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[PrinceKamalKhan]

The first season of the adventures of 'tached 1980s Texan millionaire cowboy private detective Matt Houston will be released on March 9, 2010.

http://www.amazon.co...-...5695&sr=1-1

Lee Horsley was great in the heroic role and seemed to run across as many beautiful women as 007 did. In fact, two Bond girls(Jill St. John and Barbara Carrera) appear in the first episode. Later on, Bond veterans Britt Ekland and David Hedison guest starred in the series. I've always thought it was a missed opportunity that EON didn't hire Horsley after this show ended its run to portray Felix Leiter in the Dalton and Brosnan Bond films.

A fun show for fans of the '80s, action and beautiful women. I've already pre-ordered my copy.

[jaguar007]

I remember that show quite well (in fact I remember him wrecking a Jag E-type in the 2 hour pilot). I might pick this up.

[Professor Dent]

This was a good show. I don't remember this one playing much in syndication (or maybe I just completely missed it). Thanks for the heads-up, PKK.

[Mr. Somerset]

I agree Horsley would have made a great Leiter back in the day. Fun show. I may have to pick it up.

[Tarl_Cabot]

I hated that car. and the show was a Magnum PI wanna be. I'll pass. But...I don't begrudge anyone thier 1980s pleasures.

I wish the second season of the Equalizer would come out.

[Brisco]

I was just too late for both of them in their primetime glory, but this and Magnum both ran in syndication in the afternoon in the early Nineties when I was in middle school. I watched Magnum religiously after school every day (and still love it!), and I always dismissed Matt Houston as an obvious ripoff back then. (Plus, as Tarl_Cabot points out, there's not car cheesier than the Excalibur!) But I do like Lee Horsley from The Sword and the Sorcerer, and I've really changed my opinion of ripoffs since then. I really enjoy them now! They're like getting MORE of what you love in an agreeably lesser form. Just like I love the Eurospy movies that knocked off Bond in the Sixties, I'm now far more open to Magnum ripoffs. So I'm actually quite excited about these DVDs, and the opportunity to give this show the chance I never gave it back in the day.

[Turn]

The most lasting thing about Matt Houston for me was I remember watching the end of it in anticipation of Bond films sometimes following it on the ABC Sunday Night Movie.

The other thing was, and I'm surprised nobody has mentioned her, the presence of the beautiful Pamela Hensley, who I first saw as Princess Ardala on the Buck Rogers series. I wonder what ever became of her. I think her career faded away after this series.

[jaguar007]

I hated that car. and the show was a Magnum PI wanna be. I'll pass. But...I don't begrudge anyone thier 1980s pleasures.

I wish the second season of the Equalizer would come out.

In the second and third season they changed his Excalibur to a more simple Mercedes convertible.

I would prefer the remainder of the Equalizer as well (preferably 3rd and 4th since I have the second season recorded on DVD myself off cable).

[TheSaint]

Love this show! Will be getting it Tuesday.

The first season was lighter in tone and got serious in the subsequent seasons.

He & George Clooney starred in a great summer series for CBS called "Bodies of Evidence".

If he were the same age in 2008 as he was when he played Houston, he would've made a great Tony Stark.

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Yahoo! Just opened my copy of it. I'm really looking forward to watching the adventures of one of my favorite 1980s TV action heroes. Like Houston, I sport a 'tache and own a pair of ostrich skin boots. Sadly, I don't own an Excalibur to chase bad guys in or have a gorgeous assistant/sidekick like C.J. Parsons to tag along with me Nonetheless, I'm looking foward to viewing them, particularly the episodes where Houston battles Chuck Connors and the one where Houston has to solve the murder of the ex-husband of Barbi Benton and Zsa Zsa Gabor who was gored to death by his pet tiger. Ah, classic TV.

The most lasting thing about Matt Houston for me was I remember watching the end of it in anticipation of Bond films sometimes following it on the ABC Sunday Night Movie.

Sounds like a great double feature, Turn.

The other thing was, and I'm surprised nobody has mentioned her, the presence of the beautiful Pamela Hensley, who I first saw as Princess Ardala on the Buck Rogers series. I wonder what ever became of her. I think her career faded away after this series.

Indeed she was a beauty who according to imdb.com, Matt Houston was her last TV or film acting appearance.

Love this show! Will be getting it Tuesday.

The first season was lighter in tone and got serious in the subsequent seasons.

I always liked the first season best which played up Houston's Texas-cowboy-in-Southern-California/fish-out-of-water antics more. The 2nd season did have some memorable episodes like the one where George Chakiris played a pianist who stalked and murdered beautiful blondes and one where Houston had to protect a Mafioso's mistress who dressed and acted like Marilyn Monroe.

Some merchandise from the show's run-