Highway to Heaven: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
Man's Best Friend (1)
Sep 16, 1987 · 45 min
Jenny's dog Jake runs away after chasing a cat. Jonathan and Mark find the dog and take him over to orphanage to help cheer up the kids. Jonathan and Mark must try to get Alex to
Man's Best Friend (2)
Sep 23, 1987 · 45 min
Alex finally meets the family of his dreams, those dreams are soon shattered when the turners want to adopt Alex. Alex wants to take Jake with him but the Foster family lives in a
Fight for Your Life
Sep 30, 1987 · 45 min
Jonathan and Mark train Morty to be a price-fighting boxer. His brother Jerry is hiding a dangerous secret from his brother. Jerry services as his brother's trainer/manager in ho
The People Next Door
Oct 21, 1987 · 45 min
The people next door the people of Mission Estates don't know that one of their own is hiding to secrets. Nine years ago Dr. Martin denied his wife, and his son of their heritage.
I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf
Oct 28, 1987 · 45 min
During Halloween night, Jonathan helps a little boy get over his fears (and in the process get even with his older sister).
Playing For Keeps
Nov 4, 1987 · 45 min
Jonathan tries to reunite a father and son who are a comedian and an actor, respectively together by getting to star in a community theatre play about an estranged father and son.
Amazing Man
Nov 11, 1987 · 45 min
Mark and Jonathon are sent to help a little boy overcome the sudden death of his father. Stevie deals with his grief through his favorite superhero, Amazing Man. Jonathon and Mar
All the Colors of the Heart
Nov 18, 1987 · 45 min
Frank Reilly wants to get his sight back but soon realizes that the procedure the doctor wants to perform will do him no good. Meanwhile Scotty is just about to lose his sight and
Why Punish the Children?
Nov 25, 1987 · 45 min
Jonathan and Mark see if they can change reforms that only allow mothers in prison to see their kids behind a glass wall. Market and Jonathan have trouble convincing the warden th
A Dream of Wild Horses
Dec 2, 1987 · 45 min
Jonathan and Mark are hired to help honor ranch. They must try to convince a grandfather that he is still needed and isn't too old to do anything just because he thinks he is.
In With the 'In' Crowd
Dec 9, 1987 · 45 min
Denise Kelly is a cop going undercover to stop a drug ring at a local high school. Jonathan and Mark pose as counselors to see if they can find who is bringing cocaine to school.
With Love, the Claus
Dec 23, 1987 · 45 min
It's Christmas time and Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is to try and get two divorce parents who are still bickering and using their son as pawn against each other to stop a
A Mother's Love
Jan 6, 1988 · 45 min
Four boys whose parents just died recently are informed by the social worker assigned to their case, that the younger children will be placed in different foster homes. The elder b
Country Doctor
Jan 13, 1988 · 45 min
A country doctor tries to teach the value of been a small-town doctor and excepting anything for pay. Dr. Hudsboth has to work hard to pay off a mortgage.
Time in a Bottle
Jan 20, 1988 · 45 min
A district attorney clashes with a lawyer who agrees to defend a friend charged with stealing.
Back to Oakland
Feb 3, 1988 · 45 min
Jonathan and Mark return to Mark's old hometown of Oakland and they go visit his old precinct. They learn that there a case of ""the blue flu"" and Mark's old Captain asks him if h
We Have Forever (1)
Feb 10, 1988 · 45 min
Jonathon gets a 'feeling' while he and Mark are driving towards their next job. He goes to the hospital to find his wife is near death and was calling for him. After she passes
We Have Forever (2)
Feb 17, 1988 · 45 min
Jonathan is still angry with God for not letting him go heaven to see Jane one last time. Jonathan becomes human after being dead for 40 years. Jennifer has fallen in love with J
The Correspondent
Feb 24, 1988 · 45 min
Hale Stoddard get the unique look at live through his wife's eyes. Hale is sitting in jail writing to his editor, which he believes he will never receive because he is covering all
Aloha
Mar 2, 1988 · 45 min
Mark and Jonathan travel to Hawaii to help Aulani a former singer and actress to try and thank people more often. A friend of hers just learned he has AIDS. Danny tells Jonathan he
A Dolphin Song For Lee (1)
Mar 16, 1988 · 45 min
A dying teen raises funds for her operation as well as for other children with cancer.
A Dolphin Song For Lee (2)
Mar 23, 1988 · 45 min
A teen aged girl goes through an operation, that may not be successful. Mark helps Her fulfill Her dream of saving the dolphins.
Heaven Nose, Mister Smith
Mar 30, 1988 · 45 min
Jonathan has to suddenly fix a computer glitch that causes Angels to go out on the wrong assignments. Jonathan must try to stop Max from ending his son's marriage. Jonathan then
The Whole Nine Yards
Apr 27, 1988 · 45 min
Ricky Diller is pressured by his father to win at everything and not enjoy losing a game once in awhile.