Matlock: The Play poster

Episode

Matlock: The Play

MatlockSeason 81993-09-23

Overview

After an actress in The Last Cry of the Hounds is murdered, Matlock agrees to represent the director of a local community play...on the condition that the director not cut him from the play.

Details

Series
Matlock
Season
Season 8
Episode
Episode 1
Air date
1993-09-23
Runtime
60 min

Episode context

The Play is Episode 1 in Season 8 of Matlock. It aired on 1993-09-23. The runtime is 60 min.

Previous / Next

Episode 2: The Fatal Seduction (1) 1993-09-30 Matlock, Leanne and Cliff go to North Carolina to attend Billy's sister's funeral. While there, they end up getting involved in a pair of murders connected to two young women. As a way to catch them, Leanne sets up a trap using Cliff as bait.

More episodes from this season

Episode 3: The Fatal Seduction (2) 1993-10-07 Episode 4: The Diner 1993-10-14 Matlock takes Leanne to meet Martha Jordan, the wife of his very first client back in 1962. Stan Shaw was the cook at the local diner when he was accused of killing the local sheriff after a disagreement in the diner. Charlie Matlock pushed Ben, who had recently quit his job as a district attorney to take the case, but not everyone in town was happy with the Matlocks siding with the black cook accused of killing the white sheriff. Despite Cyrus Jordan's attempts to get the Matlocks to drop his case for their own safety, father and son were determined to prove that Cyrus never killed anyone. Episode 5: The View 1993-10-28 Matlock realizes he has become a witness in a murder case involving two theater actors and an unhappy husband. Episode 6: The Last Laugh 1993-11-04 | 60 min A comedian becomes accused of murdering another comic who had insulted him on stage. Episode 7: The Capital Offense 1993-11-11 | 60 min Matlock continues his five-year struggle to save a con artist from the electric chair. Episode 8: The Haunted (1) 1993-11-18 While Cliff investigates a suit of medical malpractice and ends up getting more involved than he should with his client, Matlock investigates the case of the mysterious Rod Greenwood, who happens to bear an eerie resemblance to a dead businessman. Soon Cliff and Matlock realise that their cases are tied together. Episode 9: The Haunted (2) 1993-11-18 Episode 10: The Conspiracy 1993-11-25 | 60 min Matlock defends a lawyer accused of murdering an associate who'd accused him of botching a lawsuit involving toxic waster polluters. Episode 11: Matlock's Bad, Bad, Bad Dream 1993-12-02 Matlock dreams that he, Leanne, Billy and Cliff are in 1932 and are involved with the murder of a sax player. Episode 12: The Defendant 1993-12-16 Leanne falls for Matlock's new client, a philanthropist accused of murdering his business partner.

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Metadata and imagery are provided by The Movie Database.