7.8/1028 votes#1 - 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: Cliff Bole, James L. Conway
Writer: N/A
8.1/1025 votes#2 - 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
7.8/1018 votes#3 - 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
7.7/1019 votes#4 - 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
7.9/1021 votes#5 - 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
7.5/1016 votes#6 - 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
7.6/1018 votes#7 - 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
7.3/1019 votes#8 - High Fashion Murders
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1984
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
7.9/1018 votes#9 - 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 votes#10 - 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
8.2/1018 votes#11 - 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
8.1/1017 votes#12 - 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 votes#13 - 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
7.9/1019 votes#14 - 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
8.0/1018 votes#15 - 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
7.9/1018 votes#16 - 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 votes#17 - 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
7.8/1017 votes#18 - 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
7.1/1018 votes#19 - Company Secrets
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1985
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
7.7/1018 votes#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
7.9/1020 votes#21 - 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
8.5/1025 votes#22 - 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
The Best Episodes of Matt Houston Season 3
Every episode of Matt Houston Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Matt Houston Season 3!
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Wanted Man (2)" is the best rated episode of "Matt Houston" season 3. It scored 7.8/10 based on 28 votes. Directed by Cliff Bole, James L. Conway and written by N/A, it aired on 9/21/1984. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Vanished".