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- After being away for awhile, Andy Taylor returns home to Mayberry to visit Opie, now an expectant father. While there, he ends up helping Barney Fife mount a campaign for Sheriff.
- When his former secretary Della Street is accused of murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
- A priest is murdered and the suspect is a nun. And it's been rumored that the two of them are having an affair.
- The editor of a tabloid fires his dynamic writer for working on a serious story he said no to. The editor has "dirt" on an Army General, his banker, and other "clients," all of whom make little-concealed verbal threats to him at a party.
- An old flame of Mason's is up for a government position. A man tries to blackmail her, telling her husband her secret will prevent her appointment. When the husband approaches him, he finds he is dead and gets himself charged with murder.
- Frank Dowling has to solve the mystery of a young man who is obsessed with finding his natural parents.
- An actor rigs a fake on-air shooting with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes horribly wrong when the gun, which he'd loaded with blanks, turns out to contain a live round.
- Ken Malansky is a student taught by Perry. Ken hears his girlfriend was assaulted by another student so he confronts him but finds him dead, the weapon his own knife. Perry is slow to take the case as the victim is a close friend's son.
- A tennis player is accused to having killed his wife, a rich heiress. The facts are against him as he was seen in the arms of his former girlfriend in the night before the murder. This is a case for Perry Mason.
- Horror writer David Hall reserves a hotel and invites his "friends" for the weekend. Each wants to sue him for some reason. Perry's friend Jordan is one of the guests. He is seen in the hotel's high tower when David is thrown to his death.
- Airman Parks was convicted for the murder of a woman and Perry works on his second appeal. Perry finds a new witness who is murdered to derail the appeal. The main victim was employed by a real estate company doing business with the base.
- Della meets up with an old friend, a man she babysat in childhood days. He wants her to meet his new wife, Suzanne. But Suzanne has schemed with a bank exec to record the conspiracy of 3 of his colleagues in their plan to defraud the bank.
- A chicken hatchery owner (and novice private eye) tries to solve the arrow murder of local milkman, philanderer and animal fetishist.
- Ben Matlock and his daughter Charlene defend a TV journalist accused of killing his ex-wife.
- This was the pilot to the series. A man and a woman who are lovers commit a murder. Eventually it is revealed that the victim is the father and husband of the two who killed him. J.L. McCabe, the tough district attorney known as "The Fatman", suspects them right away but unfortunately has no evidence, so he sends his ace investigator, Jake Styles to get the evidence. But it won't be easy cause these two covered their tracks very well.
- Disagreeable London-based American businessman Albert Gordon is shot dead. His son Eric is the prime suspect. Believing Eric's innocent, sister Laura plans a mock trial hoping to uncover new evidence. Ben travels to London to defend Eric.
- Ben defends a popular columnist framed for the murder of a source.
- An assassin is killed in a shootout with police shortly after arriving in L.A., so Jake takes his place to try and figure out who the dead man's target is.
- A supposedly kidnapped heiress (Suzanne Snyder) forms a romantic attachment to Jake (Joe Penny) to cover up her double life.
- A woman who's a friend of McCabe's, has a twin sister who's a criminal. And she commits a crime and does it at the same time her sister was with McCabe. When Jake investigates and witnesses place her at the scene but because she was with McCabe, he doesn't arrest her. He tries to figure out how she does it and when he figures out about her twin sister, he arrests the twin. But at the trial, the defense dares McCabe to prove which twin was with him when the other did the crime.
- Jake aids a beautiful undercover cop who's out to nail the criminal she blames for her father's death.
- 1987–1992TV-PG6.9 (38)TV EpisodeA serial killer who's targeting winos taunts McCabe with phone calls before each killing.
- A renowned television newswoman's career is jeopardized after a noted mobster is found murdered in her palatial home.
- A Senator candidate's lover is killed after she threatens to reveal their affair.
- 1987–1992TV-PG7.0 (33)TV EpisodeIt's the holiday season, and McCabe is implored by one of his pushier assistants to take another look at a murder case.
- 1987–1992TV-PG7.9 (38)TV EpisodeA man hires a P.I. to see if his wife is having an affair. She discovers that the man is a priest. The man tells the P.I. to be quiet. But the P.I. goes to the wife and tries to shake her down. The wife then goes to the priest and says we have to come forward. She then goes to her husband and admits the affair and offers to divorce her husband and give him an equitable settlement--it seems most of the estate is hers, so he kills her. He tries to frame the priest who is a friend of Jake's. Jake naturally looks to the husband but has no proof. Jake learns of the P.I. and knows her rep but she doesn't give anything up. She later tries to shake the husband down.
