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A woman's son who resents that his mom has a new husband and doesn't hide it. Her husband feeling that her son needs to be straightened out, wants to send him to a military school. But when he refuses, her husband tells him that unless he goes, his mother is going to know what he has been doing. So he kills him. Eventually his mother is arrested and Ben defends her.

When talking to Tony, Matlock mentions that he knew someone who pronounced kleptomaniac as kleptomenerac. That person was Don Knotts as Andy Griffith's deputy on The Andy Griffith Show (1960). Don Knotts also appeared in 'Matlock'.

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    • Author: Hi_Jacker
    The guest role of the teenage son is supposed to be in his senior year of high school or possibly the late part of his 11th grade year (a junior). The actor who was cast looked to me to be 30+ years of age. Because I was curious, I looked this episode up in imdb. I looked at its broadcast date (1989) and the birth year of that young actor (1970). So my visual impression was wrong -- it was an actor who was in fact younger than age 20 but he looks a decade too old for this part. It should have been an actor who looked much younger than Brian Bloom at that time, or at the very least, his wardrobe should have been styled MUCH younger. He was chronologically close in age to this role, but in appearance, Bloom looked a decade or more wrong for it. A good actor, though!
  • Episode cast overview, first billed only:
    Andy Griffith Andy Griffith - Ben Matlock
    Nancy Stafford Nancy Stafford - Michelle Thomas
    Julie Sommars Julie Sommars - Julie March (credit only)
    Clarence Gilyard Jr. Clarence Gilyard Jr. - Conrad McMasters (credit only)
    Jennifer Bassey Jennifer Bassey - Evie Malone
    Leslie Bevis Leslie Bevis - Bonnie Ritter
    Brian Bloom Brian Bloom - Tony Morgen
    John Calvin John Calvin - Cal Ritter
    David Froman David Froman - Lt. Bob Brooks
    Lee Kessler Lee Kessler - Assistant D.A.
    Norma Donaldson Norma Donaldson - Shirley Taylor
    Richard Newton Richard Newton - Judge Richard Cooksey
    Charles Walker Charles Walker - Harry
    Susan Bjurman Susan Bjurman - Partygoer #1
    Sheldon Kurtz Sheldon Kurtz - Clerk
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