Matlock goes the distance to help a heavyweight boxing champ accused of killing a sports reporter.Matlock goes the distance to help a heavyweight boxing champ accused of killing a sports reporter.Matlock goes the distance to help a heavyweight boxing champ accused of killing a sports reporter.
Julie Sommars
- Julie March
- (credit only)
Richard Bakalyan
- Mickey Callahan
- (as Dick Bakalyan)
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- TriviaBen and Les give a nod to Andy the Marriage Counselor (1961) when simulating a boxing move and karate move.
- GoofsWhen Ben is interviewing the boxer, inside an interrogation room at the police station, the boxer gets angry and starts wrecking the room. Ben jumps up, opens the door, and leaves out of the room. Normally an interrogation room would be locked from the outside, when a suspect is inside, requiring a guard to open.
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The bungalow chair murder; the bloviator....
One of my more-favorites episodes of this iconaclayst television series. It has all the makings, in my opinion, of an at-length made-for-tv film, Ben Matlock takes on a near-anger-overloaded client, a professional boxer who's hands are registered as lethal weapons, accused of murder and it turns out, over the protection of a devistating to her secret if it ever was revealed, his wife is running around on him and went so far as to commit murder just to keep up secrets and appearances because she loved the lavish lifestyle her boxer husband heaped upon her. And then there's the classic comedy duo of Andy Griffith and Don Knots, God rest their souls, and their near-brief omages to their work on The Andy Griffith Show. How all around them who worked on The Matlock tv series kept straight faces and took cues and direction without rolling on the floor I'll NEVER EVER KNOW! It was as if those two never missed a beat whenever they got together, even as Ben Matlock and Lester the Next Door Neighbor! Les bloviated, as Barney Fife did so infamously on TAGS, so well and Ben played off in that 'you poor soul you' / 'you beat everything you know that' sorta way from the boxing scene/punched me in the nose from TAGS to the karate kid attack me with "a knife" from TAGS as well. The Fighter has all the makings of a can't miss episode of Matlock! Must-see-tv!
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- Mar 17, 2021
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