[115]:37[ag] The production values were exceptional and critics responded favorably.[116]. ", WireImage (image numbers 253302 253308) and. [83], Rex Stout appeared in the December 9, 1956, episode of Omnibus, a cultural anthology series that epitomized the golden age of television. Actress Kari Matchett was a member of this repertory group while also having a recurring role in the series as Archie Goodwin's girlfriend Lily Rowan; other frequent members of the troupe included Nicky Guadagni, Debra Monk, George Plimpton, Ron Rifkin, Francie Swift, and James Tolkan. A Nero Wolfe Mystery was one of the Top 10 Basic Cable Dramas for 2002.[j][91]. Instead of spreading the principles of order and justice throughout his society, Wolfe imposes them dogmatically and absolutely within the walls of his housethe brownstone on West Thirty-Fifth Streetand he invites those who are troubled by an incomprehensible and threatening environment to enter the controlled economy of the house and to discover there the source of disorder in their own lives. ", Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia. Archie has frequent reason to note that he needs at least eight hours' sleep each night, and prefers more. Like Wolfe, Archie is a licensed private detective and handles all investigation that takes place outside the brownstone. Good food is a keystone (along with reading) of Wolfe's mostly leisured existence. I worked on a fantastic show once called Nero Wolfe, but at the time A&E was transforming from the premier intellectual cable network in America to one that airs Dog the Bounty Hunter on repeat, so it was never promoted and eventually went off the air."[39][g]. An