- 1987–1992TV-PG7.5 (35)TV EpisodeMcCabe suspects that best-selling author Dennis Julian committed murder to get his hands on another writer's story.
- A guy who worked for a criminal offers to testify against his boss. McCabe is incredulous because he knows the man is untrustworthy and only thinks of himself. When he takes the stand he has a heart attack, at the hospital, one the criminal's men brings him some money, then kills him. McCabe later discovers he was trying to shake down his boss so that he could leave his daughter an inheritance. Later Jake finds the daughter and asks for her help to get the man who killed her father but she might working her own angle.
- A friend of Jake's is accused of killing the man who allegedly raped her, but McCabe soon comes to suspect her psychiatrist of both the rape and the murder.
- Jake and the Fatman discover that a wealthy publisher's death was not an accident. A $9 million dollar insurance policy leads him to the publisher's wife.
- Jake's old partner is murdered by his fiancée, but the Fatman sees through her cover story.
- McCabe successfully prosecutes a man only to have him escape from the courtroom. As part of chase Jake is convinced a cop was in on the heist and works to prove it.
- Jake investigates an escort service after one of its girls is slain after tipping him off about its drug-smuggling operation.
- McCabe exposes a couple's sinister plot for the husband to climb the corporate ladder by framing his competitor for murder.
- A woman who was assaulted and left blind leaves the hospital and goes home with her husband. Later the man who attacked her returns but she manages to shoot him and her husband. Jake suspects she can see and is using her blindness as a cover.
- A woman whose father is a good friend of McCabe's is nearly killed by her husband. But she refuses to believe he did it. So while she recuperates in a hospital, McCabe has Jake pose as a relative who comes and stays at her house. And Jake tries to prove his complicity.
- A defense lawyer kills the boyfriend of his ex-wife and frames her for it.
- 1987–1992TV-PG7.1 (32)TV EpisodeJake tries to clear his friend, a priest accused of killing his married lover.
- A blind man kills the man who blinded him and frames the man's girlfriend.
- Gerald O'Hara is accused of killing Dan Keaton, a candidate in the current election, by gunfire and dumping the body at a construction site. Juror # 7 Harry Craven accuses Ben of bribing a witness with cash mailed from Ben's office.
- At Christmas, cruel landlord Alan Rawlings wants to evict his tenants and tangles with tenant Tom McCabe, a cynical disabled Korean War vet and street Santa. Rawlings is murdered with a paperweight and McCabe is accused.
- Christina Ward hires Ben to defend Sonia Cardenas, the maid accused of knifing her cheating husband Richard. Sonia was one of Richard's dalliances and is reluctant to help Ben; is she covering for someone else?
- Spoiled rock star and party girl Angel goes to her manager Lou Pearson's house to patch up a drunken fight and passes out. When she comes to, he's been fatally stabbed in the chest with scissors. Ben reluctantly defends her.
- Ben's assistant Cassie convinces Ben to defend a professional wrestler accused of killing a rival wrestler.
- Maryann Nelson's book, whose characters are based on her neighbors, is a best seller. Angry neighbors threaten her. When Reverend DeLuca visits, someone shoots at her and kills him. The investigation leads to town Doctor Egan.
- A writer is found shot to death while he was writing a tell-all book about Georgia's most prominent political family, the Douglases. James Douglas' ex-wife, Vanessa, is accused of the murder but Matlock agrees to defend her.
- Ben and Michelle stay at an exclusive health spa while investigating the employees after their client is accused of killing an aerobics instructor who had an affair with her husband.
- During the taping of her TV cooking show, chef Victoria Edwards' ex-husband Mike, whom she hates, samples her cooking, then keels over dead from cyanide poisoning. Ben and Charlene investigate and the killer moves to strike again.
- Ben's ex-client Lester Matthews has spent years in prison for murder. Before his parole, Lester kills a fellow inmate with a knife in self-defense. Ben defends Lester again and figures out what happened in the previous case.
- After tough detective Joe Peters finds a fortune in his bank account, the mob frames him for Harry Landers' gunshot murder.