Episode guide
Matt Houston: Season 3
22 episodes · premiered Sep 21, 1984
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- Episode 1: Wanted Man (2) Sep 21, 1984 · 1h Matt's uncle (Buddy Ebsen), an ex-spy, helps Matt prove he is a victim of mind control and establish his innocence of murder.
- Episode 2: Vanished Sep 28, 1984 · 1h 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…
- Episode 3: Eyewitness Oct 12, 1984 · 1h other characters: Guard Matt believes C.J.'s new love (Simon MacCorkindale), a rising TV newsman, is involved in a kidnapping captured on film.
- Episode 4: Apostle of Death Oct 19, 1984 · 1h 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.
- Episode 5: Caged Oct 26, 1984 · 1h 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.
- Episode 6: Return to Nam (1) Nov 2, 1984 · 1h 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.
- Episode 7: Escape from Nam (2) Nov 9, 1984 · 1h Andy (Max Baer Jr.) appears to have betrayed Matt and the rest to the Cambodian warlord holding Matt's cousin captive.
- Episode 8: High Fashion Murders Nov 16, 1984 · 1h 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…
- Episode 9: Death Stalk Nov 23, 1984 · 1h 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.
- Episode 10: Blood Money Nov 30, 1984 · 1h Matt's old high-school classmate (Jenny Sherman) involves him in a plot concerning an ex-Army officer and smuggled Vietnamese gems.
- Episode 11: Deadly Games Dec 7, 1984 · 1h Matt must convince Hoyt a sporting-goods tycoon (Stuart Whitman) hunted two athletes like game animals.
- Episode 12: Stolen Dec 21, 1984 · 1h 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.
- Episode 13: The Nightmare Man Jan 4, 1985 · 1h 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.
- Episode 14: Breakpoint Jan 11, 1985 · 1h Matt rushes to find the girlfriend of his distraught cousin who threatens to leap from a rooftop.
- Episode 15: Death Trap Jan 18, 1985 · 1h C.J., Roy and Matt investigate an embezzlement scheme in a once-bustling oil town.
- Episode 16: The Honeymoon Murders Jan 25, 1985 · 1h Matt investigates the murders of his college roommate's fiancée and another imminent bride.
- Episode 17: Beach Club Murders Feb 1, 1985 · 1h Matt receives unexpected help in a murder/extortion case from a fellow detective, the sister of one of the victims.
- Episode 18: New Orleans Nightmare Feb 8, 1985 · 1h A frightened stewardess (Shari Belafonte-Harper) comes to Matt after her friend (Ellen Bry) photographs a secret-society execution.
- Episode 19: Company Secrets Feb 15, 1985 · 1h 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.
- Episode 20: Killing Time Feb 22, 1985 · 1h Matt falls for an heiress (Kerrie Keane) whose brother intends to use the family fortune to support Irish terrorists.
- Episode 21: Death Watch Mar 15, 1985 · 1h 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.
- Episode 22: Final Vows Mar 29, 1985 · 1h Matt's love, Elizabeth (Kerrie Keane), returns, while a murderer (Chuck McCann) uses Matt to publicize his deeds.