Matlock (tv series)

Matlock is a American television series that revolves around the eponymous lawyer Ben Matlock (played by Andy Griffith).

The series ran from 1986 to 1995 and counted a total of nine seasons. The first episode aired on september 23, 1986 on the American television channel NBC. The series ran on ABCfrom 1993. In Netherlands, the series was broadcast by the KRO .



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[hide] *1 Characters  ==Characters[ Edit] == Benjamin Leighton Matlock is a well-known lawyer, who lives in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. Matlock, who studied law at Harvard, is an expensive lawyer: he is asking a fee of $ 250,000. However, he is worth the money, since he usually delivers its clients by an acquittal to uncover who has committed the crime (usually a murder). Matlock is an affectionate, but sometimes quite fractious man, who always appears in court in are grey-blue suit. Though he looks no different from any other old man, he is a cunning lawyer with a keen mind. He is often itself on research at the scene of the crime to there is evidence that over the head by the police have been seen and works the case often plays out while on his banjo . He then exposes the criminal In court by a cunning game of question and answer.
 * 2 spin-off
 * 3 Trivia
 * 4 Episodes
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Matlock during the nine seasons was assisted by a changing number of people who helped him in the investigation in a case.

In the series three different women played the daughter of Matlock. In the pilot episode (also a TV movie) Lori Lethin played his daughter Charlene Matlock, a role in the first season was acquired by Linda Purl. In the seasons 7 and 8 Matlock was assisted by his daughter Leanne McIntyre (played by Brynn Thayer), which after her divorce back home had come to with her father to work. Of season 2 to 6 was Michelle Thomas, played by Nancy Stafford, the female Assistant to Matlock.

In the nine seasons had some detectives who worked for him and Matlock the dangerous act together for him a face-lift. In the first three seasons, he was helped by the investigator Tyler Hudson, played by Kene Holliday. In seasons 4, 5 and 6 was that Conrad McMasters ( Clarence Gilyard Jr.played by). Cliff Lewis (played by Daniel Roebuck) was his detective in the last three seasons.

During his lawsuits against the also often took Matlock on Prosecutor Julie March, played by Julie Sommars. Throughout the series was occasionally responded to the romance between the two characters was to be seen. Usually, the two characters facing each other in the courtroom, but they also were on the same side in several episodes and they tried to solve a murder together.

The country singer Randy Travis played in the sixth season in the episode entitled "The Big Payoff" as Billy Wheeler. He returns in an episode of the seventh season, ' The Mark '. Both Travis and Griffith originate from the same State, North Carolina.

Famous actor George Peppard (known as Hannibal Smith from The a-team) Max Morgan played in The P.I., Episode 18 of season 8. The episode turned completely to him and was intended as a pilot for a new television series. Peppard died 2 months after the episode aired. ==Spin-off[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The American television series Jake and the Fatman was a spin-off which was based on one of the characters from ' The Don ', a two-part episode from the first season. William Conrad played Prosecutor James l. McShane and Joe Penny the son of Matlock's client. Both actors also played in Jake and the Fatman, respectively as a public prosecutor James l. McCabe and his detective Jake Styles. For the two series (' Matlock ' and ' Jake and the Fatman ") was the executive producer Dean Hargrove . Hargrove had as a writer or producer also hand in other mystery shows like Columbo, Diagnosis Murder, Perry Mason and the Father Dowling Mysteries . ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series Matlock is often portrayed as a series where mostly older people look at it. Thus, in the American animated television series The Simpsons '"Matlock" one of the favorite programs of Abraham Simpson and the other residents of the care home. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==