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
Petrocelli defends a rodeo clown accused of the murder of a rodeo star.
A boyhood friend pays a visit to Petrocelli and later is arrested on a homicide charge.
Petrocelli defends a man who, enraged to find his wife posing for a photographer at another man's home, has a reason to be suspected for murder.
A woman tells Petrocelli she has shot her first husband and is shocked when her second husband is arrested for the crime.
Petrocelli's client is a mechanic whose wrench, found bearing his fingerprints, was used to murder the airline executive who fired him.
Petrocelli defends a blind woman accused of fatally shooting her boyfriend.
Petrocelli defends a man suspected of murdering a motorcycle-gang member who had been romancing his daughter.
When evidence linking a young man to the slaying of his employer makes Petrocelli suspicious, he investigates and uncovers a web of gambling debts and strange burglaries.
Petrocelli defends a woman accused of murdering her longtime friend, a best-selling author about to publish damaging information about her past.
A mysterious woman hires Petrocelli to defend her twin sister, a shy waitress whom she loathes, against a murder charge.
Petrocelli's client is a conscientious black doctor accused of killing the hospital chief of staff, who charged him with incompetence and fired him.
When a woman is arrested for murder, Petrocelli isn't sure he wants the case because she told him earlier she was going to do it.
Petrocelli defends a once-famous western actor accused of killing a motion-picture producer.
Petrocelli and a suspected burglar, ambushed in the desert, must battle nature to survive.
Petrocelli's office is ransacked and he becomes the quarry of a couple who will stop at nothing to get the diamond he is supposedly keeping for a mysterious client.
Petrocelli's client is charged with murder when a fraternity-prank kidnapping suddenly becomes deadly realistic.
Everyone connected with a computer theft of government secrets is mysteriously meeting death and Petrocelli may be next.
Petrocelli must prove a woman innocent of murder when a man who tried to blackmail her is found dead.
Petrocelli and Ritter offer a lift to an elderly female hitchhiker, who they later learn has been arrested for killing her son's employer.
Tony must defend Maggie's visiting Uncle Roy, who has been accused of the murder of a prostitute.
Retained to defend a man from a murder charge, Petrocelli faces the possible loss of his license after he is accused of bribing a witness.
An aging former vaudeville star is arrested for killing a night club manager in a dispute over payment.
