The BEST episodes directed by Gerald Sanoff
#11 - The Fatal Seduction (1)
Matlock - Season 8 - Episode 2
Matlock, Leanne and Cliff go to North Carolina to attend Billy's sister's funeral. While there, they end up getting involved in a pair of murders connected to two young women. As a way to catch them, Leanne sets up a trap using Cliff as bait.
#12 - The Haunted (1 & 2)
Matlock - Season 8 - Episode 8
While Cliff investigates a suit of medical malpractice and ends up getting more involved than he should with his client, Matlock investigates the case of the mysterious Rod Greenwood, who happens to bear an eerie resemblance to a dead businessman. Soon Cliff and Matlock realise that their cases are tied together.
#13 - The Tabloid
Matlock - Season 9 - Episode 4
When a senatorial candidate is accused of killing a tabloid editor who disgraced her in print, Matlock comes to her defense.
#14 - The Murder Game
Matlock - Season 8 - Episode 16
Matlock reluctantly agrees to spend the weekend as part of a murder mystery with Cliff, Leanne, and three people who each paid $10,000 for the privilege of matching wits with Ben Matlock. When the pretend victim turns up really dead, they know that one of the three paying visitors killed him. Leanne has her father keep the three suspects occupied with stories of previous cases while she and Cliff investigate.
#15 - The Picture (1)
Matlock - Season 6 - Episode 10
After much persuasion, Matlock agrees to help his disagreeable cousin locate her erstwhile husband, using a doctored photograph to help find him.
#16 - The Evening News (2)
Matlock - Season 6 - Episode 17
The real murdered winds up 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.
#17 - The Deadly Dose
Matlock - Season 9 - Episode 11
When a malpractice suit results in a doctor's murder, Matlock defends the nurse who is the alleged killer — Jerri Stone's sister
#18 - The Final Affair (1 & 2)
Matlock - Season 7 - Episode 13
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.
#19 - The Revenge
Matlock - Season 7 - Episode 10
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.
#20 - The Trial (1)
Matlock - Season 5 - Episode 18
When assistant D.A. Howard Wright is murdered in his workshop, the attorney general approaches Matlock and asks him to take on the assignment of special prosecutor. With Michelle and Conrad's help, Matlock begins to investigate Wright's past, and realises the man was spending money that he could not have earned legitimately. In investigating names that Wright had left behind, Matlock finds himself embroiled in a lawsuit involving Maxwell Toys.
#21 - The Brothers
Matlock - Season 5 - Episode 8
Lowell Carr is a brilliant plastic surgeon. When his partner is found murdered after the two had a loud argument about dissolving their business, he is the immediate suspect...until Matlock meets his twin brother, Gary.
#22 - The Witness Killings (1 & 2)
Matlock - Season 6 - Episode 1
Matlock goes back to his hometown for a family reunion, but things turn sticky when a good friend of his nephew's son dies, and his rival is charged with murder. Not only that, but the whole town seems to hate Matlock, as many of them believe he thinks he's better than them because he's a big city lawyer.
#23 - The Man of The Year
Matlock - Season 5 - Episode 15
Matlock is all set to be honored as the man of the year, but when his car breaks down and he's forced to ask his housekeeper for a ride, a simple twenty minute trip turns into a flat tire, a hostage situation, and an afternoon in jail.
#24 - The Verdict
Matlock - Season 9 - Episode 10
An assistant district attorney, who's new in town, is assigned a tricky first case: prosecuting a contractor and alleged killer who is also her ex-flame ... and who is now Matlock's client
#25 - The Assault
Matlock - Season 9 - Episode 13
On his birthday, Ben is mugged in the city. A young man comes to his rescue, and to return the favor, Ben represents the hero...who is accused of trying to kill his negligent landlord.
#26 - The Competition
Matlock - Season 7 - Episode 14
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.
#27 - The Accused (1 & 2)
Matlock - Season 9 - Episode 1
After a journalist claims to have killed a mobster in self-defense, Ben Matlock takes her case and tries to clear her name.
#28 - The Prisoner (2)
Matlock - Season 4 - Episode 9
While Matlock finds the weapon inside the prison, Conrad works on the outside to clear the guard and keep Matlock safe.
#29 - The Formula
Matlock - Season 5 - Episode 17
Matlock receives a call in the middle of the night from a young man who once painted his house who claims he's been arrested for stealing the formula to cure baldness from a company who fired his friend and stole his work. Twenty-four hours later Ben gets another call from the same young man, who has been accused of murdering the man he claims he stole the formula for. The biggest problem is that none of what Jeff Duvall claims seems to be true; not only did Tim Crider not ask him to steal the formula, but he was never fired in the first place!
#30 - The Informer (1)
Matlock - Season 4 - Episode 19
When Sam Chandler is found murdered, his lawyer David O'Malley is the prime suspect...in part because John was sleeping with David's wife.
#31 - The Scam (1 & 2)
Matlock - Season 9 - Episode 15
Cliff gets entangled in the case of his old college buddy, a defense attorney being blackmailed to sabotage his current case. But when the blackmailer turns up dead and Cliff stands accused, it's Matlock to the rescue.
#32 - The Prisoner (1)
Matlock - Season 4 - Episode 8
When a prison guard is accused of murder, Matlock actually goes into the prison itself to defend the man.
#33 - The Vacation (1 & 2)
Matlock - Season 7 - Episode 1
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.