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As Difficult as ABC

S1 : E17

TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 01.30.85

Jonathan steps in when a heart condition sidelines a promising basketball player's dreams.

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A probationary angel, sent back to Earth, teams with an ex-cop to help people.

Cast

Michael Landon, Victor French, James Troesh

Executive Producers

Michael Landon

full-episodes (25)

Pilot: Part 1

S1 : E1 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 09.19.84

In the series opener, we meet Jonathan Smith, an angel who has been sent to help people on Earth. For his first assignment, he befriends residents at a retirement home.
Pilot: Part 2

S1 : E2 | TV-PG | 51 min | Aired: 09.19.84

Jonathan helps the residents of Havencrest, when they learn that the retirement home is going to be sold. Jonathan must reveal his real identity to Mark in order to complete the assignment.
To Touch the Moon

S1 : E3 | TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 09.26.84

Jonathan helps a terminally ill boy and his mother. Meanwhile, Mark deals with a thief abandoned by his folks.
The Return of the Masked Rider

S1 : E4 | TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 10.03.84

Jonathan and Mark help aging movie heroes to stand up to a street gang known as Satan's Helpers. They persuade a young boxer not to throw a big fight when the gang tries to bully him.
Song of the Wild West

S1 : E5 | TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 10.17.84

Jonathan and Mark assist a young country singer who is hoping to follow in her mother's footsteps. Next, they help a widow mourning her late husband.
One Fresh Batch of Lemonade: Part 1

S1 : E6 | TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 10.24.84

Jonathan must find a way to help Deke, a college football star whose dreams of reaching the pros are shattered by a tragic motorcycle accident.
One Fresh Batch of Lemonade: Part 2

S1 : E7 | TV-PG | 46 min | Aired: 10.31.84

Jonathan enlists the aid of a gymnast to rehabilitate Deke. Meanwhile, Deke's parents have been deeply affected by the accident.
A Divine Madness

S1 : E8 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 11.07.84

A construction company tycoon now believes he's King Arthur, and his estranged son determines to have him declared incompetent. Can Jonathan work a reconciliation?
Catch a Falling Star

S1 : E9 | TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 11.14.84

Jonathan and Mark have been hired to look after the kids of a movie star who never has tome to spend with his family.
Help Wanted: Angel

S1 : E10 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 11.21.84

An elderly scriptwriter needs someone to bankroll his movie. Meanwhile, Mark has fallen in love with an attractive woman, but Jonathan receives news about her from higher up.
Dust Child

S1 : E11 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 11.28.84

Jonathan and Mark must help an Amerasian girl facing racial prejudice when she goes to live with her father's family in the United States.
Hotel of Dreams

S1 : E12 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 12.12.84

Jonathan and Mark are bellhops at a hotel that has been given to an aimless young man by his father. They must deal with an unkind boss, an obnoxious kid and a difficult guest.
Another Song for Christmas

S1 : E13 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 12.19.84

Jonathan and Mark try to help a heartless used-car salesman reconsider his actions on Christmas Eve.
Plane Death

S1 : E14 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 01.09.85

Jonathan and Mark investigate a gang of drug smugglers after an old friend of Mark's has mysteriously disappeared.
One Winged Angels

S1 : E15 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 01.16.85

Jonathan attempts to fan the flames of love between a woman and her ex-husband's best friend. But his efforts backfire when he falls for the woman himself.
Going Home, Going Home

S1 : E16 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 01.23.85

Mark is in a state between life and death when he's critically injured in a car accident. Jonathan takes Mark back to childhood to give him a second chance to tell his grandfather how much he loves him.
As Difficult as ABC

S1 : E17 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 01.30.85

Jonathan steps in when a heart condition sidelines a promising basketball player's dreams.
A Child of God

S1 : E18 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 02.06.85

Jonathan and Mark are on hand when a dying woman attempts a reconciliation with her estranged father. She is a single mother who wants her family to take the child.
A Match Made in Heaven

S1 : E19 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 02.20.85

Scotty is a lovelorn quadriplegic with a successful law practice. Jonathan is happy to play Cupid, but Mark isn't so thrilled about it, because the woman in question is his cousin.
The Banker and the Bum

S1 : E20 | TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 02.27.85

A greedy banker and a good-hearted bum switch places. The bum dies, but the banker is now infused with love and generosity.
The Brightest Star

S1 : E21 | TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 03.06.85

Jonathan and Mark meet a child star whose fame is spoiling her rotten, destroying her family and taking away her childhood.
An Investment in Caring

