Matlock (Seasons 1–9)

Matlock (1986) is the classic American courtroom mystery you can watch online on iFILM, built around Andy Griffith as Atlanta defense attorney Ben Matlock. He charges a fortune, wears the same light-gray suit to every trial, and almost never loses.

Griffith plays him as a folksy, penny-pinching old grump with a weakness for hot dogs and a mind like a trap. His clients are all charged with murder, and they're all innocent. So Matlock does the work himself: he digs through the overlooked clues that the police and the prosecution missed, tracks down whoever really did it, and breaks the case open with a confession wrung out on cross-examination. A team of younger investigators and junior lawyers backs him up.

The formula barely changes from episode to episode, yet it holds because of Griffith, who carried his goodwill straight over from The Andy Griffith Show and made the cantankerous Matlock a fixture for a whole generation. The series ran nine seasons and set the template for the cozy procedural. If you like solving the case alongside the lead instead of waiting for shock twists, this one fits. Stream every season of Matlock online on iFILM.