Highway to Heaven: Season 5

1988 · 13 episodes

What Season 5 of Highway to Heaven

Jonathan Smith is an angel sent to Earth in human form to help anyone who needs it. Along the way he crosses paths with Mark Gordon, a bitter former cop who jumps from one job to another with no direction. At first Mark distrusts him, but he ends up lending a hand and starts to believe in his true nature. Together they travel the roads between towns and cities, taking on jobs and identities that bring them close to the people chosen by providence. Jonathan puts his heavenly powers to use, and Mark his life experience, to counsel those people. The cases are very varied: an election campaign, a high school, a summer camp, a couple searching for their children, and a man who must make a decision about his brother.

13episodes

Oct 12, 1988aired

Aug 4, 1989final episode

9.8 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Whose Trash Is It Anyway?
Oct 12, 1988 · 45 min
Mark and Jonathan join the campaign of a friend of Mark, whose highly honest. But his less than honest opponent is doing what he can to smear him.
Directed by: Michael Landon · Starring: Lenore Kasdorf, Jim Brown, Ken Kercheval, Bill Quinn
5x02 Hello and Farewell (1)
Dec 7, 1988 · 45 min
Jonathan helps Commander Michaels deal with flashbacks of Vietnam as well as try to convince her to go to therapy. Mark deals with his fear of flying.
Directing: Michael Landon · Starring: Cristina Raines, Linda Gibboney, Matthew Perry, Rosemary Alexander
5x03 Hello and Farewell (2)
Dec 7, 1988 · 45 min
Commander Michaels continues to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder she also discovers she has son who came in to the emergency room do to a motorcycle accident. David wants to meet his biological mother but makes his adoptive parents worry about the meeting.
Directed by: Michael Landon · Starring: Matthew Perry, David Ackroyd
5x04 The Silent Bell
Mar 21, 1989 · 45 min
A pastor must follow a church council's decision to fire most of the staff at the school because they're not Christian.
Directed by: Michael Landon · Starring: Nathan Nishiguchi, Don Hood, David Dunard, Robin Riker
5x05 The Reunion
Jun 2, 1989 · 45 min
Mark Gordon attends is there any five-year class reunion only to learn that it's not what he expected. An older actor uses the reunion as a press event get his career started again only to be told he isn't needed anymore. Also the prom queen feels out of place at the reunion because she's changed too much.
Directing: Michael Landon · Writing: David Ketchum · Starring: Maureen Arthur, Don Stewart, Lloyd Bochner
5x06 The Source
Jun 9, 1989 · 45 min
Jonathan tries two teach two kids the right way to report a story. But after a bus accident Diane Nichols gets the bus driver in big trouble because she was angry that he was married. The two kids see the opportunity to report the story incorrectly leading to the bus driver losing his job.
Directed by: Michael Landon · Starring: Michele Scarabelli, Marcus Bentley, Alan Fudge, Kim Walker
5x07 The Squeaky Wheel
Jun 16, 1989 · 45 min
Wayne seacrest is suddenly fired from his job as a computer programmer because the left on the bus breaks down. Jonathan and Mark asked for Wayne's assistance in getting better access to places for handicapped people.Wayne attends a ribbon cutting ceremony and uses the occasion to put people on notice about building ramps and widening bathroom stalls for handicapped people.
Directed by: Michael Landon · Screenplay by: Paul W. Cooper · Starring: Deborah Benson, Jerry Hauck, John Milford, Nicholas Shaffer
5x08 Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka
Jun 23, 1989 · 45 min
Mr. Zelinka is a beloved teacher who is forced to retire because he has reached the retirement age of 70. The school board president feels that he's teaching responsibilities are too much for him.The students of Lincoln High School plan a birthday party and retirement party as well. They feel their efforts go down hill when their teacher doesn't want to attend the party because of the retirement notice he received.The students gathered together to form a petition to stop their teacher from retiring but face a big battle when they try to present their petition before the president of the school board who has no intention of changing his mind or listening to what the students have to say.
Directing: Michael Landon · Writing: Jerry Winnick · Starring: Ronne Troup, Lew Ayres, James Karen, Todd Susman
5x09 Choices
Jun 30, 1989 · 45 min
A Vietnamese couple has come back to the states from Singapore to try and take their sons back. Mr. and Mrs.Trong find it somewhat difficult to be able to just take their sons back after 12 years of living in America.The Hawkins were led to believe that Mr. and Mrs.Trong died in an internment camp 12 years ago but soon learn that the Vietnamese couple did survive and have come back to have a promise fulfilled nearly 12 years ago.Jonathan Mark must see if they can let the boys stay in the United States with the Hawkins and released from a promise made 12 years ago.
Directing: Michael Landon · Writing: Parke Perine · Starring: Haing S. Ngor, Dante Basco, Arthur Rosenberg
5x10 Summer Camp
Jul 14, 1989 · 45 min
To help Mary Anders forget that she was scar and a fire Jonathan and Mark are arranged for her to work at a summer camp for the blind. Soon one of the counselors named Frank Reilly the keenest to suspect who she really is.He begins to fall in love with her later because her identity is known Mary Andrews decides to pose for a tabloid magazine that will show the burns she suffered.
Directing: Michael Landon · Starring: Tom Sullivan, Justin Gocke, Priscilla Barnes, Paul Comi
5x11 The Inner Limits
Jul 21, 1989 · 45 min
Paul believes his brother George can do nothing because of his handicapped and because of what doctors told him and his mother. Jonathan and Mark, not to visit George and see if there is anything that can be done to find out what George has always wanted to say but never could.First Jonathan and Mark test to see if George can understand simple commands. After getting the necessary things he finally is able to tell his mother and his brother something. Two years later George writes a book "" No inner limits"".
Directed by: Michael Landon · Starring: Julianna McCarthy, Tim Choate, Lorie Griffin
5x12 It's a Dog's Life
Jul 28, 1989 · 45 min
Thinking Jonathan has turned into a dog, Mark embarks alone to unite a young runaway with his family.
Directing: Michael Landon · Starring: Garette Ratliff Henson, Kimberley Conrad, Richard Marcus
5x13 Merry Christmas from Grandpa Season Finale
Aug 4, 1989 · 45 min
On Christmas Eve, Jonathan allows three powerful people to foresee the consequences of their actions: an energy magnate, a farmer and the President.
Directing: Michael Landon · Writing: Michael Landon · Starring: Jennifer Landon, Mark Roberts, Will Estes, Josh Clark