Petrocelli/Once Upon a Victim

Once Upon a Victim
Season 1, Episode 15
Airdate	January 29, 1974
Written by	Leonard Katzman, Stanley Roberts (teleplay), Stanley Roberts (story)
Directed by	Herschel Daugherty
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Petrocelli — Season One

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Once Upon a Victim is the fifteenth episode of the first season of Petrocelli.

Guest Starring: John Dehner (Dr. Leo Stegner), Renne Jarrett (Lois Phillips), Della Reese (Angela Damon), Jonathan Lippe (Dr. Gil Clayton)

Co-Starring: Alan Fudge (Sam Murkland), Barbara Rhoades (Virginia Halima), Jack Collins (Floyd Lathrop)

With: Don Stark (Judge), Fred Ashley (James Mantley), Gene Earle (Herb Pipkin), Moe Mosley (Charlie), Bernice Smith (Rita Phillips), Richard Jacombe (Police Officer), Lowell Gleason (Bailiff)

Plot Overview

No sooner does Petrocelli tell off an obnoxious politician who hired him to shut down a controversial clinic does he get hired to defend the doctor who founded the clinic. The charge: killing the rich woman who funded the clinic. He was found standing over the body holding a bloody scalpel. The prosecution insists that her threatening to cut off funding to the clinic is adequate motive, but Tony believes the doctor when he says that those type of threats were constant. The dedicated lawyer goes looking elsewhere for a motive and finds one when he looks into the doctor's assistant's background.

Quotes

Another trademark of the series is Tony's response to anyone who says 'See you in court', like Alan Fudge (playing the prosecutor) says to him. His response is always, 'Yeah...that's where I do my business!'