To say this episode is the best would sell it short. It is a story of love, of a mother & child, of essential kindness onto others, & the will to allow love into your heart. And it is honest & unflinching in that. It brought me to tears for both its sadness and its beauty.
More so than even the pilot does this episode show you what is so timeless about Highway to Heaven. What is great about it. Yes it is of its time 1984, yes maybe in ways culture & demographics have changed. But what hasn't changed? We are all human. Full of pain, fear, and love and the hope of love. How kind love can be, to let others in to your heart & to your life.
Maybe Johnathan Smith the Angel bringing a little kindness is cliche, its too earnest. But that honest to God earnestness in kindness is what makes these stories work & the story of To Touch the Moon one of the best episodes of television I've ever watched. I was in tears by episodes end.
Never let this show be forgotten. Never forget to love.