List of Highway to Heaven episodes#Episodes
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Highway to Heaven is an American television drama series which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1989.
Series overview
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Episodes
= Season 1 (1984–85) =
The Pilot was filmed from March to April 1984; Season 1 was filmed from August 1984 to March 1985.
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| EpisodeNumber_1=1
| EpisodeNumber_2=2
| EpisodeNumber2_1=1
| EpisodeNumber2_2=2
| Title=Highway to Heaven (Pilot)
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|9|19}}
| ProdCode_1 =7849-A
| ProdCode_2 =7849-B
| Aux4=20.6/35{{cite magazine|date=October 1, 1984|title=Downbeat start for new TV season|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1984-10-01_107_14/page/43|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=107|issue=14|page=43|id={{ProQuest|963251594}}}}
| ShortSummary=Angel Jonathan Smith is assigned to help the residents of a retirement home that may be sold, but Mark Gordon, an embittered ex-cop and brother of the home's female supervisor, is suspicious of him, especially when she starts seeing Jonathan socially.
Guest Stars: Helen Hayes, Eddie Quillan
- Originally shown as a feature-length Pilot TV Movie, which was later cut into two separate episodes for syndication.
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| EpisodeNumber=3
| EpisodeNumber2=3
| Title=To Touch the Moon
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|9|26}}
| ProdCode =7803
| Aux4=17.4/28{{cite magazine|date=October 8, 1984|title=CBS takes week one; NBC places second|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1984-10-08_107_15/page/94|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=107|issue=15|page=94|id={{ProQuest|963257211}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan comes into the lives of the widow of an astronaut who landed on the Moon and her terminally ill son, while Mark deals with a juvenile delinquent abandoned by his family. The young hood is surprisingly well-received by the widow, and helps her deal with the forthcoming tragedy.
Guest Star: Barret Oliver
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| EpisodeNumber=4
| EpisodeNumber2=4
| Title=The Return of the Masked Rider
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| ProdCode =7805
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|10|3}}
| Aux4=18.1/29{{cite magazine|date=October 15, 1984|title=CBS takes week two; baseball pushes ABC into second|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1984-10-15_107_16/page/52|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=107|issue=16|page=52|id={{ProQuest|963248791}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is in a ghetto populated by gang members and aging men who once starred in a Western TV show, as well as a gym where a retired boxer trains his grandson for an upcoming fight against the gang leader, with a prominent championship at stake. When the gang tries to ensure that their man will win by kidnapping the old boxer, Jonathan motivates the retired actors to be the Old West heroes who inspired kids to do right, and they in turn rally the neighborhood residents to stand up to the gang and rescue the grandfather.
Guest Star: John Agar
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| EpisodeNumber=5
| EpisodeNumber2=5
| Title=Song of the Wild West
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Dan Gordon, Maryanne Kasica and Michael Scheff|s=Maryanne Kasica and Michael Scheff}}
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|10|17}}
| ProdCode =7807
| Aux4=16.1/26{{cite magazine|date=October 29, 1984|title=Week 4: It's CBS, NBC, ABC|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1984-10-29_107_18/page/71|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=107|issue=18|page=71|id={{ProQuest|963249719}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan helps an aspiring singer follow in her late mother's footsteps despite her father's objections.
Guest Stars: Ronee Blakley, Michele Greene
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| EpisodeNumber=6
| EpisodeNumber2=6
| Title=One Fresh Batch of Lemonade: Part 1
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|10|24}}
| ProdCode =7806
| Aux4=17.2/27{{cite magazine|date=November 5, 1984|title=CBS, NBC tie in week five|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1984-11_107_19/page/64|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=107|issue=19|page=64|id={{ProQuest|963263431}}}}
| ShortSummary=A baseball player hoping to get into the pros is injured in a motorcycle accident.
Guest Stars: Ken Olandt, James Troesh
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| EpisodeNumber=7
| EpisodeNumber2=7
| Title=One Fresh Batch of Lemonade: Part 2
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|10|31}}
| ProdCode =7809
| Aux4=16.3/26{{cite magazine|date=November 12, 1984|title=CBS takes week six, NBC second|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1984-11-12_107_20/page/56|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=107|issue=20|page=56|id={{ProQuest|963260754}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan enlists a gymnast to help rehabilitate Deke Larson following his accident.
Guest Stars: Virginia Capers, Bart Conner
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| EpisodeNumber=8
| EpisodeNumber2=8
| Title=A Divine Madness
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|11|7}}
| ProdCode =7810
| Aux4=16.1/25{{cite magazine|date=November 19, 1984|title=CBS wins week; takes over first place season-to-date|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1984-11-19_107_21/page/61|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=107|issue=21|page=61|id={{ProQuest|963244940}}}}
| ShortSummary=A construction magnate believes he's King Arthur and his son wants him declared incompetent.
Guest Stars: Jonathan Frakes, Ron Moody, Helen Kleeb
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| EpisodeNumber=9
| EpisodeNumber2=9
| Title=Catch a Falling Star
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|11|14}}
| ProdCode =7808
| Aux4=17.7/27{{cite news|date=November 21, 1984|title=Nielsen prime-time ratings|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|page=E8|id={{ProQuest|1820039639}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark help a busy movie star learn to spend time with his children, who he had been neglecting.
Guest Star: Daniel Davis
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| EpisodeNumber=10
| EpisodeNumber2=10
| Title=Help Wanted: Angel
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|11|21}}
| ProdCode =7811
| Aux4=14.9/25{{cite magazine|date=November 19, 1984|title=NBC garners another first place|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=107|issue=23|page=109|id={{ProQuest|1014703828}}}}
| ShortSummary=An old screenwriter's prayers are answered when Jonathan and Mark agree to support his movie about the lonely people in his neighborhood, including a woman Mark falls in love with but who is hiding a terrible secret.
Guest Star: Stella Stevens
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| EpisodeNumber=11
| EpisodeNumber2=11
| Title=Dust Child
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy=Paul W. Cooper
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|11|28}}
| ProdCode =7804
| Aux4=18.1/28{{cite magazine|date=December 10, 1984|title=CBS makes it 10 in a row|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=107|issue=24|page=78|id={{ProQuest|1014716210}}}}
| ShortSummary=A Vietnam War veteran and his wife welcome the 15-year-old girl he fathered overseas into their house. However, the couple's teenage son is not so welcoming to his {{nowrap|Vietnamese}} half-sister; even less so are their neighbors, and the boy's schoolmates.
Guest Stars: Jenny Sullivan, James Whitmore, Jr.
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| EpisodeNumber=12
| EpisodeNumber2=12
| Title=Hotel of Dreams
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Paul W. Cooper|s=Paul Wolff}}
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|12|12}}
| ProdCode =7812
| Aux4=17.0/26{{cite news|date=December 19, 1984|title=Nielsen prime-time ratings|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|page=E11|id={{ProQuest|1820015039}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark get jobs at a hotel where they give the guests what they deserve.
