List of Highway to Heaven episodes

Angel Jonathan Smith is assigned to help the residents of a retirement home that may be sold, but Mark Gordon, an embittered ex-cop and brother of the home's female supervisor, is suspicious of him, especially when she starts seeing Jonathan socially.
Guest Stars: Helen Hayes, Eddie Quillan

• Originally shown as a feature-length Pilot TV Movie, which was later cut into two separate episodes for syndication.

Jonathan comes into the lives of the widow of an astronaut who landed on the Moon and her terminally ill son, while Mark deals with a juvenile delinquent abandoned by his family. The young hood is surprisingly well-received by the widow, and helps her deal with the forthcoming tragedy.
Guest Star: Barret Oliver

Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is in a ghetto populated by gang members and aging men who once starred in a Western TV show, as well as a gym where a retired boxer trains his grandson for an upcoming fight against the gang leader, with a prominent championship at stake. When the gang tries to ensure that their man will win by kidnapping the old boxer, Jonathan motivates the retired actors to be the Old West heroes who inspired kids to do right, and they in turn rally the neighborhood residents to stand up to the gang and rescue the grandfather.
Guest Star: John Agar

Jonathan helps an aspiring singer follow in her late mother's footsteps despite her father's objections.
Guest Stars: Ronee Blakley, Michele Greene

A baseball player hoping to get into the pros is injured in a motorcycle accident.
Guest Stars: Ken Olandt, James Troesh

Jonathan enlists a gymnast to help rehabilitate Deke Larson following his accident.
Guest Stars: Virginia Capers, Bart Conner

A construction magnate believes he's King Arthur and his son wants him declared incompetent.
Guest Stars: Jonathan Frakes, Ron Moody, Helen Kleeb

Jonathan and Mark help a movie star learn to spend time with his children.
Guest Star: Daniel Davis

An old screenwriter's prayers are answered when Jonathan and Mark agree to support his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood, including a woman Mark falls in love with but who is hiding a terrible secret.
Guest Star: Stella Stevens

A Vietnam War veteran and his wife welcome the 15-year-old girl he fathered overseas into their house. However, the couple's teenage son is not so welcoming to his half-Vietnamese half-sister; even less so are their neighbors, and the boy's schoolmates.
Guest Stars: Jenny Sullivan, James Whitmore, Jr.

Jonathan and Mark get jobs at a hotel where they give the guests what they deserve.
Guest Star: Brian Kerwin

If this one sounds like a variation on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, it should. Mark and Jonathan are tasked with getting "Honest Eddy" Barton, a crooked-as-they-come used-car dealer, into the Holiday spirit.
Guest Stars: Geoffrey Lewis, Matt Shakman, Kellie Martin

An old friend of Mark's disappears after discovering the illegal cargo inside a model airplane.
Guest Stars: David Faustino, Ramon Bieri

Jonathan falls in love with the divorcee he's been assigned to help.
Guest Star: Wil Wheaton

Mark loses consciousness in an auto accident and finds himself and Jonathan back in time to when his grandfather was about to lose his ranch.
Guest Stars: John McLiam, Sean De Veritch

An illiterate basketball player loses his scholarship due to a heart condition.
Guest Star: Deborah Lacey, Beah Richards

A young woman is shunned by her minister father for having a child out of wedlock, then becomes terminally ill.
Guest Stars: Nora Boland, William Windom

A quadriplegic friend of Jonathan's wonders if his relationship with a woman is meant to be.
Guest Stars: James Troesh, Margie Impert

A mayoral candidate intent on turning a local park into a parking lot is made to trade places with a park bum who, in turn, may help save the candidate's marriage.
Guest Star: Ned Beatty (dual role)

Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her dysfunctional parents.
Guest Stars: Trish Van Devere, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Carrie Wells

Jonathan helps a neighborhood being threatened by a corporate takeover.
Guest Stars: Eileen Heckart, Dane Clark, Andrew Duggan

An old man, depressed over his wife's death, is put in a rest home by his daughter-in-law.
Guest Stars: Michael Durrell, Lew Ayres, Matthew Laborteaux

An attraction develops between a trainer's daughter and the son of a horse-breeding farmer.
Guest Stars: Helen Hunt, John Hammond, Noble Willingham, Stephen Elliott, Richard Bull

Lizzy MacGill and Garth Armstrong elope, but their relationship is jeopardized by Lizzy needing treatment for her cancer.
Guest Star: Elizabeth Storm

