Matt Houston (1982-1985)

After Matt learns the heads of a convalescent hospital murdered a nurse, he is shot.

Matt risks everything -- even his own life -- to find Hoyt's young daughter, the prisoner of a child...

A code book and a cryptic message provide Matt his only clues to preventing the predicted deaths of...

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

A petty thief (Stuart Pankin) asks Matt's help to return $3 million he unwittingly stole from the...

Matt's secret childhood love fears someone may die at a yacht-club party, then snakebite fells the...

Matt is convinced that his one-time kidnapper/tormentor is the one now holding another.

The murder of C.J.'s college roommate clues Matt the woman was involved with Chinese drug-smugglers.

An international assassin (Judson Scott) kills a Navajo girl in order to use her apartment to have a...

A restaurant critic's (James Coco) dinner is disrupted when a gelatin mold brought to his table...

A famous criminal (Martin Landau) holds C.J. hostage to free his terrorist son, held on eyewitness...

To flush the killer after his old CIA squad, Roy pretends an attempt to kill him was successful;...

A psychotic hospital orderly (Lou Ferrigno) who killed five men decides to make Matt's ailing father...

Fake telegrams summon five famous people to Matt's penthouse for a Sunday meeting with murder on the...

An actress (Kay Lenz) is certain she saw her baby son, kidnapped a year earlier, with another woman...

After Matt's one-night affair with an obsessed woman, she ransacks his home and murders.

Skeptical Matt becomes the target of a self-proclaimed psychic (Robert Walker) working with a...

Matt must free a girl from a religious commune run by an evangelist who plans to take her...

Matt works to clear a nightclub-singer friend (Robert Goulet), who believes he killed during...

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

Matt steps in when the mother of a Malibu lifeguard fears her daughter will be the next victim of a...

A disreputable tabloid's publisher is nearly killed after telling his four worst enemies he plans to...

Matt tries to discover who hired a killer to fell a research scientist during a party; guest Cameron...

Matt can't accept the perfect alibi of his chief suspect (James Read) in the deaths of two models,...

C.J. convinces Matt to help clear a former police officer imprisoned for a murder he claims he did...

Matt must find one of a dead forger's original paintings, which is attracting an undue amount of...

With amnesia after an auto accident, C.J. finds herself in jail with inmates working for a...

A noted gossip columnist is murdered after threatening to expose an exclusive bordello's patrons.

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

Retiree Novelli returns from Hawaii, charged with robbing a police vault of $2 million in cocaine.

Matt, Roy and Too Mean Malone team with an arrogant mercenary (Max Baer Jr.) to find Matt's cousin,...

Matt searches for a killer who has already slain three of twelve top centerfold models; guests Joe...

A robot designed by an electronics genius (David Cassidy) murders the brother (Troy Donahue) of its...

Matt awakens in his apartment after a month-long absence, remembering nothing and finding himself...

From his padded cell, an institutionalized madman (Chuck Connors) sends thugs to attack Matt's...

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

Houston's old flame (Cristina Ferrare), a model, hires him when she is accused of killing her...

A former detective pursues a concert pianist (George Chakiris) who may be a serial strangler.

An international assassin (Judson Scott) ignores orders to kill a Middle Eastern leader and seeks...

Matt finds a real crime at a mystery-writers' convention when one (Terry Moore) of the novelists is...

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

When C.J. rejects a disturbed admirer's (Marjoe Gortner) advances, he kills her boyfriend and tries...

An upcoming fight appears rigged when murder uncovers the champion's (Dorian Harewood) physical...

A mob assassin holds Matt, Roy, Hoyt and C.J. in a restaurant while he waits to ambush a police...

Dying from wounds from mobsters, one of Matt's employees begs him to protect a girl called Marilyn.

Attorney F. Lee Bailey decides to defend a man who has confessed to killing four teenagers, then...

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

The four ex-wives of a wealthy cat-food manufacturer mauled to death by a pet tiger hire Matt to...

A frightened stewardess (Shari Belafonte-Harper) comes to Matt after her friend (Ellen Bry)...

A man who murdered eight women, including Matt's fiancee, sends a clipping of his latest victim to...

Matt must verify or disprove an alleged UFO encounter during which a scientist suffered a fatal...

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

A mother begs Matt to find her diabetic son, taken to Mexico because he witnessed a rapist's crime.

A teenage prostitute dies when she tries to stop a child-prostitution ring from snaring her younger...

Matt believes C.J.'s new love (Simon MacCorkindale), a rising TV newsman, is involved in a...

After costumed killers force her off the road, C.J. learns all her college sorority sisters are also...

Matt investigates the murders of his college roommate's fiancee and another imminent bride.

An old friend (Hugh O'Brian) calls in Matt when kidnappers snatch a seriously ill Arab prince during...

A psychiatrist's secretary who discovers her boss's blackmail dies while leaving a message on Matt's...

Matt enters the film world to investigate after a drink from a faded star's (Janet Leigh) glass...

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

Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas; guests...

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

Matt is charged in the stabbing death of a jockey (Lynn-Holly Johnson), then becomes a murder target...

A pro quarterback (John Beck), Matt's college teammate, is blackmailed by a man who says he has...

An ex-newsman investigating a crooked union leader calls Matt for help just before becoming the...