The BEST episodes written by Lan O'kun
#1 - The Inner Limits
Highway to Heaven - Season 5 - Episode 11
A young man is considering institutionalizing his brother, who has been completely paralyzed and speechless for many years, against the wishes of their mother who insists that the brother is not vegetative but can truly understand. When Jonathan and Mark prove that far from being mindless the brother does indeed have a brilliant mind locked in his disadvantaged body, the man must confront his guilt and shame as well as the brother he gave up on.
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#2 - Basinger's New York
Highway to Heaven - Season 3 - Episode 13
It's Christmas time and Jonathan and Mark's assignment is to prove to a cynical reporter, who doesn't believe that there's any goodness in the world, that there is.
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#3 - Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug/Peter & Alicia/Julie/Buddy & Portia (1)
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 1
The ship voyages to Alaska for the wedding of a wealthy heir and the granddaughter of a fiercely independent oil man.
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#4 - The Smile in the Third Row
Highway to Heaven - Season 2 - Episode 8
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.
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#5 - Alaska Wedding Cruise: Carol & Doug/Peter & Alicia/Julie/Buddy & Portia (2)
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 2
The engaged couple gets married despite numerous obstacles, and Julie encounters heartbreak upon surprising an ex-lover.
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#6 - Accidental Cruise/The Song Is Ended/A Time for Everything/Anoushka
The Love Boat - Season 2 - Episode 8
An executive and his secretary are mistakenly assigned the honeymoon suite; a songwriter's music renews a woman's love for her husband; Captain Stubing meets his daughter by a former girlfriend; Julie helps give a Russian commissar a sexy new image.
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#7 - Sail Away
Highway to Heaven - Season 2 - Episode 22
Jonathan helps a novelist and his son both find inspiration in writing their next books and connecting with each other again.
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#8 - The World Next Door
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 2 - Episode 9
Would-be inventor Barney Schlessinger is bored with his life until he meets another inventor in a parallel world who is far more successful than he is.
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#9 - Kinfolk/Sis and the Slicker/Moonlight and Moonshine/Too Close for Comfort/The Affair (1)
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 18
A singer worries that his hillbilly relatives will embarrass him and ruin his chance of catching a record producer's eye. The producer becomes attracted to the singer's sister, who begins to doubt her commitment to her fiancé from back home. An author pictures the family as potential characters for her next book. She poses as a mountain woman to get the grandfather to open up to her. Doc, Isaac and Gopher room with Capt. Stubing after their cabins are flooded. They proceed to drive him crazy, and won't let him get any sleep. Two couples take the cruise together. One of the women tries to convince her friend that their spouses are having an affair.
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#10 - Heaven Nose, Mister Smith
Highway to Heaven - Season 4 - Episode 23
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.
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#11 - Kinfolk/Sis and the Slicker/Moonlight and Moonshine/Too Close for Comfort/The Affair (2)
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 19
Danny blames his family when Steve fails to show for his performance, leading to a rift with his father and grandfather. Kitty considers leaving her family to marry Steve. The captain lays down the law to his annoying houseguests, who end up at each other's throats. Dave finds out about Frank and Cynthia's affair, which leaves the future of both marriages in doubt.
#12 - The Correspondent
Highway to Heaven - Season 4 - Episode 19
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.
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#13 - Gopher's Opportunity/Home Sweet Home/The Switch
The Love Boat - Season 2 - Episode 16
Gopher quits his job to manage a new hotel; a wealthy eccentric widow books a five-year passage and begins meddling in the crew members' lives; a magician tries to avoid his assistant by sending his brother to perform in his place.
#14 - Ages of Man/Families/Bo 'n' Sam
The Love Boat - Season 2 - Episode 24
Julie is pursued by the teenage son of the head of the cruise line while trying to win over a charming older passenger; a couple has trouble starting a romance because their parents are enemies; the crew pays two men to build a wooden model of the ship, but the gift accidentally gets smashed.
#15 - Your Money or Your Wife/Joint Custody/The Temptations
The Love Boat - Season 9 - Episode 2
Vicki is thrilled when The Temptations board the ship and tries to convince their manager to let them perform for the passengers. Also, a custody battle on board becomes a matter of kidnapping, and a loan shark tells an overdue customer he'll forgive the debt in exchange for a date with the man's wife.
#16 - Fight for Your Life
Highway to Heaven - Season 4 - Episode 3
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.
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#17 - The Torch
Highway to Heaven - Season 2 - Episode 21
The son of a Nazi death camp survivor clashes with a Neo Nazi who disputes the Holocaust with tragic results.
#18 - The Baby Alarm/Tell Her She's Great/Matchmaker, Matchmaker Times Two
The Love Boat - Season 4 - Episode 8
An unwed mother's infant son has an unusual way of showing his disapproval to men who try to romance her. Isaac gets the crew to bolster his stagestruck aunt's ego, which turns her into an outrageous prima donna and upsets his uncle. Two sets of parents go overboard trying to spark a romance between their respective children.