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- After Houston's friend Winston Fowler's top jockey Cindy Gaines breaches her contract with him to move to England, she is fatally pitch-forked in a stable. Houston is found standing over her remains and subsequently arrested for her murder.
- At a mystery writers' convention where Houston is the keynote speaker, publisher Wayne Slocum shoots hated mystery writer Emily Armor three times with a .45 magnum, then brazenly entreats his friend Houston to help solve her murder.
- Houston is hired to rescue a girl from a cult. It seems that anyone who joins has to turn everything they have. And she's about to inherit a fortune. And it also seems that anyone who after turning over a fortune, dies shortly after.
- An old high school friend of Matt's is unaware she is being used as a decoy when she asks for his help to find her boyfriend.
- Matt's ailing father becomes the target of psychopath.
- A birthday party for Cousin Will turns sour when Matt is informed that he's parked on a roof, ready to jump.
- A teenage prostitute asks Matt to rescue her younger sister from a pimp.
- Matt sets out to rescue C.J. who has been mistaken for a prostitute and imprisoned after suffering amnesia in a freak car accident.
- Matt goes after the mob after a small-time thief is murdered for returning laundered money.
- C.J. asks Matt to solve the murder of an old college friend, Connie Ling, who was involved with heroin dealers.
- One of Roy's former intelligence associates tells him that a Russian agent whom they took down years ago and who swore vengeance is back. It's not long after that that the man is killed. So Roy tries to find the agents who helped him before the man gets them all.
- Lt. Vince Novelli asks Matt to help clear his name when he is framed for stealing drugs.
- When a fashion designer is murdered, the prime suspect is a model who happens to be Houston's ex. She turns to him for help. And he looks at the man's wife, his partner, and a designer.
- The most dangerous game is revisited when a sporting goods mogul hunts athletes.
- A serial killer who killed Matt's fiancee in the past reveals that he has struck again.
- An old enemy of Houston's, Andre 'Allen' Garvey - AKA the 'Wolf-Witch' - is released from prison after bribing a corrupt judge, Malcolm Granger. The fiend begins taunting & stalking Houston on a single-minded mission of revenge.
- Matt must rescue C.J. and Roy from small town oil embezzlers.
- Matt Houston and his company investigate a drug ring and end up in a bar, where a hood shoots and gravely wounds Lieutenant Hoyt.
- After getting captured by the warlord holding his cousin, Houston tries to find a way out. The warlord demands a ransom which C.J. is about deliver but a government agent stops her. Roy decides to ask someone from his days as a spy to help him.
- Accused of being jealous, Matt is reluctantly faced with proving that C.J.'s newscaster boyfriend is a murderer.
- Bloodied gunfire victim Eric Brant lands in a passing car, hands the driver a codebook, and gives her a message for Houston: Fear for Tomorrow. Brant dies when the car blows up. His assailants then go after Houston's buddy Vince Novelli.
- Elizabeth, object of Matt's affection, returns and they decide to marry. Serial killer Adam Booth looks for notoriety, sees that the press is ignoring him, brings Matt into it, and jeopardizes Matt's plans with Elizabeth.
- Years ago, Matt sent dangerous psychotic Castanos to prison. Now Castanos escapes, makes an attempt on Matt, gets Bo instead, then kidnaps CJ to use as bait for a showdown with Matt in an abandoned amusement park.
- Two men dressed like Laurel & Hardy try to kill C.J. Houston learns that some of her former sorority sisters have already been victims, and that the man that they had been dating could be responsible. But others are marked for murder, too.
- A trip to back home to Texas to investigate suspicious stalkers proves unsettling when Matt learns the truth about his heritage.
- While on a case investigating unnecessary drugging of convalescent patients, Matt is seriously wounded.
- Manufacturer Will Hoyt is shot dead by a company robot, called a Joey. Murray's friend John Gordon Boyd designed the project that Hoyt was about to shut down. So Murray recruits Matt to rescue Boyd.
- When football team owner Jock Stryker is killed, suspicion falls on quarterback Randy, a friend of Houston's. Many people wanted Stryker dead, including his abused girlfriend Andrea, his resentful gofer Crusher, and Coach Buck Turley.
- After suffering his umpteenth concussion, Matt falls head over heals in love with an Irish heiress who is being brainwashed by her Irish-terrorist brother.
- A deranged woman, who Matt briefly dated, stalks him and will kill anyone who gets between them.
- Houston searches for a mobster's mistress, a dead ringer for Marilyn Monroe, before she is killed.
- Matt must rescue an insulin-dependent, special-needs boy who has been wrongfully deported to Mexico.
- A stewardess accidentally happens upon and photographs a murder and asks Matt to protect her.
- Houston wakes up and calls C.J. who tells him that he has been missing for 30 days. He then discovers that he's the prime suspect in a murder. And when the evidence is overwhelming, he goes on the run to prove his innocence.
- Restaurant critic Roger Marsden's severed head is served in aspic to his snooty partner J Hamilton Goodfellow. The cops suspect a restaurant owner whose eatery the critics panned. And then attempts are made on Goodfellow's life.
- Houston and Roy get information that Roy's son who is an MIA in Vietnam is alive. They go to the government who tell them that they can't do anything. So Houston decides to go and find him himself; Too Mean accompanies him. They meet a mercenary who tells them that the man who has the one they are looking for is a warlord. So they go to try and rescue him.
