The Seduction

Plot
Matlock is hired to defend Brad Bingham, an aging football star with a reputation as a womanizer who was about to be cut from the team. Charlene is resistant to her father's choice, as she believes everything the tabloids have to say about Brad...not only that, but years earlier, he'd had a brief relationship with her friend Ellen Hawley, who had tried to kill herself after they broke up. As the case continues, Charlene realises that not everything that's printed in the papers is true and that maybe Ellen wasn't quite honest with her, even though a call girl (Caryn Nelson) hired to make Brad look guilty almost convinces her that he is.

Summary
Matlock defends Brad Bingham (John Beck), an aging football star with a reputation as a womanizer, for the murder of his girlfriend, the team's owner, who was about to eliminate him from the team. Ben's daughter, Charlene, is opposed to her father taking his case, as she believes everything the tabloids have to say about Brad. In addition, years ago, he had a short relationship with her friend, Ellen Hawley, who nearly committed suicide after they broke up. Brad asks Tyler to talk to Johnny Mack (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.), a bouncer in a bar. After Tyler gets jumped by him, flung onto a table, pushed right through the hall and into a room where he falls onto a box, Johnny finally reveals everything he knows to Tyler when they are in private. As the case proceeds, Charlene realizes that not everything that's printed in the papers is true, and maybe Ellen wasn't being honest with her. Caryn Nelson (Nancy Stafford, who plays Ben's assistant Michelle Thomas from 1987–1992), is a call girl who was hired to frame Brad for the murder by providing him with an alibi that she later denied.

Trivia

 * Nancy Stafford, who plays a call girl, would become a regular as Ben's associate Michelle Thomas.