

Petrocelli
He's real and his own man.
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.
Cast

Barry Newman
Anthony J. Petrocelli

Albert Salmi
Pete Ritter

David Huddleston
Lieutenant Ponce

Susan Howard
Maggie Petrocelli
Seasons

E1The Golden Cage
Sep 11, 1974
A rich trophy wife gets accused of murder when she tries to leave her powerful controlling husband.

E2Music to Die By
Sep 18, 1974
A singer hires Petrocelli to defend him when his career is jeopardized by a homicide accusation.

E3By Reason of Madness
Sep 25, 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 to prove her not guilty by reason of insanity.

E4Edge of Evil
Oct 2, 1974
The threatened revelation of damaging ecological information results in a murder that Petrocelli must solve.

E5A Life for a Life
Oct 9, 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.

E6Death in High Places
Oct 23, 1974
Petrocelli defends a spoiled heiress accused of planting a grenade in her father's airplane to speed up her inheritance.

E7Double Negative
Oct 30, 1974
Petrocelli unravels a murder mystery rooted in blackmail.

E8Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Nov 6, 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.

E9An Act of Love
Nov 13, 1974
Petrocelli defends a man accused of killing a woman with whom he spent the night in her home, waking to find her dead.

E10A Very Lonely Lady
Nov 27, 1974
Petrocelli defends a hitchhiker accused of murdering a woman who had given him a ride and an amorous invitation.

E11Counterplay
Dec 4, 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.

E12A Covenant with Evil
Dec 18, 1974
Petrocelli defends a man accused of murder after he is found cradling the body of a woman who was raped and killed.

E13The Sleep of Reason
Jan 15, 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.

E14A Fallen Idol
Jan 22, 1974
Petrocelli's high school idol, a boxer now over the hill, is accused of beating his new manager to death.

E15Once Upon a Victim
Jan 29, 1974
Petrocelli's client, a physician, is found with a scalpel in hand, standing over the body of the woman who founded his clinic.

E16The Kidnapping
Feb 5, 1974
Petrocelli defends a woman who kidnapped her son from her father-in-law.

E17A Lonely Victim
Feb 19, 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.

E18The Outsiders
Feb 26, 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.

E19Vengeance in White
Mar 5, 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.

E20Four the Hard Way
Mar 13, 1974
Three old codgers hire Petrocelli to defend the fourth member of their pinochle club, a man charged with killing his son-in-law.

E21Death in Small Doses
Mar 27, 1975
Petrocelli defends a pharmacist accused of deliberately poisoning a customer.

E22A Night of Terror
Apr 2, 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.

E1Death Ride
Sep 10, 1975
Petrocelli defends a rodeo clown accused of the murder of a rodeo star.

E2The Mark of Cain
Sep 17, 1975
A boyhood friend pays a visit to Petrocelli and later is arrested on a homicide charge.

E3Five Yards of Trouble
Sep 24, 1975
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.

E4Shadow of Fear
Oct 1, 1975
A woman tells Petrocelli she has shot her first husband and is shocked when her second husband is arrested for the crime.

E5Chain of Command
Oct 8, 1975
Petrocelli's client is a mechanic whose wrench, found bearing his fingerprints, was used to murder the airline executive who fired him.

E6To See No Evil
Oct 29, 1975
Petrocelli defends a blind woman accused of fatally shooting her boyfriend.

E7Terror on Wheels
Nov 5, 1975
Petrocelli defends a man suspected of murdering a motorcycle-gang member who had been romancing his daughter.

E8The Gamblers
Nov 12, 1975
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.

E9Terror By the Book
Dec 10, 1975
Petrocelli defends a woman accused of murdering her longtime friend, a best-selling author about to publish damaging information about her past.

E10Face of Evil
Dec 17, 1975
A mysterious woman hires Petrocelli to defend her twin sister, a shy waitress whom she loathes, against a murder charge.

E11Too Many Alibis
Dec 24, 1975
Petrocelli's client is a conscientious black doctor accused of killing the hospital chief of staff, who charged him with incompetence and fired him.

E12A Deadly Vow
Dec 31, 1975
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.

E13The Falling Star
Jan 21, 1976
Petrocelli defends a once-famous western actor accused of killing a motion-picture producer.

E14Survival
Jan 28, 1976
Petrocelli and a suspected burglar, ambushed in the desert, must battle nature to survive.

E15The Night Visitor
Feb 4, 1976
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.

E16Blood Money
Feb 11, 1976
Petrocelli's client is charged with murder when a fraternity-prank kidnapping suddenly becomes deadly realistic.

E17Any Number Can Die
Feb 18, 1976
Everyone connected with a computer theft of government secrets is mysteriously meeting death and Petrocelli may be next.

E18Six Strings of Guilt
Feb 25, 1976
Petrocelli must prove a woman innocent of murder when a man who tried to blackmail her is found dead.

E19Deadly Journey
Mar 3, 1976
Petrocelli and Ritter offer a lift to an elderly female hitchhiker, who they later learn has been arrested for killing her son's employer.

E20The Payoff
Mar 10, 1976
Tony must defend Maggie's visiting Uncle Roy, who has been accused of the murder of a prostitute.

E21Shadow of a Doubt
Mar 17, 1976
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.

E22Jubilee Jones
Mar 24, 1976
An aging former vaudeville star is arrested for killing a night club manager in a dispute over payment.
Storyline
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.