Guest Star: Brian Kerwin
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| EpisodeNumber=13
| EpisodeNumber2=13
| Title=Another Song for Christmas
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1984|12|19}}
| ProdCode =7813
| Aux4=15.3/25{{cite magazine|date=December 31, 1984|title=CBS wins holiday weeks, edging ABC, NBC|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1984-12-31_107_26/page/110|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=107|issue=26|page=110|id={{ProQuest|1016915458}}}}
| ShortSummary=If this one sounds like a variation on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, it should. Mark and Jonathan are tasked with getting "Honest Eddy" Barton, a crooked-as-they-come used-car dealer, into the Holiday spirit.
Guest Stars: Geoffrey Lewis, Matt Shakman, Kellie Martin
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| EpisodeNumber=14
| EpisodeNumber2=14
| Title=Plane Death
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|1|9}}
| ProdCode =7814
| Aux4=16.4/23{{cite magazine|date=January 21, 1985|title=CBS wins and ABC climbs into second|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-01-21_108_3/page/87|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=3|page=87|id={{ProQuest|1014713043}}}}
| ShortSummary=An old friend of Mark's disappears after discovering the illegal cargo inside a model airplane.
Guest Stars: David Faustino, Ramon Bieri
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| EpisodeNumber=15
| EpisodeNumber2=15
| Title=One-Winged Angels
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Jan Heininger|s=Jan Heininger and Hugh Corcoran}}
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|1|16}}
| ProdCode =7815
| Aux4=19.5/28{{cite magazine|date=January 28, 1985|title=Super Bowl gives ABC its first weekly win|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-01-28_108_4/page/88|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=4|page=88|id={{ProQuest|1014707587}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan falls in love with the divorcee he's been assigned to help.
Guest Star: Wil Wheaton
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| EpisodeNumber=16
| EpisodeNumber2=16
| Title=Going Home, Going Home
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|1|23}}
| ProdCode =7816
| Aux4=19.5/29{{cite magazine|date=February 4, 1985|title=CBS wins a close one|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=5|page=64|id={{ProQuest|1014705874}}}}
| ShortSummary=Mark loses consciousness in an auto accident and finds himself and Jonathan back in time to when his grandfather was about to lose his ranch.
Guest Stars: John McLiam, Sean De Veritch
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| EpisodeNumber=17
| EpisodeNumber2=17
| Title=As Difficult as ABC
| ProdCode =7817
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy=Parke Perine
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|1|30}}
| Aux4=20.5/29{{cite magazine|date=February 11, 1985|title='Music Awards' lifts ABC into first place|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-02-11_108_6/page/48|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=6|page=48|id={{ProQuest|963286911}}}}
| ShortSummary=An illiterate basketball player loses his scholarship due to a heart condition.
Guest Star: Deborah Lacey, Beah Richards
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| EpisodeNumber=18
| EpisodeNumber2=18
| Title=A Child of God
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|2|6}}
| ProdCode =7818
| Aux4=20.0/29{{cite magazine|date=February 18, 1985|title='Cosby' and 'Dirty Dozen' deliver week for NBC|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-02-18_108_7/page/71|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=7|page=71|id={{ProQuest|963239691}}}}
| ShortSummary=A young woman is shunned by her minister father for having a child out of wedlock, then becomes terminally ill.
Guest Stars: Nora Boland, William Windom
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| EpisodeNumber=19
| EpisodeNumber2=19
| Title=A Match Made in Heaven
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Michael Landon|s=James Troesh and Theresa Troesh}}
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|2|20}}
| ProdCode =7819
| Aux4=17.9/27{{cite magazine|date=March 4, 1985|title=ABC, NBC tie in ratings photo finish|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-03-04_108_9/page/83|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=9|page=83|id={{ProQuest|1014722694}}}}
| ShortSummary=A quadriplegic friend of Jonathan's wonders if his relationship with a woman is meant to be.
Guest Stars: James Troesh, Margie Impert
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| EpisodeNumber=20
| EpisodeNumber2=20
| Title=The Banker and the Bum
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|2|27}}
| ProdCode =7820
| Aux4=18.1/28{{cite magazine|date=March 11, 1985|title=Grammys help CBS to ratings victory|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-03-11_108_10/page/66|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=10|page=66|id={{ProQuest|1014714913}}}}
| ShortSummary=A mayoral candidate intent on turning a local park into a parking lot is made to trade places with a park bum who, in turn, may help save the candidate's marriage.
Guest Star: Ned Beatty (dual role)
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| EpisodeNumber=21
| EpisodeNumber2=21
| Title=The Brightest Star
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy=Christopher Beaumont
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|3|6}}
| ProdCode =7821
| Aux4=19.3/29{{cite magazine|date=March 18, 1985|title=Basketball cuts into network numbers|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=11|page=65|id={{ProQuest|1014715489}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her dysfunctional parents.
Guest Stars: Trish Van Devere, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Carrie Wells
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| EpisodeNumber=22
| EpisodeNumber2=22
| Title=An Investment in Caring
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Parke Perine
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|3|13}}
| ProdCode =7822
| Aux4=18.2/28{{cite magazine|date=March 25, 1985|title=CBS takes its 19th ratings victory|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-03-25_108_12/page/52|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=12|page=52|id={{ProQuest|1014719248}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan helps a neighborhood being threatened by a corporate takeover.
Guest Stars: Eileen Heckart, Dane Clark, Andrew Duggan
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| EpisodeNumber=23
| EpisodeNumber2=23
| Title=The Right Thing
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|3|27}}
| ProdCode =7823
| Aux4=18.4/29{{cite magazine|date=April 8, 1985|title=CBS squeaks into first|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-04-08_108_14/page/150|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=14|page=150|id={{ProQuest|963263271}}}}
| ShortSummary=An old man, depressed over his wife's death, is forced into a rest home by his daughter-in-law. He loses his appetite and talks of dying, until his grandson goes walking, then running, with him, and they win a 5K race.
Guest Stars: Michael Durrell, Lew Ayres, Matthew Laborteaux
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| EpisodeNumber=24
| EpisodeNumber2=24
| Title=Thoroughbreds: Part 1
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|5|1}}
| ProdCode =7824
| Aux4=17.0/28{{cite magazine|date=May 13, 1985|title=Second post-season win for NBC|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-05-13_108_19/page/76|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=19|page=76|id={{ProQuest|963291793}}}}
| ShortSummary=An attraction develops between a trainer's daughter and the son of a horse-breeding farmer.
Guest Stars: Helen Hunt, John Hammond, Noble Willingham, Stephen Elliott, Richard Bull
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| EpisodeNumber=25
| EpisodeNumber2=25
| Title=Thoroughbreds: Part 2
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|5|8}}
| ProdCode =7825
| Aux4=17.1/30{{cite magazine|date=May 20, 1985|title=NBC wins third week in a row|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-05-20_108_20/page/68|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=108|issue=20|page=68|id={{ProQuest|963251741}}}}
| ShortSummary=Lizzy MacGill and Garth Armstrong elope, but their relationship is jeopardized by Lizzy needing treatment for her cancer.
Guest Star: Elizabeth Storm
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= Season 2 (1985–86) =
Season 2 was filmed from July 1985 to March 1986.
