The third season of Matlock began airing on November 29, 1988 and ended on May 16, 1989.
Cast
Main
- Andy Griffith as Ben Matlock
- Nancy Stafford as Michelle Thomas
- Julie Sommars as ADA Julie March
- Kene Holiday as Tyler Hudson
Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 1 | "The Lemon" | November 29, 1988 |
| Matlock's neighbor Les sours Matlock's neighborliness by being accused of murdering a used-car salesman who sold him a lemon. | |||
| 49 | 2 | "The Ambassador: Part 1" | December 6, 1988 |
| Accused of murdering his lover's husband, a British ambassador chooses to forgo diplomatic immunity and hires Matlock to solve the case. | |||
| 50 | 3 | "The Ambassador: Part 2" | December 13, 1988 |
| After a failed murder attempt on the ambassador and Matlock, Matlock goes to find the only witness to the original crime—his client's accuser | |||
| 51 | 4 | "The Mistress" | December 20, 1988 |
| Matlock and Julie head for the hills in pursuit of a material witness in the case of a woman accused of shooting her husband. | |||
| 52 | 5 | "The D.J." | January 3, 1989 |
| Matlock agrees to try to keep Michelle's caustic deejay friend from facing the music when he's accused of canceling a rival's show—permanently. | |||
| 53 | 6 | "The Captain" | January 10, 1989 |
| Matlock does the investigating when his friend, a burned-out police captain, constructs an elaborate frame to escape a young cop's accusation of murder. | |||
| 54 | 7 | "The Vendetta" | January 17, 1989 |
| A distraught man takes three of Matlock's friends hostage, and they try to dissuade the gunman from violence with tales of Matlock's cunning detective work and courtroom prowess. | |||
| 55 | 8 | "The Mayor: Part 1" | January 31, 1989 |
| Matlock blows into the Windy City when he's hired by a reporter to defend a '60s radical accused of assassinating Chicago's mayor. | |||
| 56 | 9 | "The Mayor: Part 2" | February 7, 1989 |
| O'Neill tracks the mayor's killer to Texas while Matlock uncovers the motive—a dirty real-estate deal involving a respected judge. | |||
| 57 | 10 | "The Black Widow" | February 14, 1989 |
| Matlock gets another shot at a case when a recently paroled client is again accused of murdering his wife after she turns up alive and rich. | |||
| 58 | 11 | "The Other Woman" | February 21, 1989 |
| Matlock analyzes the case of a psychiatrist accused of murdering the abusive husband of an emotionally disturbed patient, whose missing diary may hold the key. | |||
| 59 | 12 | "The Starlet" | February 28, 1989 |
| An old flame asks Matlock to represent her daughter, a talent-show contestant who's been accused of murdering the blackmailer who came in second. | |||
| 60 | 13 | "The Psychic" | March 7, 1989 |
| Matlock doesn't have to be psychic to know he'll defend the clairvoyant who claimed she'd be arrested for a murder before the crime took place. | |||
| 61 | 14 | "The Thief: Part 1" | March 28, 1989 |
| A coin dealer hires Matlock when he's accused of murder, and Tyler puts in his two cents when Matlock lets another PI in on the case. | |||
| 62 | 15 | "The Thief: Part 2" | April 4, 1989 |
| Tyler and Matlock suspect Linda is being blackmailed by the killer. | |||
| 63 | 16 | "The Thoroughbred" | April 18, 1989 |
| Matlock defends a stablehand accused of murdering the manager of a Thoroughbred farm. | |||
| 64 | 17 | "The Model" | April 25, 1989 |
| Matlock divines the solution to a murder, but forgets it after being hit by a car, and must reconstruct his thoughts from witnesses' statements. | |||
| 65 | 18 | "The Cult" | May 2, 1989 |
| Matlock believes in the innocence of a man whose brainwashed son insists he saw his father kill the leader of his cult. | |||
| 66 | 19 | "The Blues Singer" | May 9, 1989 |
| A legendary blues guitarist is charged with the murder of a rock star who promised to write him a hit song. | |||
| 67 | 20 | "The Priest" | May 16, 1989 |
| A lawyer friend puts his faith in Matlock when his client is accused of killing a Catholic priest. | |||