Episode
Highway to Heaven: Playing For Keeps
Overview
Jonathan tries to reunite a father and son who are a comedian and an actor, respectively together by getting to star in a community theatre play about an estranged father and son. But the comedian's antics drives his son mad.
Details
- Series
- Highway to Heaven
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 1987-11-04
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Playing For Keeps is Episode 6 in Season 4 of Highway to Heaven. It aired on 1987-11-04. The runtime is 45 min.
Previous / Next
Episode 5: I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf
During Halloween night, Jonathan helps a little boy get over his fears (and in the process get even with his older sister).
Episode 7: Amazing Man
Mark and Jonathon are sent to help a little boy overcome the sudden death of his father. Stevie deals with his grief through his favorite superhero, Amazing Man. Jonathon and Mark help his mother realize that grief is a normal reaction and help the family begin to heal.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: The People Next Door
The people next door the people of Mission Estates don't know that one of their own is hiding to secrets. Nine years ago Dr. Martin denied his wife, and his son of their heritage.
Anna Martinez lives across the street from her son and grandson Bobby Martin. He kept the secrets so he could live in Mission Estates. Mission Estates is an exclusive subdivision that "" allows the right kind of people "".
Episode 8: All the Colors of the Heart
Frank Reilly wants to get his sight back but soon realizes that the procedure the doctor wants to perform will do him no good. Meanwhile Scotty is just about to lose his sight and isn't sure what his future will be like without sight. Before he loses his sight he must learn to do things as a blind person would do.
Frank and Scott must help each other realize that even though both of their dreams are ending they still have their own futures to find.
Episode 3: Fight for Your Life
Jonathan and Mark train Morty to be a price-fighting boxer. His brother Jerry is hiding a dangerous secret from his brother. Jerry services as his brother's trainer/manager in hopes of figuring out how to pay off some debts.
Jerry that everything on someone who is already a prizefighter, while never having faith in his own brother.
Episode 9: Why Punish the Children?
Jonathan and Mark see if they can change reforms that only allow mothers in prison to see their kids behind a glass wall. Market and Jonathan have trouble convincing the warden that the present policy needs to change to allow mothers in prison to see their kids without a glass wall.
During the night one of the warden's children is scared and begins screaming for her father only to find out that the father can't touch his own child to comfort her.
Episode 2: Man's Best Friend (2)
Alex finally meets the family of his dreams, those dreams are soon shattered when the turners want to adopt Alex. Alex wants to take Jake with him but the Foster family lives in a place where dogs aren't allowed.
In order to make his dream come true Alex runs away with Jake back to the family he first fell in love with. Michele and Paul had been hoping to have a baby on their own but soon learn that adoption maybe their best option.
Episode 10: A Dream of Wild Horses
Jonathan and Mark are hired to help honor ranch. They must try to convince a grandfather that he is still needed and isn't too old to do anything just because he thinks he is.
Episode 1: Man's Best Friend (1)
Jenny's dog Jake runs away after chasing a cat. Jonathan and Mark find the dog and take him over to orphanage to help cheer up the kids.
Jonathan and Mark must try to get Alex to become active again. They use Jake and get him to play with the other kids. They soon learn that Alex is afraid that if he touches anything it will be taken away from him.
Episode 11: In With the 'In' Crowd
Denise Kelly is a cop going undercover to stop a drug ring at a local high school. Jonathan and Mark pose as counselors to see if they can find who is bringing cocaine to school.
Mark and Jonathan set up surveillance outside party between Denise and Mike to see if he knows anything about the cocaine.
When Mark and Jonathan later meet with a faculty of the high school they find out everyone isn't pleased with the tactics used in trying to figure out who is bringing the cocaine in to school. Mark learns he made a big mistake when the parents of one of the students asks him to play the tape between Denise and Mike he later learns that he stopped the tape because they weren't talking about drugs.
This mistake nearly costs Mark & Jonathan their jobs and almost costs Mark his life.
Episode 12: With Love, the Claus
It's Christmas time and Jonathan and Mark's latest assignment is to try and get two divorce parents who are still bickering and using their son as pawn against each other to stop and start being parents. They go and work for the father who is a lawyer. They bring their son to a department store and there the new store Santa is upset at the store for promoting toy guns, and when the boy tells Santa what he wants, he tells him that he can't be sure if he can give that. Later the store throws him out cause of his bellowing. He later goes back and is arrested, Jonathan offers to defend him, and the boys father sees this as an opportunity to get back at his wife who is the store's counsel. While in jail the Santa manages to lift the spirits of some of the people he meets there including one of the guards. Mark thinking that if he really is, ""the Claus"", why doesn't he just whisk himself out of here. But saying that it would not be a good message for the children says he won't, they will hav
Episode 13: A Mother's Love
Four boys whose parents just died recently are informed by the social worker assigned to their case, that the younger children will be placed in different foster homes. The elder brother decides to take them away and take care of them himself; he will find a job while the others go school.