Matlock

Matlock è un dramma legale televisivo americano, interpretato da Andy Griffith nel ruolo del difensore penale Ben Matlock. Lo spettacolo, prodotto da The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions e Paramount Television è andato in onda originariamente dal 23 settembre 1986 all'8 maggio 1992 sulla NBC; e dal 5 novembre 1992 al 7 maggio 1995 su ABC. Il formato dello spettacolo è simile a quello di Perry Mason della CBS, con Matlock che identifica gli autori e poi li affronta in scene drammatiche in aula. Una differenza, tuttavia, era che mentre Mason di solito scagionava i suoi clienti in un'udienza preliminare, Matlock di solito si assicurava l'assoluzione al processo, dalla giuria.
Creato da: Dean Hargrove |
Genere: Dramma | Crime |

Numero di stagioni: 9
Numero di episodi: 194
Data prima messa in onda: 1986-03-03
Data ultima messa in onda: 1995-05-07

Approfondimenti

Randy Travis had a guest role of Billy Wheeler, who was a country singer that had been idolized [...] D
Conrad McMasters has dated and/or worked with a lot of women. D
In numerous episodes, Ben Matlock, the attorney is able to finger the real assailant during cro [...] D
On one of the episodes, the series revisited The Andy Griffith Show (1960) by recreating the kn [...] D
At the end of Matlock: The Blues Singer (1989) episode, Andy Griffith, Joe Seneca, and blues si [...] D
The Ben Matlock character was based on real life defense attorney Bobby Lee Cook, in Summervill [...] D
Only once, he got hit by a car (Matlock: The Model (1989)) when his mind was on a tough case. H [...] D
Whenever Ben became irritated with someone, he called them a "jackass". This was one of his fav [...] D
Launched the careers of Nancy Stafford, Clarence Gilyard Jr. & Daniel Roebuck. D
After starring in The Andy Griffith Show (1960)'s reunion movie, Return to Mayberry (1986), And [...] D
In a number of episodes whenever Matlock has to introduce a piece of additional evidence it's u [...] D
Beginning with Nancy Stafford's second season in 1988, she missed several episodes, due to her [...] D
His fee is $100,000, but told a client once that a pro bono case once in a while is good for th [...] D
Subverted in one episode. Matlock interviews a potential witness and gets her story, then calls [...] D
Matlock has a habit of speculating in nearly all of his cases rather than presenting the quanti [...] D
When production of the 4th season began, Clarence Gilyard Jr. did not appear in a few episodes, [...] D
The show's theme song was composed by DickDeBenedictis. D
Clarence Gilyard, Jr. and Daniel Roebuck, who played Matlock's private investigators, also appe [...] D
In 1997, two years after the end of the series, Andy Griffith reprised the role of Matlock on a [...] D
Kene Holiday was terminated after the third season, due to his ongoing battle with drugs and al [...] D
Matlock was like a surrogate father to Michelle and Conrad, as was Andy Griffith to Nancy Staff [...] D
After the series had ended for NBC, both Nancy Stafford and Clarence Gilyard Jr. had remained o [...] D
In Matlock: The Billionaire (1987), Trader Joe's (his favorite catalogue store) had a sale on h [...] D
Clarence Gilyard, Jr. and Daniel Roebuck were series regulars together for all of season seven, [...] D
Andy Griffith logged more years (just by one) as Matlock than his role on The Andy Griffith Sho [...] D
In a shocking and heartbreaking turn of events, the final season sees one of the recurring cast [...] D
Before Kene Holliday's termination from the series, in a 2-pt. episode, Cindy Morgan's characte [...] D
An episode of Matlock: The Captain (1989) that featured the killer revealed in the opening act, [...] D
Andy Griffith was living in Manteo, North Carolina, when cast for the show. For the first six s [...] D
When Matlock was in high school, he played baseball, and once hit a home run in the 9th inning. [...] D
Linda Purl (Charlene Matlock) departed the series despite its successful first season. Purl cla [...] D
In Matlock: The Thoroughbred (1989), Matlock defends a mentally retarded client named Tommy aft [...] D
Julie March is as cute as a button, perky as a poodle, and sweet as strawberries. But Ben regar [...] D
As production for the seventh season had relocated from Los Angeles, California to Wilmington, [...] D
According to Nancy Stafford, who played Michelle Thomas, she said in an interview, the courtroo [...] D
Viacom, which produced this series, also owned the rights to "The Andy Griffith Show" at the ti [...] D
While Daniel Roebuck made occasional appearances on the NBC version, he lost a ton of weight be [...] D
Along with Miami Vice (1984), this is another NBC show to feature music or singers play their m [...] D
The show concluded after nine seasons, because Andy Griffith wanted to spend more time with his [...] D
Dick Van Dyke made a guest appearance on the premiere episode, Season 1's "The Judge," where he [...] D
Besides Don Knotts, other former cast members of the The Andy Griffith Show (1960) to appear we [...] D
In Matlock: The Abduction (1992), two mobsters have famous names: Robert Drake (which is also t [...] D
Most of Andy Griffith's friends appeared on the show: Mitchell Ryan, Dick Van Dyke, R.G. Armstr [...] D
During the third season, Kene Holiday missed a total of seven episodes, because he was not only [...] D
Clarence Gilyard, Jr. appeared in almost every episode of the NBC edition of the show, after he [...] D
Each and every one of the episodes in the series exemplify this trope, in the definite article [...] D
Ben Matlock always loved hot dogs. Off-camera, Andy Griffith preferred to eat apples and peanut [...] D
