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.
In this legal drama, Andy Griffith plays Ben Matlock, a criminal-defense lawyer based in Atlanta. Matlock typically identifies and confronts the perpetrator in a dramatic courtroom scene. His goal, most often, is to prove reasonable doubt of his client's guilt. Rumor suggests that the character is based on lawyer Bobby Lee Cook, Georgia's colorful "dean of criminal-defense attorneys."
Aired: Mar 3, 1986 Ben Matlock and his daughter Charlene defend a TV journalist accused of killi...
Aired: Sep 23, 1986 Judge Carter Addison murders his cheating mistress and frames her lover. Then...
Aired: Sep 30, 1986 An exotic dancer is accused of killing her ex-husband.
Aired: Oct 7, 1986 Christina Ward hires Ben to defend Sonia Cardenas, the maid accused of knifin...
Aired: Oct 14, 1986 Football star Brad Bingham is accused of fatally bludgeoning the team's owner...
Aired: Oct 28, 1986 Ben and Charlene take the case of Mafia don Nicholas Baron accused of murderi...
Aired: Nov 4, 1986 Ben defends a organized-crime boss.
Aired: Nov 11, 1986 Sisters Julia and Emily McCullough murder their wealthy Aunt Esther with a he...
Aired: Nov 18, 1986 After tough detective Joe Peters finds a fortune in his bank account, the mob...
Aired: Nov 25, 1986 Spoiled rock star and party girl Angel goes to her manager Lou Pearson's hous...
Aired: Dec 2, 1986 Ben's law professor Erskine Tate is arrested for vehicular homicide of postal...
Aired: Dec 9, 1986 At Christmas, cruel landlord Alan Rawlings wants to evict his tenants and tan...
Aired: Jan 6, 1987 During the taping of her TV cooking show, chef Victoria Edwards' ex-husband M...
Aired: Jan 13, 1987 Maryann Nelson's book, whose characters are based on her neighbors, is a best...
Aired: Jan 20, 1987 In California, Ben defends cookie magnate Alan Gardener who is accused of dro...
Aired: Feb 3, 1987 One night, Peter St. John dies of what seems to be a heart attack while his p...
Aired: Feb 10, 1987 Ben's ex-client Lester Matthews has spent years in prison for murder. Before ...
Aired: Feb 17, 1987 An Army lieutenant pushes his men too hard. Someone stabs him in the back, an...
Aired: Feb 24, 1987 Ben returns the defendant, but a crucial witness (the only witness) disappear...
Aired: Mar 3, 1987 A famous movie star, staying incognito at a special clinic, becomes outraged ...
Aired: Mar 24, 1987 Gerald O'Hara is accused of killing Dan Keaton, a candidate in the current el...
Aired: Mar 31, 1987 A crooked photographer is murdered.
Aired: May 5, 1987 A woman arrives home to find her house on fire and her husband dead. The poli...
Aired: May 12, 1987 Habitually angry Dr Dave Westlake supervises a team of doctors and threatens ...
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