← Petrocelli

Season 1

22 episodes · 1974

  1. 1

    The Golden Cage

    Sep 11, 197460 min★ 7.5

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

  2. 2

    Music to Die By

    Sep 18, 1974★ 7.9

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

  3. 3

    By Reason of Madness

    Sep 25, 1974★ 6.3

    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. 4

    Edge of Evil

    Oct 2, 197460 min★ 8.1

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

  5. 5

    A Life for a Life

    Oct 9, 197460 min★ 7.3

    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.

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    Death in High Places

    Oct 23, 197460 min★ 7.2

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

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    Double Negative

    Oct 30, 1974★ 7.3

    Petrocelli unravels a murder mystery rooted in blackmail.

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    Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall

    Nov 6, 197460 min★ 7.9

    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.

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    An Act of Love

    Nov 13, 1974★ 6.9

    Petrocelli defends a man accused of killing a woman with whom he spent the night in her home, waking to find her dead.

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    A Very Lonely Lady

    Nov 27, 1974★ 7.6

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

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    Counterplay

    Dec 4, 1974★ 7.4

    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. 12

    A Covenant with Evil

    Dec 18, 1974★ 7.5

    Petrocelli defends a man accused of murder after he is found cradling the body of a woman who was raped and killed.

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    The Sleep of Reason

    Jan 15, 1974★ 7.1

    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. 14

    A Fallen Idol

    Jan 22, 197460 min★ 7.2

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

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    Once Upon a Victim

    Jan 29, 1974★ 7.1

    Petrocelli's client, a physician, is found with a scalpel in hand, standing over the body of the woman who founded his clinic.

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    The Kidnapping

    Feb 5, 197460 min★ 6.9

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

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    A Lonely Victim

    Feb 19, 197460 min★ 7.6

    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.

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    The Outsiders

    Feb 26, 1974★ 7.9

    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.

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    Vengeance in White

    Mar 5, 197460 min★ 7.0

    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.

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    Four the Hard Way

    Mar 13, 1974★ 7.0

    Three old codgers hire Petrocelli to defend the fourth member of their pinochle club, a man charged with killing his son-in-law.

  21. 21

    Death in Small Doses

    Mar 27, 197560 min★ 7.5

    Petrocelli defends a pharmacist accused of deliberately poisoning a customer.

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    A Night of Terror

    Apr 2, 1975★ 7.4

    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.