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Matt Houston

All Episodes 1982 - 1985

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  • 1982-09-27T00:00:00Z
  • 1h
  • 2d 21h (69 episodes)
  • Lawrence Gordon
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
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.

69 episodes

Series Premiere

1982-09-27T00:00:00Z

1x01 X-22 (1)

Series Premiere

1x01 X-22 (1)

  • 1982-09-27T00:00:00Z1h

Synopsis coming soon.

1982-09-27T00:00:00Z

1x02 X-22 (2)

1x02 X-22 (2)

  • 1982-09-27T00:00:00Z1h

Synopsis coming soon.

1982-10-04T00:00:00Z

1x03 Stop The Presses

1x03 Stop The Presses

  • 1982-10-04T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1982-10-18T00:00:00Z

1x04 Deadly Fashion

1x04 Deadly Fashion

  • 1982-10-18T00:00:00Z1h

Houston's old flame (Cristina Ferrare), a model, hires him when she is accused of killing her employer, a famous fashion designer.

1982-10-25T00:00:00Z

1x05 Killing Isn't Everything

1x05 Killing Isn't Everything

  • 1982-10-25T00:00:00Z1h

A pro quarterback (John Beck), Matt's college teammate, is blackmailed by a man who says he has proof the player killed his coach.

1982-11-01T01:00:00Z

1x06 Who Would Kill Ramona?

1x06 Who Would Kill Ramona?

  • 1982-11-01T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1982-11-08T01:00:00Z

1x07 Recipe For Murder

1x07 Recipe For Murder

  • 1982-11-08T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1982-11-22T01:00:00Z

1x08 Shark Bait

1x08 Shark Bait

  • 1982-11-22T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1982-11-29T01:00:00Z

1x09 The Kidnapping

1x09 The Kidnapping

  • 1982-11-29T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1982-12-06T01:00:00Z

1x10 Joey's Here

1x10 Joey's Here

  • 1982-12-06T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1982-12-13T01:00:00Z

1x11 The Good Doctor

1x11 The Good Doctor

  • 1982-12-13T01:00:00Z1h

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.

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

1983-01-10T01:00:00Z

1x13 The Purrfect Crime

1x13 The Purrfect Crime

  • 1983-01-10T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1983-01-17T01:00:00Z

1x14 The Yacht Club Murders

1x14 The Yacht Club Murders

  • 1983-01-17T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1983-01-24T01:00:00Z

1x15 Whose Party Is It Anyway?

1x15 Whose Party Is It Anyway?

  • 1983-01-24T01:00:00Z1h

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

1983-02-21T01:00:00Z

1x16 Get Houston

1x16 Get Houston

  • 1983-02-21T01:00:00Z1h

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

1983-02-28T01:00:00Z

1x17 The Visitors

1x17 The Visitors

  • 1983-02-28T01:00:00Z1h

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

1983-03-07T01:00:00Z

1x18 Here's Another Fine Mess

1x18 Here's Another Fine Mess

  • 1983-03-07T01:00:00Z1h

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.

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.

1983-03-21T01:00:00Z

1x20 The Showgirl Murders

1x20 The Showgirl Murders

  • 1983-03-21T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1983-04-04T01:00:00Z

1x21 Fear For Tomorrow

1x21 Fear For Tomorrow

  • 1983-04-04T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1983-04-11T01:00:00Z

1x22 A Deadly Parlay

1x22 A Deadly Parlay

  • 1983-04-11T01:00:00Z1h

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

1983-04-18T01:00:00Z

1x23 A Novel Way To Die

1x23 A Novel Way To Die

  • 1983-04-18T01:00:00Z1h

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

Season Finale

1983-04-25T00:00:00Z

1x24 The Hunted

Season Finale

1x24 The Hunted

  • 1983-04-25T00:00:00Z1h

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 Premiere

1983-09-10T00:00:00Z

2x01 Heritage (1)

Season Premiere

2x01 Heritage (1)

  • 1983-09-10T00:00:00Z1h

other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.

1983-09-10T00:00:00Z

2x02 Heritage (2)

2x02 Heritage (2)

  • 1983-09-10T00:00:00Z1h

other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.

1983-09-17T00:00:00Z

2x03 The Woman in White

2x03 The Woman in White

  • 1983-09-17T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1983-09-24T00:00:00Z

2x04 Love You To Death

2x04 Love You To Death

  • 1983-09-24T00:00:00Z1h

other characters: Doctor, Dr. Austin, Heidi (waitress) After Matt's one-night affair with an obsessed woman, she ransacks his home and murders.

1983-10-01T00:00:00Z

2x05 The Centerfold Murders

2x05 The Centerfold Murders

  • 1983-10-01T00:00:00Z1h

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

1983-10-08T00:00:00Z

2x06 Needle In A Haystack

2x06 Needle In A Haystack

  • 1983-10-08T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1983-10-22T00:00:00Z

2x07 Marilyn

2x07 Marilyn

  • 1983-10-22T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1983-10-29T00:00:00Z

2x08 The Ghost of Carter Gault

2x08 The Ghost of Carter Gault

  • 1983-10-29T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1983-11-05T01:00:00Z

2x09 China Doll

2x09 China Doll

  • 1983-11-05T01:00:00Z1h

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

1983-11-19T01:00:00Z

2x10 Butterfly

2x10 Butterfly

  • 1983-11-19T01:00:00Z1h

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

1983-11-26T01:00:00Z

2x11 The Crying Clown

2x11 The Crying Clown

  • 1983-11-26T01:00:00Z1h

Matt must find one of a dead forger's original paintings, which is attracting an undue amount of interest from art dealers.

