History Series / HighwayToHeaven

* NiceHat: Mark wears an Oakland Athletics baseball cap.

* RealityEnsues: In "Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind", Jonathan and Mark come across a crater made by a meteor. All that's left of the meteor, however, is a tiny piece.

* TheTrickster: Jonathan loves messing with Mark by being a SmugSuper. He rarely goes into full-out {{Troll}} territory, though.

* MultipleGunshotDeath: In an episode notably devoid of violence (unlike Michael Landon's other series), there were a couple of instances. The most notable of this very-rarely invoked trope comes in Season 2'S "The Torch," an episode where a Holocaust survivor's son is killed when he is shot several times by Neo-Nazis. Later, the instigator of the attack and his right-hand henchman are killed in the former's basement when his son accidentally sets off a Gatling gun (which the Neo-Nazis were planning to use at a peace rally).

Sadly, this was also Michael Landon's final production during his lifetime, as he became wrought with a fatal progressive pancreatic cancer brought on by smoking and stress. Some of the stories in the series deal with a not-so-subtle acknowledgment of this mortality and parallel Landon's acceptance of his impending death.

* RealityEnsues: Not every {{Jerkass}} can make a HeelFaceTurn. Sometimes they'll remain {{Jerkass}}es, even after an angelic influence. [[AnAesop But that shouldn't stop you from trying, and doing your best.]]

* YouLookFamiliar: in one episode, [[Series/{{Bonanza}} Pa Cartwright]] is an old actor who swears he saw God in the audience of his play.
** Much LampshadeHanging is done in "I Was A Middle-Aged Werewolf" regarding how much the actor in ''Film/IWasATeenageWerewolf'' looks like Jonathan. Jonathan, naturally, is skeptical of this.

* ValuesResonance: Most if not all of the themes it tackles, such as drug abuse, parental neglect, prejudice (especially racial) and school bullying, are still incredibly relevant today.

** Another, frequent one is that, while ThePowerOfLOve won't solve every problem, it'll make those problems a lot easier to deal with.
* BadassPacifist: Jonathan, who never goes farther than pushing or throwing someone-and that's only arrogant who swing first. Occasionally, someone will punch or shoot him, and he'll usually just NoSell it.

* BadassPacifist: Jonathan, who never goes farther than pushing or throwing someone-and that's only arrogant who [[TheDogShotFirst swing first.]] Occasionally, someone will punch or shoot him, and he'll usually just NoSell it.

* TwistEnding: One episode featured a dog, named Boomer, that was desperate to get help for his family after they are trapped in their car after crashing in the woods. After the standard amount of drama, Boomer is finally able to lead Jonathan and Mark to the site of the crash. [[spoiler:When Jonathan mentions how Boomer helped lead the way, the father mentions that there's no way that could have happened; the dog was DeadAllAlong. Adding to the Wham factor is that Jonathan is as utterly shocked as Mark is; cut to the heavens where we see an angelic Boomer looking down on his owners.]]

* SlidingScaleofIdealismvsCynicism: played realistically, with plenty of cynics, but they're usually proven wrong. Jonathan himself is very idealistic, with Mark slightly less so.

* BadassPacifist: Jonathan, who never goes farther than pushing someone-and that's only arrogant who [[TheDogShotFirst swing first.]] Occasionally, someone will punch or shoot him, and he'll usually just NoSell it.

* HalloweenEpisode: One Halloween Mark makes a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with one of the Devil's minions]] to give up his soul in exchange for a sick child getting better, confident that his friend the angel can get him out of it before it is time to collect. Too bad angels and demons cancel each other out....

* SmugSuper: Jonathan occasionally likes to show off to Mark.

* HiddenDepths: Mark Gordon. He's an ex-cop, smarter than he sometimes seems, has (as of series 4 episode 3) delivered a baby three times, and travels around the country helping people.

* ValuesResonance: Most if not all of the themes it tackles, such as drug abuse, parental neglect, and school bullying, are still incredibly relevant today.

* BadassPacifist: Jonathan, who never goes farther than pushing someone-and that was an arrogant teenager who [[TheDogShotFirst swung first.]]