Petrocelli
Petrocelli
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Petrocelli

He's real and his own man.

7.2 / 10 · 27 votes
1974
~54 min / ep
2 seasons
44 episodes
Drama

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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Seasons

  • The Golden Cage

    1.The Golden Cage

    11-09-1974

    A rich trophy wife gets accused of murder when she tries to leave her powerful controlling husband.

  • Music to Die By

    2.Music to Die By

    18-09-1974

    A singer hires Petrocelli to defend him when his career is jeopardized by a homicide accusation.

  • By Reason of Madness

    3.By Reason of Madness

    25-09-1974

    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...

  • Edge of Evil

    4.Edge of Evil

    02-10-1974

    The threatened revelation of damaging ecological information results in a murder that Petrocelli must solve.

  • A Life for a Life

    5.A Life for a Life

    09-10-1974

    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.

  • Death in High Places

    6.Death in High Places

    23-10-1974

    Petrocelli defends a spoiled heiress accused of planting a grenade in her father's airplane to speed up her inheritance.

  • Double Negative

    7.Double Negative

    30-10-1974

    Petrocelli unravels a murder mystery rooted in blackmail.

  • Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

    8.Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

    06-11-1974

    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.

  • An Act of Love

    9.An Act of Love

    13-11-1974

    Petrocelli defends a man accused of killing a woman with whom he spent the night in her home, waking to find her dead.

  • A Very Lonely Lady

    10.A Very Lonely Lady

    27-11-1974

    Petrocelli defends a hitchhiker accused of murdering a woman who had given him a ride and an amorous invitation.

  • Counterplay

    11.Counterplay

    04-12-1974

    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.

  • A Covenant with Evil

    12.A Covenant with Evil

    18-12-1974

    Petrocelli defends a man accused of murder after he is found cradling the body of a woman who was raped and killed.

  • The Sleep of Reason

    13.The Sleep of Reason

    15-01-1974

    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.

  • A Fallen Idol

    14.A Fallen Idol

    22-01-1974

    Petrocelli's high school idol, a boxer now over the hill, is accused of beating his new manager to death.

  • Once Upon a Victim

    15.Once Upon a Victim

    29-01-1974

    Petrocelli's client, a physician, is found with a scalpel in hand, standing over the body of the woman who founded his clinic.

  • The Kidnapping

    16.The Kidnapping

    05-02-1974

    Petrocelli defends a woman who kidnapped her son from her father-in-law.

  • A Lonely Victim

    17.A Lonely Victim

    19-02-1974

    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.

  • The Outsiders

    18.The Outsiders

    26-02-1974

    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.

  • Vengeance in White

    19.Vengeance in White

    05-03-1974

    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.

  • Four the Hard Way

    20.Four the Hard Way

    13-03-1974

    Three old codgers hire Petrocelli to defend the fourth member of their pinochle club, a man charged with killing his son-in-law.

  • Death in Small Doses

    21.Death in Small Doses

    27-03-1975

    Petrocelli defends a pharmacist accused of deliberately poisoning a customer.

  • A Night of Terror

    22.A Night of Terror

    02-04-1975

    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.

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