Matlock

When Matlock and his daughter Leanne arrive at a seaside resort to plan their new law partnership, they discover the manager has been murdered. Before Matlock can solve the case, he uncovers a second murder that could involve one of Leanne’s friends.

Just as his father was charged with murdering a famous playwright forty years earlier, young Brian Martell is accused of murdering the playwright’s son! In an effort to clear his name, Martell claims Matlock’s father, Charlie, was involved. Charlie and Ben set out to unravel family secrets and solve the mystery.

A friend of Matlock’s, Mike Wilson, has been murdered and his wife has been accused of the crime. But when Matlock claims that Mike has visited him from beyond the grave to help him find the real killer, Conrad and Leanne find it hard to swallow. Ben joins supernatural forces with his ghostly partner to scare up the murderer.

When a successful country music star is murdered, the promoter she fired –Steve Fisher – becomes the logical suspect. He turns to Matlock for help, but as the evidence against Steve continues to mount Matlock wonders about his claim that he's being set up by the police investigator.

Matlock’s on jury duty, and the case against a man-about-town who stands to gain a fortune from his wife’s death seems airtight. Close examination of the evidence suggests otherwise to Ben. Now, if he could only convince the other 11members who are positive the playboy is guilty as sin.

When multi-millionaire Marvin Estes dies from an apparent suicide, leaving his fortune to supposed girlfriend Theresa LaValle, Matlock must find the missing beneficiary. But when it’s discovered the suicide was actually a murder, Rick Stafford, a nephew recently cut out of his uncle’s will, becomes the #1 suspect and asks Matlock to defend him.

Even though her former husband was a liar and a cheat, Leanne Matlock refuses to believe he was capable of murdering his philandering boss. As Ben Matlock vigorously objects to his daughter’s insistence on defending her ex, sheets out to prove her capability.

When testifying as a witness in a robbery case, Matlock is made to look like a fool. It soon becomes apparent that someone is playing tricks on him that threaten his credibility and safety. Matlock sets out to find this “mystery person” and find out why his reputation, and his life, could be threatened.

Matlock is disturbed by frightening dreams that apparently give him clues to the murder of a doctor at a clinic patronized by celebrities. He even begins to wonder if he’s psychic. In searching for a motive, the dreams may provide an answer.

It’s “War of The Roses,” Freudian style as divorcing psychiatrists foresake their couches for the courtroom. Matlock gets caught in the middle of a brutal battle that bruises more than egos.

A high school football coach and ministerial candidate in-line for the top job at Three Angels Church and his wife have been murdered. The prime suspect, Matlock's client, is a man who was having an affair with the wife. But when Ben sends an investigator to join the choir, it leads to some startling suspicions about secret church activities.

When Matlock looks into the double murder of a man studying for the ministry and the stabbing death of his wife, it looks like the case is closed when the wife's lover is charged. But the mystery takes on a sinister twist as Matlock discovers a drug smuggling operation using the church’s overseas food program as a front.

Viewing a heated argument from his hotel window, Matlock witnesses a murder involving two stars of a local theater production and an unhappy husband. When he helps investigate the case, his memory becomes a bit blurred.