Richard Newton

MATLOCKT1, E3

The Judge

Judge Carter Addison murders his cheating mistress and frames her lover. Then the judge presides over the man's trial with Ben Matlock as the defense counsel.
MATLOCKT1, E11

The Angel

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.
MATLOCKT1, E12

The Professor

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.
MATLOCKT1, E14

The Chef

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.
MATLOCKT1, E15

The Author

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.
MATLOCKT1, E13

Santa Claus

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.

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