TV series

Petrocelli

Name: Petrocelli
Released: 1974
Cast: Barry Newman, Albert Salmi, David Huddleston, Susan Howard

1974–1976· 2 seasons· 60 min episodes★ 7.2Ended

On NBC — From Paramount Television · Miller-Milkis Productions

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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.

Themes

italian american small town lawyer

Episodes

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E1 The Golden CageNext upSep 11, 1974
Synopsis
A rich trophy wife gets accused of murder when she tries to leave her powerful controlling husband.
Guest stars: Joseph Campanella (Arthur Holbrook), Rosemary Forsyth (Nancy Holbrook), Morgan Woodward (Lt. Cayle), William Windom (Alex Mayberry), Rose Marie (Thelma), Fred Stromsoe (Alvin Day)
E2 Music to Die BySep 18, 1974
Synopsis
A singer hires Petrocelli to defend him when his career is jeopardized by a homicide accusation.
Guest stars: Britt Leach, Don Starr, Jeremy Slate (Stacy), Sandy Kenyon, Ricky Nelson (Country Boy White), David Doyle (Cas Turner), Fred Stromsoe (Sheriff)
E3 By Reason of MadnessSep 25, 1974
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Lynda Day George (Vickie Richardson), James McEachin (Dr. Herb Shoate), Rory Calhoun (Edgar Richardson), John Vernon (Barney Majors), Loretta Swit (Ella Knox), Rudy Bond (Dr. Starnberg)
E4 Edge of EvilOct 2, 1974
Synopsis
The threatened revelation of damaging ecological information results in a murder that Petrocelli must solve.
Guest stars: Susan Oliver (Eleanor Warren), William Shatner (Adam North), Lynn Carlin (Audrey North), Glenn Corbett (Robert Warren), Dana Elcar (Prosecutor Daley), Morgan Paull (Dan Carter), Harrison Ford (Tom Brannigan)
E5 A Life for a LifeOct 9, 1974
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Sharon Farrell (Arlene Johnson), Henry Jones (Wheaton), Walter Brooke (Arthur Martin), Geoffrey Deuel (Edgar Dorsey), John Anderson (Joshua Forbes), Felice Orlandi (Lyle Holcomb)
E6 Death in High PlacesOct 23, 1974
Synopsis
Petrocelli defends a spoiled heiress accused of planting a grenade in her father's airplane to speed up her inheritance.
Guest stars: Cameron Mitchell, Joe Mantell (Jess Carson), Dick Alexander, Harold Gould (Haskell Fox), Belinda Montgomery (Barbara Horton), Barney Phillips (Frank Kelly), Fred Stromsoe (Tennis Pro), Gregory Sierra (Rudolph Chavez)
E7 Double NegativeOct 30, 1974
Synopsis
Petrocelli unravels a murder mystery rooted in blackmail.
Guest stars: Fritz Weaver (Colonel William Fletcher), Michael Burns (Billy Fletcher), Gene Tyburn (Tom Onslow), Ron Foster (Babb), Lisa Farringer (Renate Fletcher)
E8 Mirror, Mirror, on the WallNov 6, 1974
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Kurt Grayson (Allan Bell), Harold Gould (Haskell Fox), Stefanie Powers (Jean / Ellen Carter), Erica Hagen (Shirley), William Bramley (Milt Daniels)
E9 An Act of LoveNov 13, 1974
Synopsis
Petrocelli defends a man accused of killing a woman with whom he spent the night in her home, waking to find her dead.
Guest stars: Alan Oppenheimer (Assistant D.A. Joe Davis), John Marley, Don Starr, Christina Hart (Niki James), Claudette Nevins (Annette James), Angela Clarke (Mrs. Donato), Simon Scott (Senator Sam James)
E10 A Very Lonely LadyNov 27, 1974
Synopsis
Petrocelli defends a hitchhiker accused of murdering a woman who had given him a ride and an amorous invitation.
Guest stars: John Milford (J.C. Underwood), Don Starr, Louis Gossett Jr. (Kurt Olson, DA), Jack Ging (Wayne Jacoby), Lucille Benson (Angie Crawford), Arlene Martel (Marnie Jane Underwood)
E11 CounterplayDec 4, 1974
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Ben Masters, Hayden Rorke, Richard Jaeckel
E12 A Covenant with EvilDec 18, 1974
Synopsis
Petrocelli defends a man accused of murder after he is found cradling the body of a woman who was raped and killed.
Guest stars: Charles Martin Smith (Frankie), Julie Cobb (Millie Conway), Dean Harens (Dr. Oscar Vernon), Paul Carr (Paul Cooper), Arthur Malet (Clyde Ledbetter), Robyn Millan (Beth Williams), David Huddleston (Lt. John Ponce)
E13 The Sleep of ReasonJan 15, 1974
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: David Huddleston (Lt. John Ponce), Pamela Franklin (Joan Barth), Albert Stratton (Professor Logan), Christopher Connelly (Willie Flanders), Francine York (Annabelle Tracy), Logan Ramsey (Professor Beale)
E14 A Fallen IdolJan 22, 1974
Synopsis
Petrocelli's high school idol, a boxer now over the hill, is accused of beating his new manager to death.
Guest stars: Louis Gossett Jr. (District Attorney Kurt Olson), Fred Stromsoe (Ed), Chuck Hicks (Tom)
E15 Once Upon a VictimJan 29, 1974
Synopsis
Petrocelli's client, a physician, is found with a scalpel in hand, standing over the body of the woman who founded his clinic.
Guest stars: John Dehner (Dr. Leo Stegner), Della Reese (Angela Damon), Jonathan Goldsmith (Dr. Gil Clayton)
E16 The KidnappingFeb 5, 1974
Synopsis
Petrocelli defends a woman who kidnapped her son from her father-in-law.
E17 A Lonely VictimFeb 19, 1974
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Anjanette Comer (Mary Thorpe), Madlyn Rhue (Ellen Walker), Don Dubbins (Joseph Bear), Mark Goddard (Perry Brooks)
E18 The OutsidersFeb 26, 1974
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Lucille Benson (Lucille Field), Marion Ross (Mary Sloan), David Huddleston (Lt. John Ponce), William Bramley (Cyrus Mitchell), Mitch Vogel (Ron Field), Mark Hamill (David Mitchell)
E19 Vengeance in WhiteMar 5, 1974
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: David Huddleston (Lt. John Ponce), Brenda Scott (Bonnie Wakely), Ken Swofford (Phillip Armor), Michael Anderson Jr. (Nathaniel Wakely), Elinor Donahue (Joan Hiller), Michael Bell (Glen Hiller)
E20 Four the Hard WayMar 13, 1974
Synopsis
Three old codgers hire Petrocelli to defend the fourth member of their pinochle club, a man charged with killing his son-in-law.
Guest stars: Strother Martin (Clate Dobie), Paul Brinegar (Patch Dressler), Gloria LeRoy (Zazu O'Brien), Eddie Firestone (Cy Bissell), Lena Raymond (Juno Tuttle), Shug Fisher (Toot Gannon), William Bryant (Brian Schofield), John Crawford (Joe Tuttle)
E21 Death in Small DosesMar 27, 1975
Synopsis
Petrocelli defends a pharmacist accused of deliberately poisoning a customer.
Guest stars: Elizabeth MacRae (Lucille Bates), Stephen Elliott, Paul Shenar, Torin Thatcher, Robert Mandan, George O'Hanlon, Jr. (Lewis Baldwin), Michael Baseleon (Melvin Pollack)
E22 A Night of TerrorApr 2, 1975
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Peter Mark Richman (Leo Roman), Lance LeGault (Fred Kistler), Joseph Mell (Erik Frost)