Episode
Highway to Heaven: Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington
Overview
Jonathan persuades an influential United States senator to restore severe Congressional budget cuts dealing with health-care, but when the senator suffers a fatal heart attack on the Senate floor, the assignment seems doomed to failure.
Details
- Series
- Highway to Heaven
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1986-12-03
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington is Episode 11 in Season 3 of Highway to Heaven. It aired on 1986-12-03. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 10: Man to Man
Jonathan and Mark try to get a father and son to get to know each other again before Gary loses his father due to leukemia. Jonathan tries to make these tycoons live life to the fullest and not work so hard.
Episode 12: Oh Lucky Man
Mark plans to give a recent windfall to a boys' club. But first he must deal with some con artists.
More episodes from this season
Episode 9: Code Name: FREAK
Jonathan is tasked with being a college Professor to help a 12-year-old child prodigy be accepted as a college student.
Episode 13: Basinger's New York
It's Christmas time and Jonathan and Mark's assignment is to prove to a cynical reporter, who doesn't believe that there's any goodness in the world, that there is.
Episode 8: Love and Marriage (2)
Episode 14: All That Glitters
When a major fire threatens a neighborhood, Jonathan and Mark (in the guise of priests) re-open an abandoned church as a shelter, and one of the people who take shelter there is a hustler also disguised as a priest who has found a briefcase containing $1 million and needs a place to hide from the hoods who lost it
Episode 7: Love and Marriage (1)
Jonathan and Mark taken a couple back in time to help them understand what life would of been like had they not met each other 49 years earlier. Clarence and rose are about to divorce each other because they have fallen out of love.
Episode 15: Wally
Jonathan and Mark tag along with an elderly street puppeteer who's also an angel - but doesn't know it.
Episode 6: Love at Second Sight
Jonathan and Mark are on their way to their next assignment and meet another angel, Ted, whom Jonathan knows, and they both arrive at their destination. When Ted learns that the subject of his mission is his wife Laura and that it involves pairing her with a guy named Roy; not only does he refuse to do it but he sabotages any chances Roy may have had with her. He then romances her himself but Jonathan steps in and shows what damage he has done and so to fix, he starts acting like a jerk which inspires Roy to tell him to leave Laura alone and their romance begins.
Episode 16: A Song of Songs
James Earl Jones stars as Gabe Wilson, an old friend of Mark's and down-and-out jazz pianist who tries to re-build his life after suffering a heart attack.
Gabe reconnects with an old flame named Ellie, a God-fearing widow who is having problems trying to relate to her daughter, Vanessa, the vocalist in a rock band. When Gabe tries to encourage Vanessa to pursue her dreams, he unwittingly strains the not-so-harmonious mother-daughter relationship even more.
After Vanessa runs away without leaving a note, Ellie lashes out at Gabe, telling him that God made him blind to make him pay for his sins (he had become blind after a drunk driver struck his vehicle years earlier).
It is up to Jonathan to reunite Ellie and Vanessa and set them both straight.
Episode 5: That's Our Dad
Bill Cassidy is a model TV dad of the hit series, ""That's Our Dad, a show known for its closing (where he ""adopts"" two orphaned children at the end of each show).
At least on-screen Cassidy is the model TV dad. Off the set is a little different story. Bill is an egotistical jerk who verbally abuses his co-stars and crew members ... and even the children he was said to have adopted.
His off-screen attitude is put to the test when two orphans, who happen to be fans of ""That's Our Dad,"" and especially Bill Cassidy. The two track down Bill and ask if he'd consider adopting them ... especially because they have taken the closing segments to heart.
When Bill refuses to speak to them, and later tells them to get lost, the children enlist Jonathan and Mark's help in talking with Bill and setting his attitude straight.
Episode 17: A Night to Remember