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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Southbound Bus

    • September 21, 1994
    • CBS

    Monica is promoted from search and rescue, and receives her first assignment from Tess. She is to help a boy whose mother ran away after her daughter died. Monica bungles her assignment.

  • S01E02 Show Me the Way Home

    • September 28, 1994
    • CBS

    Monica substitutes at a school for the history teacher, and also becomes the assistant coach for the baseball team. A student on the baseball team needs help with his game. Monica tries to help him as well as the stubborn coach.

  • S01E03 Tough Love

    • October 12, 1994
    • CBS

    A famous journalist’s daughter takes a hard line regarding her drinking problem – but her granddaughter may pay the price.

  • S01E04 Fallen Angela

    • October 19, 1994
    • CBS

    Monica learns to overcome her fear of water when she moves next door to Angela Evans, an avid boater with a secretive past. Years ago during college, she supportive as a call girl. Now that her husband Carter is running for the U.S. Senate, she is being blackmailed by Marshall, her former pimp. Monica convinces Angela to stand up to him, but learns that he had taken photos of her in compromising positions. Rather than tell Carter the truth, she attempt suicide by intentionally sinking her boat in the middle of the lake. Adam, cautions Monica not to violate Angela's free will by rescuing her. the resourceful angel shows the woman how her suicide would affect her loved ones, and she chooses to live. Revealing herself after the rescue, Monica admits overcoming her own fear of water when she saw Angela about to drown and encourages her to return home and confide in Carter. Together, the Evans decide to hold a press conference regarding Angela's past, freeing them from the threat of

  • S01E05 Cassie's Choice

    • October 26, 1994
    • CBS

    A pregnant teen must decide what to do.

  • S01E06 The Heart of the Matter

    • November 2, 1994
    • CBS

    Monica must help a lawyer with an alleged heart condition and a quirky woman he inadvertently gave money to.

  • S01E07 An Unexpected Snow

    • December 7, 1994
    • CBS

    An accident occurs involving two women, Megan and Susana, who are dating the same man. The angels create a house on a deserted road, where the two friends, and Susana’s husband, have Thanksgiving dinner.

  • S01E08 Manny

    • December 14, 1994
    • CBS

    The angels help with a social event for a well-known doctor, his wife, and his mother. A young child shows up at their home, claiming to be the child they agreed to sponsor. The wife welcomes the child, but the doctor and his mother are worried.

  • S01E09 Fear Not!

    • December 25, 1994
    • CBS

    Monica must help Joey, who has a mental condition, deal with the fact that his friend Serena is dying from a heart condition. Serena was to be the angel at the town’s Christmas pageant.

  • S01E10 There, but for the Grace of God

    • February 25, 1995
    • CBS

    Monica is stripped of her angel powers to help a proud homeless man named Pete; she also becomes friends with Sophie and Zack. Monica realizes that she had bad judgment of homeless people.

  • S01E11 The Hero

    • March 4, 1995
    • CBS

    Monica and Tess try to help a sheriff come to terms with his own past while trying to help his son not commit suicide.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Interview with an Angel

    • September 23, 1995
    • CBS

    Tess tells Monica she must answer a newspaper ad looking for an angel. Monica replies and says she is an angel. Callie is someone who doubts. Monica tells Callie about a case she has worked on.

  • S02E02 Trust

    • September 30, 1995
    • CBS

    Monica becomes a rookie cop to help a policeman who is returning to duty after being shot and is addicted to pain pills. She tries to help him regain his confidence and recover from drug addiction.

  • S02E03 Sympathy for the Devil

    • October 7, 1995
    • CBS

    Monica helps a man who seems to have all he needs, and only wants his family to be healthy and happy. But his life is about to be upset with evil. An old friend of Monica’s is there to work with the man, but she is the source of evil.

  • S02E04 The Driver

    • October 14, 1995
    • CBS

    Tess assigns Monica to help a woman who is dedicated to her TV reporting job, always pushing herself. When she hits a boy with her car, it makes her reexamine her life, remembering a terrible event from when she was younger.

  • S02E05 Angels on the Air

    • October 21, 1995
    • CBS

    Melissa Joan Hart stars as a teenager whose mother is a radio DJ with a sharp commentary. To raise her show’s rating, the mother offers a date to the prom with her daughter. The angels must help heal the family after this happens.

  • S02E06 In the Name of God

    • October 28, 1995
    • CBS

    Tess returns to Gulliford where she had a previous assignment and she looks forward to seeing the boy again. She gives Monica her task, but then finds out a white supremacist is involved. Tess does not act like an angel.

  • S02E07 Reunion

    • November 4, 1995
    • CBS

    The angels must help a man and a woman connect with his mother when the man wants to marry the woman. The woman is HIV positive, and the mother is not happy about the prospect.

  • S02E08 Operation Smile

    • November 11, 1995
    • CBS

    Ginger is a single mother who tries to do everything for her child who has a cleft lip. Monica is the babysitter meant to help the mother and child.

  • S02E09 The Big Bang

    • November 25, 1995
    • CBS

    A woman who is unhappy in her marriage asks for a divorce. Her husband is a bank owner who plans to close it and lay everyone off. A bank employee and her husband plan to rob it before this happens. The unexpected changes the couple’s plan.

  • S02E10 Unidentified Female

    • December 2, 1995
    • CBS

    Monica is sent to help a woman who witnesses a man getting shot.

  • S02E11 The Feather

    • December 16, 1995
    • CBS

    A crooked preacher claims a feather came from an angel’s wing and proves God is directing him.

  • S02E12 The One That Got Away

    • January 6, 1996
    • CBS

    Friends who have not seen each other since law school get together for a wedding of one of the group. Monica and Tess act as wedding coordinators. Monica is to help a man right a wrong and, with a woman, come to terms with a suicide.

  • S02E13 'Til We Meet Again

    • January 13, 1996
    • CBS

    Andrew has an assignment to help an elderly man in his death. As his children come home for a final visit, a terrible secret is revealed. Monica must help the family heal.

  • S02E14 Rock 'n' Roll Dad

    • January 20, 1996
    • CBS

    After a woman’s death, her husband and children must learn to move forward with their lives.

  • S02E15 The Indigo Angel

    • February 3, 1996
    • CBS

    An elderly man in ill health manages a blues club which he refuses to close for business even though it no longer makes money. He is waiting for a sign that he is supposed to close the club.

