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After an abusive and controlling man Peter Mark Richman is murdered, his wife's therapist James Sloyan is arrested for the crime and Matlock takes the case. He begins to noticed that Erin Whitley Nana Visitor had a series of psychiatric problems, and is shocked to finally discover the identity of the killer. Roddy McDowall also appears. Matlock agrees to take on the case of Jennifer Holtz Camilla More , a psychic who claims to have seen the murder before it ever took place.

When the murder does take place, she hires Matlock. Ben's friend Les Don Knotts really believes in her powers, and is upset when she tells him that he won't live to see the outcome of the trial. As it turns out, no one does, since charges are dismissed. A coin dealer John Harkins finds out that a man who had been working for is stealing.

When the employee was found dead, he was charged for his murder. Matlock represents the boss, as is Linda, the private investigator Cindy Morgan , whom Tyler is less than happy after his boss hired her, himself, for the time being. Tyler's also very suspicious of Linda's plots. Sanders as Mitchell Sands. Matlock and Tyler both found out that part of Linda's deception is in location of the kidnapping of her own son. While Tyler finds the son, Matlock finds the rare coins he needs to put together to close the case.

Matlock has a breakthrough in the case he was struggling with, but he forgets it all when he is then hit by a car. While in the hospital he reads over the material he has, much to the annoyance of the nurse Gertrude, who wants him to rest. As he reads over the statements of the three suspects attending the party, where the murder occurred, the statements are reenacted, and of course they differ slightly from one another. One of them is the murderer, but which one? Nurse Gertrude puts a patch on him to cure his headache, and suddenly Ben knows how the murder was done and tells Gert he loves her.

Matlock appears very seldom in this episode, and mostly in a hospital bed, so Andy Griffith was probably feeling out of sorts. He does appear in the final courtroom scene, though. An outraged parent Jack Dodson arrives from Chicago to Atlanta in pursuit of looking for his son Wallace Langham , who was grabbed by the cult.

Dennis told his father to leave him alone, because the cult was his place, as he turned his back on his father. The head of the cult, Joshua Bradbury Roger Davis encourages William to accept his son's decision by leaving him alone. Austin refuses to go anywhere else without his son, and the police escort William outside the mansion, yelling, threatening Mr. Bradbury he will have his head torn off. In the mansion, Dennis learned there was a shot, but then tells the police that his father had shot him. When the father had found out Dennis has signed his trust fund and his life's savings over to the cult, Matlock confronts him, and is shocked to hear Dennis deny his father.

Matlock goes to an expert in de-programming cult victims, who tells him that Dennis may believe he saw his father, but he is probably so brain-washed by the cult that he can't really be sure what he saw. Under Matlock's orders, Tyler infiltrates the cult, but he might be getting himself in over his head when he seems to be falling for their line. An iconic blues singer Joe Seneca is charged with murder, Matlock must defend Eddie Haynes, a man he once idolized. After a local mobster Robert Miranda is accused of murdering a priest Leo Penn , Alex Winthrop Daniel Roebuck from New York, visits Matlock in Atlanta, for help with the case because he knows that he can't do it on his own.

It doesn't take long before Matlock realises that the church is covering something up. After Ryan Bartell Jeff Lester was shot, immediately after Spencer's brother, Matlock also was approached by a handsome young sheriff, Conrad McMasters, to find evidence in killing Ryan. After Conrad calms Matlock down, realizing he was framed for all the dope that he had in his car, Matlock investigates the three guys who killed Bartell, and discovers that each of whom were all liars.

In the end, Matlock hired Conrad as a full-time partner and private investigator in Atlanta, after Conrad leaves his hometown of Manteo, North Carolina. A woman's son Brian Bloom resents that his mom Leslie Bevis has a new husband John Calvin , and makes sure to have his feelings about it out in the open. Her husband, feeling that her son needs to be straightened out, wants to send him to a military school. But when he refuses, her husband tells him that unless he goes, his mother is going to know what he has been doing.

So he kills him. Eventually, his mother is arrested, and Ben defends her. While Matlock is in Texas, for a lawyer's convention, Julie defends Phillip Slayton Don Galloway , the man accused of killing his wife. Julie goes to Baltimore to defend the guy Alan Fudge , who accused of killing the newspaper editor Bruce Kirby who used his name in the air. Julie asks Matlock if Conrad's there to do some investigation, when he has too many things to do, leaving Matlock to do most of his investigative work with Julie, who was with her divorced husband Barry Jenner.

