Matt Houston (1982)
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Lincoln Kilpatrick as Lt. Michael Hoyt
Episodes 45
Heritage (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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