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Petrocelli

Wed, Sep 11, 1974
  • Drama
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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

Top of the call sheet

  • Barry Newman
    Barry Newman
    as Anthony J. Petrocelli
  • Albert Salmi
    Albert Salmi
    as Pete Ritter
  • David Huddleston
    David Huddleston
    as Lieutenant Ponce
  • Susan Howard
    Susan Howard
    as Maggie Petrocelli
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Episodes

2 seasons · 44 episodes

Ended · 44 aired
Season 1
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Golden Cage
    Aired · Wed, Sep 11, 1974 · 60m

    Hired to handle a woman's divorce, Petrocelli is retained as her defence in a murder trial.

  • E2
    Music to Die By
    Aired · Wed, Sep 18, 1974 · 60m

    Defending a country and western star accused of murder, Petrocelli is convinced of his innocence.

  • E3
    By Reason of Madness
    Aired · Wed, Sep 25, 1974 · 60m

    Petrocelli is convinced that a woman killed her husband in a fit of insanity.

  • E4
    Edge of Evil
    Aired · Wed, Oct 2, 1974 · 60m

    Asked to represent the man accused of the murder of one of his friends, Petrocelli is faced with a moral dilemma.

  • E5
    A Life for a Life
    Aired · Wed, Oct 9, 1974 · 60m

    The only witness who can help an accused arsonist-murderer mysteriously refuses to testify.

  • E6
    Death in High Places
    Aired · Wed, Oct 23, 1974 · 60m

    A spoiled heiress is accused of putting a grenade in her father's airplane to speed up her inheritance.

  • E7
    The Double Negative
    Aired · Wed, Oct 30, 1974 · 60m

    Petrocelli's client, an accused murderer, has a domineering father who won't let his son tell the truth about the crime.

  • E8
    Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
    Aired · Wed, Nov 6, 1974 · 60m

    Witnesses claim they saw Petrocelli's client at the scene of a murder, but she swears she was at home at the time.

  • E9
    An Act of Love
    Aired · Wed, Nov 13, 1974 · 60m

    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.

  • E10
    A Very Lonely Lady
    Aired · Wed, Nov 27, 1974 · 60m

    Petrocelli defends a hitchhiker whose bloody clothes were found near the dead body of a woman who gave him a ride.

  • E11
    Counterploy
    Aired · Wed, Dec 4, 1974 · 60m

    When a policeman is accused of murder, Petrocelli is drafted in to provide his defense.

  • E12
    A Covenant with Evil
    Aired · Wed, Dec 18, 1974 · 60m

    A mentally disabled young man is found cradling the body of a woman who was raped and killed.

  • E13
    The Sleep of Reason
    Aired · Wed, Jan 15, 1975 · 60m

    A college student shoots his lecturer.

  • E14
    A Fallen Idol
    Aired · Wed, Jan 22, 1975 · 60m

    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.

  • E15
    Once Upon a Victim
    Aired · Wed, Jan 29, 1975 · 60m
  • E16
    The Kidnapping
    Aired · Wed, Feb 5, 1975 · 60m

    A young mother is accused of snatching her own son.

  • E17
    A Lonely Victim
    Aired · Wed, Feb 19, 1975 · 60m

    Petrocelli takes on a deadly love tangle.

  • E18
    The Outsiders
    Aired · Wed, Feb 26, 1975 · 60m

    A man is accused of murdering a drug store owner.

  • E19
    Vengeance in White
    Aired · Wed, Mar 5, 1975 · 60m

    Petrocelli finds himself helping a woman accused of murdering her evangelistic husband.

  • E20
    Four the Hard Way
    Aired · Wed, Mar 12, 1975 · 60m

    Did western old timer Clate Dobie kill his step-daughter's husband?

  • E21
    Death in Small Doses
    Aired · Wed, Mar 26, 1975 · 60m

    A youth of 17 is accused of murdering the slovenly nurse who took poor care of his ill grandfather.