1983-12-03T01:00:00Z

2x12 The Outsider

2x12 The Outsider

  • 1983-12-03T01:00:00Z1h

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

1983-12-24T01:00:00Z

2x13 Target: Miss World

2x13 Target: Miss World

  • 1983-12-24T01:00:00Z1h

An international assassin (Judson Scott) kills a Navajo girl in order to use her apartment to have a clear shot at a victim.

1984-01-07T01:00:00Z

2x14 The Monster

2x14 The Monster

  • 1984-01-07T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1984-01-14T01:00:00Z

2x15 Waltz of Death

2x15 Waltz of Death

  • 1984-01-14T01:00:00Z1h

other characters: Marla Pierce A concert pianist (George Chakiris) is pursued by a former detective who he believes strangled 18 blond girls.

1984-01-21T01:00:00Z

2x16 Houston Is Dead

2x16 Houston Is Dead

  • 1984-01-21T01:00:00Z1h

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

1984-01-28T01:00:00Z

2x17 Criss-Cross

2x17 Criss-Cross

  • 1984-01-28T01:00:00Z1h

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

1984-02-04T01:00:00Z

2x18 The Bikini Murders

2x18 The Bikini Murders

  • 1984-02-04T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1984-02-25T01:00:00Z

2x19 Death Match

2x19 Death Match

  • 1984-02-25T01:00:00Z1h

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

1984-03-03T01:00:00Z

2x20 Blood Ties

2x20 Blood Ties

  • 1984-03-03T01:00:00Z1h

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

1984-03-10T01:00:00Z

2x21 The Secret Admirer

2x21 The Secret Admirer

  • 1984-03-10T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1984-03-24T01:00:00Z

2x22 Cash and Carry

2x22 Cash and Carry

  • 1984-03-24T01:00:00Z1h

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

Season Finale

1984-03-31T01:00:00Z

2x23 On The Run (1)

Season Finale

2x23 On The Run (1)

  • 1984-03-31T01:00:00Z1h

other characters: Veronica Sims (murdered) Matt awakens in his penthouse after a month-long absence, remembering nothing and finding himself accused of murder.

Season Premiere

1984-09-22T00:00:00Z

3x01 Wanted Man (2)

Season Premiere

3x01 Wanted Man (2)

  • 1984-09-22T00:00:00Z1h

Matt's uncle (Buddy Ebsen), an ex-spy, helps Matt prove he is a victim of mind control and establish his innocence of murder.

1984-09-29T00:00:00Z

3x02 Vanished

3x02 Vanished

  • 1984-09-29T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1984-10-13T00:00:00Z

3x03 Eyewitness

3x03 Eyewitness

  • 1984-10-13T00:00:00Z1h

other characters: Guard Matt believes C.J.'s new love (Simon MacCorkindale), a rising TV newsman, is involved in a kidnapping captured on film.

1984-10-20T00:00:00Z

3x04 Apostle of Death

3x04 Apostle of Death

  • 1984-10-20T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1984-10-27T00:00:00Z

3x05 Caged

3x05 Caged

  • 1984-10-27T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1984-11-03T01:00:00Z

3x06 Return to Nam (1)

3x06 Return to Nam (1)

  • 1984-11-03T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1984-11-10T01:00:00Z

3x07 Escape from Nam (2)

3x07 Escape from Nam (2)

  • 1984-11-10T01:00:00Z1h

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

1984-11-17T01:00:00Z

3x08 High Fashion Murders

3x08 High Fashion Murders

  • 1984-11-17T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1984-11-24T01:00:00Z

3x09 Death Stalk

3x09 Death Stalk

  • 1984-11-24T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1984-12-01T01:00:00Z

3x10 Blood Money

3x10 Blood Money

  • 1984-12-01T01:00:00Z1h

Matt's old high-school classmate (Jenny Sherman) involves him in a plot concerning an ex-Army officer and smuggled Vietnamese gems.

1984-12-08T01:00:00Z

3x11 Deadly Games

3x11 Deadly Games

  • 1984-12-08T01:00:00Z1h

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

1984-12-22T01:00:00Z

3x12 Stolen

3x12 Stolen

  • 1984-12-22T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1985-01-05T01:00:00Z

3x13 The Nightmare Man

3x13 The Nightmare Man

  • 1985-01-05T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1985-01-12T01:00:00Z

3x14 Breakpoint

3x14 Breakpoint

  • 1985-01-12T01:00:00Z1h

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

1985-01-19T01:00:00Z

3x15 Death Trap

3x15 Death Trap

  • 1985-01-19T01:00:00Z1h

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

1985-01-26T01:00:00Z

3x16 The Honeymoon Murders

3x16 The Honeymoon Murders

  • 1985-01-26T01:00:00Z1h

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

1985-02-02T01:00:00Z

3x17 Beach Club Murders

3x17 Beach Club Murders

  • 1985-02-02T01:00:00Z1h

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

1985-02-09T01:00:00Z

3x18 New Orleans Nightmare

3x18 New Orleans Nightmare

  • 1985-02-09T01:00:00Z1h

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

1985-02-16T01:00:00Z

3x19 Company Secrets

3x19 Company Secrets

  • 1985-02-16T01:00:00Z1h

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.

1985-02-23T01:00:00Z

3x20 Killing Time

3x20 Killing Time

  • 1985-02-23T01:00:00Z1h

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

1985-03-16T01:00:00Z

3x21 Death Watch

3x21 Death Watch

  • 1985-03-16T01:00:00Z1h

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.

Season Finale

1985-03-30T01:00:00Z

3x22 Final Vows

Season Finale

3x22 Final Vows

  • 1985-03-30T01:00:00Z1h

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

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