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ABC (ended 1985)
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Season 3
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Season 3
Ep 22
Final Vows
3/29/85
7.8
Matt's love, Elizabeth, returns, while a murderer uses Matt to publicize his deeds.
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Ep 21
Death Watch
3/15/85
8.5
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.
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Ep 20
Killing Time
2/22/85
7.6
Matt falls for an heiress whose brother intends to use the family fortune to support Irish terrorists.
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Ep 19
Company Secrets
2/15/85
7.9
To flush the killer after his old CIA squad that call themselves "The Five Fingers", Roy pretends an attempt to kill him was successful.
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Ep 18
New Orleans Nightmare
2/8/85
8.3
A frightened stewardess comes to Matt after her friend photographs a secret-society execution.
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Ep 17
Beach Club Murders
2/1/85
8.5
Matt receives unexpected help in a murder/extortion case from a fellow detective, the sister of one of the victims.
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Ep 16
The Honeymoon Murders
1/25/85
8.8
Matt investigates the murders of his college roommate's fiancée and another imminent bride.
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Ep 15
Death Trap
1/18/85
8.7
C.J., Roy, and Matt investigate an embezzlement scheme in a once-bustling oil town.
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Ep 14
Breakpoint
1/11/85
9.1
Matt rushes to find the girlfriend of his distraught cousin who threatens to leap from a rooftop.
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Ep 13
The Nightmare Man
1/4/85
8.8
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.
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Ep 12
Stolen
12/21/84
8.5
After an actress is certain she saw her baby son, kidnapped a year earlier, with another woman in a park, she asks Matt for help.
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Ep 11
Deadly Games
12/7/84
8.9
Matt must convince Hoyt that a sporting-goods tycoon hunted two athletes like game animals.
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Ep 10
Blood Money
11/30/84
8.8
Matt's old high-school classmate involves him in a plot concerning an ex-Army officer and smuggled Vietnamese gems.
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Ep 9
Death Stalk
11/23/84
7.7
An international assassin hired to kill a Middle Eastern leader, ignores his orders and seeks revenge on Matt instead.
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Ep 8
High Fashion Murders
11/16/84
8.5
Matt can't accept the perfect alibi of his chief suspect in the deaths of two models, until he learns a family secret.
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Ep 7
Escape from Nam (2)
11/9/84
7.3
Andy appears to have betrayed Matt and the rest to the Cambodian warlord holding Matt's cousin captive.
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Ep 6
Return to Nam (1)
11/2/84
7.3
Matt, Roy, and 'Too Mean' team up with an arrogant mercenary to find Matt's cousin, who he thought died as a POW in Cambodia.
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Ep 5
Caged
10/26/84
8.9
C.J. gets amnesia after an auto accident, and finds herself in jail with inmates working for a prostitution ring.
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Ep 4
Apostle of Death
10/19/84
8.0
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.
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Ep 3
Eyewitness
10/12/84
8.7
Matt believes C.J.'s new love, a rising TV newsman, is involved in a kidnapping captured on film.
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Ep 2
Vanished
9/28/84
8.2
When Hoyt's young daughter is kidnapped and held prisoner by a child molester, Matt risks everything -- even his own life.
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Ep 1
Wanted Man (2)
9/21/84
7.8
Matt's uncle, an ex-spy, helps Matt prove he is a victim of mind control and establish his innocence of murder.
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Season 2
Ep 23
On The Run (1)
3/30/84
7.6
Matt awakens in his penthouse after a month-long absence, remembering nothing and finding himself accused of murder.
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Ep 22
Cash and Carry
3/23/84
8.9
A petty thief asks Matt's help to return $3 million he unwittingly stole from the mob.
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Ep 21
The Secret Admirer
3/9/84
9.0
When C.J. rejects a disturbed admirer's advances, he kills her boyfriend and tries to murder her.
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Ep 20
Blood Ties
3/2/84
8.7
A psychotic hospital orderly who killed five men decides to make Matt's ailing father his next victim.
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Ep 19
Death Match
2/24/84
8.9
A man who murdered eight women, including Matt's fiancée, sends a clipping of his latest victim to Houston.
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Ep 18
The Bikini Murders
2/3/84
8.5
A psychiatrist's secretary discovers her boss' blackmail, then dies while leaving a message on Matt's answering machine.
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Ep 17
Criss-Cross
1/27/84
8.8
Returning from Hawaii, retiree Novelli is charged with robbing a police vault of $2 million in cocaine.
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Ep 16
Houston Is Dead
1/20/84
8.3
After Matt learns the heads of a convalescent hospital murdered a nurse, he is shot.
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Ep 15
Waltz of Death
1/13/84
9.0
A concert pianist is pursued by a former detective who he believes strangled 18 blonde girls.
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Ep 14
The Monster
1/6/84
7.5
Attorney F. Lee Bailey decides to defend a man who has confessed to killing four teenagers, then leaves C.J. to handle the details.
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Ep 13
Target: Miss World
12/23/83
7.3
An international assassin kills a Navajo girl in order to use her apartment to have a clear shot at his intended victim.
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Ep 12
The Outsider
12/2/83
8.5
Skeptical Matt becomes the target of a self-proclaimed psychic working with a kidnapping ring.
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Ep 11
The Crying Clown
11/25/83
8.0
Matt must find one of a dead forger's original paintings, which is attracting an undue amount of interest from art dealers.