  • E22
    A Night of Terror
    Aired · Wed, Apr 2, 1975 · 60m

    Petrocelli's only hope of a defence comes from a cat burglar.

Season 2
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Death Ride
    Aired · Wed, Sep 10, 1975 · 60m

    Rodeo clown Gage seems to have murdered a rival rodeo man. Surprisingly Gage doesn't want to appear innocent.

  • E2
    Mark of Cain
    Aired · Wed, Sep 17, 1975 · 60m

    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.

  • E3
    Five Yards of Trouble
    Aired · Wed, Sep 24, 1975 · 60m

    A jealous husband stands trial for the murder of a photographer for whom his wife posed.

  • E4
    Shadow of Fear
    Aired · Wed, Oct 1, 1975 · 60m

    A woman confesses to the murder of her first husband after her second husband is nabbed for the same crime.

  • E5
    Chain of Command
    Aired · Wed, Oct 8, 1975 · 60m

    An airline mechanic is charged with killing the executive who fired him.

  • E6
    To See No Evil
    Aired · Wed, Oct 29, 1975 · 60m

    A blind woman is accused of murdering a boy friend with whom she had violent arguments.

  • E7
    Terror on Wheels
    Aired · Wed, Nov 5, 1975 · 60m

    A father is accused of murdering his daughter's boy friend, a motorcycle-gang member.

  • E8
    The Gamblers
    Aired · Wed, Nov 12, 1975 · 60m

    A pizza parlor boss is murdered.

  • E9
    Terror by the Book
    Aired · Wed, Dec 10, 1975 · 60m

    A woman is accused of murdering an author who was about to publish malicious information about her past.

  • E10
    Face of Evil
    Aired · Wed, Dec 17, 1975 · 60m

    A mysterious woman hires Petrocelli: to defend her twin sister against a murder charge.

  • E11
    Too Many Alibis
    Aired · Wed, Dec 24, 1975 · 60m

    A doctor is accused of murdering the hospital's chief of staff, who charged him with incompetence and fired him.

  • E12
    A Deadly Vow
    Aired · Wed, Dec 31, 1975 · 60m

    Can Petrocelli find his way through a vengeful murder case to the real motive?

  • E13
    The Falling Star
    Aired · Wed, Jan 21, 1976 · 60m

    Petrocelli defends a veteran of Hollywood Westerns accused of murdering a film producer.

  • E14
    Survival
    Aired · Wed, Jan 28, 1976 · 60m

    A childhood friend of Petrocelli's asks for help when her husband is arrested for burglary.

  • E15
    The Night Visitor
    Aired · Wed, Feb 4, 1976 · 60m

    An apprehensive man entrusts a sealed envelope to Maggie and then disappears.

  • E16
    Blood Money
    Aired · Wed, Feb 11, 1976 · 60m

    A mock kidnapping becomes the real thing when the "victim" is wrested from his friendly captors by two men demanding a huge ransom.

  • E17
    Any Number Can Die
    Aired · Wed, Feb 18, 1976 · 60m

    A computer researcher asks Petrocelli to deliver a document to a colleague who meets a ghastly death before Petrocelli sees him.

  • E18
    Six Strings of Guilt
    Aired · Wed, Feb 25, 1976 · 60m

    Pete becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a hood who threatened to testify against Pete's girl friend.

  • E19
    Deadly Journey
    Aired · Wed, Mar 3, 1976 · 60m

    An elderly hitchhiker is accused of murdering her son's employer.

  • E20
    The Pay-Off
    Aired · Wed, Mar 10, 1976 · 60m

    Maggie's visiting uncle is accused of murdering a prostitute.

  • E21
    Shadow of a Doubt
    Aired · Wed, Mar 17, 1976 · 60m

    Petrocelli faces possible disbarment after a client accuses him of bribery.

  • E22
    Jubilee Jones
    Aired · Wed, Mar 24, 1976 · 60m

    A once-famous vaudeville star is accused of killing a club owner over a pay dispute.