The BEST episodes of Matt Houston season 1
Every episode of Matt Houston season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Matt Houston season 1!
A fabulously wealthy Texan moves to California to oversee his family's offshore drilling enterprises but spends most of his time dabbling in his private investigator hobby. He is handsome, lives in a penthouse and flies his own helicopter to and from his investigations. Naturally, he is always surrounded by beautiful women!
#1 - X-22 (2)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1982
When Nicolo Giambaccinni christens a new ocean liner, it blows up. Someone put nitroglycerin in the champagne. Murder suspects include his daughter Serena, his mistress Karen Ann, Karen Ann's agent Cody, and investor Wildcat Callahan. (Part 2)
#2 - The Hunted
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/24/1983
Marquis Duval Sr. kidnaps C.J. and holds her hostage. As ransom, he demands that Houston arrange for his son, whom Houston considers a terrorist, to be released from prison.
#3 - Joey's Here
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1982
When the owner of a company that manufactures among other things robots is killed by one. Murray asks Houston to help his friend, the designer who was at odds with the man because he was planning to shut his project down. And among the suspects are the man's brother who was battling him for control and an unscrupulous businessman whom Houston knows who was in the building at the time of the incident.
#4 - The Purrfect Crime
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/9/1983
Cat food magnate Felix Randolph is killed by his pet tiger. The grounds-keeper is arrested but Houston thinks the killer is one of four ex-wives, who accuse each other and cannot lay claim to the estate until the murder is solved.
#5 - Fear for Tomorrow
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/3/1983
Bloodied gunfire victim Eric Brandt 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.
#6 - Deadly Fashion
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1982
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.
#7 - Who Would Kill Ramona?
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1982
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.
#8 - The Kidnapping
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1982
The son of an Arab King is kidnapped while they're on his private plane while in flight. Later on recommendation of the his personal pilot, an old friend of Houston's, he hires Houston. The King suspects that someone on the plane brought the kidnapper on board. So while he does that, he learns that his son who was on his way for medical treatment has only a little time.
#9 - The Yacht Club Murders
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/16/1983
While being named Commodore of a yacht club, boorish Rawson Harmon IV is killed by a snake. Manager Honey Lewis asks Houston to investigate. Suspects include Honey; her restless son Jeb; sleazy filmmaker Bevak; & gambler Binky.
#10 - The Visitors
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1983
Womanizing scientist Ivar Mardosian dies of an induced heart attack while in the desert with colleagues awaiting alien contact. Are aliens really visiting, or is this a staged hoax to cover up a murder? And who killed him?
#11 - A Deadly Parlay
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/10/1983
After Houston's friend Winston Fowler's top jockey Cindy Gaines breaches her contract with him to move to England, she is fatally pitch-forked in a stable. Houston is found standing over her remains and subsequently arrested for her murder.
#12 - Stop the Presses
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1982
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.
#13 - The Good Doctor
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1982
At a hospital fund-raiser, Dr. Belkamp is shot by waiter Tom Chapman, a former orderly whom Belkamp fired for being inept. Chapman is killed while escaping. Did a member of the hospital research team hire him to kill Belkamp? If so, who?
#14 - Whose Party is It Anyway?
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/23/1983
Houston goes to the office to meet some people who asked to see him. But when he gets there, he learns that they think he asked them to come. But Houston doesn't know all of them. But then one of the guests says that they do have something in common but that's when he's killed. And they find themselves locked in. And that's when someone is sending them messages which are suppose to be hints of why he is targeting them. And more people are getting killed. And more messages are being sent.
#15 - Here's Another Fine Mess
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/1983
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.
#16 - Killing isn't Everything
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1982
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.
#17 - The Showgirl Murders
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/20/1983
Alcoholic singer Johnny Foster wakes up with blood on his clothes and is arrested for killing several Vegas showgirls. His friend Houston thinks he's innocent and sets out to find the real culprit.
#18 - A Novel Way to Die
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/17/1983
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.
#19 - Recipe for Murder
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1982
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.
#20 - Shark Bait
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1982
Lifeguards at the beach are being fatally attacked by sharks. Before her daughter Sue becomes a victim, Alice Landa hired Houston to find out if a shark can be programmed to kill.
#21 - The Rock and the Hard Place
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/2/1983
When a boxer goes out to dinner with his wife, doctor and promoter. The doctor's nurse who arrives wanted to talk to the boxer but before she could she gets killed. His wife goes to Houston telling him that she thinks someone might be trying to kill her husband because he's had a few close calls lately. But the boxer doesn't want Houston around.
#22 - Get Houston
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1983
When a man Houston sent to prison escapes, he then makes an attempt on Houston but gets Bo instead. Houston tries to flush him by shaking down his old associates. He then learns that the man was broken out by a deranged billionaire who became a serial killer whom he caught, who's been in an insane asylum, so he has to find out how he's doing it. He also finds out that the man has recruited a couple of other men to get Houston.
#23 - The Beverly Woods Social Club
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/13/1983
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.
#24 - X-22 (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1982
When Nicolo Giambaccinni christens a new ocean liner, it blows up. Someone put nitroglycerin in the champagne. Murder suspects include his daughter Serena, his mistress Karen Ann, Karen Ann's agent Cody, and investor Wildcat Callahan. (Part 1)