Matlock also has conspicuously finicky fashion sense ; he generally appears in court wearing a trademark light gray suit and, over the series ' entire run, owned three generations of the Ford Crown Victoria – always an all-gray model ( Griffith's character had always driven Ford products in his 1960s series, The Andy Griffith Show ).

Toward the end of season one, Matlock also took on Cassie Phillips, a cocky young lawyer played by Kari Lizer, as an assistant.

The Matlock commercial screen also changed.

Executive producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove were responsible for both Matlock and Jake and the Fatman as well as Diagnosis: Murder, created by Joyce Burditt ( which itself was a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman ) in 1993, also on CBS ; Father Dowling Mysteries in 1988 on NBC, CBS, ABC ; and the 30 Perry Mason made-for-TV movies from 1985 until 1995 on NBC.

He soon convinced them to kick guitarist and songwriter Wally Nightingale out of the band and also introduced them to bassist Glen Matlock ( who worked in SEX ).

There are also regular, direct services to Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln, Bedford, Burton upon Trent, Leicester, Loughborough, Tamworth ( for WCML ), Newark ( Castle ), Luton, East Midlands Parkway ( for the Airport ), Birmingham ( New Street ) and Matlock.

A claim made by the Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, regarding how he thought it was bizarre that Matlock was " always washing his feet ", has also been misquoted and misinterpreted as the cause of Matlock's firing from the group.

In John Lydon's autobiography, Rotten: No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish, Lydon claimed that Matlock worked on later Sex Pistols material ( including their album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols ) as a paid session musician ( Jones played bass on all of the songs recorded after Matlock's departure, with Vicious also contributing to the song " Bodies ").

Matlock also played bass on the Iggy Pop album Soldier and the Damned album Not of This Earth.

Hall also has made guest appearances on Kojak, Miami Vice, Matlock, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Strong Medicine, 24, Sleeper Cell and Grey's Anatomy.

He also had guest appearances on ALF and Matlock.

Zane also appeared in an episode of Matlock entitled " The Nurse ".

Matlock is also home to the Derbyshire Dales District Council as well as Matlock Town council.

It is also the centre of the Matlock Victorian Christmas Weekend held annually on the first weekend of December.

Matlock is also home to Matlock Cricket Club who play their games next to the football ground, and Matlock and District Swimming Club ( also known as MAD Swimming ) who train and compete in the nearby Matlock Lido.

Matlock Rugby Club also has a thriving minis and junior section with over 250 members all supported by fully qualified mini and junior coaches.

Tyler would often go undercover for Matlock in various guises trying to gather information.

Pressman has often portrayed a doctor, such as in Mighty Joe Young, TV movies A Fighting Choice, Whose Daughter Is She ?, Murder Without Conviction, Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story, as well as in guest roles on Hawaii Five-O, Paper Moon, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Griff, Dawson's Creek, The Drew Carey Show, Providence, The Practice, Dangerous Minds, Law & Order, Matlock " Ghost Whisper " and Marcus Welby, M. D.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, North appeared in guest spots on Hawaii Five-O, The Streets of San Francisco, Matlock, Magnum, P. I., The Mary Tyler Moore Show — in which she played Lou Grant's girlfriend — and The Golden Girls, in which she played Blanche Devereaux's sister, Virginia, in two episodes.

The series was another police drama from Crawford Productions, but was different from their previous series-Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police-in that it focused on a single detective rather than an ensemble, and that the characters were not stock standard archetypes usually seen in police dramas.

Originally, the series premiered with Ben Matlock having a law practice with his daughter Charlene ( played originally by Lori Lethin in the pilot movie ; Linda Purl took over the role when the series went to air ).

To begin the season, Matlock went over to England to try a case and met Michelle Thomas, an American lawyer living in London played by Nancy Stafford, while doing so.

When his character was dismissed from the soap, Frakes moved to Los Angeles, California and played guest spots in many of the top television series of the 1970s and 1980s, including The Waltons, The Dukes of Hazzard, Matlock, and Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues.

* Clarence Gilyard Jr .-Actor who played in Matlock and Walker, Texas Ranger-born there 24 December 1955

Sid Vicious, the bassist who replaced Glen Matlock in the Sex Pistols, claimed he despised the Bromley Contingent, despite having played drums for the Banshees ' debut live appearance at the 100 Club Punk Festival in 1976.

Matlock later played bass with Vicious in the short lived band Vicious White Kids.

On 27 November 2011 The International Swingers, a band comprising Glen Matlock, Clem Burke ( of Blondie and Romantics ), James Stevenson ( Gene Loves Jezebel, Chelsea, The Alarm ), Gary Twinn ( Supernaut, Twenty Flight Rockers ), played a warmup gig in LA before a 10 date tour of Australia.

