Episode Guide

Season 1

Season 1 Episode 25: Thoroughbreds
Learning she has cancer, Lizzy (Helen Hunt) tells Garth (John Hammond) their elopement was a mistake.

Season 1 Episode 24: Thoroughbreds
Jonathan and Mark play Cupid for a rancher's son (John Hammond) and a horse trainer's daughter (Helen Hunt).

Season 1 Episode 23: The Right Thing
A widower (Lew Ayres) pines away in a rest home, until his grandson and Jonathan give him jogging shoes.

Season 1 Episode 22: An Investment in Caring
A widow (Eileen Heckart) will lose her home to corporate developers unless neighbors will help.

Season 1 Episode 21: The Brightest Star
An 11-year-old actress (Carrie Wells) manipulates parents and co-workers; guest Trish Van Devere.

Season 1 Episode 20: The Banker and the Bum
Jonathan arranges an exchange between a pitiless millionaire and a kind vagrant (Ned Beatty in a dual role).

Season 1 Episode 19: A Match Made in Heaven
Jonathan's guidance helps the romance of a quadriplegic lawyer (James Troesh) and Mark's cousin (Margie Impert).

Season 1 Episode 18: A Child of God
A dying woman tries to reconcile with her stern father (William Windom) for the sake of her illegitimate daughter.

Season 1 Episode 17: As Difficult as ABC
A college basketball star (Glenn Michael Jones) must face his illiteracy when a heart condition denies him a scholarship.

Season 1 Episode 16: Going Home, Going Home
Jonathan and Mark journey back in time to save Mark's grandfather's (John McLiam) farm from repossession.

Season 1 Episode 15: One Winged Angel
Jonathan cannot reunite a couple because he has fallen for the woman (Robin Dearden).

Season 1 Episode 14: Plane Death
Investigating a friend's death, Mark encounters drug smugglers; guests Michael Bowen, Lee Bryant.

Season 1 Episode 13: Another Song for Christmas
Car salesman Honest Eddy (Geoffrey Lewis) plans an expansion, which threatens a local orphanage at Christmas.

Season 1 Episode 12: Hotel of Dreams
Mark and Jonathan work as hotel bellhops to help a millionaire's son (Brian Kerwin) find meaning in his life.

Season 1 Episode 10: Help Wanted: Angel
On a film set, Jonathan meets another angel (Al Ruscio), and Mark falls for an actress (Stella Stevens).

Season 1 Episode 9: Catch a Falling Star
An actor (Daniel Davis) hires Jonathan and Mark to look after his estranged children (Bobby Jacoby, Emily Moultrie).

Season 1 Episode 8: A Divine Madness
A greedy son (Jonathan Frakes) wants to institutionalize his eccentric father (Ron Moody), a construction tycoon.

Season 1 Episode 7: One Fresh Batch of Lemonade
Jonathan and Mark help an embittered, paralyzed athlete (Ken Olandt); guest Bart Conner.

Season 1 Episode 6: One Fresh Batch of Lemonade
Gymnastics rehabilitate a man's (Jim Haynie) paralyzed son (Ken Olandt); guest Bart Conner.

Season 1 Episode 5: Song of the Wild West
A country singer's arrival in a Western town inspires a man to let his daughter pursue music; guest Ronee Blakely.

Season 1 Episode 4: The Return of the Masked Rider
A gang threatens elderly actors and an aspiring boxer (Chip McAllister); guest Stoney Jackson.

Season 1 Episode 3: To Touch the Moon
Jonathan counsels a young runaway (Tony La Torre) and a widow (Carrie Snodgress) with a terminally ill son (Barret Oliver).

Season 1 Episode 2: Highway to Heaven
Jonathan reveals his angelic origins, then must save the senior-citizens home from developers.

Season 1 Episode 1: Highway to Heaven
Drifter Jonathan Smith takes a job as a handyman at a senior-citizens home; guest Helen Hayes.

