Episode
Touched by an Angel: What Are Friends For?
Overview
Monica helps a mayoral candidate make a decision about her friendship with an old college chum, a teacher charged with sexual misconduct with a minor.
Details
- Series
- Touched by an Angel
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1998-10-04
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
What Are Friends For? is Episode 3 in Season 5 of Touched by an Angel. It aired on 1998-10-04. The runtime is 48 min.
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A Little League player, whose overbearing father is also his team's coach, befriends an equipment manager whose peculiar behavior repels others.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: Miles to Go Before I Sleep
The angels make good on a promise that Andrew made to a dying man---which involves uncovering the identity of a hospital employee posing as the angel of death, as well as restoring the faith of several terminal patients.
Episode 5: The Lady of the Lake
Monica runs a bait and tackle shop on Lake Paradise, and is tasked with revitalizing both the lake and the faith of a progress-driven land developer.
Episode 6: Beautiful Dreamer
Tess, posing as a schoolteacher, tries to help a child who wants to become a hit man by telling him the story of Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth.
Episode 7: I Do
A widow who wants her son taken off life support clashes with his fiancée, who argues that her beloved would want to live.
Episode 8: The Wind Beneath Our Wings
Tess and Monica help a mother and daughter whose dependence on each other is keeping them from realizing their full potential.
Episode 9: Psalm 151
Among a dying 8-year-old's last wishes is that his mother, a jingle writer, finish a song she started soon after he was born.
Episode 10: The Peacemaker
A couple who stayed married to help their son kick his drug habit are aided by the angels in dealing with a loss that threatens to end their union for good.
Episode 11: An Angel on the Roof
Rafael joins the angels as they try to unite a group of disparate individuals in rural Texas, including a biased motel owner to whom God is sending a Christmas miracle.
Episode 12: Fool For Love
A lawyer learns the outcome of a heart-wrenching moment from her past after a former boyfriend is brought in as a suspect in an armed robbery.
Episode 13: The Medium and the Message
Monica tries to persuade a TV executive, whose network philosophy is “big, better, absolutely shocking,” to consider backing a series about angels.