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Matt Houston
1982 - 1985 6.2 (25 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
ABC
Created By
Lawrence Gordon

Matt Houston

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Douglas S. Cramer, Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling, Lawrence Gordon

Top Cast

Lee Horsley
Lee Horsley

Matt Houston

Pamela Hensley
Pamela Hensley

C.J. Parsons

Lincoln Kilpatrick
Lincoln Kilpatrick

Lt. Michael Hoyt

Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen

Roy Houston

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1982)

No overview available.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: X-22 (1)
1982-09-26

Synopsis coming soon.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: X-22 (2)
1982-09-26

Synopsis coming soon.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Stop The Presses
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Deadly Fashion
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Killing Isn't Everything
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Who Would Kill Ramona?
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Recipe For Murder
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Shark Bait
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Kidnapping
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Joey's Here
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Good Doctor
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Rock and The Hard Place
1983-01-02

An upcoming fight appears rigged when murder uncovers the champion's (Dorian Harewood) physical problems and his wife's alcoholism.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Purrfect Crime
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Yacht Club Murders
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Whose Party Is It Anyway?
1983-01-23

Fake telegrams summon five famous people to Matt's penthouse for a Sunday meeting with murder on the agenda.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Get Houston
1983-02-20

other characters: Cletus Simms From his padded cell, an institutionalized madman (Chuck Connors) hires escaped convicts to kill Houston.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Visitors
1983-02-27

Matt must verify or disprove an alleged UFO encounter during which a scientist suffered a fatal heart attack.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Here's Another Fine Mess
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Beverly Hills Social Club
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Showgirl Murders
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Fear For Tomorrow
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: A Deadly Parlay
1983-04-10

After Matt is found leaning over the dead body of a jockey (Lynn-Holly Johnson), he is charged with murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: A Novel Way To Die
1983-04-17

When a novelist (Terry Moore) at a mystery-writers' convention is murdered, Matt finds himself involved in a real murder mystery.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Hunted
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1983)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Heritage (1)
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Heritage (2)
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Woman in White
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Love You To Death
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Centerfold Murders
1983-09-30

other characters: Henry Omant Matt searches for a killer who has already slain three of twelve top centerfold models.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Needle In A Haystack
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Marilyn
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Ghost of Carter Gault
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: China Doll
1983-11-04

While investigating the murder of C.J.'s college roommate, Matt discovers she might have been involved with Chinese drug smugglers.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Butterfly
1983-11-18

A teenage prostitute dies when she tries to stop a child prostitution ring from snaring her younger sister.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Crying Clown
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Outsider
1983-12-02

other characters: Charles (Chauffer) Skeptical Matt becomes the target of a self-proclaimed psychic (Robert Walker) working with a kidnapping ring.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Target: Miss World
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Monster
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Waltz of Death
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Houston Is Dead
1984-01-20

After Matt learns the heads of a convalescent hospital murdered a nurse, he is shot.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Criss-Cross
1984-01-27

other characters: Arnie (boy) Returning from Hawaii, retiree Novelli is charged with robbing a police vault of $2 million in cocaine.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Bikini Murders
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Death Match
1984-02-24

A man who murdered eight women, including Matt's fiancée, sends a clipping of his latest victim to Houston.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Blood Ties
1984-03-02

A psychotic hospital orderly (Lou Ferrigno) who killed five men decides to make Matt's ailing father his next victim.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Secret Admirer
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Cash and Carry
1984-03-23

A petty thief (Stuart Pankin) asks Matt's help to return $3 million he unwittingly stole from the mob.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: On The Run (1)
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1984)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Wanted Man (2)
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Vanished
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Eyewitness
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Apostle of Death
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Caged
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Return to Nam (1)
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Escape from Nam (2)
1984-11-09

Andy (Max Baer Jr.) appears to have betrayed Matt and the rest to the Cambodian warlord holding Matt's cousin captive.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: High Fashion Murders
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Death Stalk
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Blood Money
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Deadly Games
1984-12-07

Matt must convince Hoyt a sporting-goods tycoon (Stuart Whitman) hunted two athletes like game animals.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Stolen
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Nightmare Man
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Breakpoint
1985-01-11

Matt rushes to find the girlfriend of his distraught cousin who threatens to leap from a rooftop.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Death Trap
1985-01-18

C.J., Roy and Matt investigate an embezzlement scheme in a once-bustling oil town.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Honeymoon Murders
1985-01-25

Matt investigates the murders of his college roommate's fiancée and another imminent bride.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Beach Club Murders
1985-02-01

Matt receives unexpected help in a murder/extortion case from a fellow detective, the sister of one of the victims.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: New Orleans Nightmare
1985-02-08

A frightened stewardess (Shari Belafonte-Harper) comes to Matt after her friend (Ellen Bry) photographs a secret-society execution.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Company Secrets
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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Killing Time
1985-02-22

Matt falls for an heiress (Kerrie Keane) whose brother intends to use the family fortune to support Irish terrorists.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Death Watch
1985-03-15

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Final Vows
1985-03-29

Matt's love, Elizabeth (Kerrie Keane), returns, while a murderer (Chuck McCann) uses Matt to publicize his deeds.

Runtime: 60 min

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