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Season guide

Matt Houston: Season 2

23 episodes Premiered Sep 9, 1983
Previously on Matt Houston

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Matt Houston Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (8): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (15): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Heritage (1)

Sep 9, 1983

other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.

S2·E2 Core

Heritage (2)

Sep 9, 1983

other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.

S2·E3 Mytharc

The Woman in White

Sep 16, 1983

other characters: Jenson, Flo Nightingale, Mo Jo (pimp), Tyrone Hadley (murdered) C.J. convinces Matt to help clear a former police officer imprisoned for a murder he claims he di

S2·E4 Core

Love You To Death

Sep 23, 1983

other characters: Doctor, Dr. Austin, Heidi (waitress) After Matt's one-night affair with an obsessed woman, she ransacks his home and murders.

S2·E5 Core

The Centerfold Murders

Sep 30, 1983

other characters: Henry Omant Matt searches for a killer who has already slain three of twelve top centerfold models.

S2·E6 Core

Needle In A Haystack

Oct 7, 1983

other characters: ""Crazy"" Willie Conklin A mother begs Matt to find her diabetic son, deported to Mexico because he witnessed a dirty I.N.S. agent rape a woman.

S2·E7 Core

Marilyn

Oct 21, 1983

other characters: Luther, Pasquel Martinez, Patrick (Marilyn's Son) After one of Matt's employees is chased and shot by mobsters, his dying words to Matt is to protect a girl call

S2·E8 Core

The Ghost of Carter Gault

Oct 28, 1983

other characters: Lori An ex-newsman investigating a crooked union leader calls Matt for help just before becoming the victim of a bomb planted in his car.

S2·E9 Core

China Doll

Nov 4, 1983

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

S2·E10 Mytharc

Butterfly

Nov 18, 1983

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

S2·E11 Core

The Crying Clown

Nov 25, 1983

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

S2·E12 Core

The Outsider

Dec 2, 1983

other characters: Charles (Chauffer) Skeptical Matt becomes the target of a self-proclaimed psychic (Robert Walker) working with a kidnapping ring.

S2·E13 Core

Target: Miss World

Dec 23, 1983

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

S2·E14 Core

The Monster

Jan 6, 1984

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.

S2·E15 Core

Waltz of Death

Jan 13, 1984

other characters: Marla Pierce A concert pianist (George Chakiris) is pursued by a former detective who he believes strangled 18 blond girls.

S2·E16 Mytharc

Houston Is Dead

Jan 20, 1984

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

S2·E17 Core

Criss-Cross

Jan 27, 1984

other characters: Arnie (boy) Returning from Hawaii, retiree Novelli is charged with robbing a police vault of $2 million in cocaine.

S2·E18 Mytharc

The Bikini Murders

Feb 3, 1984

other characters: John Davis, Paula Channing (or Jenning), Carol A psychiatrist's secretary discovers her boss' blackmail, then dies while leaving a message on Matt's answering ma

S2·E19 Mytharc

Death Match

Feb 24, 1984

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

S2·E20 Core

Blood Ties

Mar 2, 1984

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

S2·E21 Core

The Secret Admirer

Mar 9, 1984

other characters: Bella Ellis When C.J. rejects a disturbed admirer's (Marjoe Gortner) advances, he kills her boyfriend and tries to murder her. NOTE: The registration for Matt's

S2·E22 Mytharc

Cash and Carry

Mar 23, 1984

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

S2·E23 Mytharc

On The Run (1)

Mar 30, 1984

other characters: Veronica Sims (murdered) Matt awakens in his penthouse after a month-long absence, remembering nothing and finding himself accused of murder.

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