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| EpisodeNumber=26
| EpisodeNumber2=1
| Title=A Song for Jason: Part 1
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|9|18}}
| ProdCode =7851
| Aux4=18.9/32{{cite magazine|date=September 30, 1985|title=NBC takes final week of off-season ratings|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=109|issue=14|page=98|id={{ProQuest|1014707073}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark get jobs at Camp Good Times, a camp for young cancer patients, particularly one boy who suffers from overprotection by his well-meaning but selfish mother...whose impossible demands create hardship not only for him, but also for the rest of their otherwise-cancer-free family.
Guest Stars: Brian Lane Green, Robin Riker, Giovanni Ribisi
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| EpisodeNumber=27
| EpisodeNumber2=2
| Title=A Song for Jason: Part 2
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|9|25}}
| ProdCode =7852
| Aux4=20.9/33{{cite magazine|date=October 2, 1985|title=The TV Rate Race|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|volume=288|issue=48|page=18|id={{ProQuest|2594614569}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark's work at Camp Good Times involves helping a boy whose rock-star father avoids him and a teenager smitten with a counselor.
Guest Stars: Joshua John Miller, Barry Williams
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=28
| EpisodeNumber2=3
| Title=Bless the Boys in Blue
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|10|2}}
| ProdCode =7853
| Aux4=22.4/35{{cite magazine|date=October 9, 1985|title=The TV Rate Race|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter|volume=289|issue=3|page=22|id={{ProQuest|2594603324}}}}
| ShortSummary=When Mark complains that Jonathan has too much advantage as an angel, "The Boss" apparently agrees that Jonathan should be in Mark's shoes and then gives Jonathan and Mark an assignment as policemen with no divine abilities.
Guest Star: Elvia Allman
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=29
| EpisodeNumber2=4
| Title=Cindy
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|10|23}}
| ProdCode =7854
| Aux4=18.9/29{{cite magazine|date=November 4, 1985|title=World Series gives ABC week's ratings edge|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-11-04_109_19/page/42|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=109|issue=19|page=42|id={{ProQuest|1014715626}}}}
| ShortSummary=In a modern retelling of Cinderella, a waitress aspires to be an actress.
Guest Stars: Bill Macy, Alice Ghostley, Kip Gilman
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| EpisodeNumber=30
| EpisodeNumber2=5
| Title=The Devil and Jonathan Smith
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|10|30}}
| ProdCode =7857
| Aux4=19.4/30{{cite magazine|date=November 11, 1985|title=NBC takes week six as sweeps begin|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-11-11_109_20/page/56|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=109|issue=20|page=56|id={{ProQuest|1014708767}}}}
| ShortSummary=When Mark sells his soul to the Devil to save the life of a boy he accidentally ran over, Jonathan must get help from two con men to get him out of it.
Guest Stars: Anthony Zerbe, Conrad Janis, Michael Berryman
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=31
| EpisodeNumber2=6
| Title=Birds of a Feather
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Maxine Herman
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|11|6}}
| ProdCode =7859
| Aux4=20.2/31{{cite magazine|date=November 18, 1985|title=ABC leads sweeps with strong showing in seventh week|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-11-18_109_21/page/88|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=109|issue=21|page=88|id={{ProQuest|1014718278}}}}
| ShortSummary=Factory workers face the consequences for ignoring evidence of water contamination in order to keep their jobs.
Guest Stars: Philip Abbott, Rick Hurst, Paul Walker
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| EpisodeNumber=32
| EpisodeNumber2=7
| Title=Popcorn, Peanuts and Crackerjacks
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Vince R. Gutierrez
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|11|13}}
| ProdCode =7856
| Aux4=19.5/29{{cite magazine|date=November 25, 1985|title=Movies, Thursday and Saturday schedules give NBC week eight|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-11-25_109_22/page/42|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=109|issue=22|page=42|id={{ProQuest|1014708269}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark come to the aid of a minor-league baseball team that's never won a game and an old vendor, once a player for the black leagues, who gets kicked out of the stadium.
Guest Stars: Moses Gunn, Keenan Wynn, Lynn Hamilton
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| EpisodeNumber=33
| EpisodeNumber2=8
| Title=The Smile in the Third Row
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Lan O'Kun
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|11|20}}
| ProdCode =7860
| Aux4=20.7/31{{cite magazine|date=December 2, 1985|title=Ninth week of season: second win for CBS|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-12-02_109_23/page/87|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=109|issue=23|page=87|id={{ProQuest|1014710938}}}}
| ShortSummary=An actor starring in a failing Broadway play thinks he sees God sitting in the audience.
Guest Star: Lorne Greene, David Lander
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| EpisodeNumber=34
| EpisodeNumber2=9
| Title=The Secret
| DirectedBy=William F. Claxton
| WrittenBy=Paul W. Cooper
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|11|27}}
| ProdCode =7855
| Aux4=20.5/33{{cite magazine|date=December 9, 1985|title=NBC claims Thanksgiving victory with return of Perry Mason|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=109|issue=24|page=58|id={{ProQuest|1014719129}}}}
| ShortSummary=When Jonathan must return to Heaven to face disciplinary action, Mark is left on his own to help when the daughter of his friends learns that she's adopted and sets out to find her real mother.
Guest Star: Shannen Doherty
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=35
| EpisodeNumber2=10
| Title=The Monster: Part 1
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|12|4}}
| ProdCode =7861
| Aux4=21.3/31{{cite magazine|date=December 16, 1985|title=NBC continues winning ways|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-12-16_109_25/page/88|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=109|issue=25|page=88|id={{ProQuest|1014721078}}}}
| ShortSummary=A disfigured artist falls for a blind girl and Jonathan's quadriplegic lawyer friend denies having marital problems.
Guest Star: Eve Brent Ashe
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=36
| EpisodeNumber2=11
| Title=The Monster: Part 2
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|12|11}}
| ProdCode =7862
| Aux4=23.1/35{{cite magazine|date=December 23, 1985|title=NBC takes another Wednesday as it posts eighth weekly win|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1985-12-23_109_26/page/61|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=109|issue=26|page=61|id={{ProQuest|1014718357}}}}
| ShortSummary=Scotty defends Julian on charges of attacking Rachel, who's in a coma.
Guest Star: Peter Billingsley
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=37
| EpisodeNumber2=12
| Title=The Good Doctor
| DirectedBy=William F. Claxton
| WrittenBy=Rift Fournier
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1985|12|18}}
| ProdCode =7858
| Aux4=21.1/33{{cite magazine|date=December 30, 1985|title=NBC goes nine for 13|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=109|issue=27|page=80|id={{ProQuest|1014722791}}}}
| ShortSummary=The doctor for a football team who got a player addicted to painkillers and pep pills is forced to confront his own addictions.
Guest Star: Michael Constantine
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=38
| EpisodeNumber2=13
| Title=Alone
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|1|8}}
| ProdCode =7863
| Aux4=23.1/35{{cite magazine|date=January 20, 1986|title=CBS wins second week in a row by a nose|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=3|page=214|id={{ProQuest|1014710358}}}}
| ShortSummary=A mentally challenged runaway with a cat as his only friend wishes that someone would love him.
