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Highway To Heaven
1984-9
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Angel: Jonathan Smith (Michael Landon)
Wings? Nah, he was still earning them
Five seasons of heart-warming sentimentality about an on-probation angel, doing nice things for people so he can earn his wings. You have to wonder about the morality of this. If he knows he’s doing good only so he can be a proper angel, is he really being good, or is he being self-serving? But theological disputes such as this didn’t matter to its (primarily female) audience, who liked Jonathan because he was played by that nice chap from Little House On The Prairie .
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