Highway to Heaven

Highway to Heaven
Genre
Created byMichael Landon
Directed by
Starring
  • Michael Landon
  • Victor French
ComposerDavid Rose
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes111 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerMichael Landon
ProducerKent McCray
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time48–49 minutes
Production companyMichael Landon Productions
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseSeptember 19, 1984 (1984-09-19) –
August 4, 1989 (1989-08-04)
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Highway to Heaven is an American fantasy drama television series that ran on NBC from September 19, 1984, to August 4, 1989.[1] The series starred its creator and co-director Michael Landon as Jonathan Smith, an angel sent to Earth in order 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. The series was created by Landon, who was the executive producer and also directed most of the show's episodes. French directed many of the remaining episodes. 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, prior to his own death at 54 in 1991.

Highway to Heaven aired for five seasons, running a total of 111 episodes.[2] It consistently earned respectable ratings; it was in the Nielsen Top 20 in its first season,[3] and ranked in the Top 40 for its first four seasons.

  1. ^ Highway to Heaven, retrieved August 25, 2019
  2. ^ Carmody, John (April 9, 1991). "The TV Column". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
  3. ^ "Fourth Year's the Charm? Why This Might Be an All-Time Great TV Season". yahoo.com. September 15, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2019.