The BEST episodes of Highway to Heaven season 4
Every episode of Highway to Heaven season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Highway to Heaven season 4!
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 - A Dream of Wild Horses
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1987
Jonathan and Mark are hired to help honor ranch. They must try to convince a grandfather that he is still needed and isn't too old to do anything just because he thinks he is.
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#2 - Time in a Bottle
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/20/1988
When a homeless man is arrested for robbery, Jonathan tries to get the man's friend, another homeless man who was a lawyer to defend him. It appears that the D.A. prosecuting the case is taking a hard line because a powerful man wants to get rid of the homeless people.
#3 - Aloha
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/2/1988
A Hawaiian singer learns to overcome self-pity after being disabled in a truck accident.
#4 - I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1987
During Halloween night, Jonathan helps a little boy get over his fears.
#5 - A Dolphin Song for Lee (2)
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/23/1988
A teen aged girl goes through an operation, that may not be successful. Mark helps Her fulfill Her dream of saving the dolphins.
#6 - Man's Best Friend (2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1987
Alex finally meets the family of his dreams, those dreams are soon shattered when the turners want to adopt Alex. Alex wants to take Jake with him but the Foster family lives in a place where dogs aren't allowed. In order to make his dream come true Alex runs away with Jake to the family he first fell in love with. Michele and Paul had been hoping to have a baby on their own but soon learn that adoption maybe their best option.
#7 - A Dolphin Song for Lee (1)
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/16/1988
A young teen aged girl is dying, and has one more chance for a life saving operation. She has one dream that she would like to fulfill, in case She doesn't make it.
#8 - With Love, the Claus
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/23/1987
It's Christmas time and Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is to try and get two divorce parents who are bickering and using their son as a pawn against each other to stop and start being parents.
#9 - A Mother's Love
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1988
Four boys whose parents just died recently are informed by the social worker assigned to their case, that the younger children will be placed in different foster homes. The elder brother decides to take them away and take care of them himself; he will find a job while the others go school.
#10 - Amazing Man
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1987
Mark and Jonathon are sent to help a little boy overcome the sudden death of his father. Stevie deals with his grief through his favorite superhero, Amazing Man. Jonathon and Mark help his mother realize that grief is a normal reaction and help the family begin to heal.
#11 - Man's Best Friend (1)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1987
Jenny's dog Jake runs away after chasing a cat. Jonathan and Mark find the dog and take him over to the orphanage to help cheer up the kids. They use Jake to play with the kids and try to get Alex to become active again. They soon learn that Alex is afraid that if he touches anything it will be taken away from him.
#12 - We Have Forever (2)
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1988
As a mortal human being Jonathan is still angry with God for not letting him go heaven to see Jane one last time. Meanwhile Jennifer has fallen in love with Jonathan and now must help him understand that he will always have Jane in his heart regardless of the job he chooses. Jennifer suddenly finds a letter from Jane and as a way of saying goodbye to him he understands that until his job is finished they will always have forever.
#13 - We Have Forever (1)
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1988
Jonathon gets a 'feeling' while he and Mark are driving towards their next job. He goes to the hospital to find his wife is near death and was calling for him. After she passes away Jonathon believes that he will no longer be working for the 'boss' and will go to be with his wife. To the answer of lightning and thunder he finds out otherwise and becomes enraged. He is then stripped of his 'stuff' and has to live as a mere mortal.
#14 - The People Next Door
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1987
When a black family tries to move next door to a successful doctor in an exclusive community, Jonathan and Mark must help the doctor confront a secret he's kept from everyone, including his own family.
#15 - Playing for Keeps
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1987
Jonathan tries to reunite a father who is a comedian with his son the actor by getting therm to star in a community theater play about an estranged father and son. But the comedian's antics quickly make his son go crazy.
#16 - Heaven Nose, Mister Smith
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/30/1988
Jonathan has to stop an angel who's back on Earth and intent on breaking up his son's marriage. To stop him, Jonathan must enlist aid of a special kind.
#17 - The Correspondent
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1988
A war correspondent who can't resist going on just one more story finds himself imprisoned and facing execution, and Jonathan and Mark must show him what's he's missed and lost during his life by putting work ahead of family.
#18 - Fight for Your Life
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1987
Jonathan and Mark train Morty to be a price-fighting boxer. His brother Jerry is hiding a dangerous secret from him. Jerry is servicing his brother as a trainer/manager in the hope of paying off some debts.
#19 - In with the 'In' Crowd
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1987
Jonathan and Mark go to school undercover to try and find out who is responsible for selling illegal drugs that killed a student.
#20 - Country Doctor
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1988
A small town Doctor is in bad health but he can't afford to retire and there is no one else to take his place.
#21 - All the Colors of the Heart
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1987
Frank Reilly wants to get his sight back but soon realizes that the procedure the doctor wants to perform will do him no good. Meanwhile Scotty is just about to lose his sight and isn't sure what his future will be like without sight. Before he loses his sight he must learn to do things as a blind person would do. Frank and Scott must help each other realize that even though both of their dreams are ending they still have their own futures to find.
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#22 - The Whole Nine Yards
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/27/1988
A chauvinistic coach doesn't want a female wide receiver on his junior-high football team.
#23 - Why Punish the Children?
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1987
Jonathan and Mark see if they can change reforms that only allow mothers in prison to see their kids behind a glass wall. Market and Jonathan have trouble convincing the warden that the present policy needs to change to allow mothers in prison to see their kids without a glass wall. During the night one of the warden's children is scared and begins screaming for her father only to find out that the father can't touch his own child to comfort her.
#24 - Back to Oakland
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1988
As part of the latest assignment, Mark returns to Oakland to become a police officer again and is reunited with his old partner, but things are not the way he left it when he finds his old beat has become a storm of racial hatred.