Season 2

Season 2 Episode 24: Friends
As teachers, Jonathan and Mark motivate an overweight outcast (Judy Carmen) and unscholarly athlete (Darren Dalton).

Season 2 Episode 23: Children's Children
A TV reporter accuses the operator of a home for unwed mothers of misappropriating funds; guests Bibi Besch, Jean Sagal.

Season 2 Episode 22: Sail Away
A despondent novelist (Lew Ayres) finds inspiration in reliving a teenage romance.

Season 2 Episode 21: The Torch
A concentration-camp survivor (Herschel Bernardi) needing a heart transplant learns the donor was a neo-Nazi terrorist.

Season 2 Episode 20: Summit
Jonathan tries to reunite a Soviet emigre and her long-lost son; guests Nehemiah Persoff, Liam Sullivan.

Season 2 Episode 19: Heaven on Earth
When Mark blames himself for a girl's death, Jonathan gives him special powers to undo past actions.

Season 2 Episode 18: To Bind the Wounds
Jonathan helps a town remember a soldier fallen in Vietnam; guests Eli Wallach, Moosie Drier.

Season 2 Episode 17: The Last Assignment
Mark and Jonathan help an overeager angel (Ed Asner) who has been on probation for 200 years.

Season 2 Episode 16: Keep Smiling
Jonathan helps reunite his lonely widow (Dorothy McGuire) and their estranged daughter.

Season 2 Episode 15: Change of Life
Jonathan's powers reverse the roles of chauvinistic Mark and a beautiful movie star (Anne-Marie Martin).

Season 2 Episode 14: Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind
A grandfather (Harold J. Stone) thinks a meteor is a spaceship and Jonathan and Mark, aliens.

Season 2 Episode 11: The Monster
Jonathan plays matchmaker for a lonely blind woman and a reclusive sculptor, labeled a monster by townspeople.

Season 2 Episode 10: The Monster
With Rachel comatose, Julian's fate lies with his lawyer, who questions his innocence.

Season 2 Episode 9: The Secret
Mark helps longtime friends cope when their adopted daughter wants to find her natural parents.

Season 2 Episode 8: The Smile in the Third Row
An actor (Lorne Greene) believes he saw God sitting in the third row, next to Jonathan; guest David Spielberg.

Season 2 Episode 7: Popcorn, Peanuts and Cracker Jacks
When Jonathan is called away, Mark visits his former partner and uncovers a family secret; guest Shannen Doherty.

Season 2 Episode 6: Birds of a Feather
Jonathan makes the ultimate sacrifice to force townspeople to fight a water-polluter.

Season 2 Episode 5: The Devil and Jonathan Smith
A swindler (Conrad Janis) helps after Jabez Stone (Anthony Zerbe) tricks Mark into selling his soul.

Season 2 Episode 4: Cindy
Jonathan performs a miracle for the hard-working daughter of a struggling theatrical agent; guests Bill Macy, Alice Ghostley.

Season 2 Episode 3: Bless the Boys in Blue
Guilt plagues a policeman who shot a teenager brandishing an empty gun.

Season 2 Episode 2: A Song for Jason
As counselors at a camp for youths with cancer, Jonathan and Mark help a teenage ex-athlete.

Season 2 Episode 1: A Song for Jason
While most of the campers find contentment, Jonathan encourages Jason's reluctant father to join in.

Season 3

Season 3 Episode 25: The Gift of Life
A businessman (Leslie Nielsen) gets a second chance after his knavery gets him killed.

Season 3 Episode 24: Ghost Rider
A lonely mystery writer (Didi Conn) meets the subject of her true-life novels, a spy slain in 1968.

Season 3 Episode 23: Heavy Date
Jonathan and Mark play matchmaker for two young people whose lives lack love and direction.

Season 3 Episode 22: A Father's Faith
Parents (Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach) of a comatose boy try to comfort their daughter, who feels responsible.

