For other uses, see Highway to Heaven (disambiguation).
Highway to Heaven
Genre
Fantasy Family drama
Created by
Michael Landon
Directed by
Michael Landon Victor French Dan Gordon William F. Claxton
Starring
Michael Landon Victor French
Composer
David Rose
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
5
No. of episodes
111 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer
Michael Landon
Producer
Kent McCray
Camera setup
Single-camera
Running time
48–49 minutes
Production company
Michael Landon Productions
Original release
Network
NBC
Release
September 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 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.
^Highway to Heaven, retrieved August 25, 2019
^Carmody, John (April 9, 1991). "The TV Column". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
^"Fourth Year's the Charm? Why This Might Be an All-Time Great TV Season". yahoo.com. September 15, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
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