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.
Producer: Aaron Spelling, Leonard Goldberg, Lawrence Gordon, Douglas S. Cramer
Matt Houston
C.J. Parsons
Lt. Michael Hoyt
Roy Houston
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24 episodes
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Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minHouston's old flame (Cristina Ferrare), a model, hires him when she is accused of killing her employer, a famous fashion designer.
Runtime: 60 minA pro quarterback (John Beck), Matt's college teammate, is blackmailed by a man who says he has proof the player killed his coach.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minAn upcoming fight appears rigged when murder uncovers the champion's (Dorian Harewood) physical problems and his wife's alcoholism.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Dorian After a reunion with a secret childhood love, she asks Matt for help, fearing someone may die at a yacht-club party.
Runtime: 60 minFake telegrams summon five famous people to Matt's penthouse for a Sunday meeting with murder on the agenda.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Cletus Simms From his padded cell, an institutionalized madman (Chuck Connors) hires escaped convicts to kill Houston.
Runtime: 60 minMatt must verify or disprove an alleged UFO encounter during which a scientist suffered a fatal heart attack.
Runtime: 60 minAfter costumed killers try to kill C.J. by forcing her off the road, she learns all her college sorority sisters are also in danger.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Carter A noted gossip columnist, Vonda Mirand, is murdered after threatening to expose the patrons of an exclusive bordello called the Afrodisia Fellowship.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minAfter Matt is found leaning over the dead body of a jockey (Lynn-Holly Johnson), he is charged with murder.
Runtime: 60 minWhen a novelist (Terry Moore) at a mystery-writers' convention is murdered, Matt finds himself involved in a real murder mystery.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
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23 episodes
other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Doctor, Dr. Austin, Heidi (waitress) After Matt's one-night affair with an obsessed woman, she ransacks his home and murders.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Henry Omant Matt searches for a killer who has already slain three of twelve top centerfold models.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minWhile investigating the murder of C.J.'s college roommate, Matt discovers she might have been involved with Chinese drug smugglers.
Runtime: 60 minA teenage prostitute dies when she tries to stop a child prostitution ring from snaring her younger sister.
Runtime: 60 minMatt must find one of a dead forger's original paintings, which is attracting an undue amount of interest from art dealers.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Charles (Chauffer) Skeptical Matt becomes the target of a self-proclaimed psychic (Robert Walker) working with a kidnapping ring.
Runtime: 60 minAn international assassin (Judson Scott) kills a Navajo girl in order to use her apartment to have a clear shot at a victim.
Runtime: 60 minAttorney F. Lee Bailey decides to defend a man who has confessed to killing four teen-agers, then leaves C.J. to handle the details.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Marla Pierce A concert pianist (George Chakiris) is pursued by a former detective who he believes strangled 18 blond girls.
Runtime: 60 minAfter Matt learns the heads of a convalescent hospital murdered a nurse, he is shot.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Arnie (boy) Returning from Hawaii, retiree Novelli is charged with robbing a police vault of $2 million in cocaine.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minA man who murdered eight women, including Matt's fiancée, sends a clipping of his latest victim to Houston.
Runtime: 60 minA psychotic hospital orderly (Lou Ferrigno) who killed five men decides to make Matt's ailing father his next victim.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minA petty thief (Stuart Pankin) asks Matt's help to return $3 million he unwittingly stole from the mob.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Veronica Sims (murdered) Matt awakens in his penthouse after a month-long absence, remembering nothing and finding himself accused of murder.
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22 episodes
Matt's uncle (Buddy Ebsen), an ex-spy, helps Matt prove he is a victim of mind control and establish his innocence of murder.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Guard Matt believes C.J.'s new love (Simon MacCorkindale), a rising TV newsman, is involved in a kidnapping captured on film.
Runtime: 60 minMatt 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.
Runtime: 60 minother characters: Mike, Deputy Marsh C.J. gets amnesia after an auto accident, and finds herself in jail with inmates working for a prostitution ring.
Runtime: 60 minMatt, 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.
Runtime: 60 minAndy (Max Baer Jr.) appears to have betrayed Matt and the rest to the Cambodian warlord holding Matt's cousin captive.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minMatt's old high-school classmate (Jenny Sherman) involves him in a plot concerning an ex-Army officer and smuggled Vietnamese gems.
Runtime: 60 minMatt must convince Hoyt a sporting-goods tycoon (Stuart Whitman) hunted two athletes like game animals.
Runtime: 60 minAfter 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.
Runtime: 60 minMatt 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.
Runtime: 60 minMatt rushes to find the girlfriend of his distraught cousin who threatens to leap from a rooftop.
Runtime: 60 minC.J., Roy and Matt investigate an embezzlement scheme in a once-bustling oil town.
Runtime: 60 minMatt investigates the murders of his college roommate's fiancée and another imminent bride.
Runtime: 60 minMatt receives unexpected help in a murder/extortion case from a fellow detective, the sister of one of the victims.
Runtime: 60 minA frightened stewardess (Shari Belafonte-Harper) comes to Matt after her friend (Ellen Bry) photographs a secret-society execution.
Runtime: 60 minother 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.
Runtime: 60 minMatt falls for an heiress (Kerrie Keane) whose brother intends to use the family fortune to support Irish terrorists.
Runtime: 60 minMatt, 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.
Runtime: 60 minMatt's love, Elizabeth (Kerrie Keane), returns, while a murderer (Chuck McCann) uses Matt to publicize his deeds.
Runtime: 60 min