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She then promises him that she will become his guardian angel, forgoing all future assignments and the coveted promotion, to protect him from harm in prison. When she returns in the morning, however, the cell is empty. The citizens decide not to search for him, and it is revealed that Joey inadvertently caused the explosion after the devil tricked him into turning the boiler too high to warm some kittens he'd found.

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The perplexed Monica returns to the desert to find Tess and Zack. There, she learns that Zack was actually Jesus, and that her defending him was a test, which she passed by being willing to sacrifice herself for him. Monica is promoted to supervisor. As she leaves, she says her goodbyes to Gloria, and to Andrew, who gives her a pocket watch to remember their friendship by. Before parting, Tess gives Monica the keys to the Cadillac, as she is leaving her job to sit at God's feet. Monica is last shown driving away as the camera pans out over the desert.

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According to New York Times reviewer Caryn James, John Masius created the first pilot episode for the series, but it was a darker, less hopeful story than the producers wanted. Masius wrote the show as a reflection of his spiritual anger at the time at his two children being born disabled.

She described the pilot she received as "upsetting" as it "portrayed angels as recycled dead people with power over life and death". She initially declined the position, but during a lunch with Andy Hill , then President of CBS, she mentioned the show and suggested he find a producer who would create a show with "loving, joyful" angels that the audience would have to believe in. Williamson stated that she could not stop thinking about the show after that meeting, and eventually called to ask if the position was still open.

Though getting the position was no longer a sure thing, she passed up a more lucrative position directing a court drama and went in for an interview with CBS in June During her interview, she states she emphasized that she was a Christian and could only do a show that depicted angels in a way she felt was true to her view of angels and that was respectful towards God.

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She also indicated that the pilot should be redone from the beginning, keeping only the characters Monica and Tess, reworked. The studio agreed with her remarks and hired her. The pilot was filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah and the show was ready on schedule. The first episode aired on September 14, The lyrics to the show's theme song, "Walk With You", are sung at the beginning of each episode by Della Reese. In , Promised Land was launched as a spin-off series, following the Greene family whom Monica had met during one of her cases, as they travel the United States helping those in need.

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Four crossover episodes aired during Promised Land ' s three-season run. A variation of the " Madalyn Murray O'Hair petition" urban legend, which claims to seek a ban on religious programming, mentioned the show and appeared via e-mail chains despite O'Hair being deceased since and her original actual religious programming petition to the FCC being rejected in Touched by an Angel received mixed reviews from critics but positive reception from audiences.

However, the series received criticism from some people, calling it "syrupy" [18] [19] earlier reviews were skeptical of the show's first season. The Parents Television Council picked it as one of the best shows for family viewing. A book on the series, Touched by an Angel , was published by Zondervan in November Written by Williams and Robin Sheets, it contains background information on some of the stories featured, series production information, basic details on the first fifty episodes and profiles of Downey, Reese and Dye. It also has short story versions of four episodes: Also written by Williams, it collects twenty short stories based on episodes from the series.

An audio soundtrack, Touched by an Angel: The Album , was released on November 3, Christmas Album , was released on November 9, with 13 tracks of Christmas music.

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Four themed sets, each containing four episodes, have also been released. The first two, "The Inspiration Collection: Holiday" and "The Inspiration Collection: Hope" were released on November 10, ; [39] "The Inspiration Collection: Faith" and "The Inspiration Collection: Love" were released January 26, In Region 4, Shock Records has released five volumes of episodes from the series, each containing nine episodes and a set containing all five volumes together.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. But the Evil Angel's counsel — "Go forward Faustus in the famous art" — is more welcome. Paradise Lost by John Milton Milton's angels don't just fly around doing good or ill , they eat, drink fruit juice only and chat. The poet resentfully arms himself against his angel's kindness. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy "I don't believe in anything supernatural," says Tess, but she gets an angel for a suitor.

Angel Clare even plays a harp.

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This human angel "more spiritual than animal" wants a "pure" woman and is too high-minded to be able to understand Tess's corporeal nature. That is how the imagination works. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Bollywood film star Gibreel Farishta has an angelic screen name Farishta means "angel" in Urdu and after his plane is blown up over the English Channel he is magically transformed into the very angel Gibreel. He alights in England and we find he has acquired a halo.

But is he a force for good, or a deluded soul?