Jonathan and Mark get jobs at Camp Good Times, a camp for young cancer patients, particularly one boy who suffers from overprotection by his well-meaning but selfish mother...whose impossible demands create hardship not only for him, but also for the rest of their otherwise-cancer-free family.
Guest Stars: Brian Lane Green, Robin Riker, Giovanni Ribisi

Jonathan and Mark's work at Camp Good Times involves helping a boy whose rock-star father avoids him and a teenager smitten with a counselor.
Guest Stars: Joshua John Miller, Barry Williams

When Mark complains that Jonathan has too much advantage as an angel, "The Boss" apparently agrees that Jonathan should be in Mark's shoes and then gives Jonathan and Mark an assignment as policemen with no divine abilities.
Guest Star: Elvia Allman

In a modern retelling of Cinderella, a waitress aspires to be an actress.
Guest Stars: Bill Macy, Alice Ghostley, Kip Gilman

When Mark sells his soul to the Devil to save the life of a boy he accidentally ran over, Jonathan must get help from two con men to get him out of it.
Guest Stars: Anthony Zerbe, Conrad Janis, Michael Berryman

Factory workers face the consequences for ignoring evidence of water contamination in order to keep their jobs.
Guest Stars: Philip Abbott, Rick Hurst, Paul Walker

Jonathan and Mark come to the aid of a minor-league baseball team that's never won a game and an old vendor, once a player for the black leagues, who gets kicked out of the stadium.
Guest Stars: Moses Gunn, Keenan Wynn, Lynn Hamilton

An actor starring in a failing Broadway play thinks he sees God sitting in the audience.
Guest Star: Lorne Greene, David Lander

When Jonathan must return to Heaven to face disciplinary action, Mark is left on his own to help when the daughter of his friends learns that she's adopted and sets out to find her real mother.
Guest Star: Shannen Doherty

A disfigured artist falls for a blind girl and Jonathan's quadriplegic lawyer friend denies having marital problems.
Guest Star: Eve Brent Ashe

Scotty defends Julian on charges of attacking Rachel, who's in a coma.
Guest Star: Peter Billingsley

The doctor for a football team who got a player addicted to painkillers and pep pills is forced to confront his own addictions.
Guest Star: Michael Constantine

A mentally challenged runaway with a cat as his only friend wishes that someone would love him.
Guest Stars: Frank Birney, John Franklin

Jonathan and Mark emerge from a meteorite crater to help an unemployed man keep custody of his orphaned grandson.
Guest Stars: Harold J. Stone, Louise Latham

A movie star and her hairdresser (Mark) have their wish to trade places granted by God.
Guest Stars: John McCook, Anne-Marie Martin

Jonathan is assigned to help his widow move on with her life and be happy again.
Guest Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Richard McGonagle

An errant angel has been on probation for 200 years because he keeps spreading happiness by breaking the rules.
Guest Star: Ed Asner

The father of a soldier killed in action in Vietnam is met with indifference when he tries to establish a scholarship in his son's name.
Guest Star: Eli Wallach

Following two tragedies for which Mark feels responsible, Jonathan gives him the power to start over.
Guest Star: Alyson Croft

A dying woman wishes to see her son, who was left in the Soviet Union during World War II and is now the Deputy Premier.
Guest Stars: Nehemiah Persoff, Frank Welker

A Holocaust survivor and his son are targeted by neo-Nazis.
Guest Stars: Herschel Bernardi, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Robert O'Reilly

A novelist and his grandson find inspiration on a small island.
Guest Stars: David Bowe, Lew Ayres, Laurie Prange

A reporter interviews the director of a home for unwed mothers, but intends to write a story exposing the director's long-hidden secret.
Guest Star: Bibi Besch

Jonathan and Mark are substitute teachers at a high school where Jonathan assigns a lonely obese girl to tutor a jock.
Guest Star: Darren Dalton

Jonathan and Mark talk a youngster into joining the Special Olympics and help out a couple who are unable to have children.
Guest Stars: Paul Walker, James Troesh, Margie Impert

Todd's parents won't let Scotty and Diane adopt him until Todd's elder brother discovers the truth about him.
Guest Star: Josh Brolin

A dog tries to draw attention to a father and son trapped in a Jeep that's gone off the road and crashed.
Guest Star: Ryan Bollman

Despite sponsoring their immigration, a cab driver wants nothing to do with the wife and child his deceased son left in Vietnam. A lonely older neighbor takes them to a carnival and offers to share his apartment.
Guest Stars: Eugene Roche, Ernest Borgnine

A pair of orphans wish to be adopted by a family sitcom star who is really a cold-hearted cynic.
Guest Stars: R. J. Williams, Ned Beatty

A fellow angel doesn't want his widow to remarry.
Guest Stars: John McLiam, Peggy Doyle, Nana Visitor

Three generations of arguing couples go on a road trip to find out what brought them together.
Guest Stars: Bill Erwin, Valorie Armstrong, Robert Mandan

• Originally shown as a feature-length episode, which was later cut into two separate episodes for syndication.

