Highway to Heaven: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
Whose Trash Is It Anyway?
Oct 12, 1988 · 45 min
Mark and Jonathan join the campaign of a friend of Mark, whose highly honest. But his less than honest opponent is doing what he can to smear him.
Hello and Farewell (1)
Dec 7, 1988 · 45 min
Jonathan helps Commander Michaels deal with flashbacks of Vietnam as well as try to convince her to go to therapy. Mark deals with his fear of flying.
Hello and Farewell (2)
Dec 7, 1988 · 45 min
Commander Michaels continues to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder she also discovers she has son who came in to the emergency room do to a motorcycle accident. David wants
The Silent Bell
Mar 21, 1989 · 45 min
A pastor must follow a church council's decision to fire most of the staff at the school because they're not Christian.
The Reunion
Jun 2, 1989 · 45 min
Mark Gordon attends is there any five-year class reunion only to learn that it's not what he expected. An older actor uses the reunion as a press event get his career started agai
The Source
Jun 9, 1989 · 45 min
Jonathan tries two teach two kids the right way to report a story. But after a bus accident Diane Nichols gets the bus driver in big trouble because she was angry that he was marr
The Squeaky Wheel
Jun 16, 1989 · 45 min
Wayne seacrest is suddenly fired from his job as a computer programmer because the left on the bus breaks down. Jonathan and Mark asked for Wayne's assistance in getting better acc
Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka
Jun 23, 1989 · 45 min
Mr. Zelinka is a beloved teacher who is forced to retire because he has reached the retirement age of 70. The school board president feels that he's teaching responsibilities are
Choices
Jun 30, 1989 · 45 min
A Vietnamese couple has come back to the states from Singapore to try and take their sons back. Mr. and Mrs.Trong find it somewhat difficult to be able to just take their sons bac
Summer Camp
Jul 14, 1989 · 45 min
To help Mary Anders forget that she was scar and a fire Jonathan and Mark are arranged for her to work at a summer camp for the blind. Soon one of the counselors named Frank Reilly
The Inner Limits
Jul 21, 1989 · 45 min
Paul believes his brother George can do nothing because of his handicapped and because of what doctors told him and his mother. Jonathan and Mark, not to visit George and see if th
It's a Dog's Life
Jul 28, 1989 · 45 min
Thinking Jonathan has turned into a dog, Mark embarks alone to unite a young runaway with his family.
Merry Christmas from Grandpa
Aug 4, 1989 · 45 min
On Christmas Eve, Jonathan allows three powerful people to foresee the consequences of their actions: an energy magnate, a farmer and the President.