MATT HOUSTON SEASON ONE(1970)
Starring Lee Horsely(who was also on Nero Wolfe)! Also here sporatically
are Paul Petersen(The Donna Reed Show along with being a singer), Paul
Brineger(Wishbone in Rawhide) and Dennis Fimple(7 episodes of Alias
Smith And Jones, The Apple Dumpling Gang), and later in season 3,
Buddy Ebson! It's about an oil tycoon turned detective!
This would have been a perfect vehicle for Tom Sellack!!
With many guest stars of the time including: Herb Edelman, David Wayne,
Gary Lockwood, Don Stroud, William Windom, John Anderson, Richard Anderson,
J.D. Cannon, Robert Loggia, Denny Miller, Max Bear Jr., Stuart Whitman,
Lou Ferrigno, Beverly Garland, Martin Landau, Ernest Borgnine, Chuck
Connors, Sonny Bono, Robert Goullet, Shelly Fabres and many others!!
EPISODE 1: X-22(Sept. 26, 1982):
A man with more money than god gets offed with a bottle
of champaigne! The naration here is totally unneeded!!
Guest Starring: Jill St. John(Diamonds Are Forever. Wife of Robert
Wagner), Dale Robertson(Tales Of Wells Fargo)! B
EPISODE 2: STOP THE PRESSES(Oct. 03, 1982):
A bum who runs a smear rag suddenly thinks someone is
out to kill him! One of Matt's friends gets in the
way and nearly gets killed!
Guest Starring: Bradford Dillman(Escape From The Planet
Of The Apes, 8 episodes of Murder She Wrote), Herb Edelman
(The Golden Girls, 10 episodes of Murder She Wrote), Heather
Locklear(Melrose Place, Spin City Dynesty), Stuart Whitman
(Superboy, Cimmeron Strip)! B+
EPISODE 3: DEADLY FASHION(Oct. 17, 1982):
A much hated fashion designer gets killed while putting
on a show!! The main suspect is Matt's old flame!
Guest starring here is Vic Tayback(Alice), Britt Ekland
(The Man With The Golden Gun, 2 episodes of Battlestar
Galactica), Mr. Blackwell(Fashionista)!!
Star Trek connection: Vic Tayback(TOS episode ["A Piece
Of The Action")! B
EPISODE 4: KILLING ISN'T EVERYTHING(Oct. 24, 1982):
The owner of a local football team gets killed and
there are many suspects!!!
Guest starring here are Dick Butkis(LB for the Chicago Bears),
Forrest Tucker(F-Troop, Dusty's Trail)! B+
EPISODE 5: WHO WOULD KILL RAMONA?(Oct. 31, 1982):
A priest is killed and a former priest knows who did
it but his faith keeps him from telling!
Guest starring here are Janet Leigh(Psycho, Bye Bye Birdie),
Cesar Romero(Batman[as The Joker], Ocean's Eleven[1960], The
Little Princess, Falcon Crest, Disney's Zorro), Dabs
Greer(Little House On the Prairie, Gunsmoke, MANY westerns),
William Smith(Larado)! A
EPISODE 6: RECIPE FOR MURDER(Nov. 07, 1982):
A food critic drops into a restaraunt to get only to
get a surprise, a gelitin mold with his partners head
in it!
Guest starring: Cid Caesar(Your Show Of Shows, It's A Mad Mad
Mad Mad World), David Hedison(Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea,
Live And Let Die, License To Kill), Hope Lange(The New Dick
Van Dyke Show, Death Wish, The Ghost And Mrs. Muir, Peyton
Place)! B
EPISODE 7: SHARK BAIT(Nov. 21, 1982):
Life guards are all of a sudden being attacked by sharks!
Guest starring: Dorothy Malone(Peyton Place[TV], The Big
Sleep), Michelle Phillips(Mamas and Papas, Knots Landing,
Search For Tomorrow), Gary Frank(Family)!