Season 3 Episode 21: Parents' Day
A TV anchorman's (Robert Culp) cocaine addiction prompts his concerned son to turn him in to the police.

Season 3 Episode 20: The Hero
A disabled Vietnam veteran (James Stacy) turns to crime after the government ignores his needs.

Season 3 Episode 19: Normal People
Controversy and misunderstanding split a neighborhood when a halfway house for mental patients opens.

Season 3 Episode 18: A Mother and a Daughter
Fearing success may end Jonathan's stay on Earth, Mark hampers efforts to reconcile a mother and daughter.

Season 3 Episode 16: Song of Songs
Jonathan and Mark try to help a pianist (James Earl Jones) recover from a heart attack.

Season 3 Episode 15: Wally
Jonathan and Mark decide to help a homeless street performer (Dick Van Dyke) who has done many good deeds.

Season 3 Episode 14: All That Glitters
A small-time hood must decide what to do with a briefcase holding $1 million; guest Didi Conn.

Season 3 Episode 13: Basinger's New York
Jonathan, Mark and a weary New York columnist (Richard Mulligan) share a cab and seek the spirit of Christmas.

Season 3 Episode 11: Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington
A U.S. senator (Eddie Albert) opposes Jonathan and Mark's efforts to pass legislation to save a little girl's life.

Season 3 Episode 10: Man to Man
Jonathan and Mark cause a dying tycoon and his only son to come to know each other; guest Lee H. Montgomery.

Season 3 Episode 9: Code Name: Freak
Jonathan and Mark help a 12-year-old genius adjust to college and an abusive roommate.

Season 3 Episode 8: Love and Marriage
Jonathan and Mark maneuver to keep a bride and groom on the way to the altar.

Season 3 Episode 6: Love at Second Sight
Recreation directors Jonathan and Mark help an angel with an assignment in a retirement community.

Season 3 Episode 5: That's Our Dad
Two orphans face coldheartedness when they ask their favorite children's TV host (Ned Beatty) to adopt them.

Season 3 Episode 4: Another Kind of War, Another Kind of Peace
The father (Ernest Borgnine) of a dead veteran rebels when his son's Vietnamese family tries to immigrate.

Season 3 Episode 3: For the Love of Larry
A dog tries to lead Jonathan and Mark to his owners, a father and son trapped in a wrecked car.

Season 3 Episode 2: A Special Love
Todd's natural parents refuse to let anyone adopt him.

Season 3 Episode 1: A Special Love
Jonathan and Mark take an interest in a Special Olympics participant; guest James Sloyan.

Season 4

Season 4 Episode 24: The Whole Nine Yards
Jonathan intermediates for a football coach whose win-at-all-costs attitude has alienated his son (Chad Allen).

Season 4 Episode 23: Heaven Nose, Mr. Smith
Mistakenly reincarnated, a tycoon (Bill Macy) tries to end his son's middle-class marriage; guest Bob Hope.

Season 4 Episode 22: A Dolphin Song for Lee
A dying teen raises funds for her operation as well as for other children with cancer.

Season 4 Episode 21: A Dolphin Song for Lee
Jonathan and Mark convince teenage Lee to lobby in the state senate for broader environmental protection.

Season 4 Episode 20: Aloha
Jonathan and Mark go to Hawaii to help a disabled dancer/actress overcome her anger and bitterness.

Season 4 Episode 19: The Correspondent
The wife of a successful journalist (Darren McGavin) agonizes over their bad marriage.

Season 4 Episode 18: We Have Forever
The worth of Jonathan's life as a mortal diminishes when Jennifer objects to a long relationship.

Season 4 Episode 17: We Have Forever
Stripped of his powers, Jonathan falls for a beautiful woman (Leann Hunley) who helps him cope.

Season 4 Episode 16: Back to Oakland
Mark is disillusioned when his longtime patrol partner asks him to lie about a racist crime.

