Only a few years after AC/DC had successful singing concerning the “Freeway to Hell,” Michael Landon was headed the opposite route: after wrapping his run on Little Home on the Prairie, the actor-turned-producer created the NBC drama Freeway to Heaven. He additionally took the main function, taking part in Jonathan Smith, an angel on probation, who enlists the assistance of an ex-cop, performed by Landon’s former Little Home costar Victor French, to assist mortals in want. Landon didn’t simply create the present as a part of his subsequent skilled act; it was deeply private, impressed by a tragic automobile accident that almost took his daughter’s life.
Freeway to Heaven, which debuted on September 19, 1984, wasn’t a present that NBC was significantly jazzed about — as you’ll see under. However the community put it on the schedule anyway. And by the point it was completed, Landon had been on the community for 30 years between his time on Bonanza, Little Home, and Freeway to Heaven. Right here’s how his ultimate TV collection got here collectively…