Matt Houston - Episode Guide

When Nicolo Giambaccinni christens a new ocean liner, it blows up due to nitroglycerin in the champagne bottle. Suspects include his daughter Serena, his mistress Karen Ann, Karen Ann's agent Cody, and investor Wildcat Callahan.

Tabloid publisher Al Brodax is nearly electrocuted beside his pool. The prime suspects tried to sue him and lost: ex-con Hanrahan who became a scapegoat for his legal troubles; mobster Ross; a sexy centerfold; and a bigamist magician.

When a fashion designer is murdered, the prime suspect is a model who happens to be Houston's ex. She turns to him for help. And he looks at the man's wife, his partner, and a designer.

When football team owner Jock Stryker is killed, suspicion falls on quarterback Randy, a friend of Houston's. Many people wanted Stryker dead, including his abused girlfriend Andrea, his resentful gofer Crusher, and Coach Buck Turley.

Actress Ramona Landers reports to the set of her comeback film. Her young costar Todd Gallagher accuses her of drunkenness, then gulps her drink and dies of poisoning. Houston interviews her husband and those involved with the film.

Restaurant critic Roger Marsden's severed head is served in aspic to his snooty partner J Hamilton Goodfellow. The cops suspect a restaurant owner whose eatery the critics panned. And then attempts are made on Goodfellow's life.

Lifeguards at the beach are being fatally attacked by sharks. Before her daughter Sue becomes a victim, Alice Landa hires Houston to find out if a shark can be programmed to kill.

An old friend calls in Matt when kidnappers snatch a seriously ill Arab prince during a jet flight to Los Angeles.

Matt tries to discover why a robot would murder the brother of its genius creator.

During a medical research fund raiser in Houston's office, a doctor is murdered by an orderly he fired—and who may have been hired as a hit man by a member of the doctor's research team.

An upcoming fight appears rigged when murder uncovers the champion's physical problems and his wife's alcoholism.

When a cat food mogul is found mauled to death by a domesticated tiger, his four ex-wives retain Matt's services so they can receive proceeds from the will.

While being named Commodore of Southland Yacht Club, Rawson Harmon IV is killed by a snake. Manager Honey Lewis asks Matt to investigate. Suspects include Honey; her restless son Jeb; sleazy filmmaker Bevak; and unlucky gambler Binky.

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

From his padded cell, an institutionalized madman sends thugs to attack Matt's friends and finally Houston himself. 

Matt Houston investigates the death of a scientist who was killed while awaiting a visit from extraterrestrials. 

Two men dressed like Laurel & Hardy try to kill C.J. Houston learns that some of her former sorority sisters have already been victims, and that the man that they had been dating could be responsible. But others are marked for murder, too.

During a carnival fund raiser, vicious gossip columnist Vonda Moran is blown up because someone tampered with a "strength test" mallet & ringing bell attraction. Houston is subsequently kidnapped and persuaded to investigate.

Alcoholic singer Johnny Foster wakes up with blood on his clothes and is arrested soon after for the serial killings of several Las Vegas showgirls. Johnny's friend Matt Houston thinks he's innocent.

Bloodied gunfire victim Eric Brant lands in a passing car, hands the driver a codebook, and gives her a message for Houston: Fear for Tomorrow. Brant dies when the car blows up. His assailants then go after Houston's buddy Vince Novelli.

Winston Fowler's top jockey breaches her contract to move to England. When Houston is found standing over her remains in the stable, he is arrested for her murder.

At a mystery writers' convention where Houston is the keynote speaker, publisher Wayne Slocum shoots hated mystery writer Emily Armor three times with a .45 magnum, then brazenly entreats his friend Houston to help solve her murder.

C.J. is held hostage by a famous criminal in order to free his terrorist son held by authorities on Matt's eyewitness testimony.

Matt leaves for Texas to help Sharon, an old and dear friend who is at her wit's end. Sharon thinks somebody's trying to kill her and she has no idea why anyone would want to kill her. Houston's old adversary, Elgin Cody, lures the detective to Texas. There he wants to kill him and replace him with a doppelganger. The reason: Houston owns a property that Cody also suspects contains oil.

