Episode
Matlock: The Capital Offense
Overview
Matlock continues his five-year struggle to save a con artist from the electric chair.
Details
- Series
- Matlock
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 1993-11-11
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Capital Offense is Episode 7 in Season 8 of Matlock. It aired on 1993-11-11. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 6: The Last Laugh
A comedian becomes accused of murdering another comic who had insulted him on stage.
Episode 8: The Haunted (1)
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 5: The View
Matlock realizes he has become a witness in a murder case involving two theater actors and an unhappy husband.
Episode 9: The Haunted (2)
Episode 4: The Diner
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 10: The Conspiracy
Matlock defends a lawyer accused of murdering an associate who'd accused him of botching a lawsuit involving toxic waster polluters.
Episode 3: The Fatal Seduction (2)
Episode 11: Matlock's Bad, Bad, Bad Dream
Matlock dreams that he, Leanne, Billy and Cliff are in 1932 and are involved with the murder of a sax player.
Episode 2: The Fatal Seduction (1)
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.
Episode 12: The Defendant
Leanne falls for Matlock's new client, a philanthropist accused of murdering his business partner.
Episode 1: The Play
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.
Episode 13: The Kidnapping (1)
Abductors tries to kidnap Leanne but takes Billy instead and hold him for ransom.