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The Best Episodes of Matlock Season 2

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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 Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Matlock Season 2 Episode 1 - The Billionaire (1)
    7.5/10(249 votes)

    #1 - The Billionaire (1)

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Matlock Season 2 Episode 2 - The Billionaire (2)
    7.8/10(170 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Matlock Season 2 Episode 3 - Blind Justice
    7.0/10(153 votes)

    #3 - Blind Justice

    S2:E3

    Michelle agrees to defend college chum Andrea Morrow after she is accused of murdering her abusive lover, Clay Graham. Matlock soon becomes convinced that the murderer was Clay's blind 'friend', Arthur Hampton, but will have a devil of a time proving how a blind man managed to carry off a near-perfect murder.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Matlock Season 2 Episode 4 - The Annihilator
    7.5/10(147 votes)

    #4 - The Annihilator

    S2:E4

    Matlock reluctantly agrees to represent a famous wrestler when he's accused of killing a long-time rival, but only when Cassie begs him to. The key witness in the case is a young girl who was a die-hard fan of the dead wrestler, but whose story might not be completely accurate.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Matlock Season 2 Episode 5 - The Husband
    7.5/10(189 votes)

    #5 - The Husband

    S2:E5

    When Matlock agrees to defend Cassie's friend Judy, he is shocked to learn that Judy's husband had another wife. As the case continues, Matlock learns that there was also a third Mrs. Benson, and that Kevin Benson managed to successfully maintain three separate wives in three separate households.

    Directors:Tony Mordente, Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Matlock Season 2 Episode 6 - The Power Brokers (1)
    7.8/10(150 votes)

    #6 - The Power Brokers (1)

    S2:E6

    Matlock reluctantly takes the case when Melinda Stuart's source is murdered. The biggest problem is that she's more interested in listening to what FBI Agent Paul Davies has to say than she is in listening to him.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Matlock Season 2 Episode 7 - The Power Brokers (2)
    7.3/10(143 votes)

    #7 - The Power Brokers (2)

    S2:E7

    After Agent Davies offers Melinda an exclusive, she changes her plea to guilty. Matlock tries to talk to her, especially after it's revealed that the person Melinda was talking to was an imposter.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Matlock Season 2 Episode 8 - The Network
    7.1/10(178 votes)

    #8 - The Network

    S2:E8

    Network programming chief Paul J. Bartel is murdered, leaving Hollywood baffled as to the identity of the killer. Matlock comes to town to represent the television producer accused of killing him, and finds more than his fair share of suspects. It seems everyone had a motive to kill Paul J. Bartel!

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Matlock Season 2 Episode 9 - The Best Friend
    7.6/10(164 votes)

    #9 - The Best Friend

    S2:E9

    Matlock agrees to defend Vanessa Douglas when she's accused of murdering Stephen Cassidy, and author who destroyed a political families ambitions with a tell-all book. When Matlock realises his client is indeed guilty of the murder she is charged of committing, he sets up a plan to implicate her best friend, Sarah, with the crime, knowing that Vanessa will not let her friend take the blame for something she did.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Matlock Season 2 Episode 10 - The Country Boy
    6.8/10(146 votes)

    #10 - The Country Boy

    S2:E10

    Jimmy le Grand is Matlock's favorite country singer of all time. When he's accused of a hit-and-run, Matlock leaps at the chance to defend him and to house the country legend in his own home, and soon realises that is hero has turned into an alcoholic and a generally unenjoyable person.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Matlock Season 2 Episode 11 - The Gift
    7.6/10(176 votes)

    #11 - The Gift

    S2:E11

    When Brian Emerson is arrested and charged with his wife's murder, Matlock takes the case, waiving his usual fee. His efforts to get the father out on bail fail when he lands a judge who has lost his Christmas spirit, and Matlock takes the young girl in with him.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Robert Schlitt

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  12. Matlock Season 2 Episode 12 - The Gambler
    7.5/10(148 votes)

    #12 - The Gambler

    S2:E12

    Matlock goes to Las Vegas to defend his friend, Jim Manning, after Jim is accused of murdering his girlfriend Laura, who worked for the mob laundering money.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Matlock Season 2 Episode 13 - The Body
    7.5/10(145 votes)

