An upcoming Netflix documentary will tell the story of how Larry David's hit HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm was used in the defence case of a man who was being prosecuted for a murder he did not commit.
In 2003, Juan Catalan was wrongfully arrested for murder and maintained his innocence by saying that on the night of the crime he was at a Dodgers Baseball Game in Los Angeles.
His lawyer is then given the task of proving that his client was at Dodger Stadium on the night in question, which is where Curb Your Enthusiasm comes in.
"It was like any other day, but as soon as I opened the door I was completely surrounded," Juan explains of the moment of his arrest in the trailer.
"I told him, I'm gonna get you out of here," attorney Todd Melnik says in the trailer. "I need to place my client at Dodger Stadium on that night. Juan remembered they may have been filming something there that day."
Describing the case as an "enormous fight", Catalan's legal team discovered that the filming was for an episode of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, which meant that they had to pinpoint Catalan in among the 56,000-strong crowd on the footage that HBO had if they had any chance of avoiding the death penalty that the prosecution had argued for.
The episode in question was season four episode six, 'The Carpool Lane', in which Larry hires a prostitute so he can legally use the carpool lane to get to Dodger Stadium.
After searching through HBO's footage, Catalan's lawyer ultimately managed to find his client sat in his seat like he'd said, leading to him being released and cleared of all charges.
The whole, improbable story is being told in Netflix's Long Shot, which will premiere on September 29.
Meanwhile, season nine of Curb Your Enthusiasm will be dropping in October after a five-year hiatus, running for ten episodes and starring all of the original cast.
