Ben's law professor Erskine Tate is arrested for vehicular homicide of postal worker Jim Donaldson but has no recollection of it. Ben suspects Tate's assistant Jim Billings and students Eric Lane and Wesley Wallace, then tries to prove it.
Aired: Mar 3, 1986Ben Matlock and his daughter Charlene defend a TV journalist accused of killi...
Aired: Sep 23, 1986Judge Carter Addison murders his cheating mistress and frames her lover. Then...
Aired: Sep 30, 1986An exotic dancer is accused of killing her ex-husband.
Aired: Oct 7, 1986Christina Ward hires Ben to defend Sonia Cardenas, the maid accused of knifin...
Aired: Oct 14, 1986Football star Brad Bingham is accused of fatally bludgeoning the team's owner...
Aired: Oct 28, 1986Ben and Charlene take the case of Mafia don Nicholas Baron accused of murderi...
Aired: Nov 4, 1986Ben defends a organized-crime boss.
Aired: Nov 11, 1986Sisters Julia and Emily McCullough murder their wealthy Aunt Esther with a he...
Aired: Nov 18, 1986After tough detective Joe Peters finds a fortune in his bank account, the mob...
Aired: Nov 25, 1986Spoiled rock star and party girl Angel goes to her manager Lou Pearson's hous...
Aired: Dec 2, 1986Ben's law professor Erskine Tate is arrested for vehicular homicide of postal...
Aired: Dec 9, 1986At Christmas, cruel landlord Alan Rawlings wants to evict his tenants and tan...
Aired: Jan 6, 1987During the taping of her TV cooking show, chef Victoria Edwards' ex-husband M...
Aired: Jan 13, 1987Maryann Nelson's book, whose characters are based on her neighbors, is a best...
Aired: Jan 20, 1987In California, Ben defends cookie magnate Alan Gardener who is accused of dro...
Aired: Feb 3, 1987One night, Peter St. John dies of what seems to be a heart attack while his p...
Aired: Feb 10, 1987Ben's ex-client Lester Matthews has spent years in prison for murder. Before ...
Aired: Feb 17, 1987An Army lieutenant pushes his men too hard. Someone stabs him in the back, an...
Aired: Feb 24, 1987Ben returns the defendant, but a crucial witness (the only witness) disappear...
Aired: Mar 3, 1987A famous movie star, staying incognito at a special clinic, becomes outraged ...
Aired: Mar 24, 1987Gerald O'Hara is accused of killing Dan Keaton, a candidate in the current el...
Aired: Mar 31, 1987A crooked photographer is murdered.
Aired: May 5, 1987A woman arrives home to find her house on fire and her husband dead. The poli...
Aired: May 12, 1987Habitually angry Dr Dave Westlake supervises a team of doctors and threatens ...
