The BEST episodes of Matlock season 8
Every episode of Matlock season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Matlock season 8!
Ben Matlock is a very expensive criminal defense attorney who charges $100,000 to take a case. Fortunately, he's worth every penny as he and his associates defend his clients by finding the real killer.
#1 - The Temptation
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/27/1994
A thug tries to make Leanne fall in love with him by using her journal that he stole from her house.
#2 - The Kidnapping (1)
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1994
Abductors try to kidnap Leanne but take Billy instead and hold him for ransom.
#3 - The P.I.
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/3/1994
A P.I.'s daughter shoots some photos that get the wrong man accused of murder.
#4 - The Kidnapping (2)
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1994
The FBI agent who was in charge of Billy's kidnapping case is now accused of killing another agent.
#5 - Brennen
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/1994
Ben vies with a formidable D.A. while defending a client accused of killing a city councilwoman, and discovers a secret hiding in the D.A.'s past that is affecting his judgment in this case.
#6 - The Idol (1)
Season 8 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/19/1994
A lawyer who is a fan of Matlock's is accused of murdering a blackmailing P.I.
#7 - The Capital Offense
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1993
Matlock continues his five-year struggle to save a con artist from the electric chair.
#8 - The Diner
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1993
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.
#9 - The Fatal Seduction (1)
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1993
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.
#10 - The Fatal Seduction (2)
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1993
Matlock and Leanne are convinced that Carrie and Ashley are guilty of not only extortion but murder as well, but the two girls seem to have perfect alibis.
#11 - The View
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1993
Matlock realizes he has become a witness in a murder case involving two theater actors and an unhappy husband.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - The Last Laugh
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1993
A comedian becomes accused of murdering another comic who had insulted him on stage.
#13 - The Conspiracy
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1993
Matlock defends a lawyer accused of murdering an associate who'd accused him of botching a lawsuit involving toxic waster polluters.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - The Murder Game
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1994
Matlock reluctantly agrees to spend the weekend as part of a murder mystery with Cliff, Leanne, and three people who each paid $10,000 for the privilege of matching wits with Ben Matlock. When the pretend victim turns up really dead, they know that one of the three paying visitors killed him. Leanne has her father keep the three suspects occupied with stories of previous cases while she and Cliff investigate.
#15 - The Godfather
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/1994
Matlock reluctantly agrees to host a reception for his goddaughter's wedding at Leanne's prompting, but when one of the best men is murdered after the bachelor party, Matlock agrees to defend the brother of the bride when he is accused of murder. The case is hindered by cheating lovers, a bad history between the victim and the accused, and an increasing number of houseguests at Matlock's home, none of which were invited.
#16 - Matlock's Bad, Bad, Bad Dream
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1993
Matlock dreams that he, Leanne, Billy and Cliff are in 1932 and are involved with the murder of a sax player.
#17 - The Defendant
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1993
Leanne falls for Matlock's new client, a philanthropist accused of murdering his business partner.
#18 - The Haunted (1)
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1993
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.
#19 - The Play
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1993
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.
#20 - The Crook
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1994
A thief is accused of murdering the man who closed the book on his thefts.