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The Prisoner (Part 2)

Drama

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Nov 20, 1989

Matlock must protect his own life while he’s in prison trying to defend his client. Meanwhile, Conrad tries to unravel the prison murder plot from outside the walls.

Full Episodes

Season 4, 24 episodes

Ben Matlock gives his assistant, Michelle Thomas, her toughest courtroom assignment... breaking down the eyewitness testimony of a former law classmate in a brutal murder case.

46m Dec 4, 1989

The Best Seller,

District Attorney Julie March matches wits with tempestuous author Cynthia Slayton, whose torrid novels are suddenly eclipsed by facts surrounding the death of her best friend.

46m Oct 9, 1989

The Hunting Party (Part 1),

The serenity of historic Roanoke Island is shattered when a retired career soldier attempts to prove his late brother’s death was not a hunting accident, but murder.

46m Sep 18, 1989

The Hunting Party (Part 2),

Working with a young Deputy Sheriff, Conrad McMasters, Matlock begins to pick away at the pattern of cover-ups, exposing information about a money-laundering scheme, local corruption, and a tightly-knit group of drug dealers.

46m Sep 18, 1989

When Tony Morgan, a smooth-talking, seemingly perfect son, frames his mother for murder, no one even suspects his involvement. No one except Ben Matlock, who tries to prove the good boy isn’t so good after all.

46m Sep 25, 1989

Ben goes to Baltimore to help Julie defend her best friend's brother only to find that the prosecutor is Julie's ex-husband.

46m Oct 16, 1989

Matlock holds the last ray of hope for a veteran circus clown, Homer Fleming, accused of murdering his partner during a performance.

46m Oct 23, 1989

Ben Matlock uncovers plots within a plot when Noel Bishop, the wunderkind director of horror films, is accused of murdering motion picture star Catherine McKay as the cameras roll.

46m Oct 30, 1989

Ben Matlock has serious doubts about a code of ethics among con artists which is never supposed to include murder.

46m Nov 6, 1989

The Prisoner (Part 1),

Ben Matlock accepts the most dangerous case of his career when he agrees to defend an inmate accused of murder – before a kangaroo court in a riot-torn prison.

46m Nov 13, 1989

The Prisoner (Part 2),

Matlock must protect his own life while he’s in prison trying to defend his client. Meanwhile, Conrad tries to unravel the prison murder plot from outside the walls.

46m Nov 20, 1989

Ben Matlock is left with a lot of questions and no answers when his client, Drew Carey, bolts from the courtroom during a preliminary hearing for murder.

46m Nov 27, 1989

A deathbed letter from an old friend puts the life of Ben Matlock in peril when he feels morally obligated to reopen a murder case more than three decades old.

46m Dec 11, 1989

The senseless murder of a toy store owner not only clouds the Christmas spirit, but threatens an annual party and gifts of toys to local orphans.

46m Dec 18, 1989

A philandering college professor is murdered in his classroom and Marcy Hansen is the prime suspect, having announced her pregnancy in an argument before witnesses.

46m Jan 8, 1990

Ben Matlock and Michelle Thomas are exposed to a quick course in trash television when a vicious talk show host, Don Galloway, humiliates three prominent women to boost his ratings.

46m Jan 15, 1990

Ben Matlock is convinced that Alex Gordon, a paraplegic, murdered his wife and framed his business partner, Bret Howell, for the crime.

46m Jan 22, 1990

Ben Matlock is kidnapped and threatened by an unknown person, or persons, who may be seeking revenge for sending them to prison.

46m Feb 5, 1990

Ben Matlock discovers a hornet’s nest of intrigue, ruthless business tactics and plenty of hanky panky when he defends Dave Travis, the Bad Boy of professional tennis.

46m Feb 12, 1990

The Informer (Part 1),

Ben Matlock becomes involved in a mob blackmail scheme when he defends a famous criminal lawyer, David O’Malley, accused of murdering an underworld kingpin.

46m Feb 19, 1990

The Informer (Part 2),

Matlock must pull out all the stops to keep his client, David O’Malley, a famed criminal lawyer in his own right, in line, and the jury on his side. Meanwhile, Conrad races against time to track down an informer that will crack the case.

46m Feb 26, 1990

Julie March is terrified by a mysterious man following a lurid murder trial. Publicly threatened by the convicted man’s brother, Rick Biloit, Julie reluctantly accepts Ben Matlock’s offer to become his houseguest until she is out of harm’s way.

47m Mar 19, 1990

The Blackmailer,

Political cartoonist Ronald Winfield is murdered when he exposes a Senator’s infidelity through his comic strip.

46m Apr 30, 1990

The Cookie Monster,

Ben Matlock investigates when a friend, Bobby Neil, is accused of murdering a cookie queen who was out to crumble her competitors with a hostile takeover.

46m May 7, 1990