  • S02E16 Jacob's Ladder

    • February 10, 1996
    • CBS

    Monica goes to the wrong place to help someone, so the other angels are not able to help her. She then gets arrested for drug possession and is put in a mental asylum since people think she is crazy. While at the home, Monica tries to strengthen the faith of her lawyer and help another patient.

  • S02E17 Out of the Darkness

    • February 17, 1996
    • CBS

    After a car accident, a man slips into a coma. Five years later, he awakens and tries to fit back into his life. His wife has fallen in love with his business partner and his young son does not really remember him. Monica begins to doubt herself.

  • S02E18 Lost and Found

    • February 24, 1996
    • CBS

    Tess works for the Center of Missing Children, and Monica works with a policeman who searches for missing children. Monica faces a fallen angel who tries to destroy the policeman and his mission.

  • S02E19 Dear God

    • March 9, 1996
    • CBS

    A postal worker who is a Holocaust survivor answers letters that people mail to God. Max has lost his faith and uses the letters to try to connect again. Monica tries to help him find his way again as he tries to help a child whose father has died.

  • S02E20 Portrait of Mrs. Campbell

    • March 23, 1996
    • CBS

    Monica must help a mother and her pregnant daughter-in-law find a way to live together when the son is deployed in the service. The mother constantly reminds her daughter-in-law that he is her child more than a husband.

  • S02E21 The Quality of Mercy

    • April 27, 1996
    • CBS

    Tess and Monica attend college to help a former television star who has become a drama teacher. Ever since he stopped being a television star, his family has become fractured.

  • S02E22 Flesh and Blood

    • May 4, 1996
    • CBS

    A young man who has a history of delinquency is accused of killing a girl. His mother backs his claim that he’s innocent. When he is released due to lack of evidence, the girl’s father wants him gone and tells his mother. Later she discovers that her son has in his possession something that belongs to the girl which makes her doubt his innocence.

  • S02E23 Birthmarks

    • May 11, 1996
    • CBS

    A man dying of cancer and his wife return to his father’s farm. The couple has a surrogate mother carrying their child. The father says he will not accept the child as his grandson.

  • S02E24 Statute of Limitations

    • May 18, 1996
    • CBS

    Morgan, a seemingly confident talk show host, is controlled by her sister Claudia via microphone for everything she says and does on the show. Claudia is bitter because of an accident that occurred when they were children.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Promised Land

    • September 15, 1996
    • CBS

    A family is down to its last dollar, traveling by trailer to a new town, hoping for a job and home. The angels try to restore the father’s faith and inspire him to help others who are down on their luck just like he has been.

  • S03E02 A Joyful Noise

    • September 21, 1996
    • CBS

    A sweet young girl who sings like an angel claims to hear voices by angels. Her parents have her seen by a psychologist who has his own problems. Monica and Tess must help the man heal from his past in order that he can help the young girl.

  • S03E03 Random Acts

    • September 22, 1996
    • CBS

    Monica becomes an assistant teacher to help Mike, a teacher of 20 years who is questioning his career. Two hoodlums, one a former student, kidnap the teacher so they can steal his boat.

  • S03E04 Sins of the Father

    • September 29, 1996
    • CBS

    A teenager is in prison on death row, and does not realize his father is also in prison. The family is torn apart, and the younger child at home is about to start a life of crime. The angels must help heal the family.

  • S03E05 Written In Dust

    • October 6, 1996
    • CBS

    Monica must help an archaeologist connect with his grandfather who is failing in health. The grandfather has been trying to help the archaeologist return to his faith.

  • S03E06 Secret Service

    • October 13, 1996
    • CBS

    A secret service agent does well at her job, but does not know how to relax and enjoy her personal life. Monica becomes part of her team to protect a presidential candidate.

  • S03E07 Groundrush

    • October 27, 1996
    • CBS

    A pilot of a small airplane does good deeds by flying people to hospitals, ceremonies, and more. The man is accused of murder and Monica helps him escape prison in order to prove his innocence.

  • S03E08 The Sky Is Falling

    • November 3, 1996
    • CBS

    Monica is assigned to help Leonard, who has fears of Halloween. Monica first worked with Leonard in 1938, the day that Orson Welles broadcast his War of the Worlds radio story. Both Monica and Leonard carry dread from that day.

  • S03E09 Something Blue

    • November 10, 1996
    • CBS

    As a woman prepares for her marriage, she has doubts about it lasting. Her father shows up for the wedding, but she has not seen him for a number of years. The angels are wedding coordinators who are to help with more than just the wedding.

  • S03E10 Into the Light

    • November 17, 1996
    • CBS

    A man is arrested in a sting operation for bribery, but since he has a heart condition he is sentenced to community service at a hospital. Tess and Monica pose as nurses. The man sees Andrew and knows who he is, but not how to react.

  • S03E11 Homecoming (1)

    • November 24, 1996
    • CBS

    Monica, Tess, and Andrew help a down-on-her-luck prostitute who stays drunk more than anything else. While getting cleaned up, she must confront her past which caused her to become a prostitute to begin with. Part 2 of the cross-over concludes on Promised Land S01E09.

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Homecoming (2)

    • November 26, 1996
    • CBS

    Monica, Tess and Andrew arrange for Nathaniel to reunite with his estranged mother. This cross-over episode appeared on Promised Land S01E09.

  • S03E12 The Journalist

    • December 1, 1996
    • CBS

    Monica and Andrew must help an investigative reporter and the retired couple whose lives were affected by her reporting.

  • S03E13 The Violin Lesson

    • December 22, 1996
    • CBS

    Monica must help a violin-maker finish a violin he started thirty years ago when his son was born. His son has come home to die due to AIDS, and the father must finish the violin as a tribute to his son’s life.

  • S03E14 Forget Me Not

    • January 12, 1997
    • CBS

    A librarian’s daughter feels smothered by her mother. The mother tries to do everything for her daughter, not allowing her daughter to make her own decisions and live her own life. Monica must help the mother and daughter.

  • S03E15 Smokescreen

    • January 19, 1997
    • CBS

    Marc is a distinguished lawyer who returns to his old neighborhood. He represents a tobacco company in a class action suit. What Mark does not know is that his mother who worked for the tobacco company has lung cancer.