Loyal family man and former police officer Wade Kimball is jailed and under arrest for murder, but he might not have committed the crime. Matt looks for the real guilty party.

Deranged nurse Erin Brown, who Matt briefly dated, stalks him and will kill anyone who gets between them. It's only a matter of time before C. J. Parsons is in danger.

Three stunning women have been murdered, their connection: they are all top centerfolds.

Matt must rescue an insulin dependent, special needs boy who has been wrongfully deported to Mexico.

A Marilyn Monroe look alike is scared of her patron, a deadly mobster intent on having her to himself. Matt comes to her aid. 

A man trying to expose dirty union tactics is murdered right after asking Matt to take the case.

While investigating the murder of C.J.'s college roommate, Matt discovers she might have been involved with Chinese drug smugglers.

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

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

Matt sets out to prove that a blind psychic is actually a phony, responsible for several kidnappings and murders.

An international assassin kills a Navajo girl in order to use her apartment to have a clear shot at a victim.

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.

Matt sets out to prove that a touring classical pianist is responsible for strangling and murdering several women.

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

A retired Lieutenant Vincent Novelli is charged with stealing cocaine from a police evidence vault upon his return from vacation in Hawaii.

A secretary is murdered after uncovering a plot to blackmail her boss.

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

A psychotic hospital orderly who killed five men decides to make Matt's ailing father his next victim.

While Matt is out of town, C.J. has to deal with the murder of her boyfriend and an obsessed stalker.

A petty thief asks Matt's help to return $3 million he unwittingly stole from the mob.

Matt awakens in his penthouse after a month long absence, remembering nothing and finding himself accused of murder.

Falsely accused of two murders, fugitive Matt Houston turns to his uncle, a retired criminologist, to help pin down the real killer.

A killer kidnaps Hoyt's daughter, but when Hoyt and Houston nail a suspect, they learn that their Illegal tactics may set him free.

C.J falls in love with Robert Tyler, an old school chum who is now a television anchorman, and Houston thinks that Tyler is in cahoots with a gang of kidnappers. 

Whether it's a religious cult or a commune, Matt must rescue a girl who is being bilked out of a $3 million inheritance by the evangelist leader who plans to murder her after he has gained control of the cash.

C.J. gets amnesia after an auto accident, and finds herself in jail with inmates working for a prostitution ring.

Matt discovers that his cousin, who was once believed dead in Vietnam, is still a POW in Cambodia.

After getting captured by the warlord holding his cousin, Houston tries to find a way out. The warlord demands a ransom which C.J. is about deliver but a government agent stops her. Roy decides to ask someone from his days as a spy to help him.

Two models have been murdered, and Matt can't accept the alibi of the most likely suspect.

An assassin Houston put behind bars is freed on a technicality by a corrupt judge and begins taunting and stalking Houston on a single minded mission of revenge.

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

The most dangerous game is revisited when a sporting goods mogul hunts athletes.

Matt stumbles upon an illegal adoption ring when a woman hires him to find her kidnapped son.

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.

A birthday party for Cousin Will turns sour when Matt is informed that he's parked on a roof, ready to jump.

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

An old college friend asks for Matt's help in solving the murder of his wife, killed hours after their wedding.

CJ is holidaying at a beach club when a guest is mysteriously murdered. She asks Matt to help the club owner solve the murder, which is the second one to happen. A female detective has a personal stake in Houston's murder extortion case: one of the victims was her sister.

A frightened stewardess comes to Matt for help after her friend photographs a secret society execution.

Roy fakes his death to uncover a plot to murder his CIA squad members.

After suffering his umpteenth concussion, Matt falls head over heals in love with an Irish heiress who is being brainwashed by her Irish terrorist brother.

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.

Elizabeth, object of Matt's affection, returns and they decide to marry. Serial killer Adam Booth looks for notoriety, sees that the press is ignoring him, brings Matt into it, and jeopardizes Matt's plans with Elizabeth.