Guest Stars: Frank Birney, John Franklin
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=39
| EpisodeNumber2=14
| Title=Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy=Paul W. Cooper
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|1|15}}
| ProdCode =7864
| Aux4=19.9/29{{cite magazine|date=January 27, 1986|title=Sixth Cosby record this season gives NBC another win|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-01-27_110_4/page/74|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=4|page=74|id={{ProQuest|1016911509}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark emerge from a meteorite crater to help an unemployed man keep custody of his orphaned grandson.
Guest Stars: Harold J. Stone, Louise Latham
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=40
| EpisodeNumber2=15
| Title=Change of Life
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|1|29}}
| ProdCode =7866
| Aux4=23.8/34{{cite magazine|date=February 10, 1986|title=ABC starts fast but finishes last|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-02-10_110_6/page/56|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=6|page=56|id={{ProQuest|1016909677}}}}
| ShortSummary=A movie star and her hairdresser (Mark) have their wish to trade places granted by God.
Guest Stars: John McCook, Anne-Marie Martin
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=41
| EpisodeNumber2=16
| Title=Keep Smiling
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|2|5}}
| ProdCode =7865
| Aux4=22.8/35{{cite magazine|date=February 17, 1986|title="Sins" wins for CBS; NBC leads sweeps|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=7|page=53|id={{ProQuest|1016909361}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan is assigned to help his widow move on with her life and be happy again.
Guest Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Richard McGonagle
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=42
| EpisodeNumber2=17
| Title=The Last Assignment
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|2|12}}
| ProdCode =7867
| Aux4=22.0/32{{cite magazine|date=February 24, 1986|title=NBC's best Thursday gives it another weekly win|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-02-24_110_8/page/46|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=8|page=46|id={{ProQuest|1016909425}}}}
| ShortSummary=An errant angel has been on probation for 200 years because he keeps spreading happiness by breaking the rules.
Guest Star: Ed Asner
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=43
| EpisodeNumber2=18
| Title=To Bind the Wounds
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|2|19}}
| ProdCode =7868
| Aux4=22.2/33{{cite magazine|date=March 3, 1986|title=NBC's regular schedule powers it to another win|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-03-03_110_9/page/70|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=9|page=70|id={{ProQuest|1016909221}}}}
| ShortSummary=The father of a soldier killed in action in Vietnam is met with indifference when he tries to establish a scholarship in his son's name.
Guest Star: Eli Wallach
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=44
| EpisodeNumber2=19
| Title=Heaven on Earth
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=David O. Young
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|2|26}}
| ProdCode =7869
| Aux4=19.7/29{{cite magazine|date=March 10, 1986|title=NBC edges CBS thanks to 'Cosby' and Klugman|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-03-10_110_10/page/92|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=10|page=92|id={{ProQuest|1014715684}}}}
| ShortSummary=Following two tragedies for which Mark feels responsible, Jonathan gives him the power to start over.
Guest Star: Alyson Croft
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=45
| EpisodeNumber2=20
| Title=Summit
| DirectedBy=Dan Gordon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|3|5}}
| ProdCode =7870
| Aux4=21.0/32{{cite magazine|date=March 17, 1986|title=NBC breezes to another ratings victory|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=11|page=86|id={{ProQuest|1016912979}}}}
| ShortSummary=A dying woman wishes to see her son, who was left in the Soviet Union during World War II and is now the Deputy Premier.
Guest Stars: Nehemiah Persoff, Frank Welker
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=46
| EpisodeNumber2=21
| Title=The Torch
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Lan O'Kun
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|3|12}}
| ProdCode =7871
| Aux4=21.1/32{{cite magazine|date=March 24, 1986|title=Reruns help power NBC to win number 18|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-03-24_110_12/page/91|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=12|page=91|id={{ProQuest|1014726491}}}}
| ShortSummary=A Holocaust survivor and his son are targeted by neo-Nazis.
Guest Stars: Herschel Bernardi, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Robert O'Reilly
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=47
| EpisodeNumber2=22
| Title=Sail Away
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Lan O'Kun
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|4|2}}
| ProdCode =7872
| Aux4=18.3/29{{cite magazine|date=April 14, 1986|title=NBC wins week, ties CBS in evening news race |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-04-14_110_15/page/154|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=15|page=154|id={{ProQuest|1016901030}}}}
| ShortSummary=A novelist and his grandson find inspiration on a small island.
Guest Stars: David Bowe, Lew Ayres, Laurie Prange
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=48
| EpisodeNumber2=23
| Title=Children's Children
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy=David Thoreau
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|4|30}}
| ProdCode =7873
| Aux4=19.1/32{{cite magazine|date=May 12, 1986|title=NBC returns to winning form|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=19|page=50|id={{ProQuest|1016906834}}}}
| ShortSummary=A reporter interviews the director of a home for unwed mothers, but intends to write a story exposing the director's long-hidden secret.
Guest Star: Bibi Besch
| LineColor=283981
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=49
| EpisodeNumber2=24
| Title=Friends
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|5|7}}
| ProdCode =7874
| Aux4=17.2/30{{cite magazine|date=May 19, 1986|title='North and South' wins war for ABC|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-05-19_110_20/page/73|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=110|issue=20|page=73|id={{ProQuest|1014722857}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark are substitute teachers at a high school where Jonathan assigns a lonely obese girl to tutor a jock.
Guest Star: Darren Dalton
| LineColor=283981
}}
}}
= Season 3 (1986–87) =
It's presently unclear when Season 3 began filming, but it can be confirmed that filming wrapped in March 1987.
{{Episode table
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|overall=2
|season=2
|title=24
|writer=18
|director=16
|airdate=16
|prodcode=7
|aux4=10
|aux4T=Rating/share
(households)
|episodes=
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=50
| EpisodeNumber2=1
| Title=A Special Love: Part 1
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|9|24}}
| ProdCode =7901
| Aux4=16.7/27{{cite magazine|date=October 6, 1986|title=NBC on a roll; wins first week of fall season|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=4|page=48|id={{ProQuest|1014719938}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark talk a youngster into joining the Special Olympics and help out a couple who are unable to have children.
Guest Stars: Paul Walker, James Troesh, Margie Impert
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=51
| EpisodeNumber2=2
| Title=A Special Love: Part 2
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|10|1}}
| ProdCode =7902
| Aux4=17.3/29{{cite magazine|date=October 13, 1986|title=NBC goes 2 for 2 in prime time|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-10-13_111_15/page/64|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=15|page=64|id={{ProQuest|1016915015}}}}
| ShortSummary=Todd's parents won't let Scotty and Diane adopt him until Todd's elder brother discovers the truth about him.
Guest Star: Josh Brolin
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=52
| EpisodeNumber2=3
| Title=For the Love of Larry
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|10|8}}
| ProdCode =7903
| Aux4=21.1/33{{cite magazine|date=October 20, 1986|title=NBC keeps on rolling|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-10-20_111_16/page/38|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=16|page=38|id={{ProQuest|1014736998}}}}
| ShortSummary=A dog tries to draw attention to a father and son trapped in a Jeep that's gone off the road and crashed.
