Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974 to March 31, 1976. 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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An aging former vaudeville star is arrested for killing a night club manager in a dispute over payment.
Retained to defend a man from a murder charge, Petrocelli faces the possible loss of his license after he is accused of bribing a witness.
Tony must defend Maggie's visiting Uncle Roy, who has been accused of the murder of a prostitute.
Petrocelli and Ritter offer a lift to an elderly female hitchhiker, who they later learn has been arrested for killing her son's employer.
Petrocelli must prove a woman innocent of murder when a man who tried to blackmail her is found dead.
Everyone connected with a computer theft of government secrets is mysteriously meeting death and Petrocelli may be next.
Petrocelli's client is charged with murder when a fraternity-prank kidnapping suddenly becomes deadly realistic.
Petrocelli's office is ransacked and he becomes the quarry of a couple who will stop at nothing to get the diamond he is supposedly keeping for a mysterious client.
Petrocelli and a suspected burglar, ambushed in the desert, must battle nature to survive.
Petrocelli defends a once-famous western actor accused of killing a motion-picture producer.
When a woman is arrested for murder, Petrocelli isn't sure he wants the case because she told him earlier she was going to do it.
Petrocelli's client is a conscientious black doctor accused of killing the hospital chief of staff, who charged him with incompetence and fired him.
A mysterious woman hires Petrocelli to defend her twin sister, a shy waitress whom she loathes, against a murder charge.
Petrocelli defends a woman accused of murdering her longtime friend, a best-selling author about to publish damaging information about her past.
When evidence linking a young man to the slaying of his employer makes Petrocelli suspicious, he investigates and uncovers a web of gambling debts and strange burglaries.
Petrocelli defends a man suspected of murdering a motorcycle-gang member who had been romancing his daughter.
Petrocelli defends a blind woman accused of fatally shooting her boyfriend.
Petrocelli's client is a mechanic whose wrench, found bearing his fingerprints, was used to murder the airline executive who fired him.
A woman tells Petrocelli she has shot her first husband and is shocked when her second husband is arrested for the crime.
Petrocelli defends a man who, enraged to find his wife posing for a photographer at another man's home, has a reason to be suspected for murder.
A boyhood friend pays a visit to Petrocelli and later is arrested on a homicide charge.
Petrocelli defends a rodeo clown accused of the murder of a rodeo star. Rodeo clown Gage seems to have murdered a rival rodeo man. Surprisingly Gage doesn't want to appear innocent.
Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974 to March 31, 1976. 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.
Barry Newman , Albert Salmi , David Huddleston
Leonard Katzman
Paramount Television Studios , Miller-Milkis Productions
as Anthony J. Petrocelli
as Pete Ritter
