Matt Houston
Season 3
198422 episodes
Episode 1
Wanted Man (2)
Sep 21, 19841h
Matt's uncle (Buddy Ebsen), an ex-spy, helps Matt prove he is a victim of mind control and establish his innocence of murder.
Episode 2
Vanished
Sep 28, 19841h
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.
Episode 3
Eyewitness
Oct 12, 19841h
other characters: Guard Matt believes C.J.'s new love (Simon MacCorkindale), a rising TV newsman, is involved in a kidnapping captured on film.
Episode 4
Apostle of Death
Oct 19, 19841h
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.
Episode 5
Caged
Oct 26, 19841h
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.
Episode 6
Return to Nam (1)
Nov 2, 19841h
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.
Episode 7
Escape from Nam (2)
Nov 9, 19841h
Andy (Max Baer Jr.) appears to have betrayed Matt and the rest to the Cambodian warlord holding Matt's cousin captive.
Episode 8
High Fashion Murders
Nov 16, 19841h
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.
Episode 9
Death Stalk
Nov 23, 19841h
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.
Episode 10
Blood Money
Nov 30, 19841h
Matt's old high-school classmate (Jenny Sherman) involves him in a plot concerning an ex-Army officer and smuggled Vietnamese gems.
Episode 11
Deadly Games
Dec 7, 19841h
Matt must convince Hoyt a sporting-goods tycoon (Stuart Whitman) hunted two athletes like game animals.
Episode 12
Stolen
Dec 21, 19841h
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.
Episode 13
The Nightmare Man
Jan 4, 19851h
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.
Episode 14
Breakpoint
Jan 11, 19851h
Matt rushes to find the girlfriend of his distraught cousin who threatens to leap from a rooftop.
Episode 15
Death Trap
Jan 18, 19851h
C.J., Roy and Matt investigate an embezzlement scheme in a once-bustling oil town.
Episode 16
The Honeymoon Murders
Jan 25, 19851h
Matt investigates the murders of his college roommate's fiancée and another imminent bride.
Episode 17
Beach Club Murders
Feb 1, 19851h
Matt receives unexpected help in a murder/extortion case from a fellow detective, the sister of one of the victims.
Episode 18
New Orleans Nightmare
Feb 8, 19851h
A frightened stewardess (Shari Belafonte-Harper) comes to Matt after her friend (Ellen Bry) photographs a secret-society execution.
Episode 19
Company Secrets
Feb 15, 19851h
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.
Episode 20
Killing Time
Feb 22, 19851h
Matt falls for an heiress (Kerrie Keane) whose brother intends to use the family fortune to support Irish terrorists.
Episode 21
Death Watch
Mar 15, 19851h
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.
Episode 22
Final Vows
Mar 29, 19851h
Matt's love, Elizabeth (Kerrie Keane), returns, while a murderer (Chuck McCann) uses Matt to publicize his deeds.