  • S03E16 Crisis of Faith

    • February 2, 1997
    • CBS

    A minister is involved in a car accident and his son dies in the other car. Now he is beginning to doubt God just when the son’s surviving friend, whom he convinced not to steal the church’s teen-center money to run away from her overbearing father, has even more need to talk to him.

  • S03E17 Angel of Death

    • February 9, 1997
    • CBS

    Tess works with new angel Celeste. A magician promotes himself as the angel of death but has a terrible secret from his past that haunts him. Celeste works as the magician’s assistant.

  • S03E18 Clipped Wings

    • February 16, 1997
    • CBS

    Monica is due for her angel evaluation. She runs into Kathleen, a fallen angel who tricks Monica into another meeting room. Andrew and Tess wait for Monica in the right place. The angels recall previous assignments.

  • S03E19 Amazing Grace (1)

    • February 23, 1997
    • CBS

    Tess revisits the Greenes. She tells them God says Josh needs to go with Tess. Josh has to help Monica see, since she is temporarily blinded. They travel to a city filled with tension. Part 2 of the cross-over continues on Promised Land S01E17.

  • SPECIAL 0x5 Amazing Grace (2)

    • February 25, 1997
    • CBS

    Josh is blinded due to a drive-by shooting. His family visits and they all must find their faith. This cross-over episode appeared on Promised Land S01E17.

  • S03E20 Labor of Love

    • March 9, 1997
    • CBS

    A woman hopes to surprise her husband by flying to Paris with him, but has her own surprise when he is with another woman who is pregnant with his child. The other woman goes into labor during flight.

  • S03E21 Have You Seen Me?

    • March 16, 1997
    • CBS

    Hank sees a picture of a missing child on a milk carton and realizes it is his younger brother. Monica helps him find out he was adopted. Tess and Andrew must help the real father and the lawyer who helped place the kidnapped boy.

  • S03E22 Last Call

    • March 30, 1997
    • CBS

    Monica is told she can use one miracle to help someone at a bar, but as all the patrons seem to need help, she does not know how to decide which person to give it to.

  • S03E23 Missing In Action

    • April 13, 1997
    • CBS

    George is an old army veteran from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, who thinks he has nothing left to live for. He has also been removed from six separate retirement homes. Monica is assigned, as an old woman, to show him the joy of living again.

  • S03E24 At Risk

    • April 27, 1997
    • CBS

    The angels try to help troubled teens that commit crimes by matching them up to disabled children.

  • S03E25 Full Moon

    • May 4, 1997
    • CBS

    A rapist who was convicted and now paroled goes to the town of the victim. She is terrified of him. The rapist visits her, asking for forgiveness. She refuses. The angels must help them and her family with the healing.

  • S03E26 An Angel by Any Other Name

    • May 10, 1997
    • CBS

    The angels are in a small town, where a group home opens their doors to children with Down’s Syndrome. The neighbor across the street finds these children disturbing.

  • S03E27 Inherit the Wind

    • May 11, 1997
    • CBS

    A father is disappointed in his son, Kevin, who parties and squanders money as a way of life. When the father dies, Kevin finds out he is cut out of the will and his inheritance. Kevin must learn to get a job and earn his own money.

  • S03E28 A Delicate Balance

    • May 18, 1997
    • CBS

    A mother spends all her time focusing on her daughter’s gymnastics career and does not notice her son feels neglected.

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Road Home (aka Joe's Return - 2 part episode)

    • September 21, 1997
    • CBS

    Joe Greene returns to his brother Russell’s home where his son is living. On the drive, he causes an accident that kills two people and puts a child in the hospital. He does not tell anyone. Part 2 of the cross-over concludes on Promised Land S02E01.

  • SPECIAL 0x6 The Road Home (2)

    • September 25, 1997
    • CBS

    Joe refuses to take responsibility for the car wreck and drives off, unaware that his son is in the car. Russell is duty-bound to tell the police the truth about the accident. This cross-over episode appeared on Promised Land S02E01.

  • S04E02 Great Expectations

    • September 28, 1997
    • CBS

    A couple expecting their first child have a baby shower at a café where Andrew is the temporary worker. Tess and Monica are Lamaze teachers. During a visit to the doctor, the parents learn their child has Down Syndrome.

  • S04E03 Nothing But Net

    • October 5, 1997
    • CBS

    The angels must help a teen and a basketball player. The basketball player is an aggressive player and lives his life with anger. His fan is the teen who wants to live his life like the player.

  • S04E04 Children of the Night

    • October 12, 1997
    • CBS

    The angels must help some homeless children who have banded together to be a family. They need a secure place to live and to find their faith again.

  • S04E05 Jones vs God

    • October 19, 1997
    • CBS

    A distraught farmer in a drought-stricken community files suit against God. Tess arrives to defend, and Monica to testify. The trial teaches the farmer and everyone else in town the value of being good neighbors, and also drives home a stern lesson about the inherent folly of theodicy – an attempt to judge God by human standards.

  • S04E06 The Pact

    • October 26, 1997
    • CBS

    At a summer camp, four teenage girls are planning to commit suicide because they are HIV-positive and feel they are going to die anyway. They come with attitudes as well. The angels must help them see life is worth living.

  • S04E07 Sandcastles

    • November 2, 1997
    • CBS

    Monica and Rafael have a day off and go to the beach. Their vacation is cut short when they find a message in a bottle from someone asking for help.

  • S04E08 My Dinner With Andrew

    • November 9, 1997
    • CBS

    Andrew is an eligible bachelor placed on auction to raise money for medical research. A female doctor wins the bid for Andrew, but then refuses to go on a date since she is too busy. Andrew tries to teach her to enjoy the life God gave her.

  • S04E09 Charades

    • November 16, 1997
    • CBS

    Libby’s father was on the Hollywood Blacklist in the 1950s, but is now being honored. He is dead, but his best friend and Libby’s mother Vera are to accept the award. When Vera refuses, Libby finds out the truth from that time.

  • S04E10 The Comeback

    • November 23, 1997
    • CBS

    Carol Burnett and her real life daughter star as a mother and daughter with acting aspirations. Monica must teach them that their luck is not from signs and omens but rather is the love from God.

  • S04E11 Venice

    • December 7, 1997
    • CBS

    Annie is a bitter widow who is losing her eyesight. She is angry with her friends ever since her husband died years previous. The angels must help the friends talk to each other and find the truth about the husband’s death.