Guest Star: Ryan Bollman
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=53
| EpisodeNumber2=4
| Title=Another Kind of War, Another Kind of Peace
| DirectedBy=Dan Gordon
| WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Dan Gordon|s=Dan Gordon and Sally Baker}}
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|10|15}}
| ProdCode =7904
| Aux4=18.9/29{{cite magazine|date=October 27, 1986|title=Four in a row for NBC|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-10-27_111_17/page/96|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=17|page=96|id={{ProQuest|1014715087}}}}
| ShortSummary=Despite sponsoring their immigration, a cab driver wants nothing to do with the wife and child his deceased son left in Vietnam. A lonely older neighbor takes them to a carnival and offers to share his apartment.
Guest Stars: Eugene Roche, Ernest Borgnine
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=54
| EpisodeNumber2=5
| Title=That's Our Dad
| DirectedBy=Victor French
| WrittenBy=Geoffrey Fischer
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|10|29}}
| ProdCode =7905
| Aux4=16.8/27{{cite magazine|date=November 10, 1986|title=Game seven, 'Cosby' lift NBC to victory|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-11-10_111_19/page/73|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=19|page=73|id={{ProQuest|1016910246}}}}
| ShortSummary=A pair of orphans wish to be adopted by a family sitcom star who is really a cold-hearted cynic.
Guest Stars: R. J. Williams, Ned Beatty
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=55
| EpisodeNumber2=6
| Title=Love at Second Sight
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=James Kearns
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|11|5}}
| ProdCode =7908
| Aux4=19.1/29{{cite magazine|date=November 17, 1986|title=NBC rolls a lucky seven |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-11-17_111_20/page/52|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=20|page=52|id={{ProQuest|1285762482}}}}
| ShortSummary=A fellow angel doesn't want his widow to remarry.
Guest Stars: John McLiam, Peggy Doyle, Nana Visitor
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| NumParts= 2
| EpisodeNumber_1=56
| EpisodeNumber_2=57
| EpisodeNumber2_1=7
| EpisodeNumber2_2=8
| Title=Love and Marriage
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|11|12}}
| ProdCode =7907
| Aux4=18.7/28{{cite magazine|date=November 24, 1986|title=NBC wins prime time and news in week eight|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-11-24_111_21/page/52|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=21|page=52|id={{ProQuest|1016917184}}}}
| ShortSummary=Three generations of arguing couples go on a road trip to find out what brought them together.
Guest Stars: Bill Erwin, Valorie Armstrong, Robert Mandan
- Originally shown as a feature-length episode, which was later cut into two separate episodes for syndication.
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=58
| EpisodeNumber2=9
| Title=Code Name: FREAK
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Vince R. Gutierrez
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|11|19}}
| ProdCode =7906
| Aux4=14.5/22{{cite magazine|date=December 1, 1986|title=Nine in a row: NBC ties second-best season streak|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-12-01_111_22/page/88|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=22|page=88|id={{ProQuest|1014739802}}}}
| ShortSummary=A 12-year-old boy genius is an outcast at college where he has a popular jock for a roommate.
Guest Stars: Jeff B. Davis, Jack Ging
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=59
| EpisodeNumber2=10
| Title=Man to Man
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Robert Schaefer
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|11|26}}
| ProdCode =7910
| Aux4=16.4/25{{cite magazine|date=December 8, 1986|title=NBC narrowly wins week 10|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=23|page=102|id={{ProQuest|1014720590}}}}
| ShortSummary=A tycoon who is dying of leukemia tries to mend his relationship with his teenage son.
Guest Stars: Joe Dorsey, Lee Montgomery
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=60
| EpisodeNumber2=11
| Title=Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|12|3}}
| ProdCode =7909
| Aux4=15.7/24{{cite magazine|date=December 15, 1986|title=NBC stays undefeated|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-12-15_111_24/page/91|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=24|page=91|id={{ProQuest|1014742080}}}}
| ShortSummary=A senator is bent on getting a bill through Congress that would cut funds required for the production of drugs to cure rare diseases, but learns that passage of the bill will have fatal consequences affecting his family.
Guest Star: Eddie Albert
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=61
| EpisodeNumber2=12
| Title=Oh Lucky Man
| DirectedBy=Dan Gordon
| WrittenBy=David Thoreau
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|12|10}}
| ProdCode =7912
| Aux4=16.8/26{{cite magazine|date=December 22, 1986|title=NBC juggernaut keeps on rolling|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-12-22_111_25/page/75|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=25|page=75|id={{ProQuest|1016910304}}}}
| ShortSummary=Mark plans to give the $5 million he won to a boys' club, but loses it to a pair of con artists.
Guest Stars: Shannon Tweed, Roy Thinnes
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=62
| EpisodeNumber2=13
| Title=Basinger's New York
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Lan O'Kun
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1986|12|17}}
| ProdCode =7913
| Aux4=19.1/30{{cite magazine|date=December 29, 1986|title=NBC continues winning ways|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1986-12-29_111_26/page/63|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=111|issue=26|page=63|id={{ProQuest|1016911139}}}}
| ShortSummary=On Christmas Eve, a New York City columnist learns there are still miracles in the world.
Guest Star: Richard Mulligan
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=63
| EpisodeNumber2=14
| Title=All That Glitters
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|1|7}}
| ProdCode =7911
| Aux4=18.5/27{{cite magazine|date=January 19, 1987|title=CBS wins its second in a row|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1987-01-19_112_3/page/210|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=112|issue=3|page=210|id={{ProQuest|1016906203}}}}
| ShortSummary=A hustler finds a case containing a million dollars, dresses as a priest to escape from the gangsters who lost the case and then hides out with the money in the same church where "Father" Jonathan and "Father" Mark are helping victims of an urban fire.
Guest Stars: Didi Conn, John Pleshette
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=64
| EpisodeNumber2=15
| Title=Wally
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|1|14}}
| ProdCode =7914
| Aux4=19.7/30{{cite magazine|date=January 26, 1987|title=NBC wins prime time and news|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1987-01-26_112_4/page/58|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=112|issue=4|page=58|id={{ProQuest|1016900438}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment concerns an elderly street puppeteer who is marked for a favored position in heaven.
Guest Star: Dick Van Dyke
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=65
| EpisodeNumber2=16
| Title=A Song of Songs
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|1|21}}
| ProdCode =7917
| Aux4=19.5/28{{cite magazine|date=February 2, 1987|title=Super Bowl was super for CBS|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1987-02-02_112_5/page/70|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=112|issue=5|page=70|id={{ProQuest|1016913996}}}}
| ShortSummary=A jazz pianist tries to start over following a heart attack.
Guest Stars: James Earl Jones, Rosalind Cash
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=66
| EpisodeNumber2=17
| Title=A Night to Remember
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=David Thoreau
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|1|28}}
| ProdCode =7916
| Aux4=19.5/29{{cite magazine|date=February 9, 1987|title=NBC continues winning ways|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=112|issue=6|page=107|id={{ProQuest|1014727700}}}}
| ShortSummary=High school seniors pray for dates to the prom.
