Matt Houston: Season 3
Season 3 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 2.
- 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.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Wanted Man (2)
Sep 21, 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.
Vanished
Sep 28, 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 mole
Eyewitness
Oct 12, 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.
Apostle of Death
Oct 19, 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.
Caged
Oct 26, 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.
Return to Nam (1)
Nov 2, 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.
Escape from Nam (2)
Nov 9, 1984 · 60 min
Andy (Max Baer Jr.) appears to have betrayed Matt and the rest to the Cambodian warlord holding Matt's cousin captive.
High Fashion Murders
Nov 16, 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 le
Death Stalk
Nov 23, 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.
Blood Money
Nov 30, 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.
Deadly Games
Dec 7, 1984 · 60 min
Matt must convince Hoyt a sporting-goods tycoon (Stuart Whitman) hunted two athletes like game animals.
Stolen
Dec 21, 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.
The Nightmare Man
Jan 4, 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.
Breakpoint
Jan 11, 1985 · 60 min
Matt rushes to find the girlfriend of his distraught cousin who threatens to leap from a rooftop.
Death Trap
Jan 18, 1985 · 60 min
C.J., Roy and Matt investigate an embezzlement scheme in a once-bustling oil town.
The Honeymoon Murders
Jan 25, 1985 · 60 min
Matt investigates the murders of his college roommate's fiancée and another imminent bride.
Beach Club Murders
Feb 1, 1985 · 60 min
Matt receives unexpected help in a murder/extortion case from a fellow detective, the sister of one of the victims.
New Orleans Nightmare
Feb 8, 1985 · 60 min
A frightened stewardess (Shari Belafonte-Harper) comes to Matt after her friend (Ellen Bry) photographs a secret-society execution.
Company Secrets
Feb 15, 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.
Killing Time
Feb 22, 1985 · 60 min
Matt falls for an heiress (Kerrie Keane) whose brother intends to use the family fortune to support Irish terrorists.
Death Watch
Mar 15, 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.
Final Vows
Mar 29, 1985 · 60 min
Matt's love, Elizabeth (Kerrie Keane), returns, while a murderer (Chuck McCann) uses Matt to publicize his deeds.