
Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest. He and wife Maggie live in a trailer in the country while waiting for their new house to be built, and travel around in a beat-up old pickup truck. For a quiet rural area, Petrocelli seems to have no trouble running into his share of murderers to defend.




Hired to handle a woman's divorce, Petrocelli is retained as her defence in a murder trial.
Defending a country and western star accused of murder, Petrocelli is convinced of his innocence.
Petrocelli is convinced that a woman killed her husband in a fit of insanity.
Asked to represent the man accused of the murder of one of his friends, Petrocelli is faced with a moral dilemma.
The only witness who can help an accused arsonist-murderer mysteriously refuses to testify.
A spoiled heiress is accused of putting a grenade in her father's airplane to speed up her inheritance.
Petrocelli's client, an accused murderer, has a domineering father who won't let his son tell the truth about the crime.
Witnesses claim they saw Petrocelli's client at the scene of a murder, but she swears she was at home at the time.
After spending the night in the home of a beautiful woman, a young man awakens to find that she is dead, and he is accused of killing her.
Petrocelli defends a hitchhiker whose bloody clothes were found near the dead body of a woman who gave him a ride.
When a policeman is accused of murder, Petrocelli is drafted in to provide his defense.
A mentally disabled young man is found cradling the body of a woman who was raped and killed.
A college student shoots his lecturer.
Called upon to defend his schoolboy idol, boxer Frankie Copa, who has been charged with the murder of his manager, Petrocelli puts his life in jeopardy to establish his client's innocence.
A young mother is accused of snatching her own son.
Petrocelli takes on a deadly love tangle.
A man is accused of murdering a drug store owner.
Petrocelli finds himself helping a woman accused of murdering her evangelistic husband.
Did western old timer Clate Dobie kill his step-daughter's husband?
A youth of 17 is accused of murdering the slovenly nurse who took poor care of his ill grandfather.
Petrocelli's only hope of a defence comes from a cat burglar.
Rodeo clown Gage seems to have murdered a rival rodeo man. Surprisingly Gage doesn't want to appear innocent.
When a boyhood friend hits town, the Italian legal whizz is delighted to see him again - that is, until he becomes his next client, on a murder charge.
A jealous husband stands trial for the murder of a photographer for whom his wife posed.
A woman confesses to the murder of her first husband after her second husband is nabbed for the same crime.
An airline mechanic is charged with killing the executive who fired him.
A blind woman is accused of murdering a boy friend with whom she had violent arguments.
A father is accused of murdering his daughter's boy friend, a motorcycle-gang member.
A pizza parlor boss is murdered.
A woman is accused of murdering an author who was about to publish malicious information about her past.
A mysterious woman hires Petrocelli: to defend her twin sister against a murder charge.
A doctor is accused of murdering the hospital's chief of staff, who charged him with incompetence and fired him.
Can Petrocelli find his way through a vengeful murder case to the real motive?
Petrocelli defends a veteran of Hollywood Westerns accused of murdering a film producer.
A childhood friend of Petrocelli's asks for help when her husband is arrested for burglary.
An apprehensive man entrusts a sealed envelope to Maggie and then disappears.
A mock kidnapping becomes the real thing when the "victim" is wrested from his friendly captors by two men demanding a huge ransom.
A computer researcher asks Petrocelli to deliver a document to a colleague who meets a ghastly death before Petrocelli sees him.
Pete becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a hood who threatened to testify against Pete's girl friend.
An elderly hitchhiker is accused of murdering her son's employer.
Maggie's visiting uncle is accused of murdering a prostitute.
Petrocelli faces possible disbarment after a client accuses him of bribery.
A once-famous vaudeville star is accused of killing a club owner over a pay dispute.