Guest Star: Mitchell Anderson
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=67
| EpisodeNumber2=18
| Title=A Mother and a Daughter
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Elaine Newman and Ed Burnham
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|2|4}}
| ProdCode =7915
| Aux4=18.1/28{{cite magazine|date=February 16, 1987|title=Prime time and news go to NBC|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1987-02-16_112_7/page/56|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=112|issue=7|page=56|id={{ProQuest|1016919377}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan will be promoted to Heaven if he succeeds in reuniting a movie star with her daughter, who's writing a vicious expose of her mother, and Mark, who doesn't want Jonathan to go, is thinking of sabotaging the assignment.
Guest Stars: Gloria DeHaven, Judith Chapman
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=68
| EpisodeNumber2=19
| Title=Normal People
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Paul W. Cooper
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|2|11}}
| ProdCode =7918
| Aux4=17.0/25{{cite magazine|date=February 23, 1987|title='Amerika' premiere pushes ABC to second|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1987-02-23_112_8/page/74|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=112|issue=8|page=74|id={{ProQuest|1016922703}}}}
| ShortSummary=Hostility ensues when a halfway house for mental patients is established in a neighborhood.
Guest Star: Brian Austin Green
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=69
| EpisodeNumber2=20
| Title=The Hero
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|2|18}}
| ProdCode =7919
| Aux4=18.6/28{{cite magazine|date=March 2, 1987|title=NBC overcomes ABC's 'Amerika'|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1987-03-02_112_9/page/56|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=112|issue=9|page=56|id={{ProQuest|1016911964}}}}
| ShortSummary=A Vietnam War veteran is unable to receive government aid for dental work because his dental problems are not related to his military service.
Guest Star: James Stacy
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=70
| EpisodeNumber2=21
| Title=Parents' Day
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=David Thoreau
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|2|25}}
| ProdCode =7920
| Aux4=18.0/27{{cite magazine|date=March 9, 1987|title=NBC on another winning streak|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1987-03-09_112_10/page/44|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=112|issue=10|page=44|id={{ProQuest|1016912824}}}}
| ShortSummary=A student is arrested for drug possession, then brings the same charge against his father, a crusading TV news anchor who's secretly a cocaine addict.
Guest Star: Robert Culp
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=71
| EpisodeNumber2=22
| Title=A Father's Faith
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Ginny Weissman
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|3|4}}
| ProdCode =7921
| Aux4=17.9/27{{cite magazine|date=March 16, 1987|title='Manhattan' does well, but not well enough to beat NBC|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=112|issue=11|page=64|id={{ProQuest|1016919049}}}}
| ShortSummary=A fisherman friend of Mark's is paying too much attention to his comatose son, which threatens to destroy both his livelihood and his family.
Guest Stars: Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=72
| EpisodeNumber2=23
| Title=Heavy Date
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|3|18}}
| ProdCode =7922
| Aux4=19.1/30{{cite magazine|date=March 25, 1987|title=Weekly Ratings Scorecard|magazine=Variety|volume=326|issue=9|page=48|id={{ProQuest|1286026601}}}}
| ShortSummary=A young man with no ambition in life falls in love with a pregnant girl.
Guest Stars: Brittain Frye, Pat O'Bryan, Lorie Griffin
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=73
| EpisodeNumber2=24
| Title=Ghost Rider
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|4|1}}
| ProdCode =7923
| Aux4=18.5/29{{cite magazine|date=April 13, 1987|title=ABC climbs to second for week in prime time race|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1987-04-13_112_15/page/88|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=112|issue=15|page=88|id={{ProQuest|1016917698}}}}
| ShortSummary=A spy novelist buys her hero's sports car, which comes with his ghost.
Guest Stars: Alan Abelew, Didi Conn
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=74
| EpisodeNumber2=25
| Title=The Gift of Life
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|5|6}}
| ProdCode =7924
| Aux4=14.1/25{{cite magazine|date=May 18, 1987|title=NBC continues summer run|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_broadcasting-cable_1987-05-18_112_20/page/96|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=112|issue=20|page=96|id={{ProQuest|1014717874}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark are hired as bodyguards for a wealthy man with no principles and no friends.
Guest Star: Leslie Nielsen
| LineColor=b6dbeb
}}
}}
= Season 4 (1987–88) =
Season 4 was filmed from May 1987 to March 1988. The show managed to finish filming this Season just as the 1988 WGA Strike was about to begin.
{{Episode table
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|overall=2
|season=2
|title=24
|writer=18
|director=16
|prodcode=7
|airdate=16
|aux4=10
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|episodes=
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=75
| EpisodeNumber2=1
| Title=Man's Best Friend: Part 1
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|9|16}}
| ProdCode =7951
| Aux4=16.6/28{{cite magazine|date=September 28, 1987|title=NBC takes last week of summer|magazine=Broadcasting|volume=113|issue=13|page=56|id={{ProQuest|1016936750}}}}
| ShortSummary=A wealthy couple are unable to have more children, so they hire a surrogate.
Guest Stars: Elisabeth Harnois, William Schallert
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=76
| EpisodeNumber2=2
| Title=Man's Best Friend: Part 2
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|9|23}}
| ProdCode =7952
| Aux4=15.6/27{{cite news|date=September 30, 1987|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305922933}}}}
| ShortSummary=Alex is reunited with his dog, but may lose him again when a foster family accepts him.
Guest Star: Danny Pintauro
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=77
| EpisodeNumber2=3
| Title=Fighting for Your Life
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Lan O'Kun
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|9|30}}
| ProdCode =7955
| Aux4=13.5/23{{cite news|date=October 7, 1987|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305953326}}}}
| ShortSummary=A boxer reconsiders taking dives when a fighter he's been training is asked to take one himself.
Guest Star: Clint Lilley
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=78
| EpisodeNumber2=4
| Title=The People Next Door
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Vince R. Gutierrez
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|10|21}}
| ProdCode =7956
| Aux4=14.9/23{{cite news|date=October 28, 1987|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305945387}}}}
| ShortSummary=A doctor is forced to confront a terrible secret when a black family plans to live next door to him.
Guest Stars: David Spielberg, Míriam Colón
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=79
| EpisodeNumber2=5
| Title=I Was a Middle-Aged Werewolf
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|10|28}}
| ProdCode =7958
| Aux4=12.0/18{{cite news|date=November 4, 1987|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305974535}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan turns into a werewolf on Halloween to help out a frightened trick-or-treater.
Guest Star: Raffi Di Blasio
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=80
| EpisodeNumber2=6
| Title=Playing for Keeps
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=James Kearns
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|11|4}}
| ProdCode =7954
| Aux4=13.1/21{{cite news|date=November 11, 1987|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305982086}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark type-cast a retired comic and his movie-star son in a new play about a young man struggling to relate to his father.
Guest Stars: Eric Douglas, Donald O'Connor
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=81
| EpisodeNumber2=7
| Title=Amazing Man
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Elaine Newman & Ed Burnham
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|11|11}}
| ProdCode =7957
| Aux4=15.6/24{{cite news|date=November 18, 1987|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305968968}}}}
| ShortSummary=A youngster turns to a comic book superhero to deal with his father's death.
