Highway to Heaven (1984)

Directed by

Michael Landon

Genre

drama television series, fantasy television series

Country

United States

Length

5 seasons, 111 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 201 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An angel named Jonathan Smith comes to Earth to help people in need. He teams up with a retired policeman and they travel together on various assignments.

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What happens

Highway to Heaven is an American fantasy drama television series that ran on NBC from September 19, 1984, to August 4, 1989. The series starred its creator and co-director Michael Landon as Jonathan Smith, an angel sent to Earth to help people in need. Victor French, Landon's co-star from his previous television series, Little House on the Prairie, co-starred as Mark Gordon, a retired policeman who travels with and helps Smith with the tasks or "assignments" to which he is referred. Landon directed most of the show's episodes, and French directed many of the remaining ones. It was Landon's third and final TV series and his only one set in the present day, unlike Little House on the Prairie, and Landon's first TV series, Bonanza, both of which were Westerns. It was the final screen appearance for French, who died two months before the final episode aired, aged 54 years old; Landon went on to appear in two films, one of which was a pilot for a new series, before his death at 54 in 1991. Highway to Heaven aired for five seasons, running a total of 111 episodes. It consistently earned respectable ratings; it was in the Nielsen Top 20 in its first season, and ranked in the Top 40 for its first four seasons. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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