Matt Houston
Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.
Type: tv
Season: 3
Episode: N/A
Duration: 60 minutes
Release: 1982-09-26
Rating: 6.2
Season 1 - Matt Houston
1982-10-03
other characters: Ron Randolph, Lelani, Camalani
A disreputable tabloid's publisher is nearly killed after telling his four worst enemies he plans to run a front-page story on them.
1982-10-17
Houston's old flame (Cristina Ferrare), a model, hires him when she is accused of killing her employer, a famous fashion designer.
1982-10-24
A pro quarterback (John Beck), Matt's college teammate, is blackmailed by a man who says he has proof the player killed his coach.
1982-10-31
other characters: Todd Gallager, Rick
Matt enters the film world to investigate after a drink from a faded star's (Janet Leigh) glass instantly kills her new leading man.
1982-11-07
other characters: Roger Marsden (murdered)
A restaurant critic's (James Coco) dinner is disrupted when a gelatin mold brought to his table contains his partner's severed head.
1982-11-21
other characters: Alice, Wyndell Murdock, Glenda Collins, Sam Gleason
Matt steps in when the mother of a Malibu lifeguard fears her daughter will be the next victim of a series of fatal shark attacks.
1982-11-28
other characters: Tony
An old friend (Hugh O'Brian) calls in Matt when kidnappers snatch a seriously ill Arab prince during a jet flight to Los Angeles.
1982-12-05
other characters: Riley (Security Guard), Ms. Stevenson (Secretary)
A robot designed by an electronics genius (David Cassidy) murders the brother (Troy Donahue) of it's creator.
1982-12-12
other characters: Landlord
After a research scientist is murdered during a party at Matt's place, a mutual friend of the victim asks Matt to investigate.
1983-01-02
An upcoming fight appears rigged when murder uncovers the champion's (Dorian Harewood) physical problems and his wife's alcoholism.
1983-01-09
other characters: John
The four ex-wives of a wealthy cat-food manufacturer mauled to death by a pet tiger hire Matt to solve the crime so they can collect the money from the will.
1983-01-16
other characters: Dorian
After a reunion with a secret childhood love, she asks Matt for help, fearing someone may die at a yacht-club party.
1983-01-23
Fake telegrams summon five famous people to Matt's penthouse for a Sunday meeting with murder on the agenda.
1983-02-20
other characters: Cletus Simms
From his padded cell, an institutionalized madman (Chuck Connors) hires escaped convicts to kill Houston.
1983-02-27
Matt must verify or disprove an alleged UFO encounter during which a scientist suffered a fatal heart attack.
1983-03-06
After costumed killers try to kill C.J. by forcing her off the road, she learns all her college sorority sisters are also in danger.
1983-03-13
other characters: Carter
A noted gossip columnist, Vonda Mirand, is murdered after threatening to expose the patrons of an exclusive bordello called the Afrodisia Fellowship.
1983-03-20
other characters: Decoy #1 (woman), Doris (hotel photographer), Mattie (dancer)
When a nightclub-singer friend (Robert Goulet) believes he has killed during alcohol-induced blackouts, Matt works to clear him.
1983-04-03
other characters: Kitchen Worker (possibly Randy or Tyler)
A codebook and a cryptic message provide Matt his only clues to preventing the predicted deaths of thousands.
1983-04-10
After Matt is found leaning over the dead body of a jockey (Lynn-Holly Johnson), he is charged with murder.
1983-04-17
When a novelist (Terry Moore) at a mystery-writers' convention is murdered, Matt finds himself involved in a real murder mystery.
1983-04-24
other characters: Senator Delaney, Sony
C.J. is held hostage by a famous criminal (Martin Landau) in order to free his terrorist son held by authorities on Matt's eyewitness testimony.
Season 2 - Matt Houston
1983-09-09
other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy
Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
1983-09-09
other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy
Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
1983-09-16
other characters: Jenson, Flo Nightingale, Mo Jo (pimp), Tyrone Hadley (murdered)
C.J. convinces Matt to help clear a former police officer imprisoned for a murder he claims he did not commit.
1983-09-23
other characters: Doctor, Dr. Austin, Heidi (waitress)
After Matt's one-night affair with an obsessed woman, she ransacks his home and murders.
1983-09-30
other characters: Henry Omant
Matt searches for a killer who has already slain three of twelve top centerfold models.
1983-10-07
other characters: ""Crazy"" Willie Conklin
A mother begs Matt to find her diabetic son, deported to Mexico because he witnessed a dirty I.N.S. agent rape a woman.
1983-10-21
other characters: Luther, Pasquel Martinez, Patrick (Marilyn's Son)
After one of Matt's employees is chased and shot by mobsters, his dying words to Matt is to protect a girl called Marilyn.
1983-10-28
other characters: Lori
An ex-newsman investigating a crooked union leader calls Matt for help just before becoming the victim of a bomb planted in his car.
1983-11-04
While investigating the murder of C.J.'s college roommate, Matt discovers she might have been involved with Chinese drug smugglers.
1983-11-18
A teenage prostitute dies when she tries to stop a child prostitution ring from snaring her younger sister.
1983-11-25
Matt must find one of a dead forger's original paintings, which is attracting an undue amount of interest from art dealers.
1983-12-02
other characters: Charles (Chauffer)
Skeptical Matt becomes the target of a self-proclaimed psychic (Robert Walker) working with a kidnapping ring.