When Conrad told Matlock he was interested in doing investigative work while attending the circus, Matlock finds out that everybody had a good reason to dislike Simon Le Simple. When one of the actors stabbed her for real, the director, Noel Bishop Dennis Christopher , is accused of her murder. When a client James Eckhouse of Ben's is taken by some con artists, he decides to get back at them.

When one of them is killed and when another one decides to testify against him, Ben defends him. Michelle tries to work on another member of the team and is taken with him. The Attorney General Peter Garner asks Matlock to go to the prison because the prisoners want to try John Jackson of murder in a kangaroo court.

Tiny later says that Rudy was a friend of his. While Matlock searches for the weapon, in a prison, that killed both Rudy Chambers and Lenny Marcus, Conrad buys time by impersonating the murdered inmate at a minimum security prison. He is also approached by thieves who were looking for the inmate to help with a job, and Conrad plays along.

Matlock knew Drew Carey Tim Ryan since he was a little boy. He is actually being framed for the murder of his uncle David Tress , prior to his crazy temper tantrums. Matlock thought Drew was a nice person, when Drew himself turned into a corrupt, young man, who refused to follow his lawyer's orders suspecting that Valerie Terri Garber a young woman who married her husband actually had done it, when she was having an affair with a construction worker. Despite Drew finding himself innocent for not killing his uncle, Judge Sawyer Lucille Meredith also sentenced him to an indefinite community service, due to his behavioral problems, both inside and outside the court.

Four of Ben's collegemates were spending some time during their vacation, when they picked up a hitchhiker Beth Black , who subsequently dies. Her death is blamed on a poor black local named Calvin Stokes Arnold Johnson.

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Almost 35 years later, one of them who had left before the girl died informs Ben of this fact in a posthumous letter, and begs the Atlanta attorney to find out the truth of what happened. Over dinner, Ben confronts the survivors, who deny everything. Later, after Conrad briefs Matlock on the investigation so far, his boss starts his car, and an ignition bomb explodes. Conrad pulls Ben out and saves his boss's life. Conrad then investigates the three friends, one of whom, apparently, almost killed Matlock.

Before heading off to California, Matlock passes his first case to Michelle, who's boss's paperboy Michael Mantell was arrested for the murder, when in fact, Sandra Townsend Caitlin Clarke , who's an old friend of Michelle's actually did it, when her ex-boyfriend threatens to expose her love life.

At first, Michelle hated to do that to Sandra, after putting her on the stand, but she did, and her old classmate had connived her in not confessing to it. Marcy Debbie Barker asked the professor about having an affair with another woman, which he confesses to her about. While he is typing up the students' grades on his computer, one of the students killed him, and it is up to Matlock and his associates to prove who the real killer was.

After Dan Galloway James Harper fired the executive producer and humiliated three women on the air, he gets murdered, and the suspects are not running short. When Michelle and Conrad both visited Alex's house, to overhear the conversation of their boss' client Guy Boyd who was absolutely innocent, despite sleeping with Alex's wife , he explicitly yelled at their own client to leave. Michelle and Conrad search through Matlock's old cases to find out who actually held Matlock hostage.

After Matlock's client, O'Malley, fired Angela Page Lynn Whitfield , for telling her not to go to the memorial of Chandler, she goes to Conrad to help her find the informer that will track down his murderer. After successfully getting a man convicted of killing his wife's lover, Julie is threatened by the man's brother and becomes the target of a stalker, this leads Matlock and Conrad to find out who's responsible for one's psychiatric problems. Matlock defends Peter Dolan Peter Haskell , a state senator accused of murdering Ron Winfield Ray Buktenica , a comic strip artist who was going to go public on Dolan's affair with another senator's wife.

As Katie White Lynne Cormack plans a hostile takeover of a number of smaller companies, she dies of an allergic reaction to hazelnuts. While working undercover, Conrad gets kicked in the head by an Illegal Alien Raymond Cruz , who gets fired and is asked by Conrad if he stole the equipment and the cookie dough--things he didn't do. Conrad also asks him about jumping him last night, when he explained everything to him, that he did do. When the popular Los Angeles judge Raymond Price charges Matlock for his contempt in court, he is soon found dead and Matlock needs to defend himself for his murder, while in Los Angeles.