Star Trek connection: Michelle Phillips(TNG episode "We'll
Always Have Paris"), Gary Frank(DS9 episode "Children Of
Time")! A
EPISODE 8: THE KIDNAPPING(Nov. 28, 1982):
A sick boy prince gets kidnapped off a plane and the king
asks Matt for help!!
Guest starring: Hugh O'Brien(The Life And Legend Of Wyatt Earp),
Paul Petersen(The Donna Reed Show, singer), Tina Louise(Gilligan's
Island)! A
EPISODE 9: JOEY'S HERE(Dec. 05, 1982):
David plays a young entrpreneur who's plan is to build
a giant playground aimed at adults, but someone apparently
doesn't want him to succeed!
Guest starring: David Cassidy(The Partridge Family, singer),
Troy Donohue(Surfside Six, Hawaiian Eye), Norman Fell(Three's
Company, Dan August), Monte Markham(The New Perry Mason,
Baywatch)!
Star Trek connection: Monte Markham(DS9 episode "Let He
Who Is Without Sin...")! B+
EPISODE 10: THE GOOD DOCTOR(Dec. 12, 1982):
A doctor is shot right in front of Matt and a whole lot
of people! He then promptly gets run over and killed!
Guest starring: Gary Lockwood(2001: A Space Odyssey, Earth
II, The Lieutenant, Fallow The Sun), Beverly Garland(Lois
And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman, The Scarecrow
And Mrs. King, Planet Of The Apes, My Three Sons),
William Windom(Murder She Wrote, Escape From The Planet
Of The Apes, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Farmer's Daughter)!!
Star Trek connection: William Windom(TOS episode "The
Doomsday Machine"), Gary Lockwood(TOS episode "Where
No Man Has Gone Before")! B+
EPISODE 11: THE ROCK AND A HARD PLACE(Jan. 02, 1983):
A soldier who is AWOL gets framed for the murder of
an MP!!
Guest starring: George Tekai(Heroes, Mulan, Mulan II),
Diane McBain(Spinout, Surfside Six)!
Star Trek connection: George Tekai(TOS, TAS, NV episode
"World Enough And Time", VOY episode "Flashback")! B+
EPISODE 12: THE PURRFECT CRIME(Jan. 09, 1983):
A man who's got a cologne & cat food company and is a
fan of cats, gets killed by one of his pets!!
Guest Starring Sonny Bono(Sonny And Cher), Zsa Zsa Gabor
(Batman[as Minerva], The Naked Gun 2 1/2, Queen From Outer
Space), Werner Klemperer(Hogan's Heroes)! A
EPISODE 13: THE YACHT CLUB MURDERS(Jan. 16, 1983):
A high up at the yacht club gets killed by a snake! A
Guest Starring Alan Hale Jr.(Gilligan's Island, Casy Jones),
Shelly Berman(Boston Legal, comedian and guest star on many
talk shows), Dick Seargent(Bewitched[he replaced Dick York
when he got too sick to carry on as Darren]), Mary Ann Mobley
(2 Elvis Presley movies)! A
EPISODE 14: WHO'S PARTY IS THIS ANYWAY?(Jan. 23, 1983):
Suppose they threw a party and everyone starts getting killed?!
Very Agatha Christyish!!
Starring: Edward Mulhare(The Ghost And Mrs. Muir, Night Rider)
Barbara Rush(Peyton Place, Robin And The Seven Hoods, It Came
From OUter Space, When Worlds Collide), Stella Stevens(Girls!
Girls! Girls!, The Silencers)! A
EPISODE 15: GET HOUSTON(Feb. 20, 1983):
A madman(Connors) is out after revenge on Matt even though
he's locked up in an insane asylum!
Guest starring: Chuck Connors(The Rifleman, Branded, Arrest
And Trial), Don Stroud(Mike Hammer[1984], Mrs. Columbo),
Ed Nelson(Payton Place)! A
EPISODE 16: THE VISITORS(Feb. 27, 1983):
We are not alone!! At least this is the theory behind this
episode!