Guest Star: Pat Crawford Brown
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=82
| EpisodeNumber2=8
| Title=All the Colors of the Heart
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Parke Perine|s=Parke Perine and Tom Sullivan}}
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|11|18}}
| ProdCode =7960
| Aux4=13.7/22{{cite news|date=November 25, 1987|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305958854}}}}
| ShortSummary=A blind athlete expecting to gain his sight must counsel a surfer threatened with losing his own.
Guest Stars: Brandon Bluhm, Peter Kowanko, Tom Sullivan
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=83
| EpisodeNumber2=9
| Title=Why Punish the Children?
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Paul W. Cooper
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|11|25}}
| ProdCode =7961
| Aux4=13.7/24{{cite news|date=December 2, 1987|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|306274524}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark deal with a penal system that doesn't allow inmate mothers to see their children.
Guest Stars: Mary Pat Gleason, Bebe Drake
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=84
| EpisodeNumber2=10
| Title=A Dream of Wild Horses
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Laura Braunstein, Mary Cappelli Cruise and Dan Gordon|s=Laura Braunstein and Mary Cappelli Cruise}}
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|12|2}}
| ProdCode =7962
| Aux4=13.4/22{{cite news|date=December 9, 1987|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305967958}}}}
| ShortSummary=The patriarch of a family feels too old to take care of his horse ranch.
Guest Star: Richard Farnsworth
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=85
| EpisodeNumber2=11
| Title=In with the 'In' Crowd
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=David Thoreau
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|12|9}}
| ProdCode =7963
| Aux4=14.0/22{{cite news|date=December 16, 1987|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305994379}}}}
| ShortSummary=A policewoman goes undercover at a high school to expose a group of drug users, but could get suspended when Mark jeopardizes the operation.
Guest Star: Cooper Layne
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=86
| EpisodeNumber2=12
| Title=With Love, the Claus
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1987|12|23}}
| ProdCode =7959
| Aux4=14.1/25{{cite news|date=December 30, 1987|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305966411}}}}
| ShortSummary=At Christmastime, a man claiming to be Santa Claus wants a department store to stop using his name for promoting war toys and is arrested. The lawyers involved are a bickering divorced couple who are Jonathan and Mark's assignment - with the ex-husband defending "Santa" and the ex-wife representing the store.
Guest Stars: Bill Erwin, Wendie Malick, John Calvin
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=87
| EpisodeNumber2=13
| Title=A Mother's Love
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Vince R. Gutierrez
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|1|6}}
| ProdCode =7964
| Aux4=17.4/26{{cite news|date=January 13, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305977792}}}}
| ShortSummary=To fulfill a promise to their dying mother, four brothers go on the run from a court order that would split them up.
Guest Stars: Byron Thames, Doreen Lang
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=88
| EpisodeNumber2=14
| Title=Country Doctor
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|1|13}}
| ProdCode =7953
| Aux4=16.2/24{{cite news|date=January 20, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|306006998}}}}
| ShortSummary=A country doctor is working himself to death.
Guest Star: Roscoe Lee Browne
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=89
| EpisodeNumber2=15
| Title=Time in a Bottle
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Parke Perine
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|1|20}}
| ProdCode =7965
| Aux4=16.9/26{{cite news|date=January 27, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305976622}}}}
| ShortSummary=A lawyer who's hit rock bottom agrees to defend his friend, another homeless man who's charged with robbing a liquor store.
Guest Star: Alan Fudge
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=90
| EpisodeNumber2=16
| Title=Back to Oakland
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=David Thoreau
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|2|3}}
| ProdCode =7967
| Aux4=15.5/24{{cite news|date=February 10, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|306006081}}}}
| ShortSummary=The old saying "You can't go home again" may prove true when Mark returns to his old beat, which has become a racist storm.
Guest Star: Eugene Jackson
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=91
| EpisodeNumber2=17
| Title=We Have Forever: Part 1
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|2|10}}
| ProdCode =7966
| Aux4=15.8/24{{cite news|date=February 17, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|306012742}}}}
| ShortSummary=After his widow's death, Jonathan hopes to be reunited with her in Heaven, but when his request is refused he rebels and is stripped of his divine powers.
Guest Star: Dorothy McGuire
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=92
| EpisodeNumber2=18
| Title=We Have Forever: Part 2
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|2|17}}
| ProdCode =7968
| Aux4=16.8/26{{cite news|date=February 24, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305993630}}}}
| ShortSummary=After turning his back on everyone and everything, a now-human and embittered Jonathan is offered shelter and help from a young woman.
Guest Star: Leann Hunley
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=93
| EpisodeNumber2=19
| Title=The Correspondent
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Lan O'Kun
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|2|24}}
| ProdCode =7969
| Aux4=14.0/21{{cite news|date=March 2, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|306042747}}}}
| ShortSummary=A correspondent about to be executed by revolutionaries somewhere in South America is shown what he's missed and lost by putting work ahead of his family.
Guest Stars: Will Estes, Darren McGavin
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=94
| EpisodeNumber2=20
| Title=Aloha
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Parke Perine
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|3|2}}
| ProdCode =7970
| Aux4=12.8/19{{cite news|date=March 9, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|306024044}}}}
| ShortSummary=A Hawaiian singer learns to overcome self-pity and pride when she's injured in a truck accident.
Guest Star: Hartley Silver
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=95
| EpisodeNumber2=21
| Title=A Dolphin Song for Lee: Part 1
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|3|16}}
| ProdCode =7971
| Aux4=14.4/23{{cite news|date=March 23, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|306010273}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark help a teenage cancer patient save the dolphins.
Guest Star: Christine Healy
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=96
| EpisodeNumber2=22
| Title=A Dolphin Song for Lee: Part 2
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Dan Gordon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|3|23}}
| ProdCode =7972
| Aux4=14.0/23{{cite news|date=March 30, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|305993024}}}}
| ShortSummary=After Lee's operation, she continues her save-the-dolphins campaign.
Guest Star: Natalie Gregory
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=97
| EpisodeNumber2=23
| Title=Heaven Nose, Mister Smith
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Lan O'Kun
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|3|30}}
| ProdCode =7973
| Aux4=13.8/22{{cite news|date=April 6, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|306060935}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan is dispatched to stop an angel from breaking up his son's marriage and receives help from an unexpected source.
Guest Stars: Bob Hope, Bill Macy, John Pleshette
| LineColor=473e73
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=98
| EpisodeNumber2=24
| Title=The Whole Nine Yards
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=David Chomsky
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|4|27}}
| ProdCode =7974
| Aux4=13.8/23{{cite news|date=May 4, 1988|title=Nielsen ratings|department=Life|work=USA Today|page=3D|id={{ProQuest|306041364}}}}
| ShortSummary=Jonathan and Mark enable a female wide receiver to play for a junior-high football team.
Guest Stars: Chad Allen, Dinah Lacey, Beau Starr
| LineColor=473e73
}}
}}
= Season 5 (1988–89) =
Season 5 was filmed from August to December 1988. Only the first three episodes aired that year, with episode 4 airing in March 1989, and the last nine episodes airing later that summer. Many of the episodes this season were released posthumously after the death of Victor French on June 15, 1989, with the last episode airing on August 4 of that year.