Ferber, David Hayward as Lt. O'Connor, Diane Shalet as Mrs. While Michelle continues to defend Matlock for the murder of Judge Price, Conrad gets a job as a bartender but failed to cooperate with the FBI, which led to his temporary arrest.


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David Hayward as Lt. When a madam Maureen Arthur was accused of killing one of the call girls, Matlock agrees to take on the case. Matlock is happy to take on the case, as George would promise to fix his lawyer's roof. Ed Tobias Robert Ginty was exposing his co-workers to the top brass as they sold the drugs they didn't turn in , he was murdered.

Bob Brooks David Froman asks Matlock to defend the accused killer Titus Welliver , the only one on the squad who wasn't on the take. While playing baseball with Conrad, Matlock is happy to defend Bauer, especially if Bauer is as nasty as his friends were, because he knew what they were doing and kept quiet. Matlock sends Conrad to Chicago in order to collect the evidence that will prove Tyler is innocent.

A popular, brilliant plastic surgeon Kristoffer Tabori got into a loud argument with his partner David Haskell , about ending their own business, just before he was murdered. Lowell is the immediate suspect, until Matlock meets his twin brother, Gary also played by Kristoffer Tabori. A popular actor with a bad reputation Stephen Meadows is murdered whilst heading into the premiere. Nicky also gets into a fight with Conrad, and all the other bikers look on as Matlock comes over in his car; Matlock tells Nicky to either get in his car, or face life in prison.

Ally Walker as Renee Williams. Julie's boss, Stanley Hayden Andrew Robinson forces her to indict him. Billy Leon Ken Foree is accused of killing Nick Underwood Christopher Allport , the reporter whom Billy thought was his friend until he announced in the paper that Billy was using steroids. When all else was heard, Matlock agrees to take on Billy's case.

Matlock, Michelle and Conrad were all excited into knowing who the actual killer was when it took time to find out who did it. Howard and Amy Boggs Allan Royal and Ann Dusenberry have their plans answered when a women named Jill Christine Elise plans to give them her child she was carrying for adoption.

After Jill changed her mind and is found dead, Howard and Amy Boggs are the number one suspects in her murder. Michelle's ex-boyfriend Arthur Saxon S. Griffin , a former disc jockey who was found not guilty of killing Robby Moore, is back to emcee the event in which Matlock was honored to be "The Man of The Year.

However, the problem was that Matlock's car broke down, and he had no choice other than to ask his housekeeper, Mrs. McCardle Marge Redmond , for a ride. An easy, yet short trip turns into a flat tire, a hostage situation and an afternoon in jail. Arthur decides to host the show without Matlock, having to appear in the ceremony, in a rude manner and suggested that Michelle, Julie and even himself talk about how they enjoyed working for their boss.

With the one phone call, Matlock insisted the desk clerk Wayne Duvall to locate Conrad, in the same ballroom where Michelle and Julie were, who must go to a small town called Looperwillow, to bring Matlock back home, but more trouble came along when a young man got into a car accident and Conrad was taken to the sheriff's office, where the sheriff overheard, none of them has a car to drive back to Atlanta and they were all broke, fortunately for Matlock, Conrad and Mrs.

McCardle, they all rode in a truck full of hens and roosters. Their bank loan has been denied and are unable to pay the bill; therefore, Marv talked Sid into hiring an arsonist to collect the money, so they can rebuild all over. Before Marv has an opportunity to talk with the arsonist again, he was found dead outside his daughter's wedding; as a result, Sid got a guilty conscience. In the middle of the night, Matlock receives a phone call from a young man Charlie Stratton who once painted his house; he claims he's been arrested for stealing the formula to cure baldness, from the company who fired his friend and stole his material.

Twenty-four hours later, after the murder, Matlock receives another phone call from the same young man, who has been accused of murdering the man he claims he stole the formula for. The largest problem is that what Jeff is saying doesn't make any sense. It turns out that Dr. Tim Crider Christian Clemenson — who gave him permission to steal the formula — was never fired in the first place. Howard Wright John Carter is murdered in his workshop. So the attorney general approaches Matlock and asks him to take on the assignment of special prosecutor.

With the help of Michelle and Conrad, Matlock investigates Wright's past, and notices the man was spending money that he could not have earned legitimately. While investigating the names that Wright had left behind, Matlock finds himself embroiled in a lawsuit involving Maxwell Toys. Michelle and Conrad encourages Matlock to find out what is happening with the Wright case when Matlock is being disqualified from the final round of the competition.

