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Broadcast date
09-09-1983 • 23 episodes
Episodes of this season
1. Heritage (1)
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other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy
Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
2. Heritage (2)
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other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy
Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
3. The Woman in White
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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.
4. Love You To Death
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other characters: Doctor, Dr. Austin, Heidi (waitress)
After Matt's one-night affair with an obsessed woman, she ransacks his home and murders.
5. The Centerfold Murders
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other characters: Henry Omant
Matt searches for a killer who has already slain three of twelve top centerfold models.
6. Needle In A Haystack
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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.
7. Marilyn
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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.
8. The Ghost of Carter Gault
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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.
9. China Doll
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While investigating the murder of C.J.'s college roommate, Matt discovers she might have been involved with Chinese drug smugglers.
10. Butterfly
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A teenage prostitute dies when she tries to stop a child prostitution ring from snaring her younger sister.
11. The Crying Clown
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Matt must find one of a dead forger's original paintings, which is attracting an undue amount of interest from art dealers.
12. The Outsider
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other characters: Charles (Chauffer)
Skeptical Matt becomes the target of a self-proclaimed psychic (Robert Walker) working with a kidnapping ring.
13. Target: Miss World
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An international assassin (Judson Scott) kills a Navajo girl in order to use her apartment to have a clear shot at a victim.
14. The Monster
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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.
15. Waltz of Death
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other characters: Marla Pierce
A concert pianist (George Chakiris) is pursued by a former detective who he believes strangled 18 blond girls.
16. Houston Is Dead
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After Matt learns the heads of a convalescent hospital murdered a nurse, he is shot.
17. Criss-Cross
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other characters: Arnie (boy)
Returning from Hawaii, retiree Novelli is charged with robbing a police vault of $2 million in cocaine.
18. The Bikini Murders
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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.
19. Death Match
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A man who murdered eight women, including Matt's fiancée, sends a clipping of his latest victim to Houston.
20. Blood Ties
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A psychotic hospital orderly (Lou Ferrigno) who killed five men decides to make Matt's ailing father his next victim.
21. The Secret Admirer
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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.
22. Cash and Carry
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A petty thief (Stuart Pankin) asks Matt's help to return $3 million he unwittingly stole from the mob.
23. On The Run (1)
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other characters: Veronica Sims (murdered)
Matt awakens in his penthouse after a month-long absence, remembering nothing and finding himself accused of murder.
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Lee Horsley
Matt Houston
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Pamela Hensley
C.J. Parsons
C.J. Parsons
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Lincoln Kilpatrick
Lt. Michael Hoyt
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