Monica (Roma Downey), Tess (Della Reese), and Andrew (John Dye) are a trio of angels sent to Earth to tell depressed and troubled people that God loves them and hasn't forgotten them.
Touched by an Angel succeeds in being so unpretentiously, innocently pure-minded - this is the Forrest Gump of fall '94 - that it's possible to feel sympathy for its ratings plight.