There are a number of entertaining subplots — including a Deep Throat who tells Ben to "follow the money. Dobbs is active in all of his cases, while Wheeler does a lot of the legwork. After Dobbs is unwilling to keep every promise he made to his football coach, John Kramer Richard Grove , Dobbs meets his maker one evening at the office, while Kramer is the prime suspect.

Ben and Julie both represent the one-time movie diva who is now a cosmetics mogul when she is framed of murdering her ex-lover to prevent the publication of some revealing photos of her. Matlock, accompanied by Julie, heads to his hometown for a family reunion, but things get pretty chaotic when the best friend of his cousin's son is killed and the rival, Russ Gifford Cyril O'Reilly , is charged with the murder. Also, the entire town happens to be against Matlock, as many of them believe that Matlock thinks that he is better than they are, he being a big city lawyer.

When a second young man dies under normal apparently circumstances, Matlock continues to represent Gifford, in North Carolina. In Atlanta, Conrad investigates the tattoo that connects the case together. Matlock takes the case as Speidel makes a point of turning Matlock as the next target The marriage counselor, Dr.

Harding Fletcher Bryan Cranston has been murdered. All of his suspects not only include his co-workers, but also the couples he helped out; apparently part of his treatment was seducing the female half of the couples. While eating out with Julie, a chance meeting with a woman Julianna McCarthy causes Matlock to relate the story about the investigation, a long, long time ago, about a widow that Ben's father also played by Andy Griffith thinks may have been responsible for the death of his friend — her husband Daniel Benzali.

Steve Witting as Young Ben Matlock. Matlock represents a rich widow Brynn Thayer who is charged with the murder of her husband, while Michelle helps in defending a father Pepe Serna accused of killing the drug dealer who got his child hooked - a dealer who just happened to be a cop. While running undercover, Conrad gets into an accident. When Conrad was taken to the hospital, after suffering from broken ribs in the car accident, the investigation continues as Michelle defends the father accused of murder a drug dealer. Teenager Danny Hayes David Kaufman is on trial for the murder of his father.

Danny honestly believed that his father was about to kill his mother as he threatened to, but the testimony of his father's best friend threatens Danny's chances at freedom. The producer of the popular game show "It's About Time" is murdered, and Matlock defends the aging host Dennis Blake at the request of a friend of Conrad's, while Michelle goes undercover as a contestant. David Froman as Lt.

Bob Brooks, Chuck Sloan as A. Matlock reluctantly represent Ellis Blake Mitch Ryan , a millionaire who's accused of murdering his daughter's fiancee, Jeffrey Holden Russ Anderson , a golf caddy who supplemented his living by double-crossing the men he caddied for. Meanwhile, Matlock is tolerating a young, new district attorney, Lauren Richmond Amy Stock-Poynton , who's absolutely too sweet in telling the truth. Ben's disagreeable cousin Diana Huntington Christina Pickles comes to Matlock's house and tells him her husband Reiner Schone has left her for another woman.

So she asks him to locate Jack while using a doctored photograph to help find him. Later, someone driving Diana's car hits Jack while he was jogging; as a result, Diana is charged with his murder. Matlock reluctantly represents her. Matlock successfully defends his cousin Diana Huntington on charges of murdering her husband. However, when all is said and done, he still cannot stand her.

Before Matlock hires Billy Wheeler Randy Travis to paint Ben's house, Michelle works with an insurance investigator Max Alexander who'll prove that a man killed his rich wife Lynne Cormack to collect on the insurance money. It is discovered that Dwayne was a womanizer and not a very nice guy. Matlock soon notices that her son Jimmy Jordan Christopher Michael is the key to the entire case. Billy Finley Bill Winkler is constantly the butt of his co-worker's jokes, and is fired after he makes a fool out of himself on two different stories - one with Matlock, the other with politician Joe Bivins Jim Jansen.

Shortly after, the body of another fired co-worker, Doug Levitt Leon Russom , is found, and Billy is the first suspect. Matlock agrees to defend Billy, who then makes another scene as he confronts Diane Becker Mary Gordon Murray at the office, accusing her of being behind the second prank, which ended up getting him fired. What Matlock doesn't realize is that Levitt faked his own death, and he and Becker were involved in a scheme to make a lot of money by airing incorrect news regarding a report by the zoning commission.

