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The Best Episodes of Matlock Season 7

Every episode of Matlock Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Matlock Season 7!

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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 7 Episode 1 - The Vacation
    8.0/10(212 votes)

    #1 - The Vacation

    S7:E1

    Matlock and Leanne head to the beach where Leanne reunites with three good friends from college, and Matlock reunites with someone from his past who just happens to be the brother of the woman whose heart Matlock 'broke' years earlier.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Matlock Season 7 Episode 2 - The Vacation (2)
    7.8/10(132 votes)

    #2 - The Vacation (2)

    S7:E2

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Matlock Season 7 Episode 3 - The Legacy (1)
    7.7/10(147 votes)

    #3 - The Legacy (1)

    S7:E3

    After Brian Martell is arrested and charged with the murder of Arthur Kendall, Matlock decides to get involved because, years earlier, his father Charlie had been a suspect in the murder of Arthur's father Jake -- a murder Brian's father Lee was convicted of. Brian is convinced that Matlock is doing it to make up for Lee spending years in prison for a crime that Charlie Matlock convicted, but Matlock swears neither man committed the crime. While investigating the murder of the playwright, their trail soon leads to the woman he was having an affair with, and her very angry son young son.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Matlock Season 7 Episode 4 - The Legacy (2)
    6.9/10(122 votes)

    #4 - The Legacy (2)

    S7:E4

    Although Josh Winfield confessed to the murder of Arthur Kendall, it doesn't take long for the police to blow holes in his story. Matlock then has Conrad take a closer look at Yolanda Bergstrom, the woman Kendall had been with not long before he died, and Conrad then finds there is another connection between Yolanda and Kendall -- her sister Sabrina. Leanne remains convinced that Charlie Matlock had nothing to do with Jake Kendall's murder, and she, Brian and Matlock all investigate the thirty year old case. Matlock continues to date Elaine, trying desperately to be the healthy, fit man he thinks she wants.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Matlock Season 7 Episode 5 - The Ghost
    7.3/10(110 votes)

    #5 - The Ghost

    S7:E5

    Mike Wilson begs Matlock to help his wife Janice out when she is accused of a crime. Matlock approaches Janice's lawyer, who thinks Matlock is pulling his leg when he says that Mike talked to him, because Janice is on trial for killing Mike. Matlock finally accepts that he is seeing a ghost and, after doing a little investigating on his own, convinces Mike's wife to allow him to defend her. Unfortunately, Matlock has more than just a ghost to deal with. It seems almost everyone who knew Mike Wilson had some reason to kill him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Gerry Conway

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  6. Matlock Season 7 Episode 6 - The Class
    7.8/10(119 votes)

    #6 - The Class

    S7:E6

    Matlock talks to a law class about his career, and the subject of 'the perfect murder' comes up. When student Eddie Price disappears after getting into it with Mark Randall, the university believes that Matlock's speech may have incited one of the students to murder. To clear his name, Matlock and Leanne decide to engage the students into an investigation into Eddie's disappearance, and soon learn that Eddie had more than they thought in common with not only Mark, but also Bobby Simpson as well -- they had all shared the same girlfriend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Matlock Season 7 Episode 7 - The Singer
    7.9/10(142 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Matlock Season 7 Episode 8 - The Mark
    7.7/10(145 votes)

    #8 - The Mark

    S7:E8

    When Billy Wheeler comes back to town $250,000 richer after having won the lottery, he soon falls for contractor Judy Wilson. Unfortunately, when she takes him and every other partner for a ride, Billy is accused of her murder, and Matlock has to clear his name.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert Schlitt

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  9. Matlock Season 7 Episode 9 - The Juror
    7.6/10(113 votes)

    #9 - The Juror

    S7:E9

    Matlock is planning a birthday fishing trip with Leanne, but when he is called up for jury duty it puts a damper on their trip. Despite his convictions that no lawyer would want him on their jury, Matlock ends up being juror number six, and while everyone else on the jury wants to convict Travis Spaulding of the murder of his wife, Matlock alone thinks they need to take a closer look at the evidence before sentencing the man to death. Unfortunately, tempers flare in the jury room as the jurors soon become divided between guilty and not guilty.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Matlock Season 7 Episode 10 - The Fortune (1)
    7.2/10(113 votes)

    #10 - The Fortune (1)

    S7:E10

    The nephew of an eccentric millionaire is accused of murdering his uncle after they were seen arguing and Cliff is sent to work in the uncles' zoo in order to gather information to exonerate him. Meanwhile, Billy persuades Ben to defend him in court after he becomes involved in an investment scheme gone awry.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Matlock Season 7 Episode 11 - The Fortune (2)
    6.7/10(99 votes)

    #11 - The Fortune (2)

    S7:E11

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Matlock Season 7 Episode 12 - The Debt
    7.0/10(111 votes)

    #12 - The Debt

    S7:E12

    When Leanne's ex-husband Peter is charged with the murder of his friend and boss, once the truth comes out about Peter's possible motive in the killing, Matlock despises his ex-son-in-law more than ever.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Matlock Season 7 Episode 13 - The Revenge
    8.0/10(125 votes)

    #13 - The Revenge

    S7:E13

    Matlock witnesses a robbery at a convenience store, but when things start happening that make him look like he's losing it, including messing with his papers, sending him to the wrong parties, and submitting phony pictures of his hind end to the papers, Matlock begins to realise that someone is trying to set him up. He, Cliff and Conrad begin to go through some of his old cases, trying to figure out which recently released killer is out to get him, but everyone they think of seems to have an alibi.

    Director:Burt Brinckerhoff
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Matlock Season 7 Episode 14 - The Obsession
    7.4/10(105 votes)

    #14 - The Obsession

    S7:E14

    Even from his hospital bed Matlock can't get the case of a TV star accused of killing a therapist out of his mind.

    Director:Christopher Hibler
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Matlock Season 7 Episode 15 - The Divorce
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - The Divorce

    S7:E15

    Duncan and Clara Farmington seemed to have the perfect marriage. Now they want to have the perfect divorce. What starts out as a simple division of property turns nasty as Leanne represents the wife and Ben the husband. At the same time, a scam artist tries to sue Matlock for millions after injuring himself on Matlock's property.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Matlock Season 7 Episode 16 - The Final Affair (1)
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - The Final Affair (1)

    S7:E16

    Matlock invites homeless man Lenny to live with him while trying to find out if the archbishop was meant to die in a plot including an ex-football player, his wife, her lover, and the mafia.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Matlock Season 7 Episode 17 - The Final Affair (2)
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - The Final Affair (2)

    S7:E17

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Matlock Season 7 Episode 18 - The Competition
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - The Competition

    S7:E18

    Matlock refuses to believe that a young piano player committed suicide, nor does the father of the girl who hires Matlock to find out what really happened.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"The Vacation" is the best rated episode of "Matlock" season 7. It scored 8/10 based on 212 votes. Directed by Christopher Hibler and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/5/1992. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Vacation (2)".