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. (imdb)
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Ben Matlock and his daughter Charlene defend a TV journalist accused of killing his ex-wife. (imdb)
The Judge (1986)
- S1E2
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. (imdb)
The Affair (1986)
- S1E4
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? (imdb)
The Seduction (1986)
- S1E5
Football star Brad Bingham is accused of fatally bludgeoning the team's owner Cynthia Hyland. (imdb)
The Don: Part 1 (1986)
- S1E6
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. (imdb)
The Sisters (1986)
- S1E8
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. (imdb)
The Cop (1986)
- S1E9
After tough detective Joe Peters finds a fortune in his bank account, the mob frames him for Harry Landers' gunshot murder. (imdb)
The Angel (1986)
- S1E10
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. (imdb)
The Professor (1986)
- S1E11
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. (imdb)
Santa Claus (1986)
- S1E12
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. (imdb)
The Chef (1987)
- S1E13
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. (imdb)