A judge's investigation of the mayor's assassination triggers a frame-up, but Matlock's daughter aims to shoot down the conspiracy's coverup. 

Ben and Leanne link the mayor's assassination to a judge charged with sexual assault.

Ben and Leanne link the mayor's assassination to a judge charged with sexual assault.

The real murderer winds up being murdered himself, which doesn't help Matlock's client much...not only that, but there's a real estate scam looming in the wings that also affects the case.

A TV reporter is framed for his producer's murder, a smoke screen for a real estate scam and fictitious news story.

A woman is accused of murdering her estranged boyfriend and her imaginative son creates a comic book with parallels to the crime.

Michelle is kidnapped by mobsters who offer her release in exchange for evidence Ben was given prior to a mob lawyer's murder.

Frugal Ben hires a hitchhiker to paint his home; Michelle and an insurance adjuster pursue an ad producer's murderer.

Matlock goes fishing, but his trip is interrupted by a death in a small town, where he ingratiates himself to the locals, angling for a line on the killer.

Matlock closes in on a killer responsible for a murder in the small town where the retiring lawyer took off to go fishing.

Matlock closes in on a killer responsible for a murder in the small town where the retiring lawyer took off to go fishing.

Ben uses evidence in an altered photo to uncover a murder plot designed to conceal a counterfeiting operation.

Ben finds a photo that may solve a murder while looking for his cousin's philandering husband.

Matlock risks being disbarred when he accuses the deputy district attorney of misconduct in her case against his client.

Defending a game-show host accused of killing his producer, Ben learns others had motives.

A grandmother's testimony is vital to Ben's defense of a youth who is charged with murdering his abusive father to protect his mother.

Michelle believes Matlock's objectivity is being compromised by the young widow he is defending.

Matlock faces an ethical dilemma while defending two clients, a wealthy widow and a father, accused of murder. 

Matlock faces an ethical dilemma while defending two clients, a wealthy widow and a father, accused of murder. 

In a flashback case involving the young widow of a wealthy older man, Ben recalls the investigative techniques his father taught him.

Ben's insurance agent is charged with murdering a deceitful marriage counselor after the police learn the adviser was having an affair with the agent's wife.

On his way to a dude ranch, Ben is knocked unconscious and dreams of himself as a frontier lawyer, with Conrad as a gun slinging client and Julie as the owner of a boardinghouse.

A serial killer whose eventual target is Ben embarrasses him in court by leaving false clues.

While back home for the town's bicentennial festivities, Ben is retained to defend a man for two homicides linked to a 15-year-old crime.

Matlock uncovers disturbing evidence in his home town while investigating the murder of a writer who witnessed a homicide 15 years before.

Matlock uncovers disturbing evidence in his home town while investigating the murder of a writer who witnessed a homicide 15 years before.