While Conrad keeps an eye on their third partner, Nelson Adelson Stuart Margolin , Matlock also tries to get out of a ticket for failure to stop at a stop sign. The real murderer winds up being killed, which does not help Matlock's client Bill Winkler much. Not only that, but there's a real estate scam looming in the wings that also affects the case. While the local mayor is assassinated, Matlock's daughter Leanne McIntyre comes to town to prove the case. The case takes a different turn when Judge Arthur Eller is accused of murdering a local man's wife, and Matlock and Leanne have to work out their relationship together to clear Eller of murder.

Ben and Leanne head to the beach where Leanne reunites with three friends from college, and Ben reunites with someone from his past who just happens to be the brother of the woman whose heart Ben "broke" years earlier. Brian is convinced that Ben is doing it to make up for Lee spending years in prison for a crime that Charlie Matlock committed. However, Matlock believes that neither man committed the crime. While investigating the murder of the playwright, their trail soon leads to the woman he was having an affair with, and her very angry son.

A murder victim returns from the dead as a ghost and asks Matlock to defend his wife, who is charged with his death. Diana Taylor as Assistant D.


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Ben discusses his career and the idea of "The Perfect Murder" with a law class. But when one of the students vanishes, the university thinks Ben's speech sparked an extracurricular Murder. David Kaufman as Mark Randall. Jason Beghe as Lt. Ben and Leanne have to try to clear his name.

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Ben is planning a birthday fishing trip with Leanne, but a summon for jury duty puts a damper on their trip. Despite his convictions that no lawyer would want him on their jury. Ben ends up being juror number six, and while everyone else on the jury wants to convict Travis Spaulding of the murder of his wife. It is Ben alone that thinks they need to take a closer look at the evidence before sentencing the man to death.

Unfortunately, tempers flare in the jury room as the jurors soon become divided between guilty and innocent. Fred Thompson as Prosecutor McGonigal. The nephew of an eccentric millionaire is accused of murdering his uncle after they were seen arguing, and Cliff is sent to work in the uncle's zoo in order to gather information to exonerate him. Meanwhile, Billy persuades Ben to defend him in court after he becomes involved in an investment scheme gone awry.

When Leanne's ex-husband Peter MacIntyre Robert Desiderio is charged with the murder of his friend and boss once the truth comes out about Peter's possible motive in the killing. Ben despises his ex-son-in-law more than ever. Ben witnesses a robbery at a convenience store, but things start happening that made him look like he's losing it, including messing with his papers, sending him to wrong parties and submitting phony pictures of his rump to newspapers. Ben realizes that someone is trying to set him up.

So, he, Cliff and Conrad look into some of his old cases, trying to figure out which recently released killer is out to get him. Even from his hospital bed, Ben can't get the case of a TV star accused of killing a therapist out of his mind. Duncan and Clara Farmington seemed to have the perfect marriage. Now they want the perfect divorce. What starts out as a simple division of property turns nasty as Leanne represents the wife and Ben the husband. At the same time, Ben is being sued for millions by a con artist who faked getting seriously injured at Ben's house.

James Stephens as Duncan Farmington. Ben invites homeless man Lenny to live with him, while trying to find out if the archbishop was meant to die in a plot — a plot that includes an ex-football player, his wife, her lover and the Mafia. While Ben is still trying to untangle the mystery of the death of the archbishop, Conrad takes pictures that will tie the case together, before he sings in the church choir and somebody punched him to the ground.

Nor does the girl's father Leon Russom , who hires Ben to find out what really happened. While out of town at a wedding, an ill Ben witnesses a man attack a woman from the window of the hotel, and learns the next day that the woman has been murdered. He's convinced that the man murdered the woman, and has a hard time convincing the police that the man he saw through the window was not the woman's husband, whom Matlock had also seen through the window earlier that day.

A comedian named Harvey Chase Milton Berle is accused of murdering another comic who insulted him, and Ben defends him. Abductors try to kidnap Leanne but kidnap Billy Lewis and hold him for ransom by accident instead. Kenneth Campbell , who was in charge of Billy's kidnapping, is charged with murdering another FBI agent. Ben agrees to defend Wally McDaniels, a fellow choir member, after he is arrested for killing the man who turned him into the police for stealing rare books. When the pretend victim actually turns up dead, they know that one of the three paying visitors killed him. Leanne has her father keep the three suspects occupied with stories of previous cases, while she and Cliff investigate.

