Series · 1974 – 1976 · Drama
He's real and his own man.
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.
2 seasons · 44 episodes

Episode 01
The Golden Cage
A rich trophy wife gets accused of murder when she tries to leave her powerful controlling husband.

Episode 02
Music to Die By
A singer hires Petrocelli to defend him when his career is jeopardized by a homicide accusation.

Episode 03
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.

Episode 04
Edge of Evil
The threatened revelation of damaging ecological information results in a murder that Petrocelli must solve.

Episode 05
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.

Episode 06
Death in High Places
Petrocelli defends a spoiled heiress accused of planting a grenade in her father's airplane to speed up her inheritance.

Episode 07
Double Negative
Petrocelli unravels a murder mystery rooted in blackmail.

Episode 08
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.

Episode 09
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.

Episode 10
A Very Lonely Lady
Petrocelli defends a hitchhiker accused of murdering a woman who had given him a ride and an amorous invitation.

Episode 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.

Episode 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.

Episode 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.

Episode 14
A Fallen Idol
Petrocelli's high school idol, a boxer now over the hill, is accused of beating his new manager to death.

Episode 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.

Episode 16
The Kidnapping
Petrocelli defends a woman who kidnapped her son from her father-in-law.

Episode 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.

Episode 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.

Episode 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.

Episode 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.

Episode 21
Death in Small Doses
Petrocelli defends a pharmacist accused of deliberately poisoning a customer.

Episode 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.
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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.
4 principal cast
Petrocelli is available to stream on Flicksy via 6 verified sources, aggregated from publicly available embed providers. The drama from Sidney J. Furie has 2 seasons and 44 total episodes, rated 7.2/10 by 27 viewers.
Petrocelli has 2 seasons with 44 episodes in total.
Petrocelli has ended and is no longer in production.
Petrocelli airs on NBC.
Petrocelli first aired on September 11, 1974.
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