Matt Houston (1982)
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Lawrence Gordon — Producer
Episodes 69
Stop The Presses
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.
Read MoreDeadly Fashion
Houston's old flame (Cristina Ferrare), a model, hires him when she is accused of killing her employer, a famous fashion designer.
Read MoreKilling Isn't Everything
A pro quarterback (John Beck), Matt's college teammate, is blackmailed by a man who says he has proof the player killed his coach.
Read MoreWho Would Kill Ramona?
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.
Read MoreRecipe For Murder
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.
Read MoreShark Bait
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.
Read MoreThe Kidnapping
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.
Read MoreJoey's Here
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.
Read MoreThe Good Doctor
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.
Read MoreThe Rock and The Hard Place
An upcoming fight appears rigged when murder uncovers the champion's (Dorian Harewood) physical problems and his wife's alcoholism.
Read MoreThe Purrfect Crime
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.
Read MoreThe Yacht Club Murders
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.
Read MoreWhose Party Is It Anyway?
Fake telegrams summon five famous people to Matt's penthouse for a Sunday meeting with murder on the agenda.
Read MoreGet Houston
other characters: Cletus Simms
From his padded cell, an institutionalized madman (Chuck Connors) hires escaped convicts to kill Houston.
Read MoreThe Visitors
Matt must verify or disprove an alleged UFO encounter during which a scientist suffered a fatal heart attack.
Read MoreHere's Another Fine Mess
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.
Read MoreThe Beverly Hills Social Club
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.
Read MoreThe Showgirl Murders
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.
Read MoreFear For Tomorrow
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.
Read MoreA Deadly Parlay
After Matt is found leaning over the dead body of a jockey (Lynn-Holly Johnson), he is charged with murder.
Read MoreA Novel Way To Die
When a novelist (Terry Moore) at a mystery-writers' convention is murdered, Matt finds himself involved in a real murder mystery.
Read MoreThe Hunted
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.
Read MoreHeritage (1)
other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy
Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
Read MoreHeritage (2)
other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy
Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
Read MoreThe Woman in White
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.
Read MoreLove You To Death
other characters: Doctor, Dr. Austin, Heidi (waitress)
After Matt's one-night affair with an obsessed woman, she ransacks his home and murders.
Read MoreThe Centerfold Murders
other characters: Henry Omant
Matt searches for a killer who has already slain three of twelve top centerfold models.
Read MoreNeedle In A Haystack
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.
Read MoreThe Ghost of Carter Gault
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.
Read MoreChina Doll
While investigating the murder of C.J.'s college roommate, Matt discovers she might have been involved with Chinese drug smugglers.
Read MoreThe Crying Clown
Matt must find one of a dead forger's original paintings, which is attracting an undue amount of interest from art dealers.
Read MoreThe Outsider
other characters: Charles (Chauffer)
Skeptical Matt becomes the target of a self-proclaimed psychic (Robert Walker) working with a kidnapping ring.
Read MoreTarget: Miss World
An international assassin (Judson Scott) kills a Navajo girl in order to use her apartment to have a clear shot at a victim.
Read MoreThe Monster
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.
Read MoreWaltz of Death
other characters: Marla Pierce
A concert pianist (George Chakiris) is pursued by a former detective who he believes strangled 18 blond girls.
Read MoreHouston Is Dead
After Matt learns the heads of a convalescent hospital murdered a nurse, he is shot.
Read MoreCriss-Cross
other characters: Arnie (boy)
Returning from Hawaii, retiree Novelli is charged with robbing a police vault of $2 million in cocaine.
Read MoreThe Bikini Murders
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.
Read MoreDeath Match
A man who murdered eight women, including Matt's fiancée, sends a clipping of his latest victim to Houston.
Read MoreBlood Ties
A psychotic hospital orderly (Lou Ferrigno) who killed five men decides to make Matt's ailing father his next victim.
Read MoreThe Secret Admirer
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.
Read MoreCash and Carry
A petty thief (Stuart Pankin) asks Matt's help to return $3 million he unwittingly stole from the mob.
Read MoreOn The Run (1)
other characters: Veronica Sims (murdered)
Matt awakens in his penthouse after a month-long absence, remembering nothing and finding himself accused of murder.
Read MoreWanted Man (2)
Matt's uncle (Buddy Ebsen), an ex-spy, helps Matt prove he is a victim of mind control and establish his innocence of murder.
Read MoreEyewitness
other characters: Guard
Matt believes C.J.'s new love (Simon MacCorkindale), a rising TV newsman, is involved in a kidnapping captured on film.
Read MoreApostle of Death
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.
Read MoreReturn to Nam (1)
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.
Read MoreEscape from Nam (2)
Andy (Max Baer Jr.) appears to have betrayed Matt and the rest to the Cambodian warlord holding Matt's cousin captive.
Read MoreHigh Fashion Murders
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.
Read MoreDeath Stalk
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.
Read MoreBlood Money
Matt's old high-school classmate (Jenny Sherman) involves him in a plot concerning an ex-Army officer and smuggled Vietnamese gems.
Read MoreDeadly Games
Matt must convince Hoyt a sporting-goods tycoon (Stuart Whitman) hunted two athletes like game animals.
Read MoreThe Nightmare Man
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.
Read MoreBreakpoint
Matt rushes to find the girlfriend of his distraught cousin who threatens to leap from a rooftop.
Read MoreDeath Trap
C.J., Roy and Matt investigate an embezzlement scheme in a once-bustling oil town.
Read MoreThe Honeymoon Murders
Matt investigates the murders of his college roommate's fiancée and another imminent bride.
Read MoreBeach Club Murders
Matt receives unexpected help in a murder/extortion case from a fellow detective, the sister of one of the victims.
Read MoreNew Orleans Nightmare
A frightened stewardess (Shari Belafonte-Harper) comes to Matt after her friend (Ellen Bry) photographs a secret-society execution.
Read MoreCompany Secrets
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.
Read MoreKilling Time
Matt falls for an heiress (Kerrie Keane) whose brother intends to use the family fortune to support Irish terrorists.
Read MoreDeath Watch
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.
Read MoreFinal Vows
Matt's love, Elizabeth (Kerrie Keane), returns, while a murderer (Chuck McCann) uses Matt to publicize his deeds.
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