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Ben vies with a formidable A. A Michael Brennen George Dzundza while defending a client accused of killing a city councilwoman, and discovers a secret hiding in the D. In a backdoor pilot , after Ben briefly meets Jesse Morgan Tracy Nelson in the teaser, the remainder is set in Los Angeles and centered entirely on Jesse and her father George Peppard with no Matlock characters even mentioned. Jonathan Banks as Jack Starling. Sam Haskins Scott N. Stevens , an aspiring young lawyer who is a fan of Matlock, is accused of having murdered a P.

Gwynne , who tried to blackmail him with spicy pictures. Matlock defends a journalist who is accused of killing an underworld figure in self defense after meeting with him for an interview. When Ben defends attorney Lisa Swift Melora Hardin , who is accused of murdering her boss Bruce Parnelee David Purdham , he also uncovers a history of sexual harassment involving the law firm.

A basketball coach is accused of murdering an influential booster, and Ben decides to take his case. Julie March returns from L. After Jerri Stone Carol Huston talks with Susan Kellogg, a woman who lost her daughter to a hit-and-run driver around the same time that Brenda Chaney was murdered, Ben realizes there may be more to this case then meets the eye.

Julie also tells him that she's been proposed to and is thinking about getting married again, and asks him what he thinks she should do, and she tells him she's always had feelings for him. At the end of the episode, she says that she decided not to get married yet. Katie Clark Jane Sibbett is a hot new prosecutor in town, fresh from St.

Louis, but originally from Atlanta. Her first case involves prosecuting a building contractor, Jack Gibson Josh Taylor , who has been accused of murdering one of his employees who just happens to be Clark's former lover. Ben agrees to let her continue on the case, as he is impressed by her desire to not allow her personal past with Gibson get in the way of her duty.

Had it not been for Ben's sea-sickness, he would have been on the boat. Convinced that someone was out to get him and not Judge Sterns, Ben, Cliff, and Jerri take a look through some of Matlock's old cases, including Jeffrey Spidell Richard Gilliland from the season six episode The "Strangler". It turns out that Jeffrey Spidell is the one who is trying to kill him. While Cliff, Jerri and Billy plan to throw Ben a surprise party for his birthday, Ben agrees to pick up a barbecue. While there, his car breaks down, he's mugged, the phone eats the last quarter he has Ben is very impressed by the young man, and when he's accused of trying to kill the landlord of the apartment complex he lives in, Ben steps in to defend him and to stand up to the landlord George Mitchell H.

Richard Greene , who is a very respected man in the legal community. This episode contains hallmark elements of a series finale , but was not aired as such, and instead aired fifth-to-last, yet features several narrative elements that would plainly suggest the series is coming to an end. For the first time, Ben Matlock gets himself thrown out of the courtroom on his own Atlanta home turf, because he has finally tries a judge's patience too far and has a massive outburst of indignation, which ironically works to his advantage and ultimately helps his client go free.

Instead of being cited for contempt of court, Matlock walks in on a surprise birthday party in the courtroom being thrown by his friends and colleagues, and the judge, Judge Claggett, a good friend of his, respects what he did and decides to forget about it because it is Ben's birthday, so long as he doesn't do this again. After the festivities draw to a close and night has fallen, the only people left in the courtroom are the main cast of Ben, Jeri, and Cliff. Billy is tickled by news of Ben going "bonkers", and Ben reminisces with Billy about being a lawyer for years and this case striking a chord with him.

Tired, Jeri and Cliff are ready to go, and Billy begins to follow, but Ben lingers. After Ben requests a moment to himself before following them home, Jeri and Cliff step out and the lights in the room are turned off. A poignant final scene similar to the ending of Cheers occurs where Ben is standing alone in the courtroom with the lights off, nostalgically looking at it for one last time, before finally walking out, playing out to a more sentimental and gentle version of the Matlock theme that implies this is to be our farewell to dear Ben, and leaving viewers looking in on an empty, peaceful courtroom that for the moment has no more cases to be tried and waits for another day's traffic of legal business.

Ben and Jerri head out to the beach with Billy and Cliff, while Cliff is preparing for an upcoming triathlon. Once there, Ben is surprised to run into Ex-F. Kenneth Campbell , who is investigating a case of his own. While Ben keeps himself busy occasionally running into Ed, Cliff throws himself into the completion, and Billy throws himself at Anita Montrose, the real estate agent who rented them the beach house they're staying in. When one of the people who Wingate is investigating is found dead, Ben agrees to defend his old friend.

