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The Best Episodes of Matlock

Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The...

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  1. Background image for The Singer
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Singer

    S7:E7

    Matlock defends a producer accused of killing a singer, and treis to prove that one of the other men at the recording studio was guilty.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Kidnapping (1)
    8.2/10(103 votes)

    #2 - The Kidnapping (1)

    S8:E13

    Abductors tries to kidnap Leanne but takes Billy instead and hold him for ransom.

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  3. Background image for The Scandal
    8.2/10(167 votes)

    #3 - The Scandal

    S9:E3

    When Matlock defends an attorney accused of murdering her boss, he also uncovers a history of sexual harrassment involving the law firm.

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  4. Background image for The Dating Game
    8.1/10(101 votes)

    #4 - The Dating Game

    S9:E7

    When Cliff's friend Fred is accused of murdering Melissa, a woman he met through the dating service Perfect Harmony, he and Matlock take the case, and Jerri goes undercover to investigate. She sets herself up as one of the datees, much to the frustration of a loca police officer. Unfortunately, she has better luck than she hoped, as one of her dates is a killer in disguise.

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Heist (1)
    8.1/10(112 votes)

    #5 - The Heist (1)

    S9:E15

    Matlock and Jerri head out to the beach with Billy and Cliff as Cliff prepares for an upcoming triathlon. Once there, Matlock is surprised to run into retired F.B.I. agent Ed Wingate, who is investigating a case of his own. While Matlock keeps himself busy occasionally running into Ed, Cliff throws himself into the competition, and Billy throws himself at Anita Montrose, the real estate agent who rented them the beach house they're staying at. When one of the people Ed is investigating is found dead, Matlock agrees to defend his old friend.

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    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Judge
    8.0/10(335 votes)

    #6 - The Judge

    S1:E2

    Ben Matlock accepts the pro bono case of Kevin Meredith, a young man accused of murdering his lover, whom Ben soon realises had a much more powerful lover.

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  8. Background image for The Capital Offense
    8.0/10(117 votes)

    #7 - The Capital Offense

    S8:E7

    Matlock continues his five-year struggle to save a con artist from the electric chair.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Dead Air
    8.0/10(115 votes)

    #8 - Dead Air

    S9:E9

    A radio personality is accused of killing his partner, but Ben suspects the victim's girlfriend. The only problem is that she seems to have an airtight alibi...Ray's neighbor, Mr. Yates, watched her 'find' the body.

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  10. Background image for The Assault
    8.0/10(125 votes)

    #9 - The Assault

    S9:E14

    While Cliff, Jerri and Billy plan to throw Ben a surprise party for his birthday, Ben goes to the city to pick up barbecue. While there, his car breaks down, he's mugged, the phone eats his last quarter ... and by the time he is rescued by activist Stan Johnson and returned to his car, it's half-stripped and they've stolen his barbecue. Matlock 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, Matlock steps in to defend him and to stand up to the landlord, who is a very respected man in the legal community.

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  11. Background image for The Sisters
    7.9/10(253 votes)

    #10 - The Sisters

    S1:E8

    Harold Scully is a boring man. But at least he knows that. When he begs old acquaintance Ben Matlock to defend him on charges of murdering his wealthy wife Esther, Matlock reluctantly agrees. The more investigating he does, the more he realises that there is something seriously wrong with Harold's two nieces, sisters Julia and Emily.

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    Director:Alan Cooke
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The View
    7.9/10(109 votes)

    #11 - The View

    S8:E5

    Matlock realizes he has become a witness in a murder case involving two theater actors and an unhappy husband.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Buddies
    7.8/10(144 votes)

    #12 - The Buddies

    S4:E12

    After an old friend from college dies, Matlock has to investigate three college chums on the charge of murdering a hitchhiker thirty years earlier.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Trial (1)
    7.8/10(117 votes)

    #13 - The Trial (1)

    S5:E19

    When assistant D.A. Howard Wright is murdered in his workshop, the attorney general approaches Matlock and asks him to take on the assignment of special prosecutor. With Michelle and Conrad's help, Matlock begins to investigate Wright's past, and realises the man was spending money that he could not have earned legitimately. In investigating names that Wright had left behind, Matlock finds himself embroiled in a lawsuit involving Maxwell Toys.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Accused (1)
    7.8/10(111 votes)

    #14 - The Accused (1)

    S9:E1

    Matlock defends a journalist who killed an underworld figure in self-defense after meeting with him for an interview.