  • S04E12 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

    • December 21, 1997
    • CBS

    Joey breaks a special ornament for the Christmas tree. Wayne leaves the house and Joey is alone. Monica visits Joey and takes care of him, telling his a story of Christmas past.

  • S04E13 Deconstructing Harry

    • January 4, 1998
    • CBS

    Tess has an assignment to take a driver’s test and help the examiner. During the test, the examiner dashes into a funeral home and steals the ashes of her married lover. Tess becomes the accomplice in the crime.

  • S04E14 The Trigger

    • January 11, 1998
    • CBS

    Linda is graduating from law school. Her sister Holly comes for the ceremony. Holly learns her sister is being physically abused by her husband. The angels and Holly must help the husband to control his anger and Linda and the children to heal.

  • S04E15 Doodlebugs

    • January 18, 1998
    • CBS

    A town has abandoned their churches and faith seems to have died. When a pay phone mysteriously rings with specific instructions whenever someone walks by, people start believing God is contacting them.

  • S04E16 Redeeming Love

    • February 1, 1998
    • CBS

    Monica tries to help a young mother overcome her drug addition. Meanwhile, Tess must help the parents learn not to enable their daughter in her drug life. The woman has to learn to be a real mother to her child.

  • S04E17 Flights of Angels

    • March 1, 1998
    • CBS

    The angels must help a man who is dying from Lou Gehrig’s disease learn how to find peace and help his family through the ordeal.

  • S04E18 Breaking Bread

    • March 8, 1998
    • CBS

    A man is a witness to a brutal hate crime, but he is afraid to go to the police to report what he saw. The angels must help him overcome his fear in order that justice be done.

  • S04E19 God and Country

    • March 15, 1998
    • CBS

    An Army command is bitter and being difficult with his recruits. His son dies, but for him, it is worse this was the son who was an enthusiastic soldier, unlike his remaining one who hates being under his command.

  • S04E20 How Do You Spell Faith?

    • March 29, 1998
    • CBS

    Aaron is an intelligent teen who enters a spelling contest. His brother Michael is the only one who supports him as the mother gives all her attention to Michael. The father deserted them. The angels must help heal the family.

  • S04E21 Seek and Ye Shall Find

    • April 5, 1998
    • CBS

    Monica slips and falls when walking on ice. She does not remember her name or her faith. As she works with a doctor, she starts to remember and helps the doctor find his own faith.

  • S04E22 Cry and You Cry Alone

    • April 12, 1998
    • CBS

    Maury and his comedy partner split their act years ago in anger, but now are being inducted into the Hall of Fame. They try to get along to perform an act for the induction ceremony, but argue about who is the real star.

  • S04E23 Perfect Little Angel

    • April 26, 1998
    • CBS

    Tracy receives bad news in the mail and now is desperate to earn money. She decides to enter the local beauty pageant to win the prize money. The angels must help her with the pageant and to learn what is important.

  • S04E24 Elijah

    • May 3, 1998
    • CBS

    A man is ordered by the court to stay in his own slum apartments for two weeks. He has lost his faith and forgotten all his father taught him. Then his son is shot and no help is found in the building.

  • S04E25 Last Dance

    • May 10, 1998
    • CBS

    Two teens plan to marry after they finish high school. When the mothers meet, they recognize each other, and it opens old wounds that could tear the teenagers apart. The angels must heal the mothers’ friendship and save the teens.

  • S04E26 The Spirit of Liberty Moon (1)

    • May 17, 1998
    • CBS

    Monica is assigned to accompany a group of U.S. businesspeople to China to negotiate a merger. An employee is reluctant to go due to a secret from her past.

  • S04E27 The Spirit of Liberty Moon (2)

    • May 17, 1998
    • CBS

    Jean risks her life by trying to find her daughter in China.

Season 5

  • S05E01 Miles to Go Before I Sleep

    • September 20, 1998
    • CBS

    The angels tend to dying patients in the hospital, some who have lost hope and some who have faith they will get better. An elderly man who is dying asks Andrew to help another soul that is also dying.

  • S05E02 Saving Grace (1)

    • September 27, 1998
    • CBS

    After Russell Greene’s brother Joe caused the death of a father and son, the widow started to drink, neglect her living son, and send threatening letters to Joe. Joe leaves town to work on an oil rig. Part 2 of the cross-over concludes on Promised Land S03E01.

  • SPECIAL 0x7 Saving Grace (2)

    • September 27, 1998
    • CBS

    Nathaniel is kidnapped by the woman whose family was killed in a car accident involving Joe, Nathaniel's father, who selfishly and recklessly drove drunk. This cross-over episode appeared on Promised Land S03E01.

  • S05E03 What Are Friends For?

    • October 4, 1998
    • CBS

    A young woman is running for mayor and her campaign places her in the lead. But then a friend of hers is being accused of sexual misconduct with a student in his classroom. Monica must help her understand what she should do.

  • S05E04 Only Connect

    • October 11, 1998
    • CBS

    A young boy on a baseball team befriends Ferdie, who helps out on the team. Ferdie is autistic, and none of the other players seem to accept him. Cameron’s father is the coach who has problems at home. Ferdie must help mend the family.

  • S05E05 The Lady of the Lake

    • October 18, 1998
    • CBS

    Monica owns a bait store near a town’s lake, in which the fish are dying and the town’s residents are listless about the future of their town. A land developer wants Monica’s land to plow everything under, but she helps the town heal.

  • S05E06 Beautiful Dreamer

    • October 25, 1998
    • CBS

    Tess becomes a teacher at a school in Washington D.C. with young children. One child turns in an essay about wanting to be a hit man when he grows up. Tess tells a story about Abraham Lincoln to the students, giving them insight into life.

  • S05E07 I Do

    • November 1, 1998
    • CBS

    Stephanie and Michael plan to elope but his mother has them prepare to marry so she can plan it. When they get into an accident, Michael is seriously injured. His mother wants him off life support, but Stephanie has faith that God has other plans.

  • S05E08 The Wind Beneath Our Wings

    • November 8, 1998
    • CBS

    A judicial judge is confident in her profession, but depends on her mother for everything else. Her mother is only too eager to help. Monica and Tess must help them see they have much more to live for than just each other.

