• 1986
  • TV-PG
  • 1h
Matlock

Summary Ben Matlock is a very expensive criminal defense attorney, who charges one hundred thousand dollars to take a case. Fortunately, he's worth every penny, as he and his associates defend his clients by finding the real killer. View more details

  • 1986
  • TV-PG
  • 1h

Matlock

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Clarence Gilyard Jr. Julie Sommars Andy Griffith Nancy Stafford

All cast & crew

7.1

Details

Genres : Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Mar 2, 1986

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : INSP

Language : English

Filming locations : Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Production companies : Dean Hargrove Productions Fred Silverman Company The Matlock Company

Summary Ben Matlock is a very expensive criminal defense attorney, who charges one hundred thousand dollars to take a case. Fortunately, he's worth every penny, as he and his associates defend his clients by finding the real killer. View more details

Details

Genres : Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Mar 2, 1986

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : INSP

Language : English

Filming locations : Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Production companies : Dean Hargrove Productions Fred Silverman Company The Matlock Company

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Mar 02, 1986
Diary of a Perfect Murder
Ben Matlock and his daughter Charlene defend a TV journalist accused of killing his ex-wife.
Episode 2 • Sep 22, 1986
The Judge
Judge Carter Addison murders his cheating mistress and frames her lover. Then the judge presides over the man's trial with Ben Matlock as the defense counsel.
Episode 3 • Sep 29, 1986
The Stripper
An exotic dancer is accused of killing her ex-husband.
Episode 4 • Oct 06, 1986
The Affair
Christina Ward hires Ben to defend Sonia Cardenas, the maid accused of knifing her cheating husband Richard. Sonia was one of Richard's dalliances and is reluctant to help Ben; is she covering for someone else?
Episode 5 • Oct 13, 1986
The Seduction
Football star Brad Bingham is accused of fatally bludgeoning the team's owner Cynthia Hyland.
Episode 6 • Oct 27, 1986
The Don: Part 1
Ben and Charlene take the case of Mafia don Nicholas Baron accused of murdering business rival Don Kovacs; Charlene is attracted to Baron's son Paul.
Episode 7 • Nov 03, 1986
The Don: Part 2
Ben defends a organized-crime boss.
Episode 8 • Nov 10, 1986
The Sisters
Sisters Julia and Emily McCullough murder their wealthy Aunt Esther with a heavy object and frame her dull husband Harold Scully, a golf partner of Ben's. Ben reluctantly defends Scully and must break the sisters' alibi and strong bond.
Episode 9 • Nov 14, 1986
The Cop
After tough detective Joe Peters finds a fortune in his bank account, the mob frames him for Harry Landers' gunshot murder.
Episode 10 • Nov 24, 1986
The Angel
Spoiled rock star and party girl Angel goes to her manager Lou Pearson's house to patch up a drunken fight and passes out. When she comes to, he's been fatally stabbed in the chest with scissors. Ben reluctantly defends her.
Episode 11 • Dec 01, 1986
The Professor
Ben's law professor Erskine Tate is arrested for vehicular homicide of postal worker Jim Donaldson but has no recollection of it. Ben suspects Tate's assistant Jim Billings and students Eric Lane and Wesley Wallace, then tries to prove it.
Episode 12 • Dec 08, 1986
Santa Claus
At Christmas, cruel landlord Alan Rawlings wants to evict his tenants and tangles with tenant Tom McCabe, a cynical disabled Korean War vet and street Santa. Rawlings is murdered with a paperweight and McCabe is accused.
Episode 13 • Jan 05, 1987
The Chef
During the taping of her TV cooking show, chef Victoria Edwards' ex-husband Mike, whom she hates, samples her cooking, then keels over dead from cyanide poisoning. Ben and Charlene investigate and the killer moves to strike again.
Episode 14 • Jan 12, 1987
The Author
Maryann Nelson's book, whose characters are based on her neighbors, is a best seller. Angry neighbors threaten her. When Reverend DeLuca visits, someone shoots at her and kills him. The investigation leads to town Doctor Egan.
Episode 15 • Jan 19, 1987
The Rat Pack
In California, Ben defends cookie magnate Alan Gardener who is accused of drowning his girlfriend Debbie O'Keefe, a bit-part actress who may have been involved with one of his friends.
Episode 16 • Feb 02, 1987
The Nurse
One night, Peter St. John dies of what seems to be a heart attack while his private nurse Kathy Dawson was out. When his cause of death is determined to be murder, Kathy becomes the prime suspect. Ben's retainer: a $250K engagement ring.
Episode 17 • Feb 09, 1987
The Convict
Ben's ex-client Lester Matthews has spent years in prison for murder. Before his parole, Lester kills a fellow inmate with a knife in self-defense. Ben defends Lester again and figures out what happened in the previous case.
Episode 18 • Feb 16, 1987
The Court-Martial: Part 1
An Army lieutenant pushes his men too hard. Someone stabs him in the back, and he dies. The Army charges one of the soldiers in his company, Ben defends him, and Charlene and Tyler help. During a preliminary hearing the accused disappears.
Episode 19 • Feb 23, 1987
The Court-Martial: Part 2
Ben returns the defendant, but a crucial witness (the only witness) disappears. Tyler discovers a drug scheme, Charlene finds out about the background, and Ben figures out the pieces of the puzzle. Ben even learns about the Army.
Episode 20 • Mar 02, 1987
The Therapist
A famous movie star, staying incognito at a special clinic, becomes outraged when his presence there is leaked to the media. When the doctor is found murdered he is arrested for it.
Episode 21 • Mar 23, 1987
The People vs. Matlock
Gerald O'Hara is accused of killing Dan Keaton, a candidate in the current election, by gunfire and dumping the body at a construction site. Juror # 7 Harry Craven accuses Ben of bribing a witness with cash mailed from Ben's office.
Episode 22 • Mar 30, 1987
The Photographer
A crooked photographer is murdered.
Episode 23 • May 04, 1987
The Reporter
A woman arrives home to find her house on fire and her husband dead. The police believe she did it to kill her husband who supposedly was planning on leaving her. A newspaper reporter helps Ben and discovers the husband had a secret past.
Episode 24 • May 11, 1987
The Doctors
Habitually angry Dr Dave Westlake supervises a team of doctors and threatens them with bad performance reviews before being killed. Team member Bruce Jacobs finds the body and they all become suspects.

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