E1 - Heritage (1)

Aired: September 09, 1983

other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.

E2 - Heritage (2)

Aired: September 09, 1983

other characters: Tanny, Mr. Lane, Sandy Matt encounters a land scam and learns the truth about his past when he goes home to Texas.

E3 - The Woman in White

Aired: September 16, 1983

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.

E4 - Love You To Death

Aired: September 23, 1983

other characters: Doctor, Dr. Austin, Heidi (waitress) After Matt's one-night affair with an obsessed woman, she ransacks his home and murders.

E5 - The Centerfold Murders

Aired: September 30, 1983

other characters: Henry Omant Matt searches for a killer who has already slain three of twelve top centerfold models.

E6 - Needle In A Haystack

Aired: October 07, 1983

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.

E7 - Marilyn

Aired: October 21, 1983

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.

E8 - The Ghost of Carter Gault

Aired: October 28, 1983

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.

E9 - China Doll

Aired: November 04, 1983

While investigating the murder of C.J.'s college roommate, Matt discovers she might have been involved with Chinese drug smugglers.

E10 - Butterfly

Aired: November 18, 1983

A teenage prostitute dies when she tries to stop a child prostitution ring from snaring her younger sister.

E11 - The Crying Clown

Aired: November 25, 1983

Matt must find one of a dead forger's original paintings, which is attracting an undue amount of interest from art dealers.

E12 - The Outsider

Aired: December 02, 1983

other characters: Charles (Chauffer) Skeptical Matt becomes the target of a self-proclaimed psychic (Robert Walker) working with a kidnapping ring.

E13 - Target: Miss World

Aired: December 23, 1983

An international assassin (Judson Scott) kills a Navajo girl in order to use her apartment to have a clear shot at a victim.

E14 - The Monster

Aired: January 06, 1984

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.

E15 - Waltz of Death

Aired: January 13, 1984

other characters: Marla Pierce A concert pianist (George Chakiris) is pursued by a former detective who he believes strangled 18 blond girls.

E16 - Houston Is Dead

Aired: January 20, 1984

After Matt learns the heads of a convalescent hospital murdered a nurse, he is shot.

E17 - Criss-Cross

Aired: January 27, 1984

other characters: Arnie (boy) Returning from Hawaii, retiree Novelli is charged with robbing a police vault of $2 million in cocaine.

E18 - The Bikini Murders

Aired: February 03, 1984

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.

E19 - Death Match

Aired: February 24, 1984

A man who murdered eight women, including Matt's fiancée, sends a clipping of his latest victim to Houston.

E20 - Blood Ties

Aired: March 02, 1984

A psychotic hospital orderly (Lou Ferrigno) who killed five men decides to make Matt's ailing father his next victim.

E21 - The Secret Admirer

Aired: March 09, 1984

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.

E22 - Cash and Carry

Aired: March 23, 1984

A petty thief (Stuart Pankin) asks Matt's help to return $3 million he unwittingly stole from the mob.

E23 - On The Run (1)

Aired: March 30, 1984

other characters: Veronica Sims (murdered) Matt awakens in his penthouse after a month-long absence, remembering nothing and finding himself accused of murder.