Broadcast date
1983-09-09 • 23 episodes
Episodes of this season
1. Heritage (1)
event 1983-09-09 • schedule 1h
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)
event 1983-09-09 • schedule 1h
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
event 1983-09-16 • schedule 1h
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
event 1983-09-23 • schedule 1h
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
event 1983-09-30 • schedule 1h
other characters: Henry Omant
Matt searches for a killer who has already slain three of twelve top centerfold models.
6. Needle In A Haystack
event 1983-10-07 • schedule 1h
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
event 1983-10-21 • schedule 1h
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
event 1983-10-28 • schedule 1h
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
event 1983-11-04 • schedule 1h
While investigating the murder of C.J.'s college roommate, Matt discovers she might have been involved with Chinese drug smugglers.
10. Butterfly
event 1983-11-18 • schedule 1h
A teenage prostitute dies when she tries to stop a child prostitution ring from snaring her younger sister.
11. The Crying Clown
event 1983-11-25 • schedule 1h
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
event 1983-12-02 • schedule 1h
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
event 1983-12-23 • schedule 1h
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
event 1984-01-06 • schedule 1h
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
event 1984-01-13 • schedule 1h
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
event 1984-01-20 • schedule 1h
After Matt learns the heads of a convalescent hospital murdered a nurse, he is shot.
17. Criss-Cross
event 1984-01-27 • schedule 1h
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
event 1984-02-03 • schedule 1h
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
event 1984-02-24 • schedule 1h
A man who murdered eight women, including Matt's fiancée, sends a clipping of his latest victim to Houston.
20. Blood Ties
event 1984-03-02 • schedule 1h
A psychotic hospital orderly (Lou Ferrigno) who killed five men decides to make Matt's ailing father his next victim.
21. The Secret Admirer
event 1984-03-09 • schedule 1h
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
event 1984-03-23 • schedule 1h
A petty thief (Stuart Pankin) asks Matt's help to return $3 million he unwittingly stole from the mob.
23. On The Run (1)
End of season • event 1984-03-30 • schedule 1h
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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