Petrocelli
He's real and his own man.
Created by Sidney J. Furie
On NBC
A 1970s legal procedural built on the premise of a principled lawyer choosing rural simplicity over urban ambition, balancing case-of-the-week crime with domestic contentment.
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.
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