Guest starring: Shelly Fabares(The Donna Redd Show, Singer),
Dawn Wells(Gilligan's Island), David Groh(Rhoda)!
Star Trek connection: Alex Henteloff(Star Trek IV: The
Voyage Home)! A
EPISODE 17: HERE'S ANOTHER FINE MESS(Mar. 06, 1983):
An homage to Laurel And Hardy!!
Two bad guys made up like Laurel and Hardy run CJ
off the road! They seem to have a vendetta out for
her and some other sorority club members that CJ
was part of!!
Guest starring: Ernest Borgnine(McHale's Navy, Airwolf,
The Posidon Adventure, Escape From New York), Anne Jeffreys
(1940s Dick Tracy Movies, Topper[TV]), Andrew Robinson(Star
Trek: DS9 as Garak)!
Interestingly: Kene Holiday is in this(very shortly) but
given no credit!!
Star Trek connection: Andrew Robinson(DS9)! A-
EPISODE 18: THE BEVERLY WOODS SOCIAL CLUB(Mar. 13, 1983):
A woman is killed while playing a carnaval game!
Guest starring: Jayne Meadows(I've Got A Secret), Don DeFore
(The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet, Hazel), Bo Hopkins
(Dynesty, American Graffit, More American Graffiti)Ben
Murphy(Alias Smith And Jones), Natalie Schafer(Gilligan's
Island)!
Star Trek connection: Michael Cavanaugh(TNG episode "Tin
Man")! B+
EPISODE 19: THE SHOWGIRL MURDERS(Mar. 20, 1983):
I guess this one's pretty obvious: showgirls from Vegas
are getting killed in a serial style and the main suspect
is a friend of Matt's!
During a chase scene the streets that they take are
defunitely NOT Vegas!!!
Guest starring: Fred Grandy(Love Boat), Robert Goulet
(Singer), George Chakiris(Superboy)!
Star Trek connection: Michael Cavanaugh(TNG episode "Tin
Man")! A
EPISODE 20: FEAR FOR TOMORROW(Apr. 03, 1983):
A man running down the street with dudes shooting at
him hops in a car with a couple of girls in it
and tells them to get to Huston and tell him
Fear For Tomorrow, then dies!
Guest starring Tim O'Connor(Buck Rogers), Paul
Petersen(Donna Reed Show, singer), Tori Spelling
(Beverly Hills 90120)! A
EPISODE 21: A DEADLY PARLAY(Apr. 10, 1983):
A female jockey gets murdered and the cercumstances
make it look like Matt did!
Guest starring: Ron Ely(Tarzan, South Pacific), Paul
Petersen returns!
Star Trek connection: Lou Antonio(TOS episode "Let That
Be Your Last Battlefield"), Robert Pine(Enterprise episode
"Fusion", Voyager episode "The Chute"),! B
EPISODES 22: A NOVEL WAY TO DIE(Apr. 17, 1983):
A publicist kills a mystery writer then calls Matt
to set up a meeting and to create an alabi!
Guest starring: Richard Anderson(The Six Million Dollar Man,
Forbidden Planet, Dan August, Perry Mason), Joseph Campenella
Mannix, The Bold Ones[The Lawyers]), Denny Miller(Wagon Train,
Mona McClusky), Markie Post(Night Court)!
Star Trek connection: Joseph Campanella(VOY episode "Author,
Author)! A-
EPISODE 23: THE HUNTED(Apr. 24, 1983):
CJ gets kidnapper(AGAIN) and the perp wants Matt to
get his terrorist son out of prison!
Guest Starring: Martin Landau(Space: 1999, Mission:
Impossible), Mark Shera(Babnaby Jones)!! B
From another reviewer at IMDb.com:
Great show to watch to sit back and relax and release
tensions of the day. Very entertaining! - sederda