan Smith, an angel sent down to earth "on probation", and his human companion Mark Gordon, played by Victor French. Jonathan and Mark are given "assignments" by "The Boss" (God) where they are required to use their humanity in order to help various troubled souls to overcome their problems. Examples of these problems include families dealing with sick loved ones; wealthy and greedy businessmen being encouraged to use their wealth for good; and discouraging prejudice in regards to people of different ethnicities, appearances, or socioeconomic backgrounds or who have disabilities. Jonathan's mission on Earth is to do enough good so that he could earn his wings and, presumably, ascend to heaven. Due to the close relationship that builds between Jonathan and Mark, this becomes a contentious issue as Mark does not want to lose his friend, and sometimes tries to prevent it from happening.
#1 - Keep Smiling
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1986
Jonathan is given one of the most emotional assignments he's ever had ... to help his own widow regain her love for life.
#2 - To Bind the Wounds
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1986
Jonathan and Mark help a whole town to remember how a young soldier who was killed in Vietnam touched their lives when the attempts of his father to have a memorial made to commemorate his son are ignored.
#3 - Birds of a Feather
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1985
Out of fear of losing their jobs, workers at a factory ignore ground-water contamination (even though the contamination is making their children sick), and Jonathan must resort to drastic measures to force them to face the facts - but the consequences may be just as fatal to him.
#4 - The Monster (1)
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1985
Julian Bradley is a young artist with a facial deformity that is treated badly by the town folks. Julian meets a blind girl named Rachel and they fall in love, but an operation that could restore Rachel's sight may also destroy Julian's hopes for love.
#5 - Heaven on Earth
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1986
Mark becomes deeply stricken with grief after believing he caused two tragedies involving young girls - one of them a victim of a car accident, the other trapped in a house fire - in a matter of hours. That, along with a litany of other complaints, prompts Mark to make a demand: That Jonathan erase everything that's happened and allow him to create his own vision of "Heaven on Earth."
#6 - The Monster (2)
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1985
Scotty must defend Julian after he is accused of assaulting Rachel....and it appears the odds are not in either man's favor.
#7 - Friends
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/7/1986
Jonathan and Mark are substitute teachers in a high school where a lesson on true friendship is underscored by Jonathan's assigning an ostracized overweight girl to tutor a brash baseball star in danger of flunking out of school.
#8 - Alone
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1986
A homeless boy wishes that someone would love him and so Jonathan comes to him and offers to make his wish come true. They go to a man whose separated from his wife who refuses to let her see their son. And he also refuses to believe that his son who's confined to a wheelchair is because of something psychological.
#9 - The Secret
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1985
Mark is the only one who can help when his friend's fifteen-year-old adopted daughter tries to find her biological mother and the unexpected uncovered truth threatens to tear the family apart completely.
#10 - A Song for Jason (1)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1985
Jonathan and Mark become counselors at Camp Good Times, a summer camp for children with cancer, to help two cancer patients: a frightened little boy with an overprotective mother and an angry teenage athlete who may lose his leg to bone cancer.
#11 - The Smile in the Third Row
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1985
Jonathan is as skeptical as everybody else when the lead actor in a failing Broadway play claims that God is attending the show's performances, sitting in a third-row orchestra seat.
#12 - Popcorn, Peanuts and CrackerJacks
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1985
Jonathan and Mark have to try and help a team that can never seem to win a single game and give a former baseball star the glory he once knew some 40 years ago.
#13 - Sail Away
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/2/1986
Jonathan helps a novelist and his son both find inspiration in writing their next books and connecting with each other again.
#14 - The Devil and Jonathan Smith
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1985
Jonathan recruits a con artist's help after Jabez Stone tricks Mark into selling his soul in order to save a little boy's life, but The Devil has another agenda - acquiring the soul of an angel.
#15 - Children's Children
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/30/1986
An overzealous TV reporter files a report on a home for teen-age mothers. The report threatens the very existance of the home. Also, a high school senior seeks advice from Jonathan on how to handle his future education, his angry father, and his pregnant girlfriend and unborn son.
#16 - A Song for Jason (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1985
Camp Good Times is helping both Gary and Curtis in different ways, but Jason may have lost his will to keep going when his best friend is rushed to the hospital and his father still refuses to deal with Jason's illness.
#17 - The Good Doctor
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1985
Jonathan and Mark go to work for a football team. Their mission is to help Alex Carpenter, a player, who is worried that he might be cut, so he takes pills. Dr. Hickey, the team doctor, who supplies him with the pills he takes, is also taking pills. His son, Neal who works with his father, who is constantly being pressured by his father to do better, is also taking pills, without his father's knowledge. When his son nearly dies, and learning that it's because of him that he is an addict. He admits that he is an addict too. When Alex admits his addiction, he goes to a support group meeting, and he is shocked to see his dealer, Dr. Hickey there, and is the guest speaker, but is stunned and moved when both he and his son admit their addiction.
#18 - Bless the Boys in Blue
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1985
When Mark wishes that Jonathan be a mortal cop "for just a little while", "The Boss" takes him up on his wish with the result that Jonathan must relinquish his angelic powers...which, considering the dangers of being a police officer, may not be a good idea.
#19 - Change of Life
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/29/1986
After he and Jonathon are assigned to protect the famous actress Linda Blackwell, Mark and the actress switch bodies to see what the other has to go through. Sam Quigley is an old friend of Mark who likes Linda, but is afraid to tell her. When Mark and Linda switch bodies, Sam isn't sure that Linda is the Linda he likes.
#20 - Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1986
Jonathon and Mark are assigned to help UFO watcher Harvey Milsap gain custody of his recently orphaned grandson, Adam. Harvey's across-the-street neighbor Mildred Kelsey, who is furious when Harvey fools with his radio equipment while her soap is on, slowly but surely falls in love with him.
#21 - The Last Assignment
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/12/1986
Jonathan assists a misguided angel who has been trying to get his wings for 200 years.
#22 - Cindy
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1985
A modern-day Hollywood retelling of the Cinderella story, only this aspiring actress Cindy wants to be accepted for who she really is and not the Eliza Doolittle her well-meaning dad wants to transform her into.
#23 - Summit
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/5/1986
Mark and Jonathan try to reunite a mother with her son who is now the premier of the U.S.S.R. When he is told that his mom would like to see him he believes Jonathan is with the CIA and not an angel.
#24 - The Torch
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/1986
The son of a Nazi death camp survivor clashes with a Neo Nazi who disputes the Holocaust with tragic results.