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 ).

Although the two had a professional rivalry-with Julie being a prosecutor and Matlock a defense lawyer-their relationship outside of court was very cordial and the two often spent time together outside of court.

Like Conrad McMasters, Jerri and Matlock had shared hobbies including singing.

In the 1992 – 93 season, following the move to ABC, most episodes had Griffith's voice saying " Next on Matlock ..." and classical-sounding music similar to the theme tune.

The early episodes had a scene of Ben Matlock in front of a brown screen ; in approximately 1987 this was changed to gray.

On 25 May 2010, it was announced Faces had officially reformed with Hucknall taking on vocal duties, and Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols on bass.

* 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 ..."

Although an earlier scene showing brief and distant full-frontal nudity appeared in the debut episode of Matlock Police in February 1971 while in Number 96 in late 1976 a bit-part nurse fleeing Dudley's bedroom had revealed a full frontal nude flash, this was the first time the nudity was shown front and centre in protracted scenes.

Before appearing on Neighbours, Smith had previously acted in guest roles in drama series such as the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police.

He also had guest appearances on ALF and Matlock.

By October 1977 Ure had left PVC2 to join former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock in The Rich Kids.

Also in 1846 the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway had been authorised, supported strongly by the M & BR and the Midland, joining the latter's line to London.

The Matlock College of Education, a traditional Church of England teacher training college formed in 1946 at Rockside Hall ( now a country hotel ), combined with Lonsdale in 1983 to create the Derbyshire College of Higher Education, when the Matlock College was having financial difficulties when funding for teacher training was scaled down when school numbers had dropped.

Seaforth Hayes had a number of featured roles on primetime television in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s including The Fugitive, at least two appearances on My Three Sons, plus episodes of Emergency !, Adam-12, the 1967-70 version of Dragnet, and Matlock, and was active in theater as a teenager, but is best known for her role as Julie Olson Williams on the soap opera Days of our Lives.

Some of the most popular series included Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4 which started during the 1960s and Matlock Police which began in 1971 ; variety series Young Talent Time ; comedy / variety series Hey Hey It's Saturday, which ran for 28 years until 1999, music show Countdown ; soap operas Bellbird which had started in late 1967, Number 96 and The Box, and the World War II-themed The Sullivans.

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.

At different times there were liberties based on Wirksworth, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Cromford, Brassington, Matlock, Elton, Middleton-by-Youlgreave, Bonsall, Hopton and Carsington, and from 1638 until 1654 there was a separate liberty for the Dovegang, on Cromford Moor which had become extremely productive after being drained by the first of the Derbyshire drainage schemes, or soughs.

In 1794 several groups of Wensley miners who had buddled mine waste in the river Derwent above and below Darley Bridge were brought to court, accused of polluting the river Witnesses described the river as being muddied as far down-river as a mile below Cromford Bridge, and a Matlock publican claimed to have been prevented from his usual practice of using river water for his brewing by the state of the Derwent.

One scheme that had been suggested would pass via Tansley, Matlock and Bakewell.

In 1802 the canal had carried over 150, 000 tons and by 1842 nearly 300, 000, then in 1849, the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway was built alongside as far as Ambergate, which reached Manchester in 1867.

The proposal also had a stated aim to extend to Matlock in the long term and this part of the plan has been taken on by Peak Cycle Links who have produced planning applications showing a cycle path following the trackbed as far south as Darley Dale.

By the middle of the 1860s, Matlock Bank, just over a mile away, had become popular with visitors coming to take the waters and although Holy Trinity church was large enough for local residents, it was not big enough to cope with additional visitors from Matlock Bank.

Although never officially confirmed, a widespread rumor suggests that the character of Ben Matlock was based largely on well-known Georgia attorney Bobby Lee Cook.

His works are now largely forgotten, but reference to him can be found in an early history of Alfreton held at the Derbyshire County Archives in Matlock, Derbyshire.

