A Nero Wolfe Mystery

Genius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man: Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes, in 1950's New York.

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Cast:Timothy Hutton , Maury Chaykin , Colin Fox , Bill Smitrovich , R.D. Reid , Conrad Dunn , James Tolkan , Robert Bockstael , Kari Matchett , David Schurmann , Nicky Guadagni , Steve Cumyn , Trent McMullen , Richard Waugh , Boyd Banks , Fulvio Cecere , Christine Brubaker , Saul Rubinek

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Doorbell Rang

Sat, Apr 21, 2001

An eccentric millionairess believes she is being followed, bugged, and generally harassed by the FBI and offers Wolfe $100,000 to get them off her back.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Champagne for One: Part 1

Sat, May 5, 2001

When Archie stands in for an acquaintance at a charity dance for unwed mothers, one of the mothers-to-be suddenly collapses and dies on the dance floor, an apparent suicide.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Champagne for One: Part 2

Sat, May 5, 2001

Archie stands in for a friend at a charity dance for unwed mothers and a mother-to-be dies on the dance floor in an apparent suicide.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Prisoner's Base: Part 1

Sat, May 12, 2001

A beautiful heiress attempts to seek refuge in Nero Wolfe's house without revealing her identity or reasons for hiding. When she is turned away and found murdered shortly thereafter, Archie Goodwin takes off on his own to find the killer.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Prisoner's Base: Part 2

Sat, May 19, 2001

Moved by Archie Goodwin's zeal in trying to find the killer of heiress Priscilla Eads, Nero Wolfe takes on Archie as a client to aid him in his quest. Tension mounts when another woman who knew the heiress is found murdered.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Eeny, Meeny, Murder, Moe

Sat, Jun 2, 2001

When fastidious Nero Wolfe abandons a stained tie after eating his lunch in his study, it is used to strangle a prospective client shortly thereafter.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Disguise for Murder

Sat, Jun 16, 2001

During a flower exhibition at Wolfe's brownstone, a tipsy young woman who confides to Archie that she's recognized a murderer at the show is murdered on premises shortly thereafter.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Door to Death

Sat, Jun 23, 2001

In desperate need of a gardener for his beloved plant room, Wolfe undertakes a rare car trip to Westchester to recruit an orchidist and finds a body in the greenhouse.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Christmas Party

Sat, Jun 30, 2001

Nero Wolfe is stunned when Archie Goodwin reveals evidence of his impending engagement. However, Archie is no less shocked when accompanying his so-called fiancée to a Christmas party by the murder of their host.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Over My Dead Body: Part 1

Sat, Jul 7, 2001

A woman from Montenegro claims that Wolfe's long-lost adopted daughter is in New York, and is accused of theft at a prestigious fencing club. Her troubles increase when a club member is found stabbed to death and she is the prime suspect.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Over My Dead Body: Part 2

Sat, Jul 14, 2001

As Wolfe tries to unravel the mystery of a young woman who could be his long-lost adopted daughter, she draws him and Archie Goodwin further and further into a web of deceit, political intrigue and murder.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Death of a Doxy: Part 1

Sat, Apr 13, 2002

When Archie does a private eye associate a favor and tries to recover his P.I. license from a blackmailing girlfriend, he finds the ex-showgirl bludgeoned to death.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Death of a Doxy: Part 2

Sat, Apr 13, 2002

With associate Orrie Cather on the hook for the murder of an ex-showgirl, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin must ally themselves with an eccentric showgirl to quash a blackmail plot and reveal the real killer.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Next Witness

Sat, Apr 20, 2002

Wolfe defies a summons to testify against a man he believes innocent and incurs a contempt of court charge hunting for evidence to cast reasonable doubt on the case against him.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Die Like a Dog

Sat, Apr 27, 2002

A murdered man's dog, who has attached himself to Archie and been accepted at the Wolfe brownstone, provides a vital clue to solving his master's murder.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Murder Is Corny

Sat, May 4, 2002

Archie stands accused in the murder of a man delivering corn because both of them were rivals for the affections of the farmer's daughter.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Motherhunt: Part 1

Sat, May 11, 2002

When a baby, allegedly fathered by her late husband, is abandoned on the doorstep of his rich, beautiful widow, she hires Nero Wolfe to locate the mother.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Motherhunt: Part 2

Sat, May 18, 2002

Two murders seem to be linked to the efforts put forth by Wolfe and Goodwin to find the mother of a baby left abandoned on the doorstep of a wealthy female socialite.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Poison à la Carte

Sat, May 25, 2002

At the annual meeting of Wolfe's gourmet society, Ten for Aristology, one of the members is poisoned, and Wolfe suspects one of the beautiful servers of the crime.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Too Many Clients: Part 1

Sat, Jun 1, 2002

When a philandering womanizer with a lavish secret love nest penthouse is found murdered, Wolfe finds he has almost as many clients as suspects.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Too Many Clients: Part 2

Sat, Jun 8, 2002

Clients and suspects come out of the woodwork, after a womanizing business man, who kept a full time love nest, is found murdered.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Before I Die

Sat, Jun 15, 2002

A notorious gangster hires Wolfe to protect his real daughter, who is unaware of who her father is, and stop the woman impersonating his daughter from blackmailing him.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Help Wanted, Male

Sat, Jun 22, 2002

Wolfe hires a look-alike double to stand in for him after he receives a death threat, the exact same threat that was carried out earlier against a potential Wolfe client.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Silent Speaker: Part 1

Sat, Jul 13, 2002

In post-War America, where shortages are common, the Bureau of Price Regulations is a very controversial organization, and when its leader is murdered, Wolfe takes the case.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ The Silent Speaker: Part 2

Sat, Jul 20, 2002

Suspects abound during post WWII America, as Wolfe and Goodwin are busy sifting through the mess known as The Bureau of Price Regulations because its leader was found murdered. No one, not even the FBI, nor the NIA, is above suspicion.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Cop Killer

Sat, Aug 10, 2002

Two illegal immigrant barbershop workers, fearful of a police detective investigating a hit-and-run, flee to seek refuge with Wolfe and Goodwin. When Goodwin investigates on their behalf, he discovers the detective has been murdered.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Immune to Murder

Sat, Aug 17, 2002

Arriving at a remote lodge at the request of the State Department and a South American diplomat, a reluctant Wolfe prepares to cook trout for an oil tycoon's fishing party when Archie discovers one of the men dead in the river.