The Tabloid (Matlock episode)

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The Tabloid is the 4th episode of season nine of the television show Matlock. See also: List of Matlock episodes.

"The Tabloid" Episode of Matlock
Episode #	Season 9, Episode 4
Matlock's Assistant	Cliff Lewis
Private Investigator	Jerri Stone
D.A.	Assistant D.A. (Michael Genevie)
Judge	Judge Edwards
Others	-
Accused	Carol Davis
Murdered	Ross Buckley
Real Killer	Chet Sellers
Guest star(s)	Tricia O'Neil    (Carol Davis) Ray McKinnon    (Wade Parsons) Salvatore Xuereb    (Chet Sellers)
Writer(s)	Anne Collins
Director	Christopher Hibler
Production №	9-4
US airdate	11 November 1987
Episode Chronology
The Dare	The Tabloid	The Coach

[edit] Plot synopsis

Matlock defends a senatorial candidate accused of murdering a tabloid paper editor. Senatorial candidate Carol Davis has a photo taken of her which embarrasses her, and when she confronts Ross Buckley, the editor-in-chief of the National Informer, she finds him dead. The murder weapon turns up at her house, and she is accused of his murder. The real killer was Chet Sellers, a photographer at the paper and a high school dropout, who discovered that Ross and Reverend Wesley Masters were conspiring together concerning a picture he had taken, and he killed him.

[edit] Cast

• Carol Davis - Tricia O'Neil
• Wade Parsons - Ray McKinnon
• Chet Sellers - Salvatore Xuereb
• Linda - Rhoda Griffis
• Ross Buckley - Michael Goodwin
• John Nash - Rob Treveiler
• Wheeler Harmon - Barry Bell
• ADA - Michael Genevie
• Miss Van Ness - Lisa Norman
• Reverend Wesley Masters - J. Don Ferguson
• Secretary - Tamara Burnham
• Photographer #2 - Deacon Dawson
• Heather Hartley - Cheryl Donaldson
• Staff Photographer - Chuck Kinlaw
• Judge Edwards - Terry Loughlin
• Doorman - Patt Noday

[edit] Production details

• Written by Anne Collins, directed by Christopher Hibler
• Story by Joel Steiger and Gerald Sanoff
• Music by Dick De Benedictis