Episode

Highway to Heaven: The Brightest Star

Name: Highway to Heaven: The Brightest Star
Released: 1985-03-06
Duration: 45 min
Cast: Michael Landon, Victor French, Brandon Bluhm, Georgia Schmidt, Dorothy McGuire

Highway to HeavenSeason 11985-03-06

Overview

Jonathan and Mark return a runaway child star to her ambitious mother and alcoholic father.

Details

Series: Highway to Heaven
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 21
Air date: 1985-03-06
Runtime: 45 min

Episode context

The Brightest Star is Episode 21 in Season 1 of Highway to Heaven. It aired on 1985-03-06. The runtime is 45 min.

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Episode 22: An Investment in Caring 1985-03-13 | 45 min Jonathan comes to the aid of a neighborhood threatened by a corporate takeover.

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Episode 19: A Match Made in Heaven 1985-02-20 | 45 min Jonathan's friend Scotty, a quadriplegic, wonders if his relationship with a woman can succeed.

Episode 23: The Right Thing 1985-03-27 | 45 min Already depressed by his wife's death, an elderly man loses interest in life when he's put in a rest home by his daughter-in-law.

Episode 18: A Child of God 1985-02-06 | 45 min A young mother has two crosses to bear: a terminal illness and a minister father who's shunning his daughter and her illegitimate child.

Episode 24: Thoroughbreds (1) 1985-05-01 | 45 min On a horse-breeding farm, competition develops into attraction between a trainer's daughter and the spoiled son of the owner.

Episode 17: As Difficult as ABC 1985-01-30 | 45 min The future looks bleak for an illiterate basketball star who loses his scholarship because of a heart condition.

Episode 25: Thoroughbreds (2) 1985-05-08 | 45 min Garth and Lizzy elope to an undisclosed location, unaware that Lizzy has cancer and needs immediate treatment.

Episode 16: Going Home, Going Home 1985-01-23 | 45 min An auto accident renders Mark unconscious---and takes him back to the time his grandfather was about to lose his ranch.

Episode 15: One Winged Angels 1985-01-16 | 45 min Jonathan finds that even angels aren't above falling in love when he's assigned to help an attractive divorcée and her rebellious son.

Episode 14: Plane Death 1985-01-09 | 45 min Mark's old buddy, now working a border drug-enforcement detail, disappears after discovering the cargo in a large model airplane.

Episode 13: Another Song for Christmas 1984-12-19 | 45 min Jonathan and Mark have a dickens of a time instilling the Christmas spirit in a heartless used-car salesman.