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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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Specials

1 episode

S0 E1 · Night Games

Petrocelli defends a millionaire's wife charged with slaying her husband's associate.

Season 1

22 episodes

S1 E1 · The Golden Cage

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

S1 E2 · Music to Die By

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

S1 E3 · 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.

S1 E4 · Edge of Evil

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

S1 E5 · 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.

S1 E6 · Death in High Places

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

S1 E7 · Double Negative

Petrocelli unravels a murder mystery rooted in blackmail.

S1 E8 · 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.

S1 E9 · 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.

S1 E10 · A Very Lonely Lady

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

S1 E11 · 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.

S1 E12 · 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.

S1 E13 · 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.

S1 E14 · A Fallen Idol

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

S1 E15 · 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.

S1 E16 · The Kidnapping

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

S1 E17 · 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.

S1 E18 · 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.

S1 E19 · 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.

S1 E20 · 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.

S1 E21 · Death in Small Doses

Petrocelli defends a pharmacist accused of deliberately poisoning a customer.

S1 E22 · 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.

Season 2

23 episodes

S2 E1 · 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.

S2 E2 · The Mark of Cain

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

S2 E3 · 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.

S2 E4 · 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.

S2 E5 · 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.

S2 E6 · To See No Evil

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

S2 E7 · Terror on Wheels

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

S2 E8 · 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.

S2 E9 · 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.

S2 E10 · Face of Evil

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

S2 E11 · 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.

S2 E12 · 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.

S2 E13 · Falling Star

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

S2 E14 · Survival

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

S2 E15 · 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.

S2 E16 · Blood Money

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

S2 E17 · Any Number Can Die

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

S2 E18 · Six Strings of Guilt

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

S2 E19 · 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.

S2 E20 · The Payoff

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

S2 E21 · 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.

S2 E22 · Jubilee Jones

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

S2 E23 · Death Ride

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