The WORST episodes of Highway to Heaven

#1 - 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.

#2 - Heavy Date

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1987

Jonathan and Mark have an interesting assignment as they try to give Gary and Alice a new direction in their lives. As Gary begins to fall in love with Alice he soon discovers a secret that suddenly makes him a father. Alice makes plans to give up her baby for adoption but as the birth of the baby gets closer she begins to have second thoughts about giving the baby up.

#3 - Oh Lucky Man

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1986

After Mark wins a lot of money he puts Jonathan and Brady out of the picture. Mark falls in love with Nina who is broke but doesn't know it.

#4 - All That Glitters

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1987

When a major fire threatens a neighborhood, Jonathan and Mark (in the guise of priests) re-open an abandoned church as a shelter, and one of the people who take shelter there is a hustler also disguised as a priest who has found a briefcase containing $1 million and needs a place to hide from the hoods who lost it

#5 - Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1986

Jonathan persuades an influential United States senator to restore severe Congressional budget cuts dealing with health-care, but when the senator suffers a fatal heart attack on the Senate floor, the assignment seems doomed to failure.

#6 - Code Name: FREAK

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1986

Jonathan is working as a teacher at a college. And the focus of his assignment is a young boy genius who's accepted to college. The boy feels like an outcast. His roommate is a guy who's on an athletic scholarship. When his roommate has trouble in a class, he's asked to help get him a copy of a test. But when it's found out what happened, things get out of hand.

#7 - Love and Marriage (2)

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1986

#8 - Love and Marriage (1)

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1986

Jonathan and Mark taken a couple back in time to help them understand what life would of been like had they not met each other 49 years earlier. Clarence and rose are about to divorce each other because they have fallen out of love.

#9 - Another Kind of War, Another Kind of Peace

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1986

Jonathan informs a man, Mr. Clancy that his son who died in Vietnam fathered a child. Now he is still hurting over losing his son, that he doesn't want them. But nevetheless brings them over. Now the boy is being shook down by some bullies who want his lunch money. Now the man's anger reaches it's boiling point and he throws them out. Jonathan then informs him of what his grandson has been going through. He goes out there to tell them to stop shaking him down. They try to rough them up but Jonathan gives a little bit of power to fight back. Later the man and his grandson finally reconcile.

#10 - A Special Love (2)

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1986

Now that Diane and Scotty want to have children they decided to adopt Todd but learn that his natural parents don't want anyone to adopt him. Todd's natural parents were told some years ago that they had to put him out for adoption because he his handicapped.

#11 - A Special Love (1)

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1986

Jonathan and Mark taken interest in Todd who has no desire to be in Special Olympics because he feels he can't do anything. Tries to convince Todd to get into Special Olympics to prove to himself that he can do things. Scotty and Diane learn whether they can have children or if they will have to adopt children. Diane learns her fate and it decides to adopt children but Scotty is against adoption because he wants to have a baby that looks like him and can run and play.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - Thoroughbreds (1)

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/1/1985

Jonathan and Mark reunite Lizzy MacGill Garth Armstrong (they haven't seen each other since they were kids) Garth is set to marry Elaine who he doesn't like very much because his father wants him to marry someone rich. Lizzy and Garth compete together in a horse competition and find out who is the best horse rider but they also find that they love each other. Garth to finds his daughter's wishes by asking Lizzy to marry him. Only to encounter some trouble ahead.

#19 - An Investment in Caring

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/13/1985

Jonathan must get neighbors to help Helen keep her home from getting in the hands of corporate developers. Jonathan asks the neighbors to buy some stock and hope that it rises high enough so they to will lose their homes. Also Jonathan tries to get a man that used to work for the developer to make sure that his wife's death will mean something.

#20 - The Brightest Star

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/6/1985

Jonathan and Mark help a young actress not to be so controlling around other's. Laurie soon tells Mark and Jonathan that she never wanted to be the star. She only wanted to continue acting and let someone else be the star.

#21 - The Banker and the Bum

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/27/1985

Jonathan tries to help a candidate for mayor learn to be nice but gets more than he bargained for when Melvin rich decides to stay rich. Jonathan then has Willie the waiver change places with Melvyn rich to see what it would be like if the each lived different lives.

#22 - Plane Death

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1985

Mark hopes that he and Jonathan don't have assignment so they can visit Charlie Down who worked on the police force with Mark. What was supposed to be a happy time with a friend turned into finding out why he went missing for five days. Charlie down worked with border enforcement to try and stop drugs. Mark and Jonathan soon discover where Charlie is they find out that Jack Harm shot Charlie because he found cocaine in a model airplane.

#23 - Another Song for Christmas

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1984

Jonathan and Mark become involved in their own version of Dickens' classic "Christmas Carol" ... only their "Scrooge" is a heartless used car salesman.

#24 - Help Wanted: Angel

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1984

Martin Lamm is waiting to hear that his script will become a movie, checking with the front desk clerk frequently to see if any mail has arrived for him. None ever does. Martin's friend, Joey,nails a poster on a pole asking for an "angel" in the sense Martin needs one: someone with the money to help him turn his script into a movie. Jonathan and Mark respond to the poster, not knowing what kind of angel Joey is looking for. While Jonathan and Mark are finding out what kind of angel Joey is looking for, a man named Petros arrives with the poster in his hand. He loves the script and and wants to make the movie. Petros at first scoffs at Martin's idea of using people from the neighborhood as actors in the movie, but Jonathan suggests they might find a star among the amateurs, save money and help people at the same time.

#25 - Catch a Falling Star

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1984

A movie star is stranger to his own kids.