The Best Episodes of Matt Houston Season 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: James L. Conway

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

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

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

Director: N/A

Writer: Scott Shepherd

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

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

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

Director: Peter Crane

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Kim Manners

Writer: Richard Fisher

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

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

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

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Scott Shepherd

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

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

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