1983-12-23
An international assassin (Judson Scott) kills a Navajo girl in order to use her apartment to have a clear shot at a victim.
1984-01-06
Attorney F. Lee Bailey decides to defend a man who has confessed to killing four teen-agers, then leaves C.J. to handle the details.
1984-01-13
other characters: Marla Pierce
A concert pianist (George Chakiris) is pursued by a former detective who he believes strangled 18 blond girls.
1984-01-20
After Matt learns the heads of a convalescent hospital murdered a nurse, he is shot.
1984-01-27
other characters: Arnie (boy)
Returning from Hawaii, retiree Novelli is charged with robbing a police vault of $2 million in cocaine.
1984-02-03
other characters: John Davis, Paula Channing (or Jenning), Carol
A psychiatrist's secretary discovers her boss' blackmail, then dies while leaving a message on Matt's answering machine.
1984-02-24
A man who murdered eight women, including Matt's fiancée, sends a clipping of his latest victim to Houston.
1984-03-02
A psychotic hospital orderly (Lou Ferrigno) who killed five men decides to make Matt's ailing father his next victim.
1984-03-09
other characters: Bella Ellis
When C.J. rejects a disturbed admirer's (Marjoe Gortner) advances, he kills her boyfriend and tries to murder her.
NOTE: The registration for Matt's helicopter is N58407 (different than the N10902 shown in the previous episode.
""Too Mean"" states that his fee for body guard services is $200 a day, plus expenses. After watching C.J. dial Matt we see that Matt's phone # at his Texas estate is 275-6206. The address for Matt's home in Pinewood is 1217 Overlook Drive. Derived from a closeup of C.J.'s check we know that C.J.'s home address is 12718 Alden Canyon Road, Los Angeles, Ca., 90046, and she banks at Federated Bank.
1984-03-23
A petty thief (Stuart Pankin) asks Matt's help to return $3 million he unwittingly stole from the mob.
1984-03-30
other characters: Veronica Sims (murdered)
Matt awakens in his penthouse after a month-long absence, remembering nothing and finding himself accused of murder.
Season 3 - Matt Houston
1984-09-21
Matt's uncle (Buddy Ebsen), an ex-spy, helps Matt prove he is a victim of mind control and establish his innocence of murder.
1984-09-28
other characters: Judge C. Sylos, Billy, Farris (possibly Coroner's Assistant), Dr. M. Granger (murdered)
When Hoyt's young daughter is kidnapped and held prisoner by a child molester (James Olson), Matt risks everything -- even his own life.
1984-10-12
other characters: Guard
Matt believes C.J.'s new love (Simon MacCorkindale), a rising TV newsman, is involved in a kidnapping captured on film.
1984-10-19
Matt must free a girl from a religious commune run by an evangelist who plans to take her inheritance of $3 million, and then kill her.
1984-10-26
other characters: Mike, Deputy Marsh
C.J. gets amnesia after an auto accident, and finds herself in jail with inmates working for a prostitution ring.
1984-11-02
Matt, Roy and ""Too Mean"" team up with an arrogant mercenary (Max Baer Jr.) to find Matt's cousin, who he thought died as a POW in Cambodia.
1984-11-09
Andy (Max Baer Jr.) appears to have betrayed Matt and the rest to the Cambodian warlord holding Matt's cousin captive.
1984-11-16
other characters: Kirby Andrews (Chauffeur), Monica, Beverly Roberts
Matt can't accept the perfect alibi of his chief suspect (James Read) in the deaths of two models, until he learns a family secret.
1984-11-23
other characters: Mickey (the chimp)
An international assassin (Judson Scott) hired to kill a Middle Eastern leader, ignores his orders and seeks revenge on Matt instead.
1984-11-30
Matt's old high-school classmate (Jenny Sherman) involves him in a plot concerning an ex-Army officer and smuggled Vietnamese gems.
1984-12-07
Matt must convince Hoyt a sporting-goods tycoon (Stuart Whitman) hunted two athletes like game animals.
1984-12-21
After an actress (Kay Lenz) is certain she saw her baby son, kidnapped a year earlier, with another woman in a park, she asks Matt for help.
1985-01-04
Matt is convinced that the man who kidnapped and tormented a little boy is the same man that kidnapped and tormented him when he was a boy.
1985-01-11
Matt rushes to find the girlfriend of his distraught cousin who threatens to leap from a rooftop.
1985-01-18
C.J., Roy and Matt investigate an embezzlement scheme in a once-bustling oil town.
1985-01-25
Matt investigates the murders of his college roommate's fiancée and another imminent bride.
1985-02-01
Matt receives unexpected help in a murder/extortion case from a fellow detective, the sister of one of the victims.
1985-02-08
A frightened stewardess (Shari Belafonte-Harper) comes to Matt after her friend (Ellen Bry) photographs a secret-society execution.
1985-02-15
other characters: Ed Thompson, The Chief
To flush the killer after his old CIA squad that call themselves ""The Five Fingers"", Roy pretends an attempt to kill him was successful.
1985-02-22
Matt falls for an heiress (Kerrie Keane) whose brother intends to use the family fortune to support Irish terrorists.
1985-03-15
other characters: Neil's girlfriend
Matt, Uncle Roy and C.J. join Hoyt's stakeout of a big drug payoff and wind up in the crossfire of a plot by the buyer to double-cross the seller.
1985-03-29
Matt's love, Elizabeth (Kerrie Keane), returns, while a murderer (Chuck McCann) uses Matt to publicize his deeds.
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