A 12-year-old boy genius is an outcast at college where he has a popular jock for a roommate.
Guest Stars: Jeff B. Davis, Jack Ging

A tycoon who is dying of leukemia tries to mend his relationship with his teenage son.
Guest Stars: Joe Dorsey, Lee Montgomery

A senator is bent on getting a bill through Congress that would cut funds required for the production of drugs to cure rare diseases, but learns that passage of the bill will have fatal consequences affecting his family.
Guest Star: Eddie Albert

Mark plans to give the $5 million he won to a boys' club, but loses it to a pair of con artists.
Guest Stars: Shannon Tweed, Roy Thinnes

On Christmas Eve, a New York City columnist learns there are still miracles in the world.
Guest Star: Richard Mulligan

A hustler finds a case containing a million dollars, dresses as a priest to escape from the gangsters who lost the case and then hides out with the money in the same church where "Father" Jonathan and "Father" Mark are helping victims of an urban fire.
Guest Stars: Didi Conn, John Pleshette

Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment concerns an elderly street puppeteer who is marked for a favored position in heaven.
Guest Star: Dick Van Dyke

A jazz pianist tries to start over following a heart attack.
Guest Stars: James Earl Jones, Rosalind Cash

High school seniors pray for dates to the prom.
Guest Star: Mitchell Anderson

Jonathan will be promoted to Heaven if he succeeds in reuniting a movie star with her daughter, who's writing a vicious expose of her mother, and Mark, who doesn't want Jonathan to go, is thinking of sabotaging the assignment.
Guest Stars: Gloria DeHaven, Judith Chapman

Hostility ensues when a halfway house for mental patients is established in a neighborhood.
Guest Star: Brian Austin Green

A Vietnam War veteran is unable to receive government aid for dental work because his dental problems are not related to his military service.
Guest Star: James Stacy

A student is arrested for drug possession, then brings the same charge against his father, a crusading TV news anchor who's secretly a cocaine addict.
Guest Star: Robert Culp

A fisherman friend of Mark's is paying too much attention to his comatose son, which threatens to destroy both his livelihood and his family.
Guest Stars: Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson

A young man with no ambition in life falls in love with a pregnant girl.
Guest Stars: Brittain Frye, Pat O'Bryan, Lorie Griffin

A spy novelist buys her hero's sports car, which comes with his ghost.
Guest Stars: Alan Abelew, Didi Conn

Jonathan and Mark are hired as bodyguards for a wealthy man with no principles and no friends.
Guest Star: Leslie Nielsen

A wealthy couple are unable to have more children, so they hire a surrogate.
Guest Stars: Elisabeth Harnois, William Schallert

Alex is reunited with his dog, but may lose him again when a foster family accepts him.
Guest Star: Danny Pintauro

A boxer reconsiders taking dives when a fighter he's been training is asked to take one himself.
Guest Star: Clint Lilley

A doctor is forced to confront a terrible secret when a black family plans to live next door to him.
Guest Stars: David Spielberg, Míriam Colón

Jonathan turns into a werewolf on Halloween to help out a frightened trick-or-treater.
Guest Star: Raffi Di Blasio

Jonathan and Mark type-cast a retired comic and his movie-star son in a new play about a young man struggling to relate to his father.
Guest Stars: Eric Douglas, Donald O'Connor

A youngster turns to a comic book superhero to deal with his father's death.
Guest Star: Pat Crawford Brown

A blind athlete expecting to gain his sight must counsel a surfer threatened with losing his own.
Guest Stars: Brandon Bluhm, Peter Kowanko, Tom Sullivan

Jonathan and Mark deal with a penal system that doesn't allow inmate mothers to see their children.
Guest Stars: Mary Pat Gleason, Bebe Drake

The patriarch of a family feels too old to take care of his horse ranch.
Guest Star: Richard Farnsworth

A policewoman goes undercover at a high school to expose a group of drug users, but could get suspended when Mark jeopardizes the operation.
Guest Star: Cooper Layne

