User Reviews

This episode is over 35 years old and I have seen it countless times, but every time that kid touches the moon, I tear up like I am at a funeral.

To say this episode is the best would sell it short. It is a story of love, of a mother & child, of essential kindness onto others, & the will to allow love into your heart. And it is honest & unflinching in that. It brought me to tears for both its sadness and its beauty.

More so than even the pilot does this episode show you what is so timeless about Highway to Heaven. What is great about it. Yes it is of its time 1984, yes maybe in ways culture & demographics have changed. But what hasn't changed? We are all human. Full of pain, fear, and love and the hope of love. How kind love can be, to let others in to your heart & to your life.

Maybe Johnathan Smith the Angel bringing a little kindness is cliche, its too earnest. But that honest to God earnestness in kindness is what makes these stories work & the story of To Touch the Moon one of the best episodes of television I've ever watched. I was in tears by episodes end.

Never let this show be forgotten. Never forget to love.

I cried all through this episode I recently watched, decades after it first aired. I just started watching "Highway To Heaven" recently as it's being aired on the Hallmark channel. I never got to watch all the episodes when they originally aired. This story was beautifully told and acted. It's so hard to write a story about the impending death of a child in a semi-realistic way. It had a point of view both from the mother and child that you don't see in today's writing. Absent of all the tech we have today, it concentrates on the simple joys of life that we once all had before tech. This episode made me really think about the value of time and the quality of the time we spend with loved ones. It made me more appreciative of the choice to forego a career for 20 years and devote the majority of that time to raising a family. I wish more series today were written this well and Michael Landon was a treasure - wish he had lived longer.