He was pictured on the cover of the 1982
Warren Zevon album, "The Envoy", along with
Ted Shackelford, with whom he co-starred on the show,
Knots Landing (1979). Zevon was the boyfriend of
Kim Lankford, who co-starred on "Knots Landing", with Houghton and Shackelford. However, Zevon and Lankford never married.