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Ep 10
Butterfly
11/18/83
8.8
A teenage prostitute dies when she tries to stop a child prostitution ring from snaring her younger sister.
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Ep 9
China Doll
11/4/83
8.1
While investigating the murder of C.J.'s college roommate, Matt discovers she might have been involved with Chinese drug smugglers.
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Ep 8
The Ghost of Carter Gault
10/28/83
8.3
An ex-newsman investigating a crooked union leader calls Matt for help just before becoming the victim of a bomb planted in his car.
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Ep 7
Marilyn
10/21/83
7.8
After one of Matt's employees is chased and shot by mobsters, his dying words to Matt is to protect a girl called Marilyn.
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Ep 6
Needle In A Haystack
10/7/83
7.2
A mother begs Matt to find her diabetic son, deported to Mexico because he witnessed a dirty I.N.S. agent rape a woman.
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Ep 5
The Centerfold Murders
9/30/83
8.3
Matt searches for a killer who has already slain three of twelve top centerfold models.
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Ep 4
Love You To Death
9/23/83
8.8
After Matt's one-night affair with an obsessed woman, she ransacks his home and murders.
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Ep 3
The Woman in White
9/16/83
8.5
C.J. convinces Matt to help clear a former police officer imprisoned for a murder he claims he did not commit.
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Ep 2
Heritage (2)
9/9/83
7.7
Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
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Ep 1
Heritage (1)
9/9/83
7.7
Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.
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Season 1
Ep 24
The Hunted
4/24/83
6.9
C.J. is held hostage by a famous criminal in order to free his terrorist son, held by authorities on Matt's eyewitness testimony.
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Ep 23
A Novel Way To Die
4/17/83
8.3
When a novelist at a mystery-writers' convention is murdered, Matt finds himself involved in a real murder mystery.
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Ep 22
A Deadly Parlay
4/10/83
7.8
After Matt is found leaning over the dead body of a jockey, he is charged with murder.
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Ep 21
Fear For Tomorrow
4/3/83
8.5
A codebook and a cryptic message provide Matt his only clues to preventing the predicted deaths of thousands.
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Ep 20
The Showgirl Murders
3/20/83
7.8
When a nightclub-singer friend believes he has killed during alcohol-induced blackouts, Matt works to clear him.
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Ep 19
The Beverly Hills Social Club
3/13/83
7.4
A noted gossip columnist, Vonda Mirand, is murdered after threatening to expose the patrons of an exclusive bordello called the Afrodisia Fellowship.
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Ep 18
Here's Another Fine Mess
3/6/83
8.1
After costumed killers try to kill C.J. by forcing her off the road, she learns all her college sorority sisters are also in danger.
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Ep 17
The Visitors
2/27/83
7.3
Matt must verify or disprove an alleged UFO encounter during which a scientist suffered a fatal heart attack.
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Ep 16
Get Houston
2/20/83
8.1
From his padded cell, an institutionalized madman hires escaped convicts to kill Houston.
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Ep 15
Whose Party Is It Anyway?
1/23/83
8.3
Fake telegrams summon five famous people to Matt's penthouse for a Sunday meeting with murder on the agenda.
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Ep 14
The Yacht Club Murders
1/16/83
7.9
After a reunion with a secret childhood love, she asks Matt for help, fearing someone may die at a yacht club party.
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Ep 13
The Purrfect Crime
1/9/83
8.6
The four ex-wives of a wealthy cat-food manufacturer mauled to death by a pet tiger hire Matt to solve the crime so they can collect the money from the will.
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Ep 12
The Rock and The Hard Place
1/2/83
8.0
An upcoming fight appears rigged when murder uncovers the champion's physical problems and his wife's alcoholism.
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Ep 11
The Good Doctor
12/12/82
7.9
After a research scientist is murdered during a party at Matt's place, a mutual friend of the victim asks Matt to investigate.
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Ep 10
Joey's Here
12/5/82
6.3
A robot designed by an electronics genius murders the brother of its creator.
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Ep 9
The Kidnapping
11/28/82
6.0
An old friend calls in Matt when kidnappers snatch a seriously ill Arab prince during a jet flight to Los Angeles.
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Ep 8
Shark Bait
11/21/82
7.2
Matt steps in when the mother of a Malibu lifeguard fears her daughter will be the next victim of a series of fatal shark attacks.
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Ep 7
Recipe For Murder
11/7/82
7.9
A restaurant critic's dinner is disrupted when a gelatin mold brought to his table contains his partner's severed head.
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Ep 6
Who Would Kill Ramona?
10/31/82
7.3
Matt enters the film world to investigate after a drink from a faded star's glass instantly kills her new leading man.
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Ep 5
Killing Isn't Everything
10/24/82
7.7
A pro quarterback, Matt's college teammate, is blackmailed by a man who says he has proof the player killed his coach.
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Ep 4
Deadly Fashion
10/17/82
7.9
Houston's old flame, a model, hires him when she is accused of killing her employer, a famous fashion designer.
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Ep 3
Stop The Presses
10/3/82
8.0
A disreputable tabloid's publisher is nearly killed after telling his four worst enemies he plans to run a front-page story on them.
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Ep 2
X-22 (2)
9/26/82
6.6
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Ep 1
X-22 (1)
9/26/82
6.6
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