{{Episode table
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|overall=2
|season=2
|title=24
|writer=18
|director=16
|airdate=16
|viewers=
|aux4=10
|country=U.S.
|aux4T=Rating/share
(households)
|prodcode=7
|episodes=
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=99
| EpisodeNumber2=1
| Title=Whose Trash Is It Anyway?
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=David Thoreau
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|10|12}}
| Viewers=16.5{{cite news |date=October 19, 1988 |title=Nielsen ratings |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306123175}}}}
| ProdCode =8001
| ShortSummary=Mark's friend Pete Nelson is running for mayor against a ruthless opponent. Jealousy prompts the mayor's son to plant drugs in the locker of Pete's son Jeff, creating scandal. Mark sets out to clear Jeff's name.
Guest Star: David Spielberg
| LineColor=154314
}}
{{Episode list
| NumParts= 2
| EpisodeNumber_1=100
| EpisodeNumber_2=101
| EpisodeNumber2_1=2
| EpisodeNumber2_2=3
| Title=Hello and Farewell
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Vince R. Gutierrez
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1988|12|7}}
| Viewers=16.7{{cite news |date=December 14, 1988 |title=Nielsen ratings |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306143538}}}}
| ProdCode_1 =8003
| ProdCode_2 =8004
| ShortSummary=A nurse is still reeling from the Vietnam War and a 17-year-old discovers he is adopted. Kim goes to a veterans' counseling group and Jonathan consoles Major Hastings about his son.
Guest Star: Matthew Perry
- Originally shown as a feature-length episode, which was later cut into two separate episodes for syndication.
| LineColor=154314
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=102
| EpisodeNumber2=4
| Title=The Silent Bell
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Parke Perine
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1989|3|21}}
| Viewers=18.4{{cite news |date=March 29, 1989 |title=A 'Brewster' boost for ABC |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306173300}}}}
| ProdCode = 8005
| ShortSummary=A church council decision that Christianity must be taught in a multi-ethnic school causes major upheaval among the staff and students at the school.
Guest Stars: Mimi Kuzyk, Dennis Lipscomb
| LineColor=154314
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=103
| EpisodeNumber2=5
| Title=The Reunion
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=David Ketchum and Tony DiMarco
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1989|6|2}}
| Viewers=10.7{{cite news |date=June 7, 1989 |title=Network specials sputter |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306209444}}}}
| ProdCode =8011
| ShortSummary=Mark goes to his high school reunion where some of his friends' memories prove to be bittersweet.
Guest Stars: Jesse Henecke, Lloyd Bochner, Eve Brent
| LineColor=154314
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=104
| EpisodeNumber2=6
| Title=The Source
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Elaine Newman and Ed Burnham
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1989|6|9}}
| Viewers=10.4{{cite news |date=June 14, 1989 |title=Reruns top new contenders |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306213120}}}}
| ProdCode =8007
| ShortSummary=A teenage girl tells two high school reporters (one of whom is the principal's son) that a school bus driver was coming on to her just before an accident. The story is published without verifying the facts, thus wrecking the driver's reputation and his career.
Guest Star: Michele Scarabelli
| LineColor=154314
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=105
| EpisodeNumber2=7
| Title=The Squeaky Wheel
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Paul W. Cooper
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1989|6|16}}
| Viewers=10.1{{cite news |date=June 21, 1989 |title=NBC caps a year at the top |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306210130}}}}
| ProdCode =8009
| ShortSummary=Following a false fire alarm, a double amputee joins a crusade for the handicapped.
Guest Star: Mary Pat Gleason
| LineColor=154314
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=106
| EpisodeNumber2=8
| Title=Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Jerry Winnick
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1989|6|23}}
| Viewers=10.1{{cite news |date=June 28, 1989 |title='Right' courts few viewers |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306211385}}}}
| ProdCode =8008
| ShortSummary=A beloved teacher is forced to retire because of his age. Jonathan and Mark rally his students and the teaching staff against the school board in an effort to prevent the enforced retirement.
Guest Stars: Brian Krause, Lew Ayres
| LineColor=154314
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=107
| EpisodeNumber2=9
| Title=Choices
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Parke Perine
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1989|6|30}}
| Viewers=11.4{{cite news |date=July 7, 1989 |title=A summer holiday shuffle |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306227507}}}}
| ProdCode =8012
| ShortSummary=A Vietnamese couple come to America to find their sons after ten years of being separated. Jonathan and Mark help them achieve their goal, inadvertently tearing apart the sons' adoptive family when the elder son feels morally obligated to return to Vietnam with his biological parents.
Guest Star: Haing S. Ngor
| LineColor=154314
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=108
| EpisodeNumber2=10
| Title=Summer Camp
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Jodie Lewis|s=Tom Sullivan}}
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1989|7|14}}
| Viewers=11.2{{cite news |date=July 19, 1989 |title='All-Star Game' is a smash |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306215429}}}}
| ProdCode = 8002
| ShortSummary=After being scarred for life in a fire, an actress/model takes a counseling job at a camp for blind children run by sightless athlete Frank Riley (last seen in "All the Colors of the Heart"). Meanwhile, a reluctant philanthropist's bigotry threatens the growing friendship between his son (who can see) and a fellow camper (who can't).
Guest Stars: Priscilla Barnes, Tom Sullivan
| LineColor=154314
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=109
| EpisodeNumber2=11
| Title=The Inner Limits
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Lan O'Kun
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1989|7|21}}
| Viewers=10.9{{cite news |date=July 26, 1989 |title=Fox finally finds a top spot |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306211572}}}}
| ProdCode =8006
| ShortSummary=Hoping to overcome his mother's insistence that his paralyzed brother is fully aware and get him the institutional care he needs, a young man consults a doctor, only to be advised that his brother is not only fully aware but capable of communication.
Guest Star: Julianna McCarthy
| LineColor=154314
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=110
| EpisodeNumber2=12
| Title=It's a Dog's Life
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Parke Perine
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1989|7|28}}
| Viewers=10.1{{cite news |date=August 2, 1989 |title=Fox in 'Married' bliss Sunday |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306234816}}}}
| ProdCode =8010
| ShortSummary=After complaining that Jonathan's angelic powers give him an unfair advantage, Mark thinks Jonathan has been turned into a dog as he deals with a runaway kid and his ditzy parents.
Guest Star: Kimberley Conrad
| LineColor=154314
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=111
| EpisodeNumber2=13
| Title=Merry Christmas from Grandpa
| DirectedBy=Michael Landon
| WrittenBy=Michael Landon
| OriginalAirDate={{start date|1989|8|4}}
| Viewers=10.5{{cite news |date=August 9, 1989 |title=ABC bottoms out after top 4 |department=Life |work=USA Today |page=3D |id={{ProQuest|306233685}}}}
| ProdCode =8013
| ShortSummary=On Christmas Eve, Jonathan presents a future ravaged by pollution to three different people: a tycoon, a farmer and the President of the United States.
Guest Star: Harriet Sansom Harris
| LineColor=154314
}}
}}
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