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- 3.15576E8
- Ben invites homeless man Lenny to live with him, while trying to find out if the archbishop was meant to die in a plot — a plot that includes an ex-football player, his wife, her lover and the Mafia.While Ben is still trying to untangle the mystery of the death of the archbishop, Conrad takes pictures that will tie the case together, before he sings in the church choir and somebody punched him to the ground.
Guest star: Jordan Rhoades as Lt. Harmon Andrews
Note: Daniel Roebuck does not appear in this episode. (en)
- Ben is planning a birthday fishing trip with Leanne, but a summon for jury duty puts a damper on their trip. Despite his convictions that no lawyer would want him on their jury. Ben ends up being juror number six, and while everyone else on the jury wants to convict Travis Spaulding of the murder of his wife. It is Ben alone that 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 innocent.
Guest star: Fred Thompson as Prosecutor McGonigal
Note: Daniel Roebuck and Clarence Gilyard Jr. do not appear in this episode. At the beginning of this episode, Leanne comments that Conrad sent her a birthday card.
The episode is a homage to the play 12 Angry Men. (en)
- 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 uncle's 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.
Note: Clarence Gilyard Jr. does not appear in this episode. (en)
- Duncan and Clara Farmington seemed to have the perfect marriage. Now they want the perfect divorce. What starts out as a simple division of property turns nasty as Leanne represents Clara and Ben represents Duncan. At the same time, Ben is being sued for millions by a con artist who faked getting seriously injured at Ben's house.
Guest star: James Stephens as Duncan Farmington
Note: Clarence Gilyard Jr. does not appear in this episode. (en)
- Leanne's reunion with her old friends turns problematic when she soon begins to suspect one of them of murder. Billy Lewis is determined to get back at Ben for breaking his sister Lucy's heart years earlier. (en)
- After Brian Martell is arrested and charged with the murder of screenwriter Arthur Kendall, Ben 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 Ben is doing it to make up for Lee spending years in prison for a crime that he believes Charlie Matlock committed. However, Matlock believes that 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.
Guest stars: James Burgess as Street Kid #2, Dan Cox as Officer, Michael Kennedy as Head of Parole Board, Charles McLawhorn as Lee Martel, Jeremy McLerran as Street Kid #1, Terri Dollar as Young Sylvia, and Lee Lively as Judge Caldwell.
Note: Daniel Roebuck does not appear in this episode. (en)
- Matlock doesn’t think a young piano player committed suicide. Nor does the girl's father , who hires Ben to find out what really happened.
Guest Stars: Warren Frost as Billy Lewis and Leo Penn as Russ Lewis
Note: Daniel Roebuck does not appear in this episode. Though departed from the cast one episode before this one, Clarence Gilyard Jr. is still featured in the opening credits. (en)
- Mike Wilson a ranch owner who was murdered in his barn, returns from the dead as a ghost and asks Matlock to defend his wife, Janice, who is charged with his death.
Guest star: Diana Taylor as Assistant D.A. Ms. Harrington
Note: Daniel Roebuck does not appear in this episode. (en)
- Ben, Leanne, and Conrad continue to try to free Brian Martell of murder.
Guest stars: Lee Spencer as Henry, Terri Dollar as Young Sylvia, Sharyn Greene as Sabrina, Lee Lively as Judge Caldwell, and Joan Riordan as Sylvia.
Note: Daniel Roebuck does not appear in this episode. (en)
- When Billy Wheeler returns to Atlanta with a $250,000 lottery ticket, he is swindled out of his money by a beautiful con artist who soon turns up dead, with Billy being framed for murder. Ben and Leanne have to try to clear his name.
Note: Daniel Roebuck and Clarence Gilyard Jr. do not appear in this episode. (en)
- When a producer is accused of murdering his country singer client, Ben comes to his defense.
Guest stars: Jason Beghe as Lt. Pat Rutledge, Peter Jurasik as Steve Fisher, Joyce Leigh Bowden as Kathy Westfall, Fredric Lehne as John Page, Terry Loughlin as Judge Edwards, Grayce Spence as Judge Drake, Tod Brenner as a Detective, and Diana Taylor as Prosecutor Ms. Harrington
Note: Daniel Roebuck and Clarence Gilyard Jr. do not appear in this episode. (en)
- Ben, Leanne, and Cliff continue to try and exonerate the nephew of murder.
Guest stars: Jay Madison as Cop, Leigh Powell as Newscaster, Hank Toscianiec as Car Owner, Lewis Musser as Maitre D', Chris Nubel as Veterinarian, Eric Paisley as Alvin Leacock and Robert Raiford as Mr. McEvoy.
Note: Clarence Gilyard Jr. does not appear in this episode. (en)
- Even from his hospital bed, Ben can't get the case of a TV star accused of killing a therapist out of his mind.
Note: Clarence Gilyard Jr. does not appear in this episode. (en)
- Ben discusses his career and the idea of "The Perfect Murder" with a law class. But when one of the students vanishes, the university thinks Ben's speech sparked an extracurricular murder.
Guest Star: David Kaufman as Mark Randall
Note: Daniel Roebuck and Clarence Gilyard Jr. do not appear in this episode. (en)
- Ben witnesses a robbery at a convenience store, but things start happening that made him look like he's losing it, including messing with his papers, sending him to wrong parties and submitting phony pictures of his rump to newspapers. Ben realizes that someone is trying to set him up. So, he, Cliff and Conrad look into some of his old cases, trying to figure out which recently released killer is out to get him. It turns out to be Cissy Lockwood from the episode "Mr. Awesome", whom Matlock convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend after he tried to blackmail her over her role in an armed robbery.
Note: This episode features clips from the season five episodes "The Cover Girl" and "The Personal Trainer", and the season six episode "Mr. Awesome". Brynn Thayer does not appear in this episode. (en)
- Ben and Leanne head to the beach where Leanne reunites with three friends from college, and Ben reunites with someone from his past who just happens to be the brother of the woman whose heart Ben "broke" years earlier.
Note: This is the first appearance of Daniel Roebuck as Cliff Lewis and Warren Frost returns for the remainder of the show in a recurring role as Cliff's dad Billy Lewis. It is also the first episode to air on ABC. Clarence Gilyard Jr. does not appear in this episode. (en)
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