Matt Houston (1982) is a drama, crime web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Matt Houston online in HD.
Matt Houston — Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
- Created by: Lawrence Gordon
- Starring: Lee Horsley, Pamela Hensley, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Buddy Ebsen
Matt Houston — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1982-09-26 |
| Seasons | 3 |
| Episodes | 69 |
| Genre | Drama, Crime |
| Language | English |
| Network | ABC |
| Status | Ended |
| Rating | 6.3/10 (28 votes) |
Matt Houston — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: X-22 (1) (1982-09-26) — Synopsis coming soon.
- E2: X-22 (2) (1982-09-26) — Synopsis coming soon.
- E3: 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 the
- E4: 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.
- E5: 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.
- E6: 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.
- E7: 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.
- E8: 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
- E9: 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.
- E10: 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.
- E11: 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.
- E12: 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.
- E13: 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
- E14: 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.
- E15: 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.
- E16: Get Houston (1983-02-20) — other characters: Cletus Simms
From his padded cell, an institutionalized madman (Chuck Connors) hires escaped convicts to kill Houston.
- E17: The Visitors (1983-02-27) — Matt must verify or disprove an alleged UFO encounter during which a scientist suffered a fatal heart attack.
- E18: 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.
- E19: 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.
- E20: 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 blacko
- E21: 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.
- E22: 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.
- E23: 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.
- E24: 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 testi
Season 2
- E1: 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.
- E2: 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.
- E3: 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 di
- E4: 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.
- E5: 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.
- E6: 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.
- E7: 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 call
- E8: 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.
- E9: 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.
- E10: Butterfly (1983-11-18) — A teenage prostitute dies when she tries to stop a child prostitution ring from snaring her younger sister.
- E11: 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.
- E12: 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.
- E13: 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.
- E14: 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.
- E15: 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.
- E16: Houston Is Dead (1984-01-20) — After Matt learns the heads of a convalescent hospital murdered a nurse, he is shot.
- E17: 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.
- E18: 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 ma
- E19: Death Match (1984-02-24) — A man who murdered eight women, including Matt's fiancée, sends a clipping of his latest victim to Houston.
- E20: 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.
- E21: 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
- E22: 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.
- E23: 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.
Season 3
- E1: 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.
- E2: 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 mole
- E3: 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.
- E4: 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.
- E5: 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.
- E6: 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.
- E7: 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.
- E8: 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 le
- E9: 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.
- E10: 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.
- E11: Deadly Games (1984-12-07) — Matt must convince Hoyt a sporting-goods tycoon (Stuart Whitman) hunted two athletes like game animals.
- E12: 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.
- E13: 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.
- E14: Breakpoint (1985-01-11) — Matt rushes to find the girlfriend of his distraught cousin who threatens to leap from a rooftop.
- E15: Death Trap (1985-01-18) — C.J., Roy and Matt investigate an embezzlement scheme in a once-bustling oil town.
- E16: The Honeymoon Murders (1985-01-25) — Matt investigates the murders of his college roommate's fiancée and another imminent bride.
- E17: 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.
- E18: 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.
- E19: 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.
- E20: Killing Time (1985-02-22) — Matt falls for an heiress (Kerrie Keane) whose brother intends to use the family fortune to support Irish terrorists.
- E21: 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.
- E22: Final Vows (1985-03-29) — Matt's love, Elizabeth (Kerrie Keane), returns, while a murderer (Chuck McCann) uses Matt to publicize his deeds.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Matt Houston have? 3 season(s) with 69 episodes.
Who created Matt Houston? Lawrence Gordon.
Where can I watch Matt Houston? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