Season 4 Episode 15: Time in a Bottle
A zealous district attorney tries for a felony conviction of a vagrant accused of stealing a bottle of wine.

Season 4 Episode 14: The Country Doctor
An elderly small-town doctor's (Roscoe Lee Browne) altruism ruins him physically and financially.

Season 4 Episode 13: A Mother's Love
Four orphaned brothers must defy a court order placing them in separate foster homes.

Season 4 Episode 11: In With the 'In' Crowd
Posing as police drug-counselors, Jonathan and Mark meet with faculty resistance where a student died of an overdose.

Season 4 Episode 10: A Dream of Wild Horses
An aging rancher (Richard Farnsworth) feels helpless to prevent the killing of wild horses.

Season 4 Episode 9: Why Punish the Children?
Jonathan and Mark clash with a warden over reforms that would unite female inmates with their children.

Season 4 Episode 8: All the Colors of the Heart
A counselor (Tom Sullivan) at a camp for the blind enlists Jonathan to prevent the suicide of a man losing his sight.

Season 4 Episode 7: Amazing Man
A police officer's death in the line of duty causes his young son to retreat into fantasy.

Season 4 Episode 6: Playing for Keeps
A vaudevillian (Donald O'Connor) gets a second chance at success and reconciliation with his egotistic son.

Season 4 Episode 5: I Was a Middle-Aged Werewolf
Sprouting fur and fangs, Jonathan helps a young trick-or-treater retaliate against harassing teens.

Season 4 Episode 4: The People Next Door
Jonathan and Mark help a young black family fight racism in an exclusive neighborhood.

Season 4 Episode 3: Fight for Your Life
Jonathan and Mark train a young boxer who discovers disturbing truths about his brother/manager.

Season 4 Episode 2: Man's Best Friend
Jonathan and Mark use a lost dog to unite an orphan with a wealthy, childless couple.

Season 4 Episode 1: Man's Best Friend
Jonathan and Mark try to unite a young couple with an orphan after the surrogate mother miscarries.

Season 5

Season 5 Episode 13: Merry Christmas From Grandpa
On Christmas Eve, Jonathan allows three powerful people to foresee the consequences of their actions.

Season 5 Episode 12: It's a Dog's Life
Thinking Jonathan has turned into a dog, Mark embarks alone to unite a young runaway with his family.

Season 5 Episode 11: The Inner Limits
Jonathan helps unlock the mind of a man incapacitated by birth defects; guest Tom Troupe.

Season 5 Episode 10: Summer Camp
Jonathan arranges for a former beauty (Priscilla Barnes), scarred in a fire, to volunteer at a camp for the blind.

Season 5 Episode 9: Choices
Private detectives Mark and Jonathan help a Vietnamese couple locate sons adopted and raised by an American family.

Season 5 Episode 8: Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka
Students fight the forced retirement of a beloved teacher (Lew Ayres).

Season 5 Episode 7: The Squeaky Wheel
Jonathan and Mark encourage a disabled Vietnam veteran to work for an organization that helps disabled people.

Season 5 Episode 6: The Source
Teaching journalism, Jonathan stresses ethics to two students whose flawed story may ruin lives.

Season 5 Episode 5: The Reunion
At Mark's high-school reunion, Jonathan helps a prom queen and a film star deal with faded glory.

Season 5 Episode 4: The Silent Bell
A church council rules all teachers in a parochial school must follow and teach Christianity; guest Mimi Kuzyk.

Season 5 Episode 2: Hello and Farewell
Kimberly agrees to treatment with a veterans outreach group, then makes a startling discovery.

Season 5 Episode 2: Hello and Farewell
As a Marine psychologist, Jonathan meets a former Vietnam nurse with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Season 5 Episode 1: Whose Trash Is It, Anyway?
Jonathan and Mark help a mayoral candidate whose opponent wages a dirty campaign; guests David Spielberg, Ken Kercheval.

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