Petrocelli

Petrocelli

1974
Petrocelli
Petrocelli

Petrocelli

7.2 | en | Drama

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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EP23  Death Ride
Jan. 01,0001
Death Ride

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EP22  Jubilee Jones
Mar. 24,1976
Jubilee Jones

An aging former vaudeville star is arrested for killing a night club manager in a dispute over payment.

EP21  Shadow of a doubt
Mar. 17,1976
Shadow of a doubt

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.

EP20  The Payoff
Mar. 10,1976
The Payoff

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

EP19  Deadly Journey
Mar. 03,1976
Deadly Journey

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

EP18  Six Strings of Guilt
Feb. 25,1976
Six Strings of Guilt

Petrocelli must prove a woman innocent of murder when a man who tried to blackmail her is found dead.

EP17  Any Number Can Die
Feb. 18,1976
Any Number Can Die

Everyone connected with a computer theft of government secrets is mysteriously meeting death and Petrocelli may be next.

EP16  Blood Money
Feb. 11,1976
Blood Money

Petrocelli's client is charged with murder when a fraternity-prank kidnapping suddenly becomes deadly realistic.

EP15  The Night Visitor
Feb. 04,1976
The Night Visitor

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.

EP14  Survival
Jan. 28,1976
Survival

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

EP13  Falling Star
Jan. 21,1976
Falling Star

Petrocelli defends a once-famous western actor accused of killing a motion-picture producer.

EP12  A Deadly Vow
Dec. 31,1975
A Deadly Vow

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.

EP11  Too Many Alibis
Dec. 24,1975
Too Many Alibis

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

EP10  Face of Evil
Dec. 17,1975
Face of Evil

A mysterious woman hires Petrocelli to defend her twin sister, a shy waitress whom she loathes, against a murder charge.

EP9  Terror By the Book
Dec. 10,1975
Terror By the Book

Petrocelli defends a woman accused of murdering her longtime friend, a best-selling author about to publish damaging information about her past.

EP8  The Gamblers
Nov. 12,1975
The Gamblers

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.

EP7  Terror on Wheels
Nov. 05,1975
Terror on Wheels

Petrocelli defends a man suspected of murdering a motorcycle-gang member who had been romancing his daughter.

EP6  To See No Evil
Oct. 29,1975
To See No Evil

Petrocelli defends a blind woman accused of fatally shooting her boyfriend.

EP5  Chain of Command
Oct. 08,1975
Chain of Command

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

EP4  Shadow of Fear
Oct. 01,1975
Shadow of Fear

A woman tells Petrocelli she has shot her first husband and is shocked when her second husband is arrested for the crime.

EP3  Five Yards of Trouble
Sep. 24,1975
Five Yards of Trouble

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.

EP2  The Mark of Cain
Sep. 17,1975
The Mark of Cain

A boyhood friend pays a visit to Petrocelli and later is arrested on a homicide charge.

EP1  Death Ride
Sep. 10,1975
Death Ride

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.

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Released: 1974-09-11 | Released Producted By: Paramount Television Studios , Miller-Milkis Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

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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Cast

Barry Newman , Albert Salmi , David Huddleston

Director

Leonard Katzman

Producted By

Paramount Television Studios , Miller-Milkis Productions

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Reviews

Parker Lewis Petrocelli is a fine US legal drama, and it's a shame it ran for only two seasons. If Saved by the Bell can run for 20 seasons, then there's no justice really in the TV world.Barry Newman and his on screen wife Susan Howard displayed great chemistry and I always liked the ending when Petrocelli would give his wife an update on the progress of their house construction. Maybe one day Petrocelli can be rebooted, because it's an impressive series that deserves another run. It's sort of the antidote to Suits and other flashy legal drama shows that form part of the legal entertainment landscape nowadays.
vilmae1 Barry Newman brought a Jewish profile to a Boston Italian lawyer and pulled it off perfectly. Great pathos on Mr. Newman's part, especially once a week when he would sneer up his lips on one side of his face and say, in a long drawn out drawl,...'yyeaahhh', "Pete" (his P.I., the Underrated Albert Salmi... or "Maggie" if he was talking to his wife)..this kid's innocent...we'll prove it." And his perfect presentation at the end of each episode..."Your Honor, I would like to offer yet ANOTHER version of the events of that night...) It was a great show which, just like "Harry O" in the same time frame, was lost in the mass of more popular Crime Dramas and prematurely cancelled.
jrd-11 This became a staple diet of my Fresher's year at uni (1997). This show took over from Quincy in the post neighbours slot on bbc1 and was a massive hit in my student flat.I'd advise anyone to give this series a go, it has an awesome charm and Newman is fantastic. As far as I can remember, Pete never managed to get paid and Tony didn't finish his house - although it did progress upwards from the foundations throughout the two series.They did mess around with the format a bit towards the end, which was a little disappointing and they became increasingly obsessed with kidnappings. Having said that when Tony was stuck in the desert with a criminal and two blokes trying to shoot them it was pretty cool even if it wasn't sticking to the usual format."You gottta tell me the whole story"
Cal-16 I think the best lessons "Petrocelli" teaches us are that 1) things aren't always as they seem, and 2) there's a good reason to presume a person innocent until proven guilty - because he just might be innocent, after all. This is a cast that worked very well together, and the writing, too, was excellent. I liked the fact that we would see the crime being committed from different perspectives. I don't know if "Petrocelli" was the first show to ever do that, but it sure kept me tuned in every week. It would be wonderful if TV Land would run this series again.