S1 : E22 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 03.13.85

Jonathan encourages residents in a neighborhood to unite against a cold-hearted developer.
The Right Thing

S1 : E23 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 03.27.85

Jonathan inspires a young man to help the grandfather who has recently been placed in a nursing home.
Thoroughbreds: Part 1

S1 : E24 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 05.01.85

Lizzy MacGill is a horse trainer's young daughter who elopes with Garth Armstrong, a privileged man.
Thoroughbreds: Part 2

S1 : E25 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 05.08.85

Jonathan and Mark try to help Lizzie. The new bride has cancer…and she's pregnant.
A Song for Jason: Part 1

S2 : E1 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 09.18.85

Mark and Jonathan become counselors at a camp for children with cancer.
A Song for Jason: Part 2

S2 : E2 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 09.25.85

Jonathan and Mark are helping patients at Camp Good Times in different ways. But a father still refuses to deal with his son's illness.
Bless the Boys in Blue

S2 : E3 | TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 10.02.85

Jonathan relinquishes his angelic powers for a while and realizes the dangers that Mark has faced being a police officer.
Cindy

S2 : E4 | TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 10.23.85

An aspiring actress wants to be accepted for who she really is, not in the image her well-meaning dad tries to transform her into.
The Devil and Jonathan Smith

S2 : E5 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 10.30.85

Mark has been tricked into selling his soul in order to save a little girl's life. But the Devil has another agenda: acquiring Jonathan's soul.
Birds of a Feather

S2 : E6 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 11.06.85

Factory workers ignore ground water contamination, even though it is making their children sick. As a result, Jonathan takes drastic measures to force them to face the facts.
Popcorn, Peanuts and Crackerjacks

S2 : E7 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 11.13.85

A minor-league baseball team never wins, so Jonathan and Mark set out to help them. They also come to the aid of an elderly vendor who has been kicked out of the stadium.
The Smile in the Third Row

S2 : E8 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 11.20.85

The lead actor in a Broadway play claims that God is attending the show's performances, sitting in a third-row orchestra seat.
The Secret

S2 : E9 | TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 11.27.85

The teenage daughter of Mark's friend tries to find her biological mother. It may tear the family apart.
The Monster: Part 1

S2 : E10 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 12.04.85

Jonathan and Mark connect a young blind woman with a disfigured artist.
The Monster: Part 2

S2 : E11 | TV-PG | 51 min | Aired: 12.11.85

Jonathan and Mark's friend Scotty is on hand to provide legal assistance. He defends the young artist with a facial deformity who has been accused of assaulting a blind girl.
The Good Doctor

S2 : E12 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 12.18.85

Jonathan and Mark go to work at a football team. They learn that one of the players has been getting drugs from the team doctor.
Alone

S2 : E13 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 01.08.86

A homeless boy wishes that someone would love him.
Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind

S2 : E14 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 01.15.86

Jonathan and Mark help a bullied orphan whose eccentric grandfather is in danger of losing him to a heartless social worker.
Change of Life

S2 : E15 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 01.29.86

Mark switches places with an attractive movie star who has a low opinion of men.
Keep Smiling

S2 : E16 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 02.05.86

Jonathan must help his own widow regain her love for life.
The Last Assignment

S2 : E17 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 02.12.86

An errant angel has been on probation for two centuries because he's always breaking the rules.
To Bind the Wounds

S2 : E18 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 02.19.86

A father attempts to have a memorial made to commemorate his son who was killed in Vietnam.
Heaven on Earth

S2 : E19 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 02.26.86

Mark asks Jonathan to help erase everything bad that's happened to him recently. Mark's idea is to create his own vision of heaven on Earth.
Summit

S2 : E20 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 03.05.86

A dying woman was forced to leave a son behind in the Soviet Union during World War II.
The Torch

S2 : E21 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 03.12.86

Tragedy occurs when a neo-Nazi disputes the Holocaust with the son of a death camp survivor.
Sail Away

S2 : E22 | TV-PG | 47 min | Aired: 04.02.86

Jonathan and Mark assist a novelist who's given up. Also, they motivate the man's grandson, who has yet to tap into his literary potential.
Children's Children

S2 : E23 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 04.30.86

A reporter uncovers a secret about the past of a woman who runs a home for unwed mothers.
Friends

S2 : E24 | TV-PG | 50 min | Aired: 05.07.86

While working as a substitute teacher at a high school, Jonathan assigns an overweight girl to tutor a troubled baseball star.

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