The show about Angels helping random people started in 1994 and at the height of its popularity an average of 14 million Americans tuned in each Sunday…
This popularity, the general good vibes and the star power of Della Reese meant that it was able to book some extraordinary guests, I’m talking: Maya Angelou, Celine Dion, Mohammed Ali…
There was also an episode where Bill Cosby played an Angel that…you know… touched someone.
Another tried tackle racism and featured civil rights icon Rosa Parks as herself…but then somehow saw Roma Downey’s white angel character transformed into a black woman…which you know…times sure have changed…
Touched by An Angel is also on many, many actors’ IMDB pages…here’s everyone’s current favorite Pedro Pascal making an appearance in 2001
By 2003 though the showrunners decided to call it quits because viewership had fallen dramatically thanks in part to a somewhat sacrilegious change to a Saturday timeslot but also because by the 9th and final season the formula was getting repetitive and stale.
