Matlock - Season 9 - Eps 14: The Assault
While Cliff, Jerri and Billy plan to throw Ben a surprise party for his birthday, Ben goes to the city to pick up barbecue. While there, his car breaks down, he's mugged, the phone eats his last quarter ... and by the time he is rescued by activist Stan Johnson and returned to his car, it's half-stripped and they've stolen his barbecue. Matlock is very impressed by the young man, and when he's accused of trying to kill the landlord of the apartment complex he lives in, Matlock steps in to defend him and to stand up to the landlord, who is a very respected man in the legal community.
About Matlock
Title: Matlock
First Air Date: 1986-03-03
Last Air Date: 1995-05-07
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.127/10 (from 118 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 9
Total Episodes: 194
Network: NBC ABC
Genres: Drama, Crime
Production Companies: Viacom Productions, Dean Hargrove Productions, Fred Silverman Company, The Matlock Company
Synopsis
Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes. One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.
Cast
Andy Griffith
Ben Matlock
Daniel Roebuck
Cliff Lewis
Carol Huston
Jerri Stone
