Episodes List
Ep.1 Heritage (1)
Air Date: 1983-09-09
other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
Ep.2 Heritage (2)
Air Date: 1983-09-09
other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
Ep.3 The Woman in White
Air Date: 1983-09-16
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 did not commit.
Ep.4 Love You To Death
Air Date: 1983-09-23
other characters: Doctor, Dr. Austin, Heidi (waitress) After Matt's one-night affair with an obsessed woman, she ransacks his home and murders.
Ep.5 The Centerfold Murders
Air Date: 1983-09-30
other characters: Henry Omant Matt searches for a killer who has already slain three of twelve top centerfold models.
Ep.6 Needle In A Haystack
Air Date: 1983-10-07
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.
Ep.7 Marilyn
Air Date: 1983-10-21
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 called Marilyn.
Ep.8 The Ghost of Carter Gault
Air Date: 1983-10-28
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.
Ep.9 China Doll
Air Date: 1983-11-04
While investigating the murder of C.J.'s college roommate, Matt discovers she might have been involved with Chinese drug smugglers.
Ep.10 Butterfly
Air Date: 1983-11-18
A teenage prostitute dies when she tries to stop a child prostitution ring from snaring her younger sister.
Ep.11 The Crying Clown
Air Date: 1983-11-25
Matt must find one of a dead forger's original paintings, which is attracting an undue amount of interest from art dealers.
Ep.12 The Outsider
Air Date: 1983-12-02
other characters: Charles (Chauffer) Skeptical Matt becomes the target of a self-proclaimed psychic (Robert Walker) working with a kidnapping ring.
Ep.13 Target: Miss World
Air Date: 1983-12-23
An international assassin (Judson Scott) kills a Navajo girl in order to use her apartment to have a clear shot at a victim.
Ep.14 The Monster
Air Date: 1984-01-06
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.
Ep.15 Waltz of Death
Air Date: 1984-01-13
other characters: Marla Pierce A concert pianist (George Chakiris) is pursued by a former detective who he believes strangled 18 blond girls.
Ep.16 Houston Is Dead
Air Date: 1984-01-20
After Matt learns the heads of a convalescent hospital murdered a nurse, he is shot.
Ep.17 Criss-Cross
Air Date: 1984-01-27
other characters: Arnie (boy) Returning from Hawaii, retiree Novelli is charged with robbing a police vault of $2 million in cocaine.
Ep.18 The Bikini Murders
Air Date: 1984-02-03
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 machine.
Ep.19 Death Match
Air Date: 1984-02-24
A man who murdered eight women, including Matt's fiancée, sends a clipping of his latest victim to Houston.
Ep.20 Blood Ties
Air Date: 1984-03-02
A psychotic hospital orderly (Lou Ferrigno) who killed five men decides to make Matt's ailing father his next victim.
Ep.21 The Secret Admirer
Air Date: 1984-03-09
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 helicopter is N58407 (different than the N10902 shown in the previous episode. ""Too Mean"" states that his fee for body guard services is $200 a day, plus expenses. After watching C.J. dial Matt we see that Matt's phone # at his Texas estate is 275-6206. The address for Matt's home in Pinewood is 1217 Overlook Drive. Derived from a closeup of C.J.'s check we know that C.J.'s home address is 12718 Alden Canyon Road, Los Angeles, Ca., 90046, and she banks at Federated Bank.
Ep.22 Cash and Carry
Air Date: 1984-03-23
A petty thief (Stuart Pankin) asks Matt's help to return $3 million he unwittingly stole from the mob.
Ep.23 On The Run (1)
Air Date: 1984-03-30
other characters: Veronica Sims (murdered) Matt awakens in his penthouse after a month-long absence, remembering nothing and finding himself accused of murder.
