A couple of months ahead of the premiere of “Matlock” on CBS, I went back and revisited episodes of the original legal drama starring Andy Griffith. It ran from 1986 to 1995 and its case-of-the-week ...
They only made a pilot, ’cause they haven’t been able to make any other episodes thanks to this year’s Hollywood strikes, but doggone it -- Kathy Bates in the folksy title role of CBS’s new “Matlock” ...