While the railway workers have largely disappeared, at the beginning of the 21st century, there is renewed public interest in rail, and Derbyshire County Council, among others, is keen to reduce traffic congestion on the A6 and in the Peak National Park. When goods traffic finished between Matlock and Rowsley, the line was taken over by the Peak Rail preservation group, who are campaigning for the link to be restored to Buxton.

After rebranding to become Derbyshire Wildlife Trust in 1986, the organisation became the focus of attention again the following year when it launched an appeal to raise £ 200, 000 to renovate the old railway station buildings at Matlock Bath and create the Whistlestop Countryside Centre, an education facility in the old railway station buildings at Matlock Bath.

It also said that going from Matlock to Bolsover is like going to a different country and claimed the Castle Estate is ' the land time forgot '.

The schedule consists of first run syndicated programs like Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, The Jeff Probst Show, and Dr. Phil, off-network syndicated programs like Cold Case Files, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Cash Cab and classic TV shows like Matlock, along with news rebroadcasts and a simulcast of The 69News AccuWeather Channel during the overnight hours.

Currently, KVOS airs most of its programming from the Me-TV schedule such as Cheers, M * A * S * H, Hawaii Five-O, The Beverly Hillbillies, Gunsmoke plus locally acquired classic programming like Matlock, The Andy Griffith Show and The A-Team.

The only really safe Conservative seat in Derbyshire, consisting mostly of rural villages and tourist towns like Bakewell and Matlock ; Labour's only strengths were in Wirksworth and Masson, not enough to end the long-standing Conservative representation of this seat.

Maggie Millar ( born 6 January 1941 ) is an Australian actress, who trained in England she has appeared in Pantomine and Theatre and is best known for her many TV appearances like Bellbird, Matlock Police, Homicide and A Country Practice.

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.

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.

The company would generate several hits including the Perry Mason TV movie series ( 1985 – 1994 ) Matlock ( 1986 – 1995 ), Jake and the Fatman ( 1987 – 1992 ) In the Heat of the Night ( 1988 – 1995 ) Father Dowling Mysteries ( 1987 – 1991 ), and Diagnosis: Murder ( 1993 – 2001 ).

One difference, however, was that whereas Mason usually exculpated his clients at a pretrial hearing, Matlock usually secured an acquittal at trial, from the jury.

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.

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 ).

Van Dyke later hired Griffith to reprise his Matlock role in a 1997 episode of his own CBS series Diagnosis: Murder, which completed a connection between Matlock and Diagnosis: Murder ( Jake and the Fatman, which was a spinoff of Matlock but aired on CBS instead of NBC, was the connecting series as Diagnosis: Murder was spun off from that ).

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.

In 1988, Taylor starred opposite Barbara Eden in the made for television movie, The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick, and guest starred on series including Diagnosis: Murder, Walker: Texas Ranger, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, and L. A. Law.

Matlock Music present a series of public concerts at Highfields School ( Upper Lumsdale site ).

* Peak Practice, the ITV series, used locations in Matlock, including Highfields School, Victoria Hall Gardens and Henry Avenue, although the main village location is Crich and nearby Fritchley.

Her other television credits include appearances on Nightingales, Baywatch, The Closer, Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, The Untouchables, Any Day Now, Without a Trace, The Lyon's Den, The Division, the U. S. version of Coupling, and the science fiction television series Seven Days.

Her television debut came in 1990 in a guest role in the 25 September, two-hour episode of the NBC television series Matlock, titled " Nowhere to Turn: A Matlock Mystery Movie ".

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.

His television credits include eight made-for-television movies including Blind Vengeance and Justice in a Small Town ; and the television series, American Gothic, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Cold Case, Matlock, The Lazarus Man, JAG, Walker, Texas Ranger, Criminal Minds, and Prison Break.

* Jake and the Fatman, Diagnosis: Murder and Matlock ( TV series ).

He also co-starred in a two-part episode of the courtroom series Matlock as Mr. Matlock's in-prison bodyguard.