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Thomas is an attorney working with Ben Matlock. Sommars is the only actress to appear in fewer episodes. The two lawyers soon become friends, though their relationship is never really defined much further than that, and upon Julie's return in the season nine episode "The Confession", she reveals that she has feelings for him. After a chance meeting with Ben Matlock in an elevator, the two hit it off, and Matlock was surprised to learn that she would be the prosecutor for the case he was working on. of Atlanta, and a good friend of Ben Matlock.

In the Season 9 episode, The Accused, it's implied that Leanne may now be living in Los Angeles. Leanne uses the same courtroom techniques her father at times, which often results in her clients being proven innocent. They once found themselves on opposite sides of a divorce case, though she also defends her father in a personal injury case simultaneously during the same episode. During that time, she works with her father on numerous cases, including defending him on one occasion. She assists her father for three years before leaving for her own practice. After divorcing her husband, of whom her father did not much approve, she moves back to Atlanta to help him with his legal practice. It's explained later in Season 1 that Charlene moved to Philadelphia and started her own firm there.

Purl replaced Lori Lethin who appeared as Charlene in the pilot "Diary of a Perfect Murder". She assists her father at his law practice in Atlanta for a short time, appearing only in the first season of the series. Andy Griffith appeared in every episode of the series.Ĭharlene is Ben's daughter and is also a lawyer. Despite his high fees and apparent wealth, he is something of a cheapskate. Matlock also has conspicuously finicky fashion sense (wearing nothing but grey suits) and an insatiable appetite for hot dogs (an explanation for this is featured in the Diagnosis: Murder cross-over double episode "Murder Two", which also marked the last appearance of Matlock on television). He is known for visiting crime scenes to discover overlooked clues, as well as his down-home style of coming up with viable, alternative theories of the crime in question (usually murder) while sitting in his office playing the banjo or polishing his shoes. Benjamin Leighton "Ben" Matlock is a renowned, folksy yet cantankerous defense attorney who charges a fee of $100,000 to take a case.