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Matlock Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 1992 - 1993
Episode 1
The Vacation
120 mins
Ben and Leanne go on vacation and meet up with Leanne's college girlfriends. Murder ensues, Ben defends a stranger while Leanne suspects one of her friends is the real killer.
Episode 2
The Legacy
Thu, Nov 19, 1992120 mins
Ben finds out that a man is being charged with murder who has a connection to Ben's father Charlie.
Episode 3
The Ghost
Thu, Jan 14, 199350 mins
In the stable on their property, Mike Wilson and his wife have a minor argument over an anonymous letter. She pushes past him in leaving the barn, and he falls and hits his head. When he tries to get up he's struck by someone holding a shovel, and dies. His wife is accused of his death, and he appears as a friendly ghost to Ben Matlock to beg him to help his wife, who won't defend herself since she thinks it truly is her fault. Unfortunately for both Ben and Mike, Ben is the only one who can see and talk to Mike, and comic mayhem soon ensues as the two try to solve the case together.
Episode 4
The Class
Thu, Jan 21, 199350 mins
Impressionable young college students may have learned a little too much from guest lecturer Matlock when he tells them about committing the perfect murder. A hated classmate of theirs disappears, and evidence of foul play is found in his garage.
Episode 5
The Singer
Thu, Jan 28, 199350 mins
Evidence tampering, both by the police Lieutenant in charge of the case and his own client, complicates Matlock's defense of a personal manager accused of killing his client, a country music star.
Episode 6
The Mark
Thu, Feb 4, 199350 mins
Billy Wheeler, the down-on-his-luck country singer whom Matlock hired to paint his house, needs the lawyer's help once again, when he's accused of killing a con artist.
Episode 7
The Juror
Thu, Feb 11, 199350 mins
While in the midst of planning a fishing trip with Leanne, Ben finds himself summoned to jury duty. He assumes that no prosecutor would ever have him on a jury but he soon finds himself the lone holdout on a jury that wants to convict a husband accused of killing his wife. Despite what everyone else thinks, he sets out to prove the accused is not guilty.
Episode 8
The Fortune
Thu, Feb 18, 1993120 mins
A rich man is convinced that his investments are being mishandled if not embezzled. Apparently to keep him from discovering who is cheating him he is murdered and Ben is given the responsibility of administering the estate. The nephew is accused of the murder on the assumption that he killed his uncle before he could be cut out. But the will as it exists has only one heir, and it's someone no one knows anything about.
Episode 9
The Debt
Thu, Mar 18, 199360 mins
Leanne takes on the case of her ex-husband Peter, who is charged with the murder of his boss and friend.
Episode 10
The Revenge
Thu, Mar 25, 199350 mins
Ben, scheduled to appear as a witness in a robbery case, is joined by Conrad and Cliff in reviewing three of his past cases to determine which exposed murderess is engaged in a campaign to make him seem senile.
Episode 11
The Obsession
Thu, Apr 1, 199350 mins
Matlock defends a TV star who is accused of killing a therapist at a drug rehab centre. His dreams are guiding him to the real killer.
Episode 12
The Divorce
Thu, Apr 8, 199350 mins
Doctors Farmington want an amicable divorce and ask their friend Ben to handle the paperwork. Meanwhile, Ben is sued by a man who fell off Ben's porch and the divorce becomes less than amicable.
Episode 13
The Final Affair
Thu, Apr 29, 1993120 mins
A lawyer is accused of murdering his lover and her husband, a high school football coach and aspiring minister.
Episode 14
The Competition
Thu, May 6, 199350 mins
An old friend of Ben's asks him to look into the death of his daughter, a talented pianist, who supposedly had committed suicide. After checking into what happened, Ben believes that she was in fact murdered. Ben initially welcomes Billy's brother Russ to stay with him until he realizes he's a bigger pain than Billy ever was.