The Best Episodes of Matlock Season 2
Every episode of Matlock Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Matlock Season 2!
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 Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.
Season 2 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Matlock" season 2 is "The Billionaire (1)", rated 7.4/10 from 222 user votes. It was directed by Christopher Hibler and written by N/A. "The Billionaire (1)" aired on 9/22/1987 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Billionaire (2)".
7.4/10 222 votes#1 - The Billionaire (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1987
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: N/A
7.6/10 145 votes#2 - The Billionaire (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1987
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: N/A
6.9/10 134 votes#3 - Blind Justice
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1987
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: N/A
- 7.3/10 123 votes
#4 - The Annihilator
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1987
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: N/A
- 7.4/10 169 votes
#5 - The Husband
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1987
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.
Director: Charles S. Dubin, Tony Mordente
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 129 votes
#6 - The Power Brokers (1)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1987
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: N/A
- 7.1/10 125 votes
#7 - The Power Brokers (2)
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1987
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: N/A
- 7.0/10 147 votes
#8 - The Network
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/1987
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: N/A
- 7.5/10 134 votes
#9 - The Best Friend
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/1987
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: N/A
- 6.7/10 127 votes
#10 - The Country Boy
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1987
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: N/A
- 7.5/10 148 votes
#11 - The Gift
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/22/1987
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
- 7.3/10 121 votes
#12 - The Gambler
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/29/1987
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: N/A
- 7.3/10 123 votes
#13 - The Body
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1988
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: N/A
- 7.1/10 107 votes
#14 - The Reunion
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1988
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
Writer: Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff
- 7.3/10 134 votes
#15 - The Gigolo
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1988
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: N/A
- 7.4/10 134 votes
#16 - The Umpire
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1988
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 122 votes
#17 - The Investigation (1)
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1988
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: N/A
- 7.0/10 123 votes
#18 - The Investigation (2)
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1988
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: N/A
- 7.3/10 137 votes
#19 - The Hucksters
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/1988
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: N/A
- 7.6/10 142 votes
#20 - The Lovelorn
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/1988
Matlock agrees to defend a man who has been accused of murdering the relationship columnist whose response ended his relationship.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 126 votes
#21 - The Genius
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/15/1988
When Matlock's nephew Irwin is charged with murder, Matlock investigates at a high-tech computer firm to clear his name.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10 137 votes
#22 - The Magician
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/22/1988
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: N/A
- 7.1/10 125 votes
#23 - The Fisherman
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/29/1988
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#24 - The Heiress
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/3/1988
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: N/A