- Lifeguards at the beach are being fatally attacked by sharks. Before her daughter Sue becomes a victim, Alice Landa hired Houston to find out if a shark can be programmed to kill.
- Matt stumbles upon an illegal adoption ring when a woman hires him to find her kidnapped son.
- Tabloid publisher Al Brodax is nearly electrocuted beside his pool. The prime suspects tried to sue him and lost: ex-con Hanrahan who became a scapegoat for his legal troubles; mobster Ross; a sexy centerfold; and a bigamist magician.
- Matt has to find the connection between the death of Navajo woman and an international beauty contest.
- Matt meets his female counterpart while investigating the murder of two guests at a resort.
- During a carnival fund-raiser, vicious gossip columnist Vonda Moran is blown up because someone tampered with a "strength test" mallet & ringing bell attraction. Houston is subsequently kidnapped and persuaded to investigate.
- A secretary is murdered after uncovering a plot to blackmail her boss.
- Three stunning women have been murdered, their connection: they are all top centerfolds.
- When one of Matt's friends, a struggling artist, is murdered, he acquires a painting wanted by several ruthless art collectors.
- A man trying to expose dirty union tactics is murdered right after asking Matt to take the case.
- At a hospital fund-raiser, Dr. Belkamp is shot by waiter Tom Chapman, a former orderly whom Belkamp fired for being inept. Chapman is killed while escaping. Did a member of the hospital research team hire him to kill Belkamp? If so, who?
- Two models have been murdered, and Matt can't accept the alibi of the most likely suspect.
- An old college friend asks for Matt's help in solving the murder of his wife, killed hours after their wedding.
- Marquis Duval Sr. kidnaps C.J. and holds her hostage. As ransom, he demands that Houston arrange for his son, whom Houston considers a terrorist, to be released from prison.
- Critically ill Arab Prince Fahad has been abducted in his private plane while in flight, so his father King Abdul hires Houston to identify the guilty passenger. The Prince was on his way to medical treatment and has very little time left.
- F. Lee Bailey asks C.J. to defend a criminal in hostile town.
- After getting a lead on the man who kidnapped him when he was a little boy, Matt sets out to find him and bring him to justice.
- Matt sets out to prove that a blind psychic is actually a phony, responsible for several kidnappings and murders.
- Cat food magnate Felix Randolph is killed by his pet tiger Pasha. Groundsman Buddy Young is arrested but Matt thinks the killer is one of four ex-wives, who cannot lay claim to Felix's $70 million estate until his killer is caught.
- Boxer Bubba Dax dines with wife Janey and doctor Warren. On arriving to talk to Bubba, the doctor's nurse gets killed. Someone may be trying to kill Bubba who's had close calls lately. Bubba doesn't want Houston around.
- While Matt is out of town, C.J. has to deal with the murder of her boyfriend and an obsessed stalker.
- Alcoholic singer Johnny Foster wakes up with blood on his clothes and is arrested soon after for the serial killings of several Las Vegas showgirls. Johnny's friend Matt Houston thinks he's innocent.
- Womanizing scientist Ivar Mardosian dies of an induced heart attack while in the desert with colleagues awaiting alien contact. Are aliens really visiting, or is this a staged hoax to cover up a murder? And who killed him?
- A former peace officer is jailed and under arrest for murder, but he might not have committed the crime.
- While being named Commodore of Southland Yacht Club, Rawson Harmon IV is killed by a snake. Manager Honey Lewis asks Matt to investigate. Suspects include Honey; her restless son Jeb; sleazy filmmaker Bevak; and unlucky gambler Binky.
- When three children are abducted and one of them is Hoyt's, he and Houston do whatever they have to find her. Eventually they find the man who got them but he claims they're dead. And since Houston and Hoyt didn't exactly go by the book, the man's released. And Hoyt sets out to get him.
- Matt sets out to prove that a touring classical pianist is responsible for strangling and murdering several women.
- Houston is still on the run and is trying to find the one responsible but has no leads. But when he meets a gifted child who tells him to seek out the help of his family. But Houston says he has no family except for his Uncle Roy who is a former member of the CIA. That's when Houston realizes that the man he is looking is probably a former CIA man too. So he goes to his uncle and the man he is looking tracks him there and tries to kill him but he and his uncle escape. Roy takes him to someone who can help him find the man and when he learns who he is and where he is, along with his uncle, C.J., Murray and Hoyt they try to get him.
- Actress Ramona Landers reports to the set of her comeback film. Her young costar Todd Gallagher accuses her of drunkenness, then gulps her drink and dies of poisoning. Houston interviews her husband and those involved with the film.
- Houston goes to the office to meet some people who asked to see him. But when he gets there, he learns that they think he asked them to come. But Houston doesn't know all of them. But then one of the guests says that they do have something in common but that's when he's killed. And they find themselves locked in. And that's when someone is sending them messages which are suppose to be hints of why he is targeting them. And more people are getting killed. And more messages are being sent.
- When Nicolo Giambaccinni christens a new ocean liner, it blows up. Someone put nitroglycerin in the champagne. Murder suspects include his daughter Serena, his mistress Karen Ann, Karen Ann's agent Cody, and investor Wildcat Callahan.