Highway to Heaven - S01E05 - Song of the Wild West

5. Song of the Wild West

Community Score

8.4 Great

First aired: 10/17/1984



The guys' latest assignment is reunite a broken family. Evelyn Higgins left her husband Tim and baby daughter

Sarah in search of a career in music and Tim never forgave her for it, even going as far as telling their daughter

that her mother has died. Evelyn had a fairly successful career after changing her name to Patsy Maynard, but

guilt and sorrow over her past life have led her to become a lush and a has-been who can only get gigs playing

small honkey-tonk bars. She is set to play one such place right outside her old hometown and her daughter eagerly

comes to see her, having no idea that the singer is her mother. Sarah shares her mother's love of music and wants

to be a professional country singer, against the wishes of her father who fears losing his daughter the same way he

lost his wife. Jonathan and Mark go to work in the bar/casino where Patsy sings. Through a little investigative work,

Mark discovers that the owner of the place is a crook who is rigging every game. Jonathan finds out that the former

owner lost the place in one of Nick's crooked games and died of a broken heart, while his wife Trudy stayed on as

cook because she had nowhere else to go.



Writer: Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff

Director: Victor French

Guest star: Chip Johnson (Harry Harris), Jerry Hardin (Tim Higgins), Clifton James (Nick Claybourne), Joan Kjar

(Trudy Swenson), Ronee Blakley (Patsy Maynard), J.S. Young (Man), Michele Greene (Sara Higgins)