Touched by an Angel: Season 9
Season 9 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 Touched by an Angel Season 8.
- 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 9 Progress Shield
A Rock and a Hard Place
Sep 28, 2002 · 48 min
An asteroid threatens to strike the western U.S., where a father is attempting to mend his relationship with his 16-year-old son, who is a recovering drug addict.
The Sixteenth Minute
Oct 5, 2002 · 48 min
A downtrodden man turns into an instant celebrity after he helps rescue a woman trapped in an abandoned mine, but the sudden fame goes to his head and he's alienated from his wife
Two Sides to Every Angel
Oct 12, 2002 · 48 min
Monica's evil twin, Monique, tricks Gloria into helping her break up a newlywed couple's marriage, thrusting the young bride into the arms of a potential killer.
The Word
Oct 19, 2002 · 48 min
The angels assist a 17-year-old girl with obsessive-compulsive disorder who is in danger of not graduating from high school because her anxieties prevent her from completing a writ
A Feather on the Breath of God
Oct 26, 2002 · 48 min
A poor, single woman dying from an inoperable brain tumor searches for a home for her 12-year-old daughter and goes to work for a bitter funeral-home director to cover the cost of
Jump!
Nov 2, 2002 · 48 min
A 15-year-old boy who recently lost a friend to suicide contemplates ending his own life, perching himself on a ledge several stories up on a high-rise apartment building. His situ
Bring On the Rain
Nov 9, 2002 · 48 min
A struggling single mom, a cocktail waitress who lives in a trailer park, learns that her 16-year-old daughter, Natalie, is ashamed of her. The daughter lies to her wealthy school
Remembering Me (1)
Nov 16, 2002 · 48 min
Tess is stricken with Alzheimer's disease while on assignment to help a workaholic who is ignoring his family and his ailing mother, who's in a nursing home. Part 1 of 2.
Remembering Me (2)
Nov 23, 2002 · 48 min
Conclusion. Tess's condition worsens as she struggles with Alzheimer's disease. Meanwhile, the other angels try to help a man adopt his foster son, but the adoption is contested by
The Christmas Watch
Dec 21, 2002 · 48 min
The angels attempt to bring hope to a group of workers at a small Manhattan watchmaker's shop, who learn on Christmas Eve that they are losing their jobs. Their final project is to
Private Eyes
Jan 11, 2003 · 48 min
The angels must persuade a lonely private investigator to return a runaway girl—who's like a daughter to him—to her real father.
The Root of All Evil
Jan 25, 2003 · 48 min
An elderly priest tries to stop a planned bank robbery after learning of the impending crime from the would-be thief during confession. Helping the priest is Gloria, who is assigne
A Time for Every Purpose
Feb 1, 2003 · 48 min
When a man becomes gravely ill and needs someone to care for him, the angels try to reunite him with his estranged brother, to whom he hasn't spoken in 12 years.
And a Nightingale Sang
Feb 8, 2003 · 48 min
The angels teach the true meaning of love to three couples gathered in a Denver restaurant on Valentine's Day. They are assisted in their assignment by an elderly pair who are cele
As It Is In Heaven
Feb 15, 2003 · 48 min
The angels try to restore the faith of a fellow celestial being who has become all too human over the past 14 years caring for an orphaned boy in a crime-ridden section of Chicago.
Song For My Father
Feb 22, 2003 · 48 min
A promising 17-year-old singer who smokes cigarettes is diagnosed with throat cancer and fears she may never perform again. The discovery leads to a rift between the girl's parents
The Good Earth
Mar 1, 2003 · 48 min
The angels try to persuade an elderly inventor, who is working on a device that will produce electricity directly from water, to join forces with an energy company that could make
Virtual Reality
Mar 15, 2003 · 48 min
A 17-year-old boy is accused of intentionally running down a prostitute with a car in an effort to extend the thrill of playing a violent videogame in which he committed a similar
The Show Must Not Go On
Apr 12, 2003 · 48 min
A company of actors plans a show to commemorate their local theater's 50th anniversary, but constant bickering among themselves and harassment from a group of teenagers outside thr
At the End of the Aisle
Apr 19, 2003 · 48 min
Monica, Tess and Andrew are invited by an old friend to attend her wedding, but when the angels arrive on the eve of the big day they learn she is marrying an agnostic man and worr
I Will Walk With You (1)
Apr 26, 2003 · 48 min
Monica is up for a promotion, but if she is to get it she must first prove herself by helping the citizens of a small town devastated by a tragedy in which 48 children were killed
I Will Walk With You (2)
Apr 27, 2003 · 48 min
Monica attempts to bring healing to a small town devastated by a tragedy in which 48 children were killed when their school exploded, but her efforts are put to the test when Satan