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    7.8/10(100 votes)

    #15 - The Verdict

    S9:E11

    Katie Clark is a hot new prosecutor in town, fresh from St. Louis, but originally from Atlanta. Her first case involves prosecuting a building contractor who has been accused of murdering one of his employees, who just happens to be Clark's former lover. Despite his reservations about Clark prosecuting a former lover, Matlock agrees to let her continue on the case, impressed by her desire to not allow her personal past with Gibson to affect her judgment.

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    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.8/10(121 votes)

    #16 - The Target

    S9:E13

    Matlock is the unlikely witness when a boat blows up killing Judge Michael Sterns. 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, Matlock, Cliff and Jerri take a look through some of Ben's old cases to find out who did it, and Matlock takes on the case of the man accused of the crime, a former lawyer who had been disbarred for jury tampering exactly five years earlier.

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    Director:Unknown
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    7.7/10(161 votes)

    #17 - The Reporter

    S1:E23

    When Laurie Palmer is arrested for killing her husband, the reporter covering the case is convinced of her innocence, and goes to Ben Matlock looking for help.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    7.7/10(124 votes)

    #18 - The Diner

    S8:E4

    Matlock takes Leanne to meet Martha Jordan, the wife of his very first client back in 1962. Stan Shaw was the cook at the local diner when he was accused of killing the local sheriff after a disagreement in the diner. Charlie Matlock pushed Ben, who had recently quit his job as a district attorney to take the case, but not everyone in town was happy with the Matlocks siding with the black cook accused of killing the white sheriff. Despite Cyrus Jordan's attempts to get the Matlocks to drop his case for their own safety, father and son were determined to prove that Cyrus never killed anyone.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Last Laugh
    7.7/10(114 votes)

    #19 - The Last Laugh

    S8:E6

    A comedian becomes accused of murdering another comic who had insulted him on stage.

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    7.7/10(122 votes)

    #20 - The Haunted (1)

    S8:E8

    While Cliff investigates a suit of medical malpractice and ends up getting more involved than he should with his client, Matlock investigates the case of the mysterious Rod Greenwood, who happens to bear an eerie resemblance to a dead businessman. Soon Cliff and Matlock realise that their cases are tied together.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Haunted (2)
    7.7/10(97 votes)

    #21 - The Haunted (2)

    S8:E9

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Murder Game
    7.7/10(97 votes)

    #22 - The Murder Game

    S8:E17

    Matlock reluctantly agrees to spend the weekend as part of a murder mystery with Cliff, Leanne, and three people who each paid $10,000 for the privilege of matching wits with Ben Matlock. When the pretend victim turns up really 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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    Director:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Coach
    7.7/10(94 votes)

    #23 - The Coach

    S9:E6

    A basketball coach is accused of murdering an influential booster.

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    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Convict
    7.6/10(176 votes)

    #24 - The Convict

    S1:E17

    Seven years ago Ben defended Les Matthews, who was accused of killing his friend and business partner and Ben lost. Today Matthews has been granted parole. While working in the library, Wayne Lashley enters with his two goons, Lipton and Foley. While Lipton and Foley keep watch, Lashley tries to kill Les, but in the struggle, it's Lashley who ends up dead, and Les who ends up looking guilty. Matthews is charged with Lashley's murder and Ben wants to defend him. He sends Tyler undercover in the prison and places him with the cellmate of the man who was killed. He gives Ben evidence that not only proves Matthews is telling the truth but also who was responsible for the murder that Matthews was convicted of seven years ago.

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    Director:Daniel Haller
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Billionaire (2)
    7.6/10(157 votes)

    #25 - The Billionaire (2)

    S2:E2

    Matlock flies all the way the England to represent Eric Gordon, a man accused of murdering his wealthy businessman father. His sister Laura is convinced of his innocence, but brother Mitch isn't so sure.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Singer" is the best rated episode of "Matlock". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/28/1993. This episode scored 1.8 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Kidnapping (1)".