User Reviews

First of all, let me say this show is pretty bad. You get the same plot points over, and over, and over. Now it's a decent plot, but when it happens virtually every episode, you want to take the advice of this episode and shoot yourself.

I have the two season dvd set sadly, and this was the last episode according to it. And it seems like one, because they took a LOT of notable guest stars for it.

Let me elaborate a bit of the repetition within this series. If you're dumb enough to buy this as I was (it was cheap at least), this is what you can look forward to virtually every episode: 1. The accused murderer will stumble into the murdered in a dark place, and pick up the murder weapon. 2. Somebody else will come along and spot them with the murder weapon in their hand over the body. 3. The accused, which Petro always defends, will lie to Petro, or not tell him everything, and Petro will lecture them about this. 4. Petro will most likely get roughed up, or his wife, or his partner detective. There's always somebody waiting to rough up one of them. 5. Petro will very frequently clarify that his name isn't pronounced p-e-t-r-o-s-e-l-l-i. 6. There are always fantasy scenes in which different people try to describe the same scene from their POV, and this actually is a positive for the series, since you get to see a little actor versatility that way. 7. The prosecution does virtually nothing in court, and I don't think they ever confound Petro in the least, though there are numerous times when Pete the investigator brings in key evidence late. 8. Petro is a reckless driver, or maybe careless is a better word. In the opening theme, he goes a good deal into the opposite lane on a curve around a hill! He also does a great deal of meter dodging in the city, to get around paying tolls. He's such an honest lawyer, don't you know?

The only positives I found in this series were the great performance by otherwise fluffy Elizabeth MacRae, as she's very much out of her usual character here, and her death scene, as imagined by one person, was just roll on the floor variety hilarious. If you haven't known Elizabeth from Gomer Pyle, etc, this probably won't have any impact. The other positive I can find was the imagined scenes people had, as I said earlier, the very thing that brought out a different side of Elizabeth - truly priceless.

It's actually a pretty good series if you happen to see a choice one or two episodes, but you never want to see more than that because you will see the inevitable patterns that show so clearly how they phoned it in real quick.