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Highway to Heaven: Season 2, Episode 14

Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind (15 Jan. 1986)

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Jonathan and Mark emerge from a meteor crater to offer extraterrestrial encouragement to Adam, a young, bullied orphan whose eccentric grandfather is in danger of losing him to a heartless social worker.

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Jonathan and Mark emerge from a meteor crater to offer extraterrestrial encouragement to Adam, a young, bullied orphan whose eccentric grandfather is in danger of losing him to a heartless social worker.

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Harvey Milsap: Just because I think the Good Lord might've put other creatures on other planets doesn't mean I'm crazy. It means I'm curious. And there's nothing in the whole world that's wrong with that.
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