  • S05E09 Psalm 151

    • November 15, 1998
    • CBS

    It is Monica’s 100th case, and not an easy one. She must help a young child fulfill his list of last wishes before he dies. One of his wishes is for his mother to finish a song she had started when he was born.

  • S05E10 The Peacemaker

    • November 22, 1998
    • CBS

    A bickering couple, grieving over the murder of their teen son, discover what his last act produced.

  • S05E11 An Angel on the Roof

    • December 13, 1998
    • CBS

    A young pregnant Mexican woman delivers her baby in a cheap motel while running from immigration authorities.

  • S05E12 Fool For Love

    • January 3, 1999
    • CBS

    A lawyer tells Monica about her troubled past and a lost baby. Her past has caught up with her current life. Tess listens to a man who has work problems and feels there is nothing left in life.

  • S05E13 The Medium and the Message

    • January 10, 1999
    • CBS

    Monica has an assignment that should take just a minute. The president of a television network wants to produce a show about angels, but sometimes forgets in his quest to be the number one network. Monica must get him to follow his heart.

  • S05E14 My Brother's Keeper

    • February 7, 1999
    • CBS

    Will and Jett are raised together by Will’s father and compete in skiing. The father favors Jett as he is the better skier. When Jett becomes a paraplegic in an accident, the father blames Will. Jett does not want to live.

  • S05E15 On Edge

    • February 14, 1999
    • CBS

    A con-artist father involves his daughter in his crimes. She wants to be a figure skater and put down roots in the town they’ve just arrived in to skate. When the father gets caught, his daughter confesses.

  • S05E16 The Man Upstairs

    • February 21, 1999
    • CBS

    A salesman is in Las Vegas to renew an insurance policy with a gambling hotel. Desperate for money for his ailing wife, he gambles all the money he has while waiting for the policy renewal. He ends up selling his soul to the devil.

  • S05E17 Family Business

    • February 28, 1999
    • CBS

    Ben owns a car dealership which is run by his family, except for Buddy. Ben tries to control all aspects of the family, but Buddy wanted to be his own individual. After five years, Buddy returns. His father must learns to accept Buddy’s choices.

  • S05E18 Anatomy Lesson

    • March 7, 1999
    • CBS

    After a little girl falls in an abandoned airshaft, a man dies of a heart attack while running to get help. Monica must help the coroner do an autopsy to discover what he was doing when he died to save the little girl.

  • S05E19 Jagged Edges

    • March 28, 1999
    • CBS

    Andrew helps a man who will die of a heart attack. As he dies, he asks Andrew to give a box to his comedian daughter. The daughter returns home to bad memories, and finds a secret about her dead mother in the box.

  • S05E20 Into the Fire

    • April 4, 1999
    • CBS

    After a woman is fired for hollering at a telemarketing customer on the telephone, Monica temporarily joins a cult with her. Tess gives a required assignment to Monica about exposing the cult’s leader as a sinister fraud before his followers self-destruct as their final fate.

  • S05E21 Made in the U.S.A.

    • April 11, 1999
    • CBS

    Nick Stratton is a former Vietnam veteran managing a clothing factory staffed by refugees. His personal problems are exaggerated when the IRS starts chasing him for back taxes. The angels get involved when he starts mistreating his employees.

  • S05E22 Full Circle

    • April 25, 1999
    • CBS

    Monica returns to a woman named Kate who has more problems than the previous time. Kate is in danger of losing her house, and has not seen her son in seven years. Her son returns, and has his own child. Kate still has problems.

  • S05E23 Black Like Monica

    • May 2, 1999
    • CBS

    Monica is assigned to a town troubled by racial violence – and changed into a black mortal woman.

  • S05E24 Fighting the Good Fight

    • May 9, 1999
    • CBS

    Two boys stay with their uncle since their mother is in jail. The eleven year old is picked on by his brother and other older kids. He takes up boxing to defend himself.

  • S05E25 Hearts

    • May 16, 1999
    • CBS

    A teenager needs a heart transplant. Her doctor has a daughter who is a friend of the teen. A heart becomes available when a woman falls and has brain damage. The angels must heal the husband and the doctor’s relationship with her daughter.

  • S05E26 Godspeed

    • May 23, 1999
    • CBS

    The angels must help a woman astronaut find her faith after her mother’s death. She goes on a space mission and while working outside the shuttle, her tether cable becomes loose. She is unable to contact the team inside the shuttle.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Such a Time as This

    • September 26, 1999
    • CBS

    A US senator is called upon to bring to light the suffering of the people of Sudan in the illegal slave trade. Initially the senator (married to a political cynic) refuses but, nudged by her son, it soon changes.

  • S06E02 The Compass

    • October 3, 1999
    • CBS

    Set during World War II, 5 US troopers are caught behind enemy lines. As each one dies they leave letters, that is, all except one.

  • S06E03 The Last Day of the Rest of Your Life

    • October 10, 1999
    • CBS

    A support group for terminally ill people try to prepare themselves for their own death. Monica leads the group and helps each of them recognize what they want to do to fulfill their final wishes.

  • S06E04 The Letter

    • October 17, 1999
    • CBS

    A migrant family follows the crops. Tino has a musical gift and Tess helps him use his voice in the local church and submit for a musical scholarship. The father hurts his back and needs Tino in the fields. The angels must help them.

  • S06E05 Til Death Do Us Part

    • October 24, 1999
    • CBS

    Molly plans a surprise party for her husband when she learns she may have cancer. Andrew is a worker on their farm and tells Molly to tell her husband. Andrew learns he is not there for Molly as there is another tragedy about to happen.

  • S06E06 The Occupant

    • October 31, 1999
    • CBS

    Lonnie is a homeless man who is taken the hospital ER because he is suicidal. Lonnie’s friend, Duncan is the doctor. Another personality is trying to take Lonnie’s soul. The angels and Duncan must help heal Lonnie.

  • S06E07 Voice of an Angel

    • November 14, 1999
    • CBS

    A member of an inner-city choir is more concerned with her solo entry in a competition than the group’s performance.

  • S06E08 The Whole Truth And Nothing But...

    • November 21, 1999
    • CBS

    The angels must help a newspaper reporter remember her original ideals in finding and reporting the news.

  • S06E09 Then Sings My Soul

    • November 28, 1999
    • CBS

    Uncle Dudley owned a taffy store, and had a television show for the children. When he died, his son inherited the business but it is losing money. The angels must show him how much the people love his store and the memory of his father.

