Highway to Heaven

Highway to Heaven
Genre	Fantasy Family drama
Created by	Michael Landon
Directed by	Michael Landon Victor French Dan Gordon William F. Claxton
Starring	Michael Landon Victor French
Composer	David Rose
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	111 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Michael Landon
Producer	Kent McCray
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	48–49 minutes
Production company	Michael Landon Productions
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 19, 1984 (1984-09-19) – August 4, 1989 (1989-08-04)
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Highway to Heaven is an American fantasy drama television series that ran on NBC from September 19, 1984, to August 4, 1989.^[1] The series starred its creator and co-director Michael Landon as Jonathan Smith, an angel sent to Earth in order to help people in need. Victor French, Landon's co-star from his previous television series, Little House on the Prairie, co-starred as Mark Gordon, a retired policeman who travels with and helps Smith with the tasks or "assignments" to which he is referred. The series was created by Landon, who was the executive producer and also directed most of the show's episodes. French directed many of the remaining episodes. It was Landon's third and final TV series and his only one set in the present day, unlike Little House on the Prairie, and Landon's first TV series, Bonanza, both of which were Westerns. It was the final screen appearance for French, who died two months before the final episode aired, aged 54 years old; Landon went on to appear in two films, one of which was a pilot for a new series, prior to his own death at 54 in 1991.

Highway to Heaven aired for five seasons, running a total of 111 episodes.^[2] It consistently earned respectable ratings; it was in the Nielsen Top 20 in its first season,^[3] and ranked in the Top 40 for its first four seasons.