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The Brightest Star
Highway to Heaven - S1 - E21
Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.
Highway to Heaven: Season 1 - 25 Episode s
1x1 - Highway to Heaven (1)
September 19, 1984
Drifter Jonathan Smith takes a job as a handyman at a nursing home.
1x2 - Highway to Heaven (2)
September 19, 1984
Jonathan reveals his angelic origins, then must save the nursing home from developers.
1x3 - To Touch the Moon
September 26, 1984
Jonathan introduces a street-wise boy to a peer who is dying of leukemia.
1x4 - The Return of the Masked Rider
October 3, 1984
A lone boxer and some aging movie heroes fight for law and order in a ghetto.
1x5 - Song of the Wild West
October 17, 1984
An aspiring singer hoping to follow in her late mother's footsteps wants to compete in a talent show, but her father won't permit it.
1x6 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (1)
October 24, 1984
A cycle accident shatters a baseball star's dream of reaching the pros.
1x7 - One Fresh Batch of Lemonade (2)
October 31, 1984
Olympic medalist Bart Conner plays a gymnast who has a special reason to help rehabilitate an athlete injured in a motorcycle accident.
1x8 - A Divine Madness
November 7, 1984
A widower who built an empire in the construction business now believes he's King Arthur, and his ambitious son is determined to have him declared incompetent.
1x9 - Catch a Falling Star
November 14, 1984
Jonathan and Mark tend the children of a movie star who always has the money but never the time to spend on his kids.
1x10 - Help Wanted: Angel
November 21, 1984
An elderly scriptwriter prays for an "angel" to bankroll his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood.
1x11 - Dust Child
November 28, 1984
A Vietnam vet and his wife happily welcome a 15-year-old girl he fathered overseas, but their son isn't happy at all.
1x12 - Hotel of Dreams
December 12, 1984
At a hotel, dreams come true for some, while others get their just desserts.
1x13 - Another Song for Christmas
December 19, 1984
Jonathan and Mark have a dickens of a time instilling the Christmas spirit in a heartless used-car salesman.
1x14 - Plane Death
January 9, 1985
Mark's old buddy, now working a border drug-enforcement detail, disappears after discovering the cargo in a large model airplane.
1x15 - One Winged Angels
January 16, 1985
Jonathan finds that even angels aren't above falling in love when he's assigned to help an attractive divorcée and her rebellious son.
1x16 - Going Home, Going Home
January 23, 1985
An auto accident renders Mark unconscious---and takes him back to the time his grandfather was about to lose his ranch.
1x17 - As Difficult as ABC
January 30, 1985
The future looks bleak for an illiterate basketball star who loses his scholarship because of a heart condition.
1x18 - A Child of God
February 6, 1985
A young mother has two crosses to bear: a terminal illness and a minister father who's shunning his daughter and her illegitimate child.
1x19 - A Match Made in Heaven
February 20, 1985
Jonathan's friend Scotty, a quadriplegic, wonders if his relationship with a woman can succeed.
1x20 - The Banker and the Bum
February 27, 1985
Divine intervention enables a park bum to trade places with a mayoral candidate who wants to turn the park into a parking lot.
1x21 - The Brightest Star
March 6, 1985
Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.
1x22 - An Investment in Caring
March 13, 1985
Jonathan comes to the aid of a neighborhood threatened by a corporate takeover.
1x23 - The Right Thing
March 27, 1985
Already depressed by his wife's death, an elderly man loses interest in life when he's put in a rest home by his daughter-in-law.
1x24 - Thoroughbreds (1)
May 1, 1985
On a horse-breeding farm, competition develops into attraction between a trainer's daughter and the spoiled son of the owner.
1x25 - Thoroughbreds (2)
May 8, 1985
Garth and Lizzy elope to an undisclosed location, unaware that Lizzy has cancer and needs immediate treatment.