    #13 - The Body

    S2:E13

    Matlock agrees to defend Donna Stewart when she's accused of murdering Christie Huntley, an aerobics instructor at Pinewood Spa who slept with her husband. Matlock soon realises that Christie's death had nothing to do with who she slept with and everything to do with why she slept with them.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Matlock Season 2 Episode 14 - The Reunion
    7.3/10(123 votes)

    #14 - The Reunion

    S2:E14

    Matlock heads to an old law school reunion where he meets up with his former classmates. After the reunion, one is murdered, and another stands accused of the crime, and Matlock faces the unpleasant task of having to prove that one of his former classmates murdered another.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writers:Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff

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  15. Matlock Season 2 Episode 15 - The Gigolo
    7.3/10(158 votes)

    #15 - The Gigolo

    S2:E15

    Matlock agrees to defend dance instructor Scott Lazar after he is charged with the murder of his married lover. It would be a lot easier to prove Scott's innocence if there wasn't another woman in the wings also claiming to be his lover.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Matlock Season 2 Episode 16 - The Umpire
    7.6/10(157 votes)

    #16 - The Umpire

    S2:E16

    When a baseball umpire is murdered, Matlock has a whole team full of suspects. It seems like everyone had a reason to...kill the ump.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Matlock Season 2 Episode 17 - The Investigation (1)
    7.7/10(142 votes)

    #17 - The Investigation (1)

    S2:E17

    Sam Gerard is a well-known mobster who is about to be exposed. His estranged son, Craig Gentry, is arrested for murder, but refuses to go to Sam for help, and instead, goes to Ben Matlock.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Matlock Season 2 Episode 18 - The Investigation (2)
    7.1/10(142 votes)

    #18 - The Investigation (2)

    S2:E18

    Craig continues to turn away from his father as Matlock keeps trying to investigate the case. When the Gentry family is almost caught in the middle of a mob war with the Hernandez family, Matlock realises that someone on the inside is pulling the strings.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Matlock Season 2 Episode 19 - The Hucksters
    7.5/10(161 votes)

    #19 - The Hucksters

    S2:E19

    Matlock needs to prove that one of three people murdered a scheming huckster. This Episode also aired at later dates with a total of 3 alternate endings. Only the last 2:24 of the show is altered for each version.

    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Matlock Season 2 Episode 20 - The Lovelorn
    7.7/10(165 votes)

    #20 - The Lovelorn

    S2:E20

    Matlock agrees to defend a man who has been accused of murdering the relationship columnist whose response ended his relationship.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Matlock Season 2 Episode 21 - The Genius
    7.4/10(149 votes)

    #21 - The Genius

    S2:E21

    When Matlock's nephew Irwin is charged with murder, Matlock investigates at a high-tech computer firm to clear his name.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Matlock Season 2 Episode 22 - The Magician
    7.7/10(164 votes)

    #22 - The Magician

    S2:E22

    After a night at the magic show with Julie, Matlock agrees to defend magician Daniel Fontaine when he's charged with the murder of his assistant / lover Sandy Farrell, a woman who was as devious as she was beautiful.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Matlock Season 2 Episode 23 - The Fisherman
    7.3/10(145 votes)

    #23 - The Fisherman

    S2:E23

    Matlock defends a Vietnamese fisherman and his son when a racist fisherman is killed, and the Vietnamese fisherman is charged with his murder because the two had words. It isn't just the fisherman that Matlock ends up defending, as he also becomes a target of the racist townspeople.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Matlock Season 2 Episode 24 - The Heiress
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - The Heiress

    S2:E24

    As a young child, Allison Tate had discovered the bodies of her parents, apparently killed by an intruder. Shortly after her twenty-first birthday, she found the body of Marsha Gold, killed in a similar matter. When this thrust her back into the Linder Sanitarium in which she'd spent most of her life since her parents murdered, Bob Ranier (her father's former business partner, like an uncle to her) hires Matlock to prove that Allison is innocent of her murder. Matlock has an unlikely ally in Warren Kreitzer, an insurance attorney who is supposed to be on vacation, but will do whatever he can to protect Allison.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Billionaire (1)" is the best rated episode of "Matlock" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 249 votes. Directed by Christopher Hibler and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/22/1987. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Billionaire (2)".