Highway to Heaven: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Highway to Heaven Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
A Special Love (1)
Sep 24, 1986
Jonathan and Mark taken interest in Todd who has no desire to be in Special Olympics because he feels he can't do anything. Tries to convince Todd to get into Special Olympics to
A Special Love (2)
Oct 1, 1986
Now that Diane and Scotty want to have children they decided to adopt Todd but learn that his natural parents don't want anyone to adopt him. Todd's natural parents were told some
For the Love of Larry
Oct 8, 1986
After his owners are trapped at the bottom of a hill in car accident, a precocious dog tries to lead Jonathon and Mark to them.
Another Kind of War, Another Kind of Peace
Oct 15, 1986
Jonathan informs a man, Mr. Clancy that his son who died in Vietnam fathered a child. Now he is still hurting over losing his son, that he doesn't want them. But nevetheless brings
That's Our Dad
Oct 29, 1986
Bill Cassidy is a model TV dad of the hit series, ""That's Our Dad, a show known for its closing (where he ""adopts"" two orphaned children at the end of each show). At least on-s
Love at Second Sight
Nov 5, 1986
Jonathan and Mark are on their way to their next assignment and meet another angel, Ted, whom Jonathan knows, and they both arrive at their destination. When Ted learns that the su
Love and Marriage (1)
Nov 12, 1986
Jonathan and Mark taken a couple back in time to help them understand what life would of been like had they not met each other 49 years earlier. Clarence and rose are about to div
Code Name: FREAK
Nov 19, 1986
Jonathan is tasked with being a college Professor to help a 12-year-old child prodigy be accepted as a college student.
Man to Man
Nov 26, 1986
Jonathan and Mark try to get a father and son to get to know each other again before Gary loses his father due to leukemia. Jonathan tries to make these tycoons live life to the fu
Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington
Dec 3, 1986
Jonathan persuades an influential United States senator to restore severe Congressional budget cuts dealing with health-care, but when the senator suffers a fatal heart attack on t
Oh Lucky Man
Dec 10, 1986
Mark plans to give a recent windfall to a boys' club. But first he must deal with some con artists.
Basinger's New York
Dec 17, 1986
It's Christmas time and Jonathan and Mark's assignment is to prove to a cynical reporter, who doesn't believe that there's any goodness in the world, that there is.
All That Glitters
Jan 7, 1987
When a major fire threatens a neighborhood, Jonathan and Mark (in the guise of priests) re-open an abandoned church as a shelter, and one of the people who take shelter there is a
Wally
Jan 14, 1987
Jonathan and Mark tag along with an elderly street puppeteer who's also an angel - but doesn't know it.
A Song of Songs
Jan 21, 1987
James Earl Jones stars as Gabe Wilson, an old friend of Mark's and down-and-out jazz pianist who tries to re-build his life after suffering a heart attack. Gabe reconnects with an
A Mother and a Daughter
Feb 4, 1987
Jonathan and Mark's assignment to reunite a Hollywood actress who is estranged from her daughter, who is also writing a book about her life with her mother which paints her mother
Normal People
Feb 11, 1987
Jonathan and Mark go to work at a halfway house where people who have mental problems that have been institutionalized but unfortunately due to need of space, the ones who are deem
The Hero
Feb 18, 1987
Joe Mason is a Vietnam Vet who is trying to get the VA to help him pay expensive dental work but because his condition is not related to his military service, he is denied.
Parents' Day
Feb 25, 1987
Jonathan and Mark work as detectives to uncover a drug problem with a family and a school.
A Father's Faith
Mar 4, 1987
When Jonathan and Mark decide to take some time off, they visit Mark's friends to go fishing.
Heavy Date
Mar 18, 1987
Jonathan and Mark have an interesting assignment as they try to give Gary and Alice a new direction in their lives. As Gary begins to fall in love with Alice he soon discovers a se
Ghost Rider
Apr 1, 1987
Birdy Belker a mystery writer gets to meet the man of her dreams. She meets Roger bolt who was slain in 1968. Jonathan grants birdy's wish to actually meet the man she writes abo
The Gift of Life
May 6, 1987
Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is R.R. Benson, a cold and heartless businessman, who is polluting the oceans, maintains apartments which are below living standards, just to