  • S06E10 The Christmas Gift

    • December 12, 1999
    • CBS

    Robert wants to visit his mother, and his wife reluctantly agrees even though she does not like the old neighborhood. As days pass, the mother calls Robert to help her, and he is killed in transit. The two women are angry at each other.

  • S06E11 Millennium

    • January 2, 2000
    • CBS

    At a holiday party Nick proposes to Angela but she fears commitment. Angela talks to Andrew about her father, the reason for her fear, and the time capsule they built. She agrees to open the capsule and then finds the truth about her father

  • S06E12 With God As My Witness

    • January 9, 2000
    • CBS

    A construction worker is fired because he spoke out about the shortcuts being taken on a building being built. Desperate for a job, he becomes a chauffeur and finds the clients are gangsters. That’s when his whole world turns upside down.

  • S06E13 A House Divided

    • January 23, 2000
    • CBS

    A boy’s parents are divorced and bickering. The boy feels torn and he wants to divorce his parents.

  • S06E14 Buy Me a Rose

    • February 6, 2000
    • CBS

    A successful business man has time for his work but not for his wife. When he is unavailable for their 20th wedding anniversary, the wife connects with a former boyfriend.

  • S06E15 Life Before Death

    • February 13, 2000
    • CBS

    Monica works with a group of teenagers from Ireland for a missionary program in the United States. They are to restore an old home and must work in harmony. Two teens are Catholic; two are Protestants.

  • S06E16 A Perfect Game

    • February 20, 2000
    • CBS

    When thought to have been rejected by him, a woman sets up a perfect bowling game so she can have the satisfaction of shattering his joy.

  • S06E17 Here I Am

    • February 27, 2000
    • CBS

    A Vietnam veteran, an artist, and a dying mother all come together for the security guard’s final day at an art museum. Haunted by a painting and his past, the veteran must come to terms with a tragic Christmas day.

  • S06E18 Bar Mitzvah

    • March 12, 2000
    • CBS

    An elderly man no longer believes in God. When he finds out his devout son is dying from a brain tumor, he must find his own faith again.

  • S06E19 True Confessions

    • March 19, 2000
    • CBS

    Monica and Tess enter a woman’s prison to help a woman who thinks she was wrongly convicted of killing a man. Monica helps stage a play in prison to get the women to open up. Andrew must help the father of that man come to forgive the woman.

  • S06E20 Quality Time

    • April 2, 2000
    • CBS

    The angels must help a teenager whose family lives on a time-line for every activity. The teen is diagnosed with diabetes and it interrupts her athletic schedule and the parents’ life as they try to open a new restaurant.

  • S06E21 Living the Rest of My Life

    • April 9, 2000
    • CBS

    A grown man is too attached to his mother to let her live her own life and have her own money. Monica and Tess comes to see Abby for a clothing donation and gets her to visit the senior home. Abby moves there, and her son tries to get her to come back home.

  • S06E22 Stealing Hope

    • April 23, 2000
    • CBS

    Ricky is a gas station attendant who just lost his job since the station is closing. Monica goes to help with the closing inventory of items, and to convince him that a door closing opens another door and that he needs to pursue his poetry.

  • S06E23 Monica's Bad Day

    • April 30, 2000
    • CBS

    While learning to parallel park, Monica bumps into a man who walks in front of the car. While not hurt, he is rude to her. Monica is upset and it seems to affect her whole day regardless of how she tries to make it up to him.

  • S06E24 Send in the Clowns

    • May 7, 2000
    • CBS

    Monica, Tess, and Andrew attend a circus to help a young boy who has been in the circus all his life. His father is a dwarf who is the circus clown. Both have trouble accepting the father’s height.

  • S06E25 Mother's Day

    • May 14, 2000
    • CBS

    Monica, Tess and Andrew return to see Audrey Carmichael, now an alcoholic and still angry over her son’s death. Emma, another angel, shows up to assist, and Andrew later gets in touch with a woman who may have a connection to Audrey.

  • S06E26 Pandora's Box

    • May 21, 2000
    • CBS

    With a new computer in the house, a young daughter accidentally clicks a link to a porn site. When the father takes control to change the site, he becomes interested in online porn and it starts to affect his home and work life.

Season 7

  • S07E01 The Face on the Barroom Floor

    • October 15, 2000
    • CBS

    The angels must help a father who wants to disinherit his son since the son is only interested in the social life.

  • S07E02 Legacy

    • October 22, 2000
    • CBS

    A father pressures his college-bound son to join the same fraternity he joined when he was in college. The fraternity practices dangerous hazing. The angels must show the son that he has to follow his own life.

  • S07E03 The Invitation

    • October 29, 2000
    • CBS

    It’s Halloween, and a young couple is having a party. There are spooks around, and Satan comes to the party. The angels must protect the man and his pregnant wife.

  • S07E04 Restoration

    • November 5, 2000
    • CBS

    A young film student has trouble interviewing a 102-year-old film director who is ready to die. Andrew tells him he must stay on earth a little longer to help the student.

  • S07E05 Finger of God

    • November 12, 2000
    • CBS

    A storm chaser is excited when there are storms and tornadoes predicted in the area because he hopes it will save his job.

  • S07E06 The Empty Chair

    • November 19, 2000
    • CBS

    A TV couple find their lives and relationship deteriorating, leading them to face a wrong decision in their past.

  • S07E07 God Bless the Child

    • November 26, 2000
    • CBS

    A teen is about to throw away her ambitions of music and education by starting to use drugs. The angels use her love of music to tell her the story of Billie Holiday’s tragic life in hopes of helping the teen follow her dream without drugs.

  • S07E08 Reasonable Doubt

    • December 3, 2000
    • CBS

    Monica serves on jury duty and is the lone person who thinks the accused is not guilty.

  • S07E09 The Grudge

    • December 10, 2000
    • CBS

    Andrew is a judge, Monica and Tess are sentenced to community service. They work with two arguing people who once were in love years ago, but forbidden to marry. Can the angels heal their feud and help them find their love again?

  • S07E10 An Angel on My Tree

    • December 17, 2000
    • CBS

    The family of a convicted murderer face a bleak Christmas in a town which blames them.