Gilyard is known for his roles as Ben Matlock's ( played by Andy Griffith ) second private investigator ( and right-hand man ) Conrad McMasters, on the 1980s legal drama series, Matlock: ( a role he played from 1989 to 1993 ); as Pastor Bruce Barnes in the Left Behind movie trilogy ; as Cordell Walker's ( played by Chuck Norris ) Texas Ranger partner, James " Jimmy " Trivette, on the 1990s crime drama, Walker, Texas Ranger, and as Lieutenant ( junior grade ) Marcus " Sundown " Williams in Top Gun.

Taylor also had a recurring part in the 2000 series City of Angels, and played a blues singer in a two-part episode of Matlock, a role that was written for him.

Chadwick made TV guest appearances on Magnum, P. I., The A-Team, and Matlock, and played Dr. Alice Davis on the short-lived television series, Going to Extremes.

From 1992 to 1995, he played Andy Griffith's assistant, final private investigator and right-hand man, Cliff Lewis, on the television drama Matlock, replacing Clarence Gilyard, during the 1993-94 season, and he also had a recurring role opposite Don Johnson's character as the corrupt officer, Insp.

The conceit of its title character, Benjamin Layton Matlock, was that he played an older, " country-boy " type Southern lawyer who nonetheless bamboozled " big city " or " sophisticated " lawyers in court and solved mysteries.

He also was in an episode of Matlock starring Andy Griffith, where he played a cop who was an old friend of Matlock.

She came to prominence in the 1980s as Ben Matlock's ( played by Andy Griffith ) law partner and friend, Michelle Thomas, on Matlock.

In an interview, Lucky Grills said it was after he played a guest role in an episode of Matlock Police someone thought of him for the role of Bluey.

He has previously played for Sheffield Wednesday, Notts County, York City, Gainsborough Trinity and Matlock Town.

The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason ( with both Matlock and the later Perry Mason TV movies in the 1980s created by Dean Hargrove ), with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dramatic courtroom scenes.

Usually, at the end of the case, the person who is on the stand being questioned by Matlock is the actual perpetrator.

Matlock blames Dr. Mark Sloan ( Dick Van Dyke ) for recommending a disastrous investment in 8-track cartridges, in which he lost his savings of $ 5, 000, while he survived by wearing cheap suits and living on hot dogs.

) Matlock hired a former North Carolina deputy sheriff, Conrad McMasters ( portrayed by Clarence Gilyard, Jr .) to be his new private eye.

Matlock had largely become, like Silverman and Hargrove's Perry Mason revival, a " movie-of-the-week " type series by its ninth season.

CBS Home Entertainment ( distributed by Paramount ) has released the first seven seasons of Matlock on DVD in Region 1.

The construction of Masson Mill in Matlock Bath began in 1783, instigated by Arkwright.

Pittsboro 175th Birthday MuseumThe town of Pittsboro was founded on December 9, 1834, by Simon T. Hadley and Wiliam L. Matlock.

Instrumental in the popularity of Buxton was the recommendation by Dr. Erasmus Darwin of the waters at Buxton and Matlock to Josiah Wedgwood I.

In the 2000 documentary The Filth and the Fury, the band members generally agree that there was tension between Matlock and Rotten, which Matlock suggests was exacerbated by Malcolm McLaren's attempts to pit the two men against each other.

Matlock was replaced by Sid Vicious, and went on to form The Rich Kids, a New Wave power pop band, with himself as bass guitarist and singer, Midge Ure ( guitarist, singer and keyboard player ), Steve New ( guitarist and singer ) and Rusty Egan ( drummer ).

* In The Matlock Paper by Robert Ludlum, James Barbour Matlock, the main character, is described as having attended Andover: " His education had been properly Eastern Establishment: Andover and Amherst ..."

* Dixieland USA ( 1996 Album by Matty Matlock )

is a 2010 British documentary film directed by Alan G. Parker that includes interviews from those associated with Vicious and Spungen, including Glen Matlock, Don Letts, John Holmstrom, and Howie Pyro, among others.

Todd Rundgren recorded a version of " Do Ya " with his group Utopia on their album Another Live, Cheap Trick recorded a version of " California Man " on their Heaven Tonight album, whilst Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols admitted that one of the guitar riffs on " God Save The Queen " was inspired by that on " Fire Brigade ".

In 1893, Matlock Cable Tramway, a cable tramway was built up Bank Road from Crown Square at Matlock Bridge to Wellington Street ( at the top of Bank Road ) with a stop halfway up at Smedley Street where Smedley's Hydro ( built by John Smedley ) was situated.