User Reviews

This episode is the weakest of all episodes after the show got past its campy and too-light tone from S1. In this episode Matt Houston losses lot of his abilities to fight that are very evident elsewhere in S2 and S3 in order to stretch this episode into an hour. The portly, out of shape assassin should have been caught 10 minutes in but Houston had to fall, slow down and become an incredibly bad shot so the villain could get away. Later in the episode when we find the real villain (which was not a bad twist) he is an old man who somehow manages to kidnap Buddy Ebsen and guest star Celeste Holm, tie them up, shuttle them around LA, when it would seem they could have easily disarmed him along the way. This episode seemed to be trying to cater to the Barnaby Jones fan and not the Matt Houston fan (that is not a dig at Barnaby Jones - I watched all 8 seasons last year).