COLLECTION · Series · 1987

Houston Knights

Name: Houston Knights
Genre: Crime, Drama
Duration: 45 min
Rating: 5.5

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.

Source: TMDB

* 5.5 (4)CrimeDrama

Soundtrack

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Creators

Jay Bernstein · Michael Butler

Studios

CBS · Columbia Pictures Television

Runtime

45–60 min/ep

Age rating

Not rated

Release

11/03/1987

Score

5.5 / 10 (4)

Where to watch

With ads

The Roku Channel

Seasons and episodes

Season 1

9 episodes · 1987

Episode 1. Mirrors (1)

1987-03-11

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 detective suddenly transferred to a foreign land called Texas.…

Episode 2. Mirrors (2)

1987-03-11

No synopsis

Episode 3. North of the Border

1987-03-18

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 character. Estaban is a Matamoros, Mexico cop. He travels to…

Episode 4. Houston's Hero

1987-03-25

A hero turns out to be the killer everyone is seeking. See Recap for more details.

Episode 5. Single in Heaven

1987-04-01

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 killer connects with Joe, invading his home, his work, and…

Episode 6. Yesterday's Gone

1987-04-08

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, has been laundering money for the mob. The Feds tape a…

Episode 7. Bad Girl

1987-04-15

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 girl, he begins to get romantically involved with her.…

Episode 8. Scarecrow

1987-04-22

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 flees, so they put him in a jail cell and he ends up dead. A…

Episode 9. Colt

1987-04-29

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 in the middle of a robbery in progress. Now it is used to…

Season 2

22 episodes · 1987

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