When actor, producer, and director Michael Landon died 20 years ago today, many in Christian America thought they had lost one of their own.
After all, this was the man responsible for Highway to Heaven, the weekly extrusion of spiritual melodrama that first convinced network executives that American viewers would enjoy being touched by an angel. If further proof were needed, Landon appeared on The 700 Club describing feeling “electric” when playing the God-fearing icons of family values. Much of his oeuvre is now distributed by an evangelical publishing house.
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