Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
24 episodes
E01
X-22 (1)
Matt Houston, a conglomerate head and part-time detective, is hired by a young woman to clear her of charges that she murdered her blackmailing billionaire father.
E02
X-22 (2)
E03
Stop the Presses
E04
Deadly Fashion
A flamboyant couturier (Mr. Blackwell) is murdered at his own fashion show, and his top model is a prime suspect.
E05
Killing isn't Everything
E06
Who Would Kill Ramona?
Who would have the poor taste to poison the orange juice of an aging movie queen (Janet Leigh) on the day of her big comeback?
E07
Recipe for Murder
E08
Shark Bait
E09
The Kidnapping
E10
Joey's Here
E11
The Good Doctor
During a medical-research fund-raiser in Houston's office, a doctor is murdered by an orderly he fired—and who may have been hired as a hit man by a member of the doctor's research team.
E12
The Rock and the Hard Place
E13
The Purrfect Crime
A cat-food tycoon is killed by his own feline, and each of his ex-wives suspects that one of the others unleashed the big cat.
E14
The Yacht Club Murders
E15
Whose Party is It Anyway?
E16
Get Houston
From his padded cell, an institutionalized madman (Chuck Connors) sends thugs to attack Matt's friends and finally Houston himself. A maniac has kidnapped CJ, which is enough to make Matt's stetson curl. Then, at his birthday party, one of his presents explodes.
E17
The Visitors
Matt Houston investigates the death of a scientist who was killed while awaiting a visit from extraterrestrials.
E18
Here's Another Fine Mess
E19
The Beverly Hills Social Club
E20
The Showgirl Murders
E21
Fear for Tomorrow
E22
A Deadly Parlay
E23
A Novel Way to Die
Horror story author Emily Armor is killed at a party attended by writers and some witnesses claim that Slocum is the murderer. However, Matt thinks that he is innocent. Emily had been talking to Slocum when she was shot dead. Investigation lead Matt to suspect some novelists who are jealous of Emily's success.
E24
The Hunted
When Matt's testimony puts Duval Sr's son in prison, the man kidnaps CJ in an effort to blackmail Matt in order to get his son's sentence's lifted.
Season 2
23 episodesSeason 3
22 episodesCast
Pamela Hensley
as C.J. Parsons
Lee Horsley
as Matt Houston
Lincoln Kilpatrick
as Lt. Michael Hoyt
John Aprea
as Lt. Vince Novelli
Penny Santon
as Mama Rosa Novelli
Buddy Ebsen
as Uncle Roy Houston
George Wyner
as Murray Chase
Dennis Fimple
as Bo
Paul Brinegar
as Lamar Pettybone
