Season 2 • Episode 22
LatestAn aging former vaudeville star is arrested for killing a night club manager in a dispute over payment.
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.
Acting
Barry Newman's weary charisma carries every episode.
Production
Trailer-living Harvard grad is production design poetry.
Creator
Sidney J. Furie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Petrocelli arrived during the post-Watergate lawyer boom, when audiences craved principled legal heroes. Newman originated the character in the 1970 film 'The Lawyer.'
Susan Howard later became a Texas state legislator—making her one of few actors to trade fictional political spouses for actual politics.
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