Nero Wolfe (2001 TV series)

Nero Wolfe
Title illustration and design by Aurore Giscard d'Estaing
Also known as	A Nero Wolfe Mystery The Nero Wolfe Mysteries
Genre	Period drama
Written by	Sharon Elizabeth Doyle Lee Goldberg William Rabkin Michael Jaffe Stuart Kaminsky Janet Roach Jennifer Salt Mark Stein
Directed by	John L'Ecuyer Timothy Hutton George Bloomfield Holly Dale John R. Pepper James Tolkan Neill Fearnley Michael Jaffe
Starring	Timothy Hutton Maury Chaykin Bill Smitrovich Colin Fox Conrad Dunn Fulvio Cecere Trent McMullen R. D. Reid Saul Rubinek Kari Matchett Debra Monk Nicky Guadagni
Composer	Michael Small
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	20 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producers	Michael Jaffe Timothy Hutton Howard Braunstein
Producers	Susan Murdoch Randi Richmond
Production locations	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cinematography	Derek Rogers John Berrie
Editors	Paul Winestock Stephen Lawrence James Bredin Susan Shipton
Camera setup	Single-camera
Production companies	Jaffe/Braunstein Films Ltd. and A&E Networks in association with Pearson Television International
Original release
Network	A&E
Release	April 22, 2001 (2001-04-22) – August 18, 2002 (2002-08-18)
Related
The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000)
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Nero Wolfe is a television series adapted from Rex Stout's series of detective stories that aired for two seasons (2001–2002) on A&E. Set in New York City sometime in the 1940s–1950s, the stylized period drama stars Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin. A distinguishing feature of the series is its use of a repertory cast to play non-recurring roles. Nero Wolfe was one of the Top 10 Basic Cable Dramas for 2002.

The series won praise for its high production values and jazzy score by Michael Small, and for preserving the language and spirit of the original stories. Most of the teleplays were written by consulting producer Sharon Elizabeth Doyle and the team of William Rabkin and Lee Goldberg, whose "Prisoner's Base" was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America.

A total of 20 episodes were produced over the two-season run. Eight of Stout's novels were adapted into two-hour broadcasts, while 12 of his short stories were filmed as one-hour episodes.

Nero Wolfe was produced for A&E by Jaffe/Braunstein Films, one of the first production companies to use high-definition video for television. Although the second season was shot in HD, none of the several home video releases of the series has been issued in HD, and only one of the 20 episodes ("The Silent Speaker") has been issued in 16:9 widescreen format.