All Good Things..Being Equal

I just caught a few minutes of the wonderful 80s series Highway to Heaven.
I used to watch quite a bit of this. I can't think of anything today that mimics its mastery of inspirational melancholy as entertainment.
I imagine this stuff is weakly catered for in the occasional chick flick.
But is it weekly catered for?
Who is doing this sort of stuff on TV?
Because it is really good. It is real drama.

It has religious overtones as it's about an angel going round doing good deeds.
But if you stick to great actors and one of them is Michael Landon, it oozes class.
Maybe it helps that the script writers could riff on the sort of uplifting navelgazing that they didn't get the chance to do when knocking out a script for the A Team.

It only took a couple of minutes to have me in tears. But I have to say they did layer on the drama.
It's like a therapy-light.
And in a TV series that was long-running and covered many of life issues, I wouldn't object if they show that in schools. Or studied it at Uni. I know UK University media related degrees lean toward TOWIE
or Big Brother but I recommend Highway To Heaven.

Now, it is hidden away on the sort of channel that calls itself something like True Entertainment.
Which means that in the advert breaks you are faced with an inordinate number of appeals for Kuymbe - a child prodigy discovered by Save the Children who found him starving and are refusing to feed him with any
of its multi-million pound resources until I send £2.

That lot could do with watching a few episodes from Highway To Heaven.

I also liked The Equalizer.
He kicked people's heads in.