The BEST episodes written by Gerald Sanoff
#2 - Premium Steele
Remington Steele - Season 4 - Episode 7
Laura and Steele try to discover why phony obituaries are being printed about people like poor garlic farmer Lester Shane.
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#9 - The Juror
Matlock - Season 7 - Episode 7
Matlock is planning a birthday fishing trip with Leanne, but when he is called up for jury duty it puts a damper on their trip. Despite his convictions that no lawyer would want him on their jury, Matlock ends up being juror number six, and while everyone else on the jury wants to convict Travis Spaulding of the murder of his wife, Matlock alone 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 not guilty.
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#10 - Murder Two (1)
Diagnosis Murder - Season 4 - Episode 15
Jesse is arrested and charged with murder after a doctor testifying against Jesse in a malpractice suit is poisoned. Mark convinces his old friend, Ben Matlock, to defend Jesse.
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#12 - The Black Widow
Matlock - Season 3 - Episode 10
Seven years earlier Ken Wilson was sent to prison, convicted of murdering his wife, Ann. After he's released, he runs into his wife in Los Angeles, only now she's going by the name Kelly Manning. When she turns up dead, Ken Wilson is again arrested and charged with her murder. Ben is determined to prove that someone else killed the woman. Back in Atlanta, Les is thrilled about his new relationship with Bernice, a woman he met at Ray Templin's.
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#14 - The Magician
Matlock - Season 2 - Episode 21
After a night at the magic show with Julie, Matlock agrees to defend magician Daniel Fontaine when he's charged with the murder of his assistant / lover Sandy Farrell, a woman who was as devious as she was beautiful.
#15 - The Secret (2)
Matlock - Season 5 - Episode 7
Matlock sends Conrad to Chicago to collect the evidence that will prove his client is innocent.
#16 - 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.
#17 - The Blackmailer
Matlock - Season 4 - Episode 22
Cartoonist Ron Winfield has kept Atlanta enthralled with his recent storyline in ""The Peach Pit"" involving an affair by Senator Peter Dolan. Just before the woman in the affair can be named in print, the strips disappear.
#18 - The Thief (1)
Matlock - Season 3 - Episode 14
When a rare coin dealer is charged with murdering a thieving employee, he hires Matlock to defend him. Tyler is less than thrilled when Matlock temporarily hires a female investigator, and has his own suspicions of her motives.
#19 - The Body
Matlock - Season 2 - Episode 12
Matlock agrees to defend Donna Stewart when she's accused of murdering Christie Huntley, an aerobics instructor at Pinewood Spa who slept with her husband. Matlock soon realises that Christie's death had nothing to do with who she slept with and everything to do with why she slept with them.
#20 - The Author
Matlock - Season 1 - Episode 13
Mary Ann Newton has written a book (Secret Confessions) that purports to be fiction, but upon a deeper look, it seems to be an expose on the citizens of a small town. When an attempt made on her life gets a local reverend instead, Matlock is called in to defend the suspected killer. As the case goes on, Matlock realises that Ms. Newton may not be the right target for the would-be killer.
#21 - The Secret (1)
Matlock - Season 5 - Episode 6
When a gambler is accused of killing his bookie, Matlock agrees to take the case, believing that someone from the bookie's past is the guilty party.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - The Best Friend
Matlock - Season 2 - Episode 8
Matlock agrees to defend Vanessa Douglas when she's accused of murdering Stephen Cassidy, and author who destroyed a political families ambitions with a tell-all book. When Matlock realises his client is indeed guilty of the murder she is charged of committing, he sets up a plan to implicate her best friend, Sarah, with the crime, knowing that Vanessa will not let her friend take the blame for something she did.
#25 - The Con Man
Matlock - Season 4 - Episode 7
After he's conned by a group of con men, Brian Davis is accused of murdering one of them. Matlock agrees to take on the case, and while Michelle tries to get close to one of the remaining con artists, Matlock tries to prove that a previous scheme is responsible for the current predicament.
#26 - Murder Two (2)
Diagnosis Murder - Season 4 - Episode 16
Amanda and Ben investigate the murder of Eric Spindler while Jesse continues to languish in jail.