Episode

Highway to Heaven: Merry Christmas from Grandpa

Name: Highway to Heaven: Merry Christmas from Grandpa
Released: 1989-08-04
Duration: 45 min
Cast: Michael Landon, Victor French, Brandon Bluhm, Georgia Schmidt, Dorothy McGuire

Highway to HeavenSeason 51989-08-04

Overview

On Christmas Eve, Jonathan allows three powerful people to foresee the consequences of their actions: an energy magnate, a farmer and the President.

Details

Series: Highway to Heaven
Season: Season 5
Episode: Episode 13
Air date: 1989-08-04
Runtime: 45 min

Episode context

Merry Christmas from Grandpa is Episode 13 in Season 5 of Highway to Heaven. It aired on 1989-08-04. The runtime is 45 min.

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Episode 10: Summer Camp 1989-07-14 | 45 min To help Mary Anders forget that she was scar and a fire Jonathan and Mark are arranged for her to work at a summer camp for the blind. Soon one of the counselors named Frank Reilly the keenest to suspect who she really is. He begins to fall in love with her later because her identity is known Mary Andrews decides to pose for a tabloid magazine that will show the burns she suffered.

Episode 9: Choices 1989-06-30 | 45 min A Vietnamese couple has come back to the states from Singapore to try and take their sons back. Mr. and Mrs.Trong find it somewhat difficult to be able to just take their sons back after 12 years of living in America. The Hawkins were led to believe that Mr. and Mrs.Trong died in an internment camp 12 years ago but soon learn that the Vietnamese couple did survive and have come back to have a promise fulfilled nearly 12 years ago. Jonathan Mark must see if they can let the boys stay in the United States with the Hawkins and released from a promise made 12 years ago.

Episode 8: Goodbye, Mr. Zelinka 1989-06-23 | 45 min Mr. Zelinka is a beloved teacher who is forced to retire because he has reached the retirement age of 70. The school board president feels that he's teaching responsibilities are too much for him. The students of Lincoln High School plan a birthday party and retirement party as well. They feel their efforts go down hill when their teacher doesn't want to attend the party because of the retirement notice he received. The students gathered together to form a petition to stop their teacher from retiring but face a big battle when they try to present their petition before the president of the school board who has no intention of changing his mind or listening to what the students have to say.

Episode 7: The Squeaky Wheel 1989-06-16 | 45 min Wayne seacrest is suddenly fired from his job as a computer programmer because the left on the bus breaks down. Jonathan and Mark asked for Wayne's assistance in getting better access to places for handicapped people. Wayne attends a ribbon cutting ceremony and uses the occasion to put people on notice about building ramps and widening bathroom stalls for handicapped people.

Episode 6: The Source 1989-06-09 | 45 min Jonathan tries two teach two kids the right way to report a story. But after a bus accident Diane Nichols gets the bus driver in big trouble because she was angry that he was married. The two kids see the opportunity to report the story incorrectly leading to the bus driver losing his job.

Episode 5: The Reunion 1989-06-02 | 45 min Mark Gordon attends is there any five-year class reunion only to learn that it's not what he expected. An older actor uses the reunion as a press event get his career started again only to be told he isn't needed anymore. Also the prom queen feels out of place at the reunion because she's changed too much.

Episode 4: The Silent Bell 1989-03-21 | 45 min A pastor must follow a church council's decision to fire most of the staff at the school because they're not Christian.

Episode 3: Hello and Farewell (2) 1988-12-07 | 45 min Commander Michaels continues to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder she also discovers she has son who came in to the emergency room do to a motorcycle accident. David wants to meet his biological mother but makes his adoptive parents worry about the meeting.

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