Highway to Heaven season 2 Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind - Metacritic

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TV-PG
NBC
Jan 15, 1986
1 h

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NBC
Jan 15, 1986
1 h

Summary Highway to Heaven was Micheal Landon's second pairing with Victor French (the two both starred on Little House on the Prairie). This show was about Jonathan Smith, an angel sent down by God, aka "The Boss," to partner up with ex-Oakland cop Mark Gordon. They would be assigned duties by the Boss in which they would help people see a bette...

Directed By: Victor French

Written By: Paul W. Cooper, Michael Landon

TV-PG
NBC
Jan 15, 1986
1 h

TV-PG
NBC
Jan 15, 1986
1 h

Highway to Heaven

S2 • Episode 14

Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind

Air Date: Jan 15, 1986

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Summary Highway to Heaven was Micheal Landon's second pairing with Victor French (the two both starred on Little House on the Prairie). This show was about Jonathan Smith, an angel sent down by God, aka "The Boss," to partner up with ex-Oakland cop Mark Gordon. They would be assigned duties by the Boss in which they would help people see a bette...

Created By: Michael Landon

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Episode 1 • Sep 18, 1985 • 1 h

A Song for Jason: Part 1

Jonathan and Mark become counselors at Camp Good Times, a summer camp for children with cancer, to help two cancer patients: a frightened little boy with an overprotective mother and an angry teenage athlete who may lose his leg to bone cancer.

Episode 2 • Sep 25, 1985 • 1 h

A Song for Jason: Part 2

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.

Episode 3 • Oct 2, 1985 • 1 h

Bless the Boys in Blue

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.

Episode 4 • Oct 23, 1985 • 45 m

A modern-day Hollywood retelling of the Cinderella story, only this aspiring actress Cindy wants to be accepted for who she really is and not the Eliza Doolittle her well-meaning dad wants to transform her into.

Episode 5 • Oct 30, 1985 • 1 h

The Devil and Jonathan Smith

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.

Episode 6 • Nov 6, 1985 • 1 h

Birds of a Feather

Episode 7 • Nov 13, 1985 • 1 h

Popcorn, Peanuts and CrackerJacks

Jonathan and Mark have to try and help a team that can never seem to win a single game and give a former baseball star the glory he once knew some 40 years ago.

Episode 8 • Nov 20, 1985 • 1 h

The Smile in the Third Row

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.

Episode 9 • Nov 27, 1985 • 1 h

Mark is the only one who can help when his friend's fifteen-year-old adopted daughter tries to find her biological mother and the unexpected uncovered truth threatens to tear the family apart completely.

Episode 10 • Dec 4, 1985 • 51 m

The Monster: Part 1

While visiting their friend who is a quadriplegic attorney with marriage problems, Jonathan and Mark meet a young blind woman and learn about a local recluse who is regarded as a monster.

Episode 11 • Dec 11, 1985 • 52 m

The Monster: Part 2

Scotty must defend Julian after he is accused of assaulting Rachel....and it appears the odds are not in either man's favor.

Episode 12 • Dec 18, 1985 • 49 m

The Good Doctor

Jonathan and Mark help a football player who gets hooked on painkillers that were given to him by the team doctor.

Episode 13 • Jan 8, 1986 • 49 m

Jonathan and Mark help a homeless boy by finding him a family who have their own troubles.

Episode 14 • Jan 15, 1986 • 1 h

Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind

Jonathan and Mark emerge from a meteor crater to offer extraterrestrial encouragement to Adam, a young, bullied orphan whose eccentric grandfather is in danger of losing him to a heartless social worker.

Episode 15 • Jan 29, 1986 • 49 m

Episode 16 • Feb 5, 1986 • 48 m

Jonathan is given one of the most emotional assignments he's ever had ... to help his own widow regain her love for life.

Episode 17 • Feb 12, 1986 • 1 h

The Last Assignment

Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment involves Harold, an errant angel who's been on probation for two centuries because in spreading happiness he's forever breaking the rules.

Episode 18 • Feb 19, 1986 • 51 m

To Bind the Wounds

Jonathan and Mark help a whole town to remember how a young soldier who was killed in Vietnam touched their lives when the attempts of his father to have a memorial made to commemorate his son are ignored.

Episode 19 • Feb 26, 1986 • 48 m

Heaven on Earth

When Mark thinks he's the cause for two tragic deaths, Jonathan grants his wish for a world without the tragedies.

Episode 20 • Mar 5, 1986 • 1 h

Mark and Jonathan try to reunite a mother with her son who is now the Deputy 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.

Episode 21 • Mar 12, 1986 • 52 m

The son of a Nazi death camp survivor clashes with a Neo Nazi who disputes the Holocaust with tragic results.

Episode 22 • Apr 2, 1986 • 1 h

Jonathan helps a novelist and his grandson both find inspiration in writing their next books and connecting with each other again.

Episode 23 • Apr 30, 1986 • 1 h

Children's Children

A home for unwed mothers is endangered when a sensationalist reporter uncovers a secret about the past of the woman who runs the home, and a teenage boy must come to terms with the fact that he's a father.

Episode 24 • May 7, 1986 • 1 h

Jonathan and Mark are substitute teachers in a high school where a lesson on true friendship is underscored by Jonathan's assigning an ostracized overweight girl to tutor a brash baseball star in danger of flunking out of school.

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