Petrocelli (1974)

Name: Petrocelli
Rating: 7.2

Rating: 7.2

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.

First Air Date: 1974-09-11

Last Air Date: 1976-03-24

Number of Seasons: 2

Number of Episodes: 44

Created By: Sidney J. Furie

Networks: NBC

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Top Cast

Barry Newman as Anthony J. Petrocelli
Albert Salmi as Pete Ritter
David Huddleston as Lieutenant Ponce
Susan Howard as Maggie Petrocelli
Don Starr as N/A
Fred Stromsoe as Sheriff
Lucille Benson as Lucille Field
Harold Gould as Haskell Fox
Jonathan Goldsmith as Dr. Gil Clayton
John Henry Cox as N/A

Seasons

None (1974)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: The Golden Cage (1974-09-11)

A rich trophy wife gets accused of murder when she tries to leave her powerful controlling husband.
Ep. 2: Music to Die By (1974-09-18)

A singer hires Petrocelli to defend him when his career is jeopardized by a homicide accusation.
Ep. 3: By Reason of Madness (1974-09-25)

Petrocelli defends a wife accused of killing her husband. She knows she killed him but says she didn't know she was doing it. Petrocelli soon realizes she was mentally ill and has to prove her not guilty by reason of insanity.
Ep. 4: Edge of Evil (1974-10-02)

The threatened revelation of damaging ecological information results in a murder that Petrocelli must solve.
Ep. 5: A Life for a Life (1974-10-09)

Petrocelli's defense of a young transient accused of arson and murder is complicated when the only witness who could help the accused refuses to testify.
Ep. 6: Death in High Places (1974-10-23)

Petrocelli defends a spoiled heiress accused of planting a grenade in her father's airplane to speed up her inheritance.
Ep. 7: Double Negative (1974-10-30)

Petrocelli unravels a murder mystery rooted in blackmail.
Ep. 8: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall (1974-11-06)

Although witnesses swear they saw her leave a murder victim's apartment minutes after shots were fired, Petrocelli's client insists she was at home at the time of the crime.
Ep. 9: An Act of Love (1974-11-13)

Petrocelli defends a man accused of killing a woman with whom he spent the night in her home, waking to find her dead.
Ep. 10: A Very Lonely Lady (1974-11-27)

Petrocelli defends a hitchhiker accused of murdering a woman who had given him a ride and an amorous invitation.
Ep. 11: Counterplay (1974-12-04)

Petrocelli's client, a cop, claims he didn't kill his wife's lover, even though he was found over the body with a service revolver.
Ep. 12: A Covenant with Evil (1974-12-18)

Petrocelli defends a man accused of murder after he is found cradling the body of a woman who was raped and killed.
Ep. 13: The Sleep of Reason (1974-01-15)

An argument over hypnosis theory leads to the murder of a professor and Petrocelli's client, a teaching assistant accused of the crime, can't recall the shooting.
Ep. 14: A Fallen Idol (1974-01-22)

Petrocelli's high school idol, a boxer now over the hill, is accused of beating his new manager to death.
Ep. 15: Once Upon a Victim (1974-01-29)

Petrocelli's client, a physician, is found with a scalpel in hand, standing over the body of the woman who founded his clinic.
Ep. 16: The Kidnapping (1974-02-05)

Petrocelli defends a woman who kidnapped her son from her father-in-law.
Ep. 17: A Lonely Victim (1974-02-19)

A romantic triangle comes to a violent end when Petrocelli's client, a divorcee, is found kneeling over the body of her married boss with a fireplace poker in her hand.
Ep. 18: The Outsiders (1974-02-26)

Petrocelli defends a penniless young crop picker who was captured fleeing a drugstore where he inadvertently left his fingerprints on a pair of scissors used to stab the owner.
Ep. 19: Vengeance in White (1974-03-05)

Petrocelli defends an evangelist's wife, who is accused of killing the mercenary manager who had been working her husband to the point of collapse.
Ep. 20: Four the Hard Way (1974-03-13)

Three old codgers hire Petrocelli to defend the fourth member of their pinochle club, a man charged with killing his son-in-law.
Ep. 21: Death in Small Doses (1975-03-27)

Petrocelli defends a pharmacist accused of deliberately poisoning a customer.
Ep. 22: A Night of Terror (1975-04-02)

Petrocelli defends a woman who, after being knocked unconscious in a fight with her boyfriend, awakened to find him dead and the murder gun in her hand.