John Larroquette, who won an Emmy Award for his comic role in the television series "Night Court," will portray a mailman wrongly convicted of rape, says the movie's co-producer.

Larroquette, the vain, sex-driven prosecutor in "Night Court," will portray Douglas Forbes of Elizabethton in an ABC-TV movie in May.

Forbes, 44, was convicted of several rapes in Washington and Carter counties in eastern Tennessee in the 1970s, and served five years in prison before another man confessed to the crimes. He was released in 1980.

The story will be told through his wife Martha, played by Lindsay Wagner. Carroll O'Connor, who played Archie Bunker in "All In The Family," will play Lewis May, the prosecutor who sent Forbes to prison.

AP