Highway to Heaven (TV Series) For the Love of Larry (1986) User Reviews

Outstanding

[atrac · 9/10 · 11 August 2009]

This episode really broadsided me at the ending. Even though this review is marked for spoilers and the only other published review for this gives away the ending, I still don't want to mention it.

Let's just say it was brilliant, wonderful, and incredibly touching (brought me to tears in fact). It was a marvelously crafted teleplay and after watching it again, indeed, the "clues" where there, but I did not catch them the first time viewing it. If you are caught up in the story as I was, you just don't. And that's the sign of a good story (such as "The Sixth Sense.").

A+ An incredibly solid episode.

For the love of Larry

[h-krause4244 · 10/10 · 25 December 2006]

This surely was the most touching episode from this series ever. Although I do not believe in an afterlife, I liked the idea of the departed dog saving his young master and his father (and some other boy threatened by a dangerous dog) very much.

The end was not so surprising to me, as in Germany - where I am from - the title of this story was "Grüße aus dem Hundehimmel" (Greetings from Dog Heaven), which was some sort of a spoiler. But in fact also the English speaking watcher could have a guess of the dog's being dead. How otherwise would it have been possible of the dog escaping from any place where he had been caught, and why did Jonathan (being an angel!) not know what this was all about? I hope that when I die (and there is an afterlife after all), I will be together again with all beings (animals and humans likewise) I loved in my life. Simply wonderful.

Heartbreaking

[westside90213valencia · 10/10 · 18 February 2020]

This episode will break your heart and stay with you always