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Houston Knights

4.3 / 10

1987

2 seasons

31 episodes

DramaCrime

Houston Knights is an American crime drama set in Houston, Texas. The show ran on CBS from 1987 to 1988 and had 31 episodes. The core of the show was the partnership between two very different cops from two different cultures. Chicago cop Joey LaFiamma, played by Michael Paré, is transferred to Houston after he kills a mobster from a powerful Mafia family and a contract is put out on him. Once there, he is partnered with Levon Lundy, played by Michael Beck, the grandson of a Texas Ranger. Although as different as night and day, and after a rocky beginning they form a successful partnership and become friends. This is aided to a certain extent by an event where a hitman from Chicago who holds the contract to shoot La Fiamma arrives in Houston and is ultimately killed by Lundy. During the series, it is revealed that both La Fiamma and Lundy have their own personal demons; La Fiamma's Chicago police partner had been killed when he went ahead while La Fiamma had waited for backup to arrive. Lundy's wife had been killed by an explosion that was intended to kill him.

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Cast

Michael Paré

Michael Beck

John Hancock

Robyn Douglass

Richard Bright

Edward Albert

Andreas Katsulas

Jeffrey Combs

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Cameron Dye

Kathryn Holcomb

LeVar Burton

Seasons

Ep 1
1.Mirrors (1)
11-03-1987
There are two underlying stories here. The first is the murder of a Houston business man. The other is the pasts of LaFiamma and Lundy. It is the conflict between a Northerner dete...
Ep 2
2.Mirrors (2)
11-03-1987
Ep 3
3.North of the Border
18-03-1987
The story is about an wealthy American going into a Mexican border town and getting away with murder. Efrain Figueroa is introduced here as Sgt Estaban Gutierrez as a recurring cha...
Ep 4
4.Houston's Hero
25-03-1987
A hero turns out to be the killer everyone is seeking. See Recap for more details.
Ep 5
5.Single in Heaven
01-04-1987
A serial killer is on the loose, and one of the victims is a friend of Levon's. Danni, a novice journalist overheads Joe & Levon talking and prints what she heard Joe say. The kill...
Ep 6
6.Yesterday's Gone
08-04-1987
A high school friend of Levon's is shot at in a hotel lobby. The boys are assigned the case. Joe sees a Chicago 'mob tailor' and talks with him. Levon learns that his friend, Bobby...
Ep 7
7.Bad Girl
15-04-1987
At a rich boy's party, things suddenly turn deadly when someone dies of laced cocaine. One of the party girls makes a play for LaFiamma. As Joe is turned on more and more by this g...
Ep 8
8.Scarecrow
22-04-1987
A motorcycle cop is murdered during a traffic stop. A young black man named Scarecrow says he witnessed it. The Knights find him and put him in a safe house, but the young man flee...
Ep 9
9.Colt
29-04-1987
The gun Levon carries belonged to his grandfather, who was a Texas Ranger. In this episode, Lundy walks into a jewelry store to check on something he is having fixed, and ends up i...

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