At Christmastime, a man claiming to be Santa Claus wants a department store to stop using his name for promoting war toys and is arrested. The lawyers involved are a bickering divorced couple who are Jonathan and Mark's assignment - with the ex-husband defending "Santa" and the ex-wife representing the store.
Guest Stars: Bill Erwin, Wendie Malick, John Calvin

To fulfill a promise to their dying mother, four brothers go on the run from a court order that would split them up.
Guest Stars: Byron Thames, Doreen Lang

A country doctor is working himself to death.
Guest Star: Roscoe Lee Browne

A lawyer who's hit rock bottom agrees to defend his friend, another homeless man who's charged with robbing a liquor store.
Guest Star: Alan Fudge

The old saying "You can't go home again" may prove true when Mark returns to his old beat, which has become a racist storm.
Guest Star: Eugene Jackson

After his widow's death, Jonathan hopes to be reunited with her in Heaven, but when his request is refused he rebels and is stripped of his divine powers.
Guest Star: Dorothy McGuire

After turning his back on everyone and everything, a now-human and embittered Jonathan is offered shelter and help from a young woman.
Guest Star: Leann Hunley

A correspondent about to be executed by revolutionaries somewhere in South America is shown what he's missed and lost by putting work ahead of his family.
Guest Stars: Will Estes, Darren McGavin

A Hawaiian singer learns to overcome self-pity and pride when she's injured in a truck accident.
Guest Star: Hartley Silver

Jonathan and Mark help a teenage cancer patient save the dolphins.
Guest Star: Christine Healy

After Lee's operation, she continues her save-the-dolphins campaign.
Guest Star: Natalie Gregory

Jonathan is dispatched to stop an angel from breaking up his son's marriage and receives help from an unexpected source.
Guest Stars: Bob Hope, Bill Macy, John Pleshette

Jonathan and Mark enable a female wide receiver to play for a junior-high football team.
Guest Stars: Chad Allen, Dinah Lacey, Beau Starr

Mark's friend Pete Nelson is running for mayor against a ruthless opponent. Jealousy prompts the mayor's son to plant drugs in the locker of Pete's son Jeff, creating scandal. Mark sets out to clear Jeff's name.
Guest Star: David Spielberg

A nurse is still reeling from the Vietnam War and a 17-year-old discovers he is adopted. Kim goes to a veterans' counseling group and Jonathan consoles Major Hastings about his son.
Guest Star: Matthew Perry

• Originally shown as a feature-length episode, which was later cut into two separate episodes for syndication.

A church council decision that Christianity must be taught in a multi-ethnic school causes major upheaval among the staff and students at the school.
Guest Stars: Mimi Kuzyk, Dennis Lipscomb

Mark goes to his high school reunion where some of his friends' memories prove to be bittersweet.
Guest Stars: Jesse Henecke, Lloyd Bochner, Eve Brent

A teenage girl tells two high school reporters (one of whom is the principal's son) that a school bus driver was coming on to her just before an accident. The story is published without verifying the facts, thus wrecking the driver's reputation and his career.
Guest Star: Michele Scarabelli

Following a false fire alarm, a double amputee joins a crusade for the handicapped.
Guest Star: Mary Pat Gleason

A beloved teacher is forced to retire because of his age. Jonathan and Mark rally his students and the teaching staff against the school board in an effort to prevent the enforced retirement.
Guest Stars: Brian Krause, Lew Ayres

A Vietnamese couple come to America to find their sons after ten years of being separated. Jonathan and Mark help them achieve their goal, inadvertently tearing apart the sons' adoptive family when the elder son feels morally obligated to return to Vietnam with his biological parents.
Guest Star: Haing S. Ngor

After being scarred for life in a fire, an actress/model takes a counseling job at a camp for blind children run by sightless athlete Frank Riley (last seen in "All the Colors of the Heart"). Meanwhile, a reluctant philanthropist's bigotry threatens the growing friendship between his son (who can see) and a fellow camper (who can't).
Guest Stars: Priscilla Barnes, Tom Sullivan

Hoping to overcome his mother's insistence that his paralyzed brother is fully aware and get him the institutional care he needs, a young man consults a doctor, only to be advised that his brother is not only fully aware but capable of communication.
Guest Star: Julianna McCarthy

After complaining that Jonathan's angelic powers give him an unfair advantage, Mark thinks Jonathan has been turned into a dog as he deals with a runaway kid and his ditzy parents.
Guest Star: Kimberley Conrad

On Christmas Eve, Jonathan presents a future ravaged by pollution to three different people: a tycoon, a farmer and the President of the United States.
Guest Star: Harriet Sansom Harris