Touched by an Angel

- Season 6

(1999)

A US senator is called upon to bring to light the suffering of the people of Sudan in the illegal slave trade. Initially the senator (married to a political cynic) refuses but, nudged by her son, it soon changes.

Set during World War II, 5 US troopers are caught behind enemy lines. As each one dies they leave letters, that is, all except one.

A support group for terminally ill people try to prepare themselves for their own death. Monica leads the group and helps each of them recognize what they want to do to fulfill their final wishes.

A migrant family follows the crops. Tino has a musical gift and Tess helps him use his voice in the local church and submit for a musical scholarship. The father hurts his back and needs Tino in the fields. The angels must help them.

Molly plans a surprise party for her husband when she learns she may have cancer. Andrew is a worker on their farm and tells Molly to tell her husband. Andrew learns he is not there for Molly as there is another tragedy about to happen.

Lonnie is a homeless man who is taken the hospital ER because he is suicidal. Lonnie's friend, Duncan is the doctor. Another personality is trying to take Lonnie's soul. The angels and Duncan must help heal Lonnie.

A member of an inner-city choir is more concerned with her solo entry in a competition than the group's performance.

The angels must help a newspaper reporter remember her original ideals in finding and reporting the news.

Uncle Dudley owned a taffy store, and had a television show for the children. When he died, his son inherited the business but it is losing money. The angels must show him how much the people love his store and the memory of his father.

Robert wants to visit his mother, and his wife reluctantly agrees even though she does not like the old neighborhood. As days pass, the mother calls Robert to help her, and he is killed in transit. The two women are angry at each other.

At a holiday party Nick proposes to Angela but she fears commitment. Angela talks to Andrew about her father, the reason for her fear, and the time capsule they built. She agrees to open the capsule and then finds the truth about her father

A construction worker is fired because he spoke out about the shortcuts being taken on a building being built. Desperate for a job, he becomes a chauffeur and finds the clients are gangsters. That's when his whole world turns upside down.

A boy's parents are divorced and bickering. The boy feels torn and he wants to divorce his parents.

A successful business man has time for his work but not for his wife. When he is unavailable for their 20th wedding anniversary, the wife connects with a former boyfriend.

Monica works with a group of teenagers from Ireland--some Catholic, some Protestant, all scarred in different ways from the Troubles--for a missionary program in the United States. They are to restore an old house and must work in harmony.

When thought to have been rejected by him, a woman sets up a perfect bowling game so she can have the satisfaction of shattering his joy.

A Vietnam veteran, an artist, and a dying mother all come together for the security guard's final day at an art museum. Haunted by a painting and his past, the veteran must come to terms with a tragic Christmas day.

An elderly man no longer believes in God. When he finds out his devout son is dying from a brain tumor, he must find his own faith again.

Monica and Tess enter a woman's prison to help a woman who thinks she was wrongly convicted of killing a man. Monica helps stage a play in prison to get the women to open up. Andrew must help the father of that man come to forgive the woman.

The angels must help a teenager whose family lives on a time-line for every activity. The teen is diagnosed with diabetes and it interrupts her athletic schedule and the parents' life as they try to open a new restaurant.

A grown man is too attached to his mother to let her live her own life and have her own money. Monica and Tess comes to see Abby for a clothing donation and gets her to visit the senior home. Abby moves there, and her son tries to get her to come back home.

Ricky is a gas station attendant who just lost his job since the station is closing. Monica goes to help with the closing inventory of items, and to convince him that a door closing opens another door and that he needs to pursue his poetry.

While learning to parallel park, Monica bumps into a man who walks in front of the car. While not hurt, he is rude to her. Monica is upset and it seems to affect her whole day regardless of how she tries to make it up to him.

Monica, Tess, and Andrew attend a circus to help a young boy who has been in the circus all his life. His father is a dwarf who is the circus clown. Both have trouble accepting the father's height.

Monica, Tess and Andrew return to see Audrey Carmichael, now an alcoholic and still angry over her son's death. Emma, another angel, shows up to assist, and Andrew later gets in touch with a woman who may have a connection to Audrey.

With a new computer in the house, a young daughter accidentally clicks a link to a porn site. When the father takes control to change the site, he becomes interested in online porn and it starts to affect his home and work life.