Matlock
Although Matlock is no longer producing episodes, it still airs in many locations as re-runs. Although it's best to check your television guide for times and channels, some of the following networks carry the program, the show is current carried on CMT Canada, ABC (WXYZ Detroit), TNT, WGN, Hallmark, and KDOC. Some networks may only be available in certain areas. Broadcast History:
September 1986 - May 1992:
Tuesday on NBC
November 1992 - May 1995:
Thursday on ABC Vote to have Matlock released on DVD at TVShowsOnDVD.com.
Clarence Gilyard Jr. | Conrad McMasters | |
Daniel Roebuck | Cliff Lewis | |
Andy Griffith | Ben Matlock | |
Brynn Thayer | Leanne McIntyre | |
Warren Frost | Billy Lewis | |
Tom Nowicki | Prosecutor Mr. Price | |
Al Wiggins | Judge Clagett | |
Gregory Itzin | Charlie Tuggle | |
Fred Dalton Thompson | Prosecutor Mr. McGonigal | |
Terry Loughlin | Judge Edwards | |
Diana Taylor | Assistant D.A. #2 | |
Grayce Spence | Judge Drake | |
Mitchell Laurance | Prosecutor in Wallace trial | |
Jordan Rhodes | Police Lt. Harmon Andrews | |
Lee Lively | Judge Caldwell | |
Jay Madison | Cop | |
Julio Oscar Mechoso | Ramon | |
Vivica A. Fox | Celebrity Patient at Clinic | |
Robert Curtis-Brown | Larry Boone | |
David Dwyer | Security Guard Mr. Doran | |
John Dennis Johnston | Brian Martell | |
William Allen Young | Police Lieutenant | |
Rick Warner | Lt. Bigelow | |
Michael Horton | Rick Stafford | |
Mark Joy | Roland Holloway |
Ben and Leanne go on vacation and meet up with Leanne's college girlfriends. Murder ensues, Ben defends a stranger while Leanne suspects one of her friends is the real killer.
Ben finds out that a man is being charged with murder who has a connection to Ben's father Charlie.
Ben takes on a most unusual client, the ghost of a man who wants Ben to save his wife from being falsely convicted for his murder. While the ghost knows his wife is innocent, he doesn't know who really murdered him.
Impressionable young college students may have learned a little too much from guest lecturer Matlock when he tells them about committing the perfect murder. A hated classmate of theirs disappears, and evidence of foul play is found in his garage.
Evidence tampering, both by the police Lieutenant in charge of the case and his own client, complicates Matlock's defense of a personal manager accused of killing his client, a country music star.
Billy Wheeler, the down-on-his-luck country singer whom Matlock hired to paint his house, needs the lawyer's help once again, when he's accused of killing a con artist.
As a juror in the trial of a man accused of killing his wife, Ben angers the other jurors by being the only holdout. He believes the accused man is innocent, and he even holds a demonstration to prove his point.
An eccentric millionaire seemingly commits suicide, but when the details don't add up, and too many women come forward as the heiress, executor Bens' job becomes a mess of finding the heir/heiress, and determining the true cause of death.
Leanne takes on the case her ex-husband Peter who is charged with the murder of his friend and boss.
Ben, scheduled to appear as a witness in a robbery case, is joined by Conrad and Cliff in reviewing three of his past cases to determine which exposed murderess is engaged in a campaign to make him seem senile.
Matlock defends a TV star who is accused of killing a therapist at a drug rehab centre. His dreams are guiding him to the real killer.
Doctors Farmington want an amicable divorce and ask their friend Ben to handle the paperwork. Meanwhile, Ben is sued by a man who fell off Ben's porch and the divorce becomes less than amicable.
A lawyer is accused of murdering his lover and her husband, a high school football coach and aspiring minister.
The apparent suicide of a piano student doesn't ring true to Matlock.