Touched by an Angel - Season 5 (1998)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 missile, her teeth cable becomes loose. She is unable to contact the team inside the missile.