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	Jerri Stone
Private Investigator	Tyler Hudson
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	10 November 1994
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.