Matt Houston — Season 3

Aired 21 September 1984 • 60 min

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

Aired 28 September 1984 • 60 min

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.

Aired 12 October 1984 • 60 min

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

Aired 19 October 1984 • 60 min

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.

Aired 26 October 1984 • 60 min

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.

Aired 2 November 1984 • 60 min

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.

Aired 9 November 1984 • 60 min

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

Aired 16 November 1984 • 60 min

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.

Aired 23 November 1984 • 60 min

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.

Aired 30 November 1984 • 60 min

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

Aired 7 December 1984 • 60 min

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

Aired 21 December 1984 • 60 min

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.

Aired 4 January 1985 • 60 min

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.

Aired 11 January 1985 • 60 min

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

Aired 18 January 1985 • 60 min

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

Aired 25 January 1985 • 60 min

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

Aired 1 February 1985 • 60 min

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

Aired 8 February 1985 • 60 min

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

Aired 15 February 1985 • 60 min

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.

Aired 22 February 1985 • 60 min

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

Aired 15 March 1985 • 60 min

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.

Aired 29 March 1985 • 60 min

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