Petrocelli
- Barry Newman: Tony Petrocelli
- Susan Howard: Maggie Petrocelli
- Albert Salmi: Pete Knight
- David Huddleston: Lieutenant John Ponce
The American television series Petrocelli [ ital petro'tʃɛli ] belongs to the genre of legal drama. It was produced in the years 1974 until 1976. Was shown as the main character Tony Petrocelli by the American actor Barry Newman.
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The name of the series refers to the main character, lawyer Petrocelli, who is an American of Italian origin. Its shape is the film The defense lawyers ( The Lawyer ) from 1968 borrowed. Petrocelli has been active in San Remo, a small town in Arizona.
In contrast to most other series in this genre was not shown here, " defense lawyer ", but a lawyer who works in rather modest circumstances and tries to achieve through personal involvement, the maximum for his clients. These clients usually came from the same social circle as he and were not often able to pay him for his work, which is why he had to often be satisfied with a spiritual moral reward. Through the entire series through lives Tony Petrocelli ( Barry Newman) and his wife Maggie (Susan Howard) in a caravan on the edge of the desert and is there with her and his assistant Pete Ritter ( Albert Salmi ) busy trying to build a solid house.
This series was also broadcast starting from 1976 in a total of 45 Episodes in Germany on ZDF. On some cable stations they ran as a repeating now.
Donald R. Rode won in 1975 for the episode Mirror, Mirror On The Wall an Emmy for the cut.