Petrocelli

infobox television
show_name = Petrocelli


caption =
format = Drama/Crime
runtime = 60 min.
creator = Harold Buchman
Sidney J. Furie
starring = Barry Newman
Susan Howard
Albert Salmi
David Huddleston
country = USA
executive_producer = Edward K. Milkis
Thomas L. Miller
network = NBC
music = Lalo Schifrin
camera =
first_aired = September 11 1974
last_aired = March 31 1976
num_episodes = 45
num_seasons = 2
tv_com_id = 1862
imdb_id = 0071032
website =

"Petrocelli" was a legal drama which ran on NBC from September 11, 1974 to March 3, 1976. It had 48 episodes.

Plot

Tony Petrocelli was an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer grew up in South Boston who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest called San Remo (filmed in Tucson, Arizona). He and his wife Maggie lived 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. Tony hired Pete Ritter, a local cowboy, as his investigator.

Format

Petrocelli worked as a defense lawyer, and each episode followed a similar format, with the client apparently certain to be convicted of a crime of which they were innocent until a late emerging piece of evidence allowed the protagonist to suggest to the jury an alternative possibility. These alternatives were never established as absolute fact, and there was never any indication of a trial of the person onto whom Petrocelli turned the accusation, but the doubt raised was sufficient to secure the release of his client.

An interesting technique used in the TV series was showing the actual crime in flashbacks from the perspective of various people involved. The flashbacks, naturally, differed depending on whose recollections were being shown.

Adaption

Newman created the role of Petrocelli in a 1970 movie, "The Lawyer", which was loosely based on the Sam Sheppard murder case.

Cast

External links

*imdb title|id=0071032