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Andy Griffith

Ben Matlock

Nancy Stafford

Michelle Thomas
(credit only)

Julie Sommars

Julie March
(credit only)

Clarence Gilyard Jr.

Conrad McMasters

Christina Pickles

Diana Huntington

Eric Christmas

Old Witness

Denice Duff

Lisa Sullivan

David Froman

Lt. Bob Brooks

Patricia Healy

Randi McGowan

Seth Isler

Karl Sheply

Reiner Schöne

Jack Huntington

Susan Walden

Carolyn Westlake

John Harkins

Richard 'Dick' Lerner

Don Knotts

Les Calhoun

Ken Gerson

John Resnick

Ramsay Midwood

Leon Rousseau

Cissy Wellman

Secretary

Casey Arrillaga

Coffee House Musician

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- Leo Penn
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Trivia
Various references to The Andy Griffith Show (1960) were included. -When Les Calhoun tells Andy he's getting married, Ben suggests they do a duet. Ben says he bets it'll make her cry. That's a nod to Charlene Darling's repeated line "That one makes me cry!" -Ben and Les exchange fist hits to the shoulder like in the opening to Citizen's Arrest (1963). -Les has some "big news. Big news. You'll never guess what it is." This references The Manhunt (1960).

Goofs
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Quotes
Ben Matlock: Diana is not the kind of woman that kills men; she just makes them wish they were dead.
Conrad McMasters: Right. And she could do the same thing to you.

The lawyer's cousin ( a disagreeable lady with a horrid temper) ask for his help after her husband leaves her for another woman, who happens to be a artist and cute. She threatens to shoot him, pours coffee over his head and screams at him ( and she's wondering why he left her!!). There's some good humour surrounding this, but of course mystery is around a photograph with the husband in the photo with his girlfriend. But he claims that's not him in the photo, and asks Matlock to investigate- a steadily-paced and entertaining part one ends with a murder.