Matlock (1986)
Ben Matlock is a very expensive criminal defense attorney who charges $100,000 to take a case. Fortunately, he's worth every penny as he and his associates defend his clients by finding the real killer.
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Episode 1 - The Hunting Party: Part 1
Release Date: 19 Sep. 1989Matlock travels to Manteo, North Carolina, to defend Spencer Hamilton, the brother of Frank, who was killed in a duck-hunting accident. After Ryan Bartell was shot, immediately after Spencer's brother, Matlock also was approached by a handsome young sheriff, Conrad McMasters, to find evidence in killing Ryan.
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Episode 2 - The Hunting Party: Part 2
Release Date: 19 Sep. 1989After Conrad calmed Matlock down, realizing he was framed for all the dope that he had in his car, he investigates the three guys who killed Ryan Bartell, each of whom were all liars. In the end, Matlock hired Conrad as a full-time partner and private investigator in Atlanta, after leaving his hometown of Manteo, North Carolina.
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Episode 3 - The Good Boy
Release Date: 26 Sep. 1989A woman's son who resents that his mom has a new husband and doesn't hide it. 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.
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Episode 4 - The Best Seller
Release Date: 10 Oct. 1989Ben Matlock defends the husband of a very successful romance novelist who is accused of killing his wife's best friend.
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Episode 5 - The Ex
Release Date: 17 Oct. 1989Ben goes to Baltimore to help Julie defend her best friend's husband only to find that the prosecutor is Julie's ex-husband.
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Episode 6 - The Clown
Release Date: 24 Oct. 1989Ben defends a professional circus clown accused of murdering his performing partner.
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Episode 7 - The Star
Release Date: 31 Oct. 1989A new young director is imposed upon an aging scream queen near the end of her current movie. They argue conspicuously and vehemently about artistic differences. After the filming of the climactic death scene, the actress is discovered to be actually dead, and the director is presumed to be the guilty party.
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Episode 8 - The Con Man
Release Date: 7 Nov. 1989When a client 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.
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Episode 9 - The Prisoner: Part 1
Release Date: 14 Nov. 1989After an attempted prison breakout, one of the prisoners is killed, presumably by one of the guards. The prisoners riot and take over the prison, insisting on an in-prison trial for the guard. Matlock is recruited to defend the guard.
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Episode 10 - The Prisoner: Part 2
Release Date: 21 Nov. 1989While Matlock investigates from the prison, Conrad buys time by impersonating the murdered inmate at a minimum security prison. Conrad is approached by thieves who were looking for the inmate to help with a job, and he plays along.
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Episode 11 - The Fugitive
Release Date: 28 Nov. 1989Matlock defends Drew, a young man who Ben believes was framed for murder. Drew doesn't make it easy, as he escapes custody and becomes a fugitive. Ben must solve the case while Drew continually interferes with the investigation.
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Episode 12 - The Buddies
Release Date: 12 Dec. 1989On his deathbed, an old friend of Ben's begs him to reopen a cold murder case, suspecting that another of their hunting buddies is the killer.
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Episode 13 - The Scrooge
Release Date: 19 Dec. 1989A crusty old toy store owner is accused of killing his partner, whom he denigrated as too generous and soft-hearted to manage their business.
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Episode 14 - The Witness
Release Date: 2 Jan. 1990Prominent attorney Sandra Townsend leads a double life by "playing the field" and living on the edge. She winds up being blackmailed by her boyfriend to stay in the relationship, and he has the compromising pictures to seal the deal. She plots to murder him and frame an innocent bar patron who vowed to get even after her boyfriend throws him out of the nightclub. Ben's assistant, Michelle is given the job of defending the accused, and in the process is reacquainted with old friend, Sandra Townsend. As the sole "witness" to the crime, Townsend must face Michelle in ...
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Episode 15 - The Student
Release Date: 9 Jan. 1990A coed student having an affair with a professor threatens him when he rudely dumps her. He is killed that same evening, and Matlock must investigate whether some cheating students had sufficient motive to kill the professor.
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Episode 16 - The Talk Show
Release Date: 16 Jan. 1990Matlock investigates the panel of guests on a popular talk show, suspecting that one of them decided to literally bury the hatchet with the show's host...squarely in his back.
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Episode 17 - The Victim
Release Date: 23 Jan. 1990Add a Plot
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Episode 18 - The Kidnapper
Release Date: 6 Feb. 1990Conrad and Michelle revisit some old cases of Ben's when he is kidnapped.
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Episode 19 - The Pro
Release Date: 13 Feb. 1990Add a Plot
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Episode 20 - The Informer: Part 1
Release Date: 20 Feb. 1990Ben takes a case representing a fellow lawyer who is accused of murdering a mobster Ben considers dropping him after he starts manipulating is case.
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Episode 21 - The Informer: Part 2
Release Date: 27 Feb. 1990Ben continues to investigation the murder of a mobster and finds a chain of events that leads to a murder several years earlier.
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Episode 22 - The D.A.
Release Date: 20 Mar. 1990After 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.
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Episode 23 - The Blackmailer
Release Date: 1 May 1990Matlock defends Peter Dolan, a state senator accused of murdering Ron Winfield, a comic strip artist who was going to go public on Dolan's affair with another senator's wife.
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Episode 24 - The Cookie Monster
Release Date: 8 May 1990Matlock investigates the murder of a cookie queen who was out to crumble her competitors with a hostile takeover.