When Cameron Ivers is killed in a hit and run accident, Ben decides to take a closer look at Robinson and Reeves, hoping that if he can tie them to Cameron Ivers' death he'll be able to tie them to Scott Aston's death and clear Cliff. After gathering together a number of people Scott Aston had been investigating who were supposed to be dead, Ben heads to Florida where he finds Chuck Ratner, and Cliff and Jerri learn that the people are all connected because they all turned down the same kind of life insurance.

Ben continues in his quest to lose weight in time for his reunion, but decides to fire his personal trainer. Ben is able to get his barbershop quartet costume let out for the singing performance, but unfortunately splits his pants. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved 22 August Retrieved from " https: Lists of American comedy-drama television series episodes. All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from March Views Read Edit View history.


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Julie Sommars makes her first appearance as Julie March. A sinister Army officer Richard Green pushes his guys too hard, especially one of the private's friends, Lt. Bobby Thomas Philip Bailey , who died of a ruptured appendix; the officer then died alone, afterwards. Matlock's friend Dana Elcar was hired by him to defend his own son Tony Becker with the charge of the Army officer's murder. In the midst of the hearing, the defendant is gone. As Matlock brings back the defendant Tony Becker , the only important witness vanishes. Matlock also discovers a lieutenant Cliff De Young , along with four other officers, dealing in illegal situations.

Tyler finds out about the drug scheme, while Charlene investigates to narrow down one of the officers, and Matlock finally put the pieces together in solving a military case while also having learned a lot about the Army. Though Linda Purl does not appear in this episode, her voice is heard.

Charlene tells her father that she is handling a case in Philadelphia. Kari Lizer makes her first appearance as Cassie Phillips. This is Linda Purl 's final episode who left the show due to dispute over the role of her character. Though departed from the cast one episode before, Linda Purl is still featured in the opening credits. Andy Griffith is the only main cast member to appear in this episode. Though departed from the cast two episodes before this one, Linda Purl is still featured in the opening credits.

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Daniel Roebuck guest stars as Dr. Though departed from the cast three episodes before, Linda Purl is still featured in the opening credits. This is the first appearance of Michelle Thomas. Nancy Stafford takes the place of Linda Purl in the opening credits. The episode was filmed in England. This episode was filmed in England. Matlock reluctantly agrees to represent a famous wrestler Dick Butkus when he is accused of killing a long-time rival Lee Paul , but only when Cassie begs him to.

The key witness in the case is a young girl Marta Kober who was a die-hard fan of the dead wrestler, but whose story might not be completely accurate.

Matlock talks Tyler into going into the auditorium, whilst speaking to the head of the wrestler Jack Thibeau , about the fight Sailor performed and had left him for another man to see how he felt about this, after the murder. Understanding it held the many wrestlers, Tyler reluctantly went into the auditorium, only to be eavesdropping at Tommy O'Keefe's door, before being blocked by wrestlers, who picks him up, being this small, gets thrown in the wrestling ring, after he kept quiet, when asked about Tommy if he was a prime suspect in the murder, who explained to him, at the time of the murder.

Richard Greene as Clark Benson Note: Kene Holliday does not appear in this episode. Kari Lizer does not appear in this episode. Kari Lizer and Kene Holliday do not appear in this episode. A writer James Mulholland is found dead, and Vanessa Nana Visitor is charged for his murder; Matlock still takes on the case. Obviously, Matlock also finds out about his client who is guilty of the murder she is responsible for committing, he arranges a plan to implicate her best friend, Sarah Katherine Cannon , with the crime, knowing that Vanessa will not let her friend take the blame for something she did.

After Tyler, who tried to look up all the files before Lamont Grant Heslov , which had nothing, Tyler found a Douglas Manuscript file in one of the books and gave it to Lamont to copy and print it out when he burned it. Maggie Crowley Lise Hilboldt , Brian's ex-wife, was murdered at 5 minutes past She was hosting a Christmas party populated by Santa Clauses. After Tyler was hit in the head, Philip Tracy Howard George , whose wife left him seven years ago, confesses that he had gone to the party that night to have it out with Maggie, and that he made all those threatening phone calls to Maggie because of what Maggie had done to his wife.

He also says that he was so mad, he could have killed Maggie himself, "but someone beat me to it". He also tells Tyler that he got a good look at the guy who committed the murder. Her husband said, "Why did you come here? Philip replied back to his wife, "But you left me! Learn more about Amazon Giveaway.

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