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A [[Long Runner|long-running]] [[Courtroom Drama]] about old Southern defense attorney Ben Matlock, played by Andy Griffith. Both a series that ran for many years and a short series of [[Made for TV Movie|Made for TV Movies]].
[[Matlock]] is a [[Simple Country Lawyer|folksy]] [[Good Ol' Boy|Southerner]] with a moral code from before [[The Sixties]] and a sense of justice. (One episode has him reveal that he grew up [[The Andy Griffith Show|in a North Carolina town that no longer exists]].) He currently practices law in Atlanta, Georgia, which in the time this series was running was one of the least Southern places in [[The Deep South]]. He defends his clients with help from a private detective friend, [[Courtroom Antic|Courtroom Antics]] (done folksily), and finding out who actually did it. (In one movie, Matlock actually kept the case going until he found out who did the murder, even though his client was actually cleared and the prosecutor ready to drop the case.)
Structurally, this series is very like ''[[Perry Mason]]''. Ironically, ''Matlock''{{'}}s creator, Dean Hargrove, and his production partner, Fred Silverman (the same man who, at various times, worked as a programming chief for all three major television networks ABC, CBS, and NBC) produced a string of ''Perry Mason'' made-for-TV movies around the same time. But there is a big difference between Mason and Matlock. Perry Mason (based in Los Angeles) is always intense and menacing by nature; Matlock is old-fashioned, folksy and grandfatherly, which actually makes it scarier when he gets into haranguing Courtroom Antic mode.
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: Happened more often than not, whether it was a mobster, blackmailer, or just a jerkass, they tended to be the victims. Not that that always happened, it was sometimes a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or a guy that, due more to his position than his personality, simply had enemies.
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Tyler Hudson and [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|younger but just as effective]] Conrad McMasters. Both investigators who did dangerous, athletic legwork in a show full of white lawyers who were much less athletic but still managed to walk into stupid situations.
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: This is often the way Matlock finds the truth.
* [[Simple Country Lawyer]]: Matlock
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** [[Spiritual Successor]]: To the same show. This show is essentially what happened when Sheriff Andy Taylor decided to leave Mayberry and move onto bigger and better things.
*** Arguably, to [[Perry Mason]] as well
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