Episode
Touched by an Angel: Smokescreen
Overview
Tess represents a group of former employees in a class-action suit against family-owned Fairchild Tobacco. Her opposing counsel is Marc Hamilton, who has accepted this assignment to the dismay of his mother, Esther. When he was growing up, both she and his late father worked for Fairchild as a maid and a chauffer.
Details
- Series
- Touched by an Angel
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1997-01-19
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Smokescreen is Episode 15 in Season 3 of Touched by an Angel. It aired on 1997-01-19. The runtime is 48 min.
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Episode 14: Forget Me Not
Sara Perkins rebels against her over protective mother by hiring Monica as her new photography assistant. Though the angel understands that the woman has covertly taken a freelance assignment to Bosnia, Tess, a volunteer helping Charlotte at the public library, thinks Sara's actions are inconsiderate.
Episode 16: Crisis of Faith
After a near-fatal car collision, Reverend Daniel learns that the accident caused his son's death. Wrapped in a cocoon of guilt, the Reverend shuts himself off from all loved ones, unable to attend the funeral. Monica must convince Daniel to forgive himself and rededicated himself to helping others.
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Episode 18: Clipped Wings
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Episode 11: Homecoming (I)
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The crossover continues on Promised Land S01E09 Homecoming (II).
Episode 19: Amazing Grace (I)
Tess revisits the Greenes. She tells them God says Josh needs to go with Tess. Josh has to help Monica see, since she is temporarily blinded. They travel to a city filled with tension.
The crossover continues on Promised Land S01E17 Amazing Grace (II).
Episode 10: Into the Light
After a near-death experience du to a heart attack, criminal James Block realizes he must change his ways and initiates a campaign of goods works. Neither Tess nor Monica are impressed, however, with his apparent change of heart, especially when they realize he records his good deeds. James finds a kindred spirit in Amy Ann McCoy, a teenage Elvis Presley fan with cystic fibrosis.
Episode 20: Labor of Love
Meg Salter, a New York pediatrician, decides to surprise her husband by boarding his flight to Paris. On the plane she discovers her husband Brian is accompanied by his eight-months-pregnant mistress Olivia. As the plane heads into a storm, an already tense situation gets worse when Olivia goes into labor.
Episode 9: Something Blue
Tess, Monica, and Andrew are coordinating the wedding of a young couple. The arrival of the bride's estranged father causes her to have second thoughts about the nuptials.
Episode 21: Have You Seen Me?
Hank sees a picture of a missing child on a milk carton and realizes it is his younger brother. Monica helps him find out he was adopted. Tess and Andrew must help the real father and the lawyer who helped place the kidnapped boy.