The BEST episodes of Nero Wolfe (2001)

#1 - Motherhunt (1)

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/12/2002

A baby is left on a widow's doorstep with a note implying that her late husband had been its father. The widow, Lucy Valdon, hires Wolfe and Archie to find the true mother, but soon the case turns deadly.

#2 - Motherhunt (2)

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/19/2002

#3 - The Next Witness

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/2002

Wolfe has to testify in the murder trial of Leonard Ashe. Worried that his testimony will convict Ashe, Wolfe does some investigating of his own and discovers a blackmail scheme.

#4 - Champagne for One (1)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/29/2001

Archie is standing in for a friend at a party for unwed mothers when one of the guests drops dead. Through she had often talked about killing herself and was known to carry cyanide, Archie does not believe her death was suicide. A little digging uncovers the connection that proves his hunch, and Wolfe helps bring the killer to justice.

#5 - The Silent Speaker (1)

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/14/2002

Wolfe and Archie investigate the murder of the Head of the Bureau of Price Regulations, who was about to speak before the National Industry Association.

#6 - Cop Killer

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/11/2002

Two illegal aliens flee a barbershop when a New York City cop begins asking questions. When the cop turns up dead, Wolfe must clear the two of his murder.

#7 - The Silent Speaker (2)

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/21/2002

#8 - Before I Die

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/16/2002

The gangster Dazy Perrit wants to keep his daughter's identity a secret so he hires a stand in to pose as her. But when the stand in blackmails him, he turns to Wolfe and Archie for help.

#9 - Too Many Clients (2)

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/9/2002

#10 - Too Many Clients (1)

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/2/2002

After Thomas Yeager hires Archie because he believes he's being followed, he winds up dead at a construction site. Wolfe and Archie's investigations show that the victim had many lovers.

#11 - Death of a Doxy (2)

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/14/2002

#12 - Death of a Doxy (1)

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/14/2002

Orrie Cather, one of Wolfe's operatives, has been secretly seeing a wealthy man's kept mistress at her secret love nest. He is arrested when she turns up dead.

#13 - Over My Dead Body (2)

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/15/2001

A women arrives at the brownstone to say that Wolfe's long-lost adopted daughter has been falsely accused of robbery and needs his help. By the time Archie arrives at the scene - the fencing studio where she works - her name has been cleared in the robbery, but there is a fresh case to investigate. And another muder on the way. .

#14 - Over My Dead Body (1)

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/8/2001

Archie Goodwin is surprised to discover Nero Wolfe has a daughter, who becomes entangled in a murder at a fencing studio. But is she really his daughter?

#15 - Champagne for One (2)

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/6/2001

#16 - Poison a la Carte

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/26/2002

A lecherous producer is killed at a dinner prepared by Fritz. The suspects include the five waitresses, but no one knows who gave him his food.

#17 - The Doorbell Rang

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/22/2001

Eccentric millionaire Rachel Bruner arrives at Wolfe's doorstep with an extraordinary offer, a disturbing story of harassment, and an FBI tail. Only after Wolfe takes the case does a murder comes to light. As the story unfolds, however, it becomes clear that the Bureau is not guilty - in this case, anyway - and their reluctant cooperation is essential to capturing a killer.

#18 - Prisoner's Base (2)

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/20/2001

#19 - Immune to Murder

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/18/2002

Wolfe is asked to cook his famous baked trout for an oilman and an Eastern European ambassador. But when Archie finds a body in the trout stream, Wolfe must solve the murder first.

#20 - Help Wanted, Male

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/30/2002

After Wolfe turns down a request for help, the man is murdered. More troubling than that is that now Wolf is the one being threatened. In order to buy some time, Wolfe hires a body double, but will that be enough to keep him safe until he finds the killer?

#21 - Murder is Corny

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/5/2002

A model frames Archie for the murder of a delivery boy, who was supposed to bring him Wolf's specially picked corn, and Archie doesn't have an alibi. Who killed the delivery boy and why?

#22 - Die Like a Dog

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/28/2002

After Wolfe refuses Richard Meegan's request to find his runaway wife, Archie finds a body at Meegan's home. A dog follows Archie home after being at the scene of the crime. Can this hold the key to the puzzle?

#23 - Christmas Party

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/1/2001

Archie Goodwin is engaged to Margot Dickey, and attends a formal get-together with her on Christmas Eve. Present is a bartender in a Santa Claus outfit, who vanishes quietly shortly afterwards.

#24 - Disguise for Murder

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/17/2001

The Manhattan Flower Club's next visit to the brownstone proves fatal for one of the members. Fortunately, she talked to Archie just before she died, and one clue from their conversation proves critical.

#25 - Eeny, Meeny, Murder, Moe

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/3/2001

While Archie is upstairs trying to convince Wolfe to meet with a prospective client, someone is in the office making sure she won't be able to tell her story.