Matt Houston - Season 3

First aired: 9/21/1984 22 episodes

Episodes

1. Wanted Man (2)

Aired: 9/21/1984

Matt's uncle (Buddy Ebsen), an ex-spy, helps Matt prove he is a victim of mind control and establish his innocence of murder.

2. Vanished

Aired: 9/28/1984

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.

3. Eyewitness

Aired: 10/12/1984

other characters: Guard Matt believes C.J.'s new love (Simon MacCorkindale), a rising TV newsman, is involved in a kidnapping captured on film.

4. Apostle of Death

Aired: 10/19/1984

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.

5. Caged

Aired: 10/26/1984

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.

6. Return to Nam (1)

Aired: 11/2/1984

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.

7. Escape from Nam (2)

Aired: 11/9/1984

Andy (Max Baer Jr.) appears to have betrayed Matt and the rest to the Cambodian warlord holding Matt's cousin captive.

8. High Fashion Murders

Aired: 11/16/1984

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.

9. Death Stalk

Aired: 11/23/1984

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.

10. Blood Money

Aired: 11/30/1984

Matt's old high-school classmate (Jenny Sherman) involves him in a plot concerning an ex-Army officer and smuggled Vietnamese gems.

11. Deadly Games

Aired: 12/7/1984

Matt must convince Hoyt a sporting-goods tycoon (Stuart Whitman) hunted two athletes like game animals.

12. Stolen

Aired: 12/21/1984

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.

13. The Nightmare Man

Aired: 1/4/1985

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.

14. Breakpoint

Aired: 1/11/1985

Matt rushes to find the girlfriend of his distraught cousin who threatens to leap from a rooftop.

15. Death Trap

Aired: 1/18/1985

C.J., Roy and Matt investigate an embezzlement scheme in a once-bustling oil town.

16. The Honeymoon Murders

Aired: 1/25/1985

17. Beach Club Murders

Aired: 2/1/1985

Matt receives unexpected help in a murder/extortion case from a fellow detective, the sister of one of the victims.

18. New Orleans Nightmare

Aired: 2/8/1985

A frightened stewardess (Shari Belafonte-Harper) comes to Matt after her friend (Ellen Bry) photographs a secret-society execution.

19. Company Secrets

Aired: 2/15/1985

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.

20. Killing Time

Aired: 2/22/1985

Matt falls for an heiress (Kerrie Keane) whose brother intends to use the family fortune to support Irish terrorists.

21. Death Watch

Aired: 3/15/1985

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.

22. Final Vows

Aired: 3/29/1985

Matt's love, Elizabeth (Kerrie Keane), returns, while a murderer (Chuck McCann) uses Matt to publicize his deeds.