Dallas Actors Susan Howard on Petrocelli

[bmasters9]

Last week, I purchased VEI's all-in-one DVD of a two-season (1974-76) NBC legal series called Petrocelli, starring Barry Newman as Anthony J. Petrocelli, a Harvard-educated Boston-area defense lawyer who left Boston and moved out to Arizona to practice in the fictional town of San Remo (the series was filmed in Tucson, AZ). Susan Howard co-starred as his wife, Maggie. I just earlier received that release of Petrocelli, and have captured Susan's co-title credit from that release.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

And produced by Lenny Katzman! (Unfortunately, he left GUNSMOKE to do it, killing the last half of its last season).

 

[bmasters9]

And produced by Lenny Katzman! (Unfortunately, he left GUNSMOKE to do it, killing the last half of its last season).

Did not realize that! Also, Petrocelli was from Miller-Milkis IAW Paramount Television, and was one of at least two NBC series that I know of that the Miller-Boyett production family (Miller-Milkis inclusive) was involved in; another was Valerie, a 1986-91 NBC/CBS comedy (later called The Hogan Family) that originally starred Valerie Harper as the mother of three boys (she was there for only the first season's worth, then left in a dispute with the producers; she was replaced by Sandy Duncan as a surrogate mother to the three boys, IIRC).

 

[Monzo]

Did you know that Petrocelli was a huge hit in West Germany? Here's the proof with the weekly ratings from March 1977:

The episode that aired on March 25th was called Chain of Command, German title: Ein General hat Feinde (A General Has Enemies). In 1977, 61.5 million people lived in West Germany, meaning that a third of the population watched Petrocelli at that time.

Dallas, although the most-watched US series in West Germany in the 80s, never reached over 20 million viewers; thus, more Germans saw Susan Howard on Petrocelli than on Dallas.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Did you know that Petrocelli was a huge hit in West Germany? Here's the proof with the weekly ratings from March 1977:
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The episode that aired on March 25th was called Chain of Command, German title: Ein General hat Feinde (A General Has Enemies). In 1977, 61.5 million people lived in West Germany, meaning that a third of the population watched Petrocelli at that time.

Dallas, although the most-watched US series in West Germany in the 80s, never reached over 20 million viewers; thus, more Germans saw Susan Howard on Petrocelli than on Dallas.

Critics who claim the 2000s ushered in the era of Peak TV clearly weren’t around to experience the DERRICK-PETROCELLI-WOLFSBLUT triumvirate of 1977!

 

[Chris2]

My parents liked Petrocelli. When Susan Howard first came on Dallas, they would sometimes remark about her being in the show about the lawyer who lived in a trailer in the southwest.