Teen Angel is an American teen fantasy

Fantasy television

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 serial

Serial (radio and television)

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 drama series

Dramatic programming

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 that aired on the Disney Channel

Disney Channel

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. Starring Jason Priestley

Jason Priestley

Jason Bradford Priestley is a Canadian-American actor and director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role which catapulted him to recognition in the early 1990s....

, the series was first broadcast on The All New Mickey Mouse Club (MMC) on April 24, 1989 and ended its run on May 22, 1989. Teen Angel was followed by a sequel series, Teen Angel Returns, also starring Priestley and future Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American drama series that originally aired from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000 on Fox and was produced by Spelling Television in the United States, and subsequently on various networks around the world. It is the first series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise...

co-star Jennie Garth

Jennie Garth

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, which aired from October 2 to October 27, 1989.

Synopsis

Priestley stars as a 1950s teenage guardian angel

Guardian angel

A guardian angel is an angel assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group. Belief in guardian angels can be traced throughout all antiquity...

named Buzz Gunderson who was killed with a single punch. Buzz was given various assignments and tasks he was to complete in order to get into heaven.