At the end of every case, the person who was on the stand being questioned by Matlock was the a [...] D
Jean Speegle Howard, Ron Howard's mother, made a guest appearance on Season 1's "The Doctors," [...] D
When Andy Griffith had memorized the courtroom speeches, that was his secret. He was spouting o [...] D
The show premiered on Tuesday, September 23, 1986, on NBC at 8:00 PM EST/7:00 PM PST, and it st [...] D
Like his character on The Andy Griffith Show (1960), Ben Matlock was also a widower. D
After six seasons, the show's ratings had dropped. Incoming NBC entertainment president Warren [...] D
Clarence Gilyard Jr. would later work with Noble Willingham on Walker Texas Ranger (1993); thou [...] D
When Matlock was a widower, the subject of marriage actually minds him. Charlene only gave out [...] D
Though Matlock went on to win every case, he did lose three times. Each time the loss was corre [...] D
Various episodes where losing a case was a rarity for Matlock, but he has had the occasion to c [...] D
Andy Griffith was only fifty-nine years old when he first played Ben Matlock, despite numerous [...] D
Linda Purl left the show near the end of the first season after disputes about her character an [...] D
Off-camera, Andy Griffith had taught Clarence Gilyard how to be really funny. D
Anytime Matlock gets stab in the back, he will show them no mercy. He'll turn right around and [...] D
Undoubtedly, crooked lawyers are this to Matlock. While fairly cantankerous on occasion, Matloc [...] D
Leanne prefers to discard her footwear whenever she's at a beach or right next to one. Justifie [...] D
Billy Zane and Frances Fisher appeared on this show years before their respective roles as the [...] D
Long before Nancy Stafford, Clarence Gilyard Jr. and Daniel Roebuck joined the cast, respective [...] D
This show is similar to Perry Mason (1957). D
Although Charlene (Linda Purl) and Leanne (Brynn Thayer) were supposed to be sisters, no mentio [...] D
Nancy Stafford, Kari Lizer, Daniel Roebuck, and Brynn Thayer all had guest appearances on the s [...] D
In Matlock: The Court-Martial: Part 1 (1987) Matlock confides that he repeated the third grade [...] D
Clarence Gilyard Jr. later worked with one of Andy Griffith's lifelong friends R.G. Armstrong, [...] D
Bill Mumy, who played in two episodes of Night Gallery (1969), and on Lost in Space (1965), pla [...] D
Tyler Hudson was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army. D
Before being casted in the series, Kene Holiday was the only actor to have occasionally been an [...] D
In Matlock: The D.J. (1989), shock jock Arthur Saxon is accused of murdering his professional r [...] D
After an 18 year absence from starring in The Andy Griffith Show (1960), Andy Griffith took the [...] D
Andy Griffith was the first choice for the lead role of the show, after Brandon Tartikoff saw h [...] D
As opposed to Tyler, who was a stocktrader by profession and carried himself with something of [...] D
When Kene Holliday was arrested, in the middle of the third season, both Andy Griffith and the [...] D
When Matlock defends a client in a different court than his home turf in the season 4 opener, t [...] D
Andy Griffith initially did not like the character due to his vanity and cheapness. D
Julie March was from Nebraska, as was Julie Sommars, in real-life. D
Matlock played both the guitar and the banjo ukulele, in real-life, Andy Griffith also played b [...] D
In Matlock: The Power Brokers: Part 1 (1987), Matlock sang "Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia," bri [...] D
When Don Knotts was introduced in Season 3 of this show, there is an inside joke in (The Andy G [...] D
Andy Griffith was the only actor to appear in every episode of the series. D
Throughout the series' run, Les, Conrad, Cliff, Julie, and Matlock are the only main and/or rec [...] D
Betty Lynn played Ben's secretary, Sarah. Sarah was also the name of the never seen telephone o [...] D
Of the 100 guys who auditioned for Conrad McMasters, it was Andy Griffith's call to handpick Cl [...] D
As did his character on The Andy Griffith Show (1960), Matlock also drove a Ford automobile. D
In one of Linda Purl's absences, Kari Lizer's character had yearned to replace Ben's daughter, [...] D
The first long-running dramatic show ever to have an anthology-style, clip show featuring flash [...] D
Nancy Stafford chose to leave the series after season six. She had just gotten married, filming [...] D
In Matlock: The Blues Singer (1989), Matlock mistakenly says that Eddie Haynes is in the Smiths [...] D
Ben Matlock's middle name is Leighton. D
Matlock has a goddaughter named Laura Miller. D
In a couple of flashback episodes that looked at Ben's early career, Andy Griffith played Ben's [...] D
During production of the series, Andy Griffith occasionally feuded with one of the producers, D [...] D
Daniel Roebuck played three different roles on this show, before finally getting cast as Cliff [...] D
In Ben's final scene of the series, he takes a bow... and splits the seat of his pants. D
The first longest-running dramatic show ever to feature 4 Western-theme or Country-theme episod [...] D
While there is a young man on the run in the episode Matlock: The Fugitive (1989), it's Matlock [...] D

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Stagioni

NTitoloSoggettoData della prima messa in ondaNumero di episodi
1Stagione 1198624D
2Stagione 2198724D
3Stagione 3198820D
4Stagione 4198924D
5Stagione 5199022D
6Stagione 6199122D
7Stagione 7199218D
8Stagione 8199322D
9Stagione 9199418D