8.5/1025 votesLoading...#1 - Final Vows
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/29/1985
Matt's love, Elizabeth (Kerrie Keane), returns, while a murderer (Chuck McCann) uses Matt to publicize his deeds.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: N/A
8.2/1018 votesLoading...#2 - Deadly Games
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1984
Matt must convince Hoyt a sporting-goods tycoon (Stuart Whitman) hunted two athletes like game animals.
Director: N/A
Writer: Scott Shepherd
8.1/1025 votesLoading...#3 - Vanished
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1984
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.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: N/A
8.1/1017 votesLoading...#4 - Stolen
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1984
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.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
8.0/1017 votesLoading...#5 - The Nightmare Man
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1985
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
8.0/1018 votesLoading...#6 - Death Trap
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1985
C.J., Roy and Matt investigate an embezzlement scheme in a once-bustling oil town.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Richard Fisher
7.9/1021 votesLoading...#7 - Caged
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1984
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.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
7.9/1018 votesLoading...#8 - Death Stalk
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1984
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.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A
7.9/1015 votesLoading...#9 - Blood Money
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1984
Matt's old high-school classmate (Jenny Sherman) involves him in a plot concerning an ex-Army officer and smuggled Vietnamese gems.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Stephen Lord
7.9/1019 votesLoading...#10 - Breakpoint
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1985
Matt rushes to find the girlfriend of his distraught cousin who threatens to leap from a rooftop.
Director: Peter Crane
Writer: N/A
7.9/1018 votesLoading...#11 - The Honeymoon Murders
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1985
Matt investigates the murders of his college roommate's fiancée and another imminent bride.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1019 votesLoading...#12 - Beach Club Murders
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1985
Matt receives unexpected help in a murder/extortion case from a fellow detective, the sister of one of the victims.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
7.9/1020 votesLoading...#13 - Death Watch
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/15/1985
other characters: Neil's girlfriend 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.
Director: William Crain
Writer: Robert Earll
7.8/1036 votesLoading...#14 - Whose Party Is It Anyway?
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/23/1983
Fake telegrams summon five famous people to Matt's penthouse for a Sunday meeting with murder on the agenda.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
7.8/1028 votesLoading...#15 - Wanted Man (2)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1984
Matt's uncle (Buddy Ebsen), an ex-spy, helps Matt prove he is a victim of mind control and establish his innocence of murder.
Director: James L. Conway, Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
7.8/1018 votesLoading...#16 - Eyewitness
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1984
other characters: Guard Matt believes C.J.'s new love (Simon MacCorkindale), a rising TV newsman, is involved in a kidnapping captured on film.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Ann Lewis Hamilton
7.8/1017 votesLoading...#17 - New Orleans Nightmare
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1985
A frightened stewardess (Shari Belafonte-Harper) comes to Matt after her friend (Ellen Bry) photographs a secret-society execution.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1023 votesLoading...#18 - Love You To Death
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/1983
other characters: Doctor, Dr. Austin, Heidi (waitress) After Matt's one-night affair with an obsessed woman, she ransacks his home and murders.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Robert Bielak
7.7/1019 votesLoading...#19 - Apostle of Death
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1984
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.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Skip Webster
7.7/1018 votesLoading...#20 - Killing Time
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1985
Matt falls for an heiress (Kerrie Keane) whose brother intends to use the family fortune to support Irish terrorists.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A
7.6/1018 votesLoading...#21 - Escape from Nam (2)
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1984
Andy (Max Baer Jr.) appears to have betrayed Matt and the rest to the Cambodian warlord holding Matt's cousin captive.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Scott Shepherd
7.5/1016 votesLoading...#22 - Return to Nam (1)
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1984
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.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Scott Shepherd
7.4/1067 votesLoading...#23 - X-22 (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1982
Synopsis coming soon.
Director: Richard Lang
Writer: N/A
7.4/1039 votesLoading...#24 - Recipe For Murder
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1982
other characters: Roger Marsden (murdered) A restaurant critic's (James Coco) dinner is disrupted when a gelatin mold brought to his table contains his partner's severed head.
Director: Hy Averback
Writer: N/A
7.4/1030 votesLoading...#25 - Heritage (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1983
other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Matt Houston
Every episode of Matt Houston ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Matt Houston!
Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by...
Genre:Drama
Network:ABC
Best Episodes Summary
"Final Vows" is the best rated episode of "Matt Houston". It scored 8.5/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by James L. Conway and written by N/A, it aired on 3/29/1985. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Deadly Games".