Rosetti and Ryan

By Patrick Mondout

Rosetti and Ryan was a legal drama about a pair of defense lawyers who worked together as partners in their own law firm. Joseph Rosetti (Tony Roberts) came from an upper middle class home and had come out of college as a lawyer. Frank Ryan was a former police officer who worked his way through law school with night courses.

Their varied backgrounds were used by the writers to try to differentiate the short-lived series from other legal dramas. Despite their good looks and legal skills, Rosetti and Ryan was found guilty of boring TV viewers by the Nielsen families and sentenced to cancellation by NBC in November of its first year. There were no appeals.

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