Matt Houston (Season 3)

Wanted Man (2) (Episode 1)

Air date: 1984-09-21

Runtime: 60 min

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

Vanished (Episode 2)

Air date: 1984-09-28

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Eyewitness (Episode 3)

Writer: Ann Lewis Hamilton

Air date: 1984-10-12

Runtime: 60 min

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

Apostle of Death (Episode 4)

Writer: Skip Webster

Air date: 1984-10-19

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Caged (Episode 5)

Air date: 1984-10-26

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Return to Nam (1) (Episode 6)

Writer: Scott Shepherd

Air date: 1984-11-02

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Escape from Nam (2) (Episode 7)

Writer: Scott Shepherd

Air date: 1984-11-09

Runtime: 60 min

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

High Fashion Murders (Episode 8)

Writer: James L. Conway

Air date: 1984-11-16

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Death Stalk (Episode 9)

Air date: 1984-11-23

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Blood Money (Episode 10)

Writer: Stephen Lord

Air date: 1984-11-30

Runtime: 60 min

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

Deadly Games (Episode 11)

Writer: Scott Shepherd

Air date: 1984-12-07

Runtime: 60 min

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

Stolen (Episode 12)

Air date: 1984-12-21

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

The Nightmare Man (Episode 13)

Air date: 1985-01-04

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Breakpoint (Episode 14)

Air date: 1985-01-11

Runtime: 60 min

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

Death Trap (Episode 15)

Writer: Richard Fisher

Air date: 1985-01-18

Runtime: 60 min

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

The Honeymoon Murders (Episode 16)

Air date: 1985-01-25

Runtime: 60 min

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

Beach Club Murders (Episode 17)

Air date: 1985-02-01

Runtime: 60 min

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

New Orleans Nightmare (Episode 18)

Air date: 1985-02-08

Runtime: 60 min

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

Company Secrets (Episode 19)

Writer: Scott Shepherd

Air date: 1985-02-15

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Killing Time (Episode 20)

Air date: 1985-02-22

Runtime: 60 min

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

Death Watch (Episode 21)

Writer: Robert Earll

Air date: 1985-03-15

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Final Vows (Episode 22)

Air date: 1985-03-29

Runtime: 60 min

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