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Here we have a revisit of sorts with Julie coming back and wanting to know if Ben loves her before she marries another. She also returns to undue a conviction that was tainted by Police Detective Van Owen in the investigation of a hit and run death. Ben once again gets rolling on the case and starts to unravel the cover up of a murder. It's classic Andy Griffith when he gets Mr. Chaney on the stand questioning why he killed his wife which was to stop her from going to the police to say they were involved in the hit and run. The details are always interested in listening to as Madlock pins down the who the real murderer was. The episode reruns on Hallmark, so I won't ruin the ending for you.

I enjoyed this presentation very much, and gave it 8/10. My reason for posting a review, frankly, is to register my incredulity regarding the previous reviewer's post. I rarely criticize another reviewer's post, but this time I must do so. I will give him/her the benefit of the doubt, and assume he/she is blind and had his/her seeing-eye dog type his/her review for him/her.

Matlock ran even longer (by one season) than Griffith's early '60s smash hit "The Andy Griffith Show." That may have been because a TV series ran to 26-30 episodes per season, as opposed to the 39-40 episodes twenty years prior (albeit those were 30-minute shows, as opposed to Matlock's 60 minutes.) At any rate, Matlock logged 181 shows over nine seasons with the title character's name always spelled "Matlock." It boggles my mind that the reviewer - with all of that help - STILL manages to mis-spell his name as MADLOCK. Please, pay attention to details. I have a knee-jerk reaction both to stupidity and ignorance. To mis-spell a name once shows ignorance; to do so multiple times shows stupidity or sloth.

Back to the show in question - it's so nice to see Julie Sommars redux. She and Griffith seemed to show some smoldering chemistry between them in every show they shared.