  • S07E11 Mi Familia

    • January 7, 2001
    • CBS

    Two teenagers want to marry since they’ve had a child, but the girl’s father forbids it because the boy is a gang member. He has to choose whether to remain in the gang or start taking a direct role in the family. And when he tries to prove himself with one last job for the gang, it endangers them all.

  • S07E12 The Lord Moves in Mysterious Ways

    • January 21, 2001
    • CBS

    Tess is late to her own party because she stops to help a snobby woman who lost her father as a child. A quirky angel reveals a secret.

  • S07E13 A Death in the Family

    • February 4, 2001
    • CBS

    An officer’s accidental shot at a young African-American boy is taken as prejudice.

  • S07E14 Bringer of Light

    • February 11, 2001
    • CBS

    Andrew is a teacher who shows his students the stars and the mighty universe. A teenager believes in God and the universe and wants her mother who is dying of cancer to believe.

  • S07E15 Thief of Hearts

    • February 18, 2001
    • CBS

    Alice is a bitter woman who owns a small store in the lobby of a building. A young boy, Cory, steals a special locket from the store. The angels must help find the homeless boy and locket, and find a way to make Alice and Cory a family.

  • S07E16 Winners, Losers & Leftovers

    • February 25, 2001
    • CBS

    A father struggles with the choice he must make between his job and his son with Downs Syndrome.

  • S07E17 I Am an Angel

    • March 11, 2001
    • CBS

    A conceited actor who plays an angel on television resists a very young, obsessed fan who is coping with his mother’s death.

  • S07E18 Visions of Thy Father

    • March 18, 2001
    • CBS

    Jason is a teenager who looks up to his ophthalmologist father. Since Jason wants to be a photojournalist, the angels give him a chance to do a photo story on his father. In his photo quest, Jason finds out his father is having an affair.

  • S07E19 The Penalty Box

    • April 8, 2001
    • CBS

    A rich teenager whose life is laid out for him, is set up when his father has to declare bankruptcy. His plans for Harvard and hockey seem lost when he has to go to a local school with a mediocre hockey team.

  • S07E20 Band of Angels

    • April 15, 2001
    • CBS

    After killing his elderly friend, a troubled teen is imprisoned and eventually starts a group of singers that also just happen to be delinquents like himself.

  • S07E21 The Sign of the Dove

    • April 22, 2001
    • CBS

    Andrew rebels when another angel of death is assigned to a descendant of a long line of people that has previously been his responsibility. Includes many flashbacks to the deaths of people that Andrew has been assigned to.

  • S07E22 The Face of God

    • April 29, 2001
    • CBS

    Monica must try to convince a scientist that creating life from a test tube is not what God intends. The woman is trying to create a child for a Nobel prize, and then realizes she is trying to create someone to love.

  • S07E23 Netherlands

    • May 6, 2001
    • CBS

    Monica’s faith is challenged by Satan himself after she witnesses a tragic incident.

  • S07E24 Shallow Water (1)

    • May 13, 2001
    • CBS

    Monica is assigned to help a former member of a gospel choir, who has retreated from reality following a tragedy.

  • S07E25 Shallow Water (2)

    • May 20, 2001
    • CBS

    Monica has found J.D. Winslow, but he’s not the Jed that Diana desperately wants to come to her planned family reunion. Will Diana’s faith give her the strength to face the truth?

Season 8

  • S08E01 Holy of Holies

    • September 29, 2001
    • CBS

    Monica, Tess and Andrew help train their newest angel, Gloria. Their assignment is to help a college professor in his quest for the Ark of the Covenant.

  • S08E02 The Perfect Game

    • October 6, 2001
    • CBS

    A father tries to control his son’s life and is obsessed with his baseball performance. The angels must help heal the father and son relationship by showing the father that he must first heal the relationship he has with his own father.

  • S08E03 The Birthday Present

    • October 13, 2001
    • CBS

    Young children are beaten and abused by their drunken father. The angels must help a mailman who wants to help the children.

  • S08E04 Manhunt

    • October 20, 2001
    • CBS

    Tess and the other angels return to a small town to help a woman who is lonely after her boyfriend leaves her. The bartenders in the town remember Tess and decide to help the angels play matchmaker with the woman and a delivery man.

  • S08E05 Chutzpah

    • October 27, 2001
    • CBS

    With memories of her Jewish father’s discrimination against women, Rachel releases her fury by publishing comic strips which make fun of her father and his religion.

  • S08E06 Famous Last Words

    • November 3, 2001
    • CBS

    After discovering a heartbreaking secret about his mother, a man discovers his last chance to repent before being executed for killing his abusive stepfather.

  • S08E07 Most Likely To Succeed

    • November 10, 2001
    • CBS

    After a long life of hatred towards the football player who stole the girl he loved, Dennis decides to get his revenge at their high school reunion.

  • S08E08 Heaven's Portal

    • November 24, 2001
    • CBS

    A rebellious teen convinces Gloria to go to a rave with him where they both end up getting high.

  • S08E09 When Sunny Gets Blue

    • December 1, 2001
    • CBS

    A young man tries to help his mentally ill father, in rebellion against his mother’s apparent indifference.

  • S08E10 Angels Anonymous

    • December 15, 2001
    • CBS

    The angels attempt to change the lives of the individuals in a long-lost group of friends. Their influences on these people cause them all to end up unexpectedly at the same Polynesian restaurant, where they are surprised to see one another after all of the years that have passed.

  • S08E11 A Winter Carol

    • December 16, 2001
    • CBS

    A man who died on 9-11-2001 in the twin towers was a music teacher. His death affects one of his students and his family. The student is depressed, his older brother wants to join the army, and their mayor mother has to help the town.

  • S08E12 The Last Chapter

    • January 12, 2002
    • CBS

    A mortally ill journalist resists finishing her autobiography because, to be honest, she will have to record her own encounter with an angel.

  • S08E13 Ship-In-A-Bottle

    • January 26, 2002
    • CBS

    A widowed father with two children has to deal with one daughter having sickle cell anemia. When the daughter gets seriously sick and the local doctor is not available, his daughter dies while he tries to find help.

  • S08E14 The Blue Angel

    • February 2, 2002
    • CBS

    Max and Elmer are long-time friends. Max is slowly dying due to smoking cigarettes for many years. Elmer tries to get him to stop, but he will not listen. After Monica, Tess, and Andrew fail to get him to stop, Gloria offers to help.

  • S08E15 Secrets and Lies

    • March 2, 2002
    • CBS

    A father whose daughter has leukemia must ask his ex-mistress to allow their son to be a bone marrow daughter. Since his ex-mistress refuses, the angels must find a way to help.

  • S08E16 The Princeless Bride

    • March 9, 2002
    • CBS

    Liz’s fiancée Jonas runs away after having a fight with her, causing Liz to reach out to the less fortunate instead of crying for her own loss.

  • S08E17 Hello, I Love You

    • April 6, 2002
    • CBS

    A young girl in search of the father she has never known is guided to several possibilities.

  • S08E18 Minute by Minute

    • April 13, 2002
    • CBS

    A nun with a dark past tries to stop two boys from blowing up a high school.

  • S08E19 The Bells of St. Peter's

    • May 4, 2002
    • CBS

    Maggie and Brian are busy doctors. Maggie finds it hard to stop working, while Brian wants time off together. Maggie’s mother Rose wants to go to Rome but cannot go alone due to health. Can she convince Maggie and Brian to go with her?

  • S08E20 The Impossible Dream

    • May 4, 2002
    • CBS

    A man with a beautiful voice is encouraged to sing for the first time in twenty-five years.

  • S08E21 For All The Tea in China

    • May 5, 2002
    • CBS

    An old British woman is forced to reveal the secrets of her painful past after undergoing a failed background check in order for her grandson to adopt a baby from China.

  • S08E22 Forever Young

    • May 11, 2002
    • CBS

    A motivational speaker helps other to move forward and achieve, but he and his wife have their own problems of moving forward since their daughter’s murder.

Season 9

  • S09E01 A Rock and a Hard Place

    • September 28, 2002
    • CBS

    The angels help out a father and son who are having a hard time bonding, and an elderly woman who wants to die so that she may once again be with her husband. Unfortunately, this all is happening at the same time as a potential meteor collision with Earth is headed their way.

  • S09E02 The Sixteenth Minute

    • October 5, 2002
    • CBS

    Ed is an underpaid businessman, who one day, on his way home from work, just happens to discover a dancer, Marla, trapped in an abandoned mine.

  • S09E03 Two Sides to Every Angel

    • October 12, 2002
    • CBS

    Gloria is duped by a demon pretending to be Monica.

  • S09E04 The Word

    • October 19, 2002
    • CBS

    A girl with OCD is threatened to be placed in foster care after her illiterate father gives her an overdose of her medication.

  • S09E05 A Feather on the Breath of God

    • October 26, 2002
    • CBS

    A woman with a young child begins to work at a funeral home to earn money to pay for her own funeral. Unbeknownst to the funeral director, they are father and daughter.

  • S09E06 Jump!

    • November 2, 2002
    • CBS

    Monica becomes a radio assistant to a crude talk show DJ. One of his callers is a depressed young boy who is on verge of committing suicide. The boy calls into radio show for help. The angels must save the boy and the DJ.

  • S09E07 Bring On The Rain

    • November 9, 2002
    • CBS

    Monica meets a girl who doesn’t want anyone to know she lives on a trailer park with her mother.

  • S09E08 Remembering Me (1)

    • November 16, 2002
    • CBS

    Monica tries to carry on when Tess is placed in a nursing home with severe Alzheimer’s.

  • S09E09 Remembering Me (2)

    • November 23, 2002
    • CBS

    Monica’s pain at witnessing Tess’ helplessness handicaps her both in her assignment and in trying to help Tess.

  • S09E10 The Christmas Watch

    • December 21, 2002
    • CBS

    The angels must help the family of a World Trade Center victim to adjust to their loss.

  • S09E11 Private Eyes

    • January 11, 2003
    • CBS

    A private eye helps a young girl earn money to stay off the street, by taking pictures of married men wanting to have sex with her. The angels must help him find his true path and help the young girl reunite with her family.

  • S09E12 The Root of All Evil

    • January 25, 2003
    • CBS

    A man confesses to a priest that he is part of a group that is going to rob a bank. The priest tries to find a way to stop the crime without betraying the confessional vows. Two angels of death are there to help Tess and Gloria.

  • S09E13 A Time for Every Purpose

    • February 1, 2003
    • CBS

    A gravely ill man needs home care. The angels talk to his estranged brother, trying to convince him that his help is needed.

  • S09E14 And A Nightingale Sang

    • February 8, 2003
    • CBS

    It’s Valentine’s Day, and business at the restaurant business is slow because of a winter storm. The angels must help one couple fall in love, and Andrew is there because one elderly person will die.

  • S09E15 As It Is In Heaven

    • February 15, 2003
    • CBS

    Monica goes to driving school. The teacher’s son is her assignment. Jesse teaches school in an underprivileged area; one student’s father sells drugs and tries to sell them at the school. The angels must help Jesse, his mother, and the student.

  • S09E16 Song For My Father

    • February 22, 2003
    • CBS

    A talented teen sings in the choir and a band, but also smokes. She is diagnosed with throat cancer. She is told her vocal cords need to be removed.

  • S09E17 The Good Earth

    • March 1, 2003
    • CBS

    The angels must help an inventor of an energy-saving converter meet the owner of an oil company who is dying.

  • S09E18 Virtual Reality

    • March 15, 2003
    • CBS

    Josh was in his aunt’s car when his cousin Victor ran over Marissa Atkins. The angels each have a part in the trial to determine if it was attempted murder, with Josh as a witness for his cousin. Josh perjures himself as Marissa comes in to testify.

  • S09E19 The Show Must Not Go On

    • April 12, 2003
    • CBS

    A group of actors is obsessed with staging a show to revive an old theater.

  • S09E20 At The End Of The Aisle

    • April 19, 2003
    • CBS

    Monica, Tess and Andrew are invited to the wedding of Audrey, someone they helped before when Audrey’s son was dying. Gloria is at the wedding for an assignment to help Audrey make the right decision about getting married.

  • S09E21 I Will Walk With You (1)

    • April 26, 2003
    • CBS

    Monica is up for promotion. The angels are being interviewed to see if she is ready. She’s sent to a town needing help. An explosion at school killed the students and teachers. It leaves the town in a shadow of grief, blaming an unknown man.

  • S09E22 I Will Walk With You (2)

    • April 27, 2003
    • CBS

    Monica must overcome her revulsion at the person accused of killing schoolchildren in order to complete her assignment.

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