Petrocelli — Season 1
He's real and his own man.
About this season
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.
Episodes (22)
1. The Golden Cage
Aired 11 September 1974
A rich trophy wife gets accused of murder when she tries to leave her powerful controlling husband.
2. Music to Die By
Aired 18 September 1974
A singer hires Petrocelli to defend him when his career is jeopardized by a homicide accusation.
3. By Reason of Madness
Aired 25 September 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.
4. Edge of Evil
Aired 2 October 1974
The threatened revelation of damaging ecological information results in a murder that Petrocelli must solve.
5. A Life for a Life
Aired 9 October 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.
6. Death in High Places
Aired 23 October 1974
Petrocelli defends a spoiled heiress accused of planting a grenade in her father's airplane to speed up her inheritance.
7. Double Negative
Aired 30 October 1974
Petrocelli unravels a murder mystery rooted in blackmail.
8. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Aired 6 November 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.
9. An Act of Love
Aired 13 November 1974
Petrocelli defends a man accused of killing a woman with whom he spent the night in her home, waking to find her dead.
10. A Very Lonely Lady
Aired 27 November 1974
Petrocelli defends a hitchhiker accused of murdering a woman who had given him a ride and an amorous invitation.
11. Counterplay
Aired 4 December 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.
12. A Covenant with Evil
Aired 18 December 1974
Petrocelli defends a man accused of murder after he is found cradling the body of a woman who was raped and killed.
13. The Sleep of Reason
Aired 15 January 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.
14. A Fallen Idol
Aired 22 January 1974
Petrocelli's high school idol, a boxer now over the hill, is accused of beating his new manager to death.
15. Once Upon a Victim
Aired 29 January 1974
Petrocelli's client, a physician, is found with a scalpel in hand, standing over the body of the woman who founded his clinic.
16. The Kidnapping
Aired 5 February 1974
Petrocelli defends a woman who kidnapped her son from her father-in-law.
17. A Lonely Victim
Aired 19 February 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.
18. The Outsiders
Aired 26 February 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.
19. Vengeance in White
Aired 5 March 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.
20. Four the Hard Way
Aired 13 March 1974
Three old codgers hire Petrocelli to defend the fourth member of their pinochle club, a man charged with killing his son-in-law.
21. Death in Small Doses
Aired 27 March 1975
Petrocelli defends a pharmacist accused of deliberately poisoning a customer.
22. A Night of Terror
Aired 2 April 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.