Petrocelli

Total Seasons :2Total Episodes : 45

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 bu...

Episodes(22)

1. The Golden Cage

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

Air Date : 1974-09-11

2. Music to Die By

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

Air Date : 1974-09-18

3. By Reason of Madness

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.

Air Date : 1974-09-25

4. Edge of Evil

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

Air Date : 1974-10-02

5. A Life for a Life

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.

Air Date : 1974-10-09

6. Death in High Places

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

Air Date : 1974-10-23

7. Double Negative

Petrocelli unravels a murder mystery rooted in blackmail.

Air Date : 1974-10-30

8. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

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.

Air Date : 1974-11-06

9. An Act of Love

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

Air Date : 1974-11-13

10. A Very Lonely Lady

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

Air Date : 1974-11-27

11. Counterplay

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.

Air Date : 1974-12-04

12. A Covenant with Evil

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

Air Date : 1974-12-18

13. The Sleep of Reason

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.

Air Date : 1974-01-15

14. A Fallen Idol

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

Air Date : 1974-01-22

15. Once Upon a Victim

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

Air Date : 1974-01-29

16. The Kidnapping

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

Air Date : 1974-02-05

17. A Lonely Victim

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.

Air Date : 1974-02-19

18. The Outsiders

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.

Air Date : 1974-02-26

19. Vengeance in White

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.

Air Date : 1974-03-05

20. Four the Hard Way

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

Air Date : 1974-03-13

21. Death in Small Doses

Petrocelli defends a pharmacist accused of deliberately poisoning a customer.

Air Date : 1975-03-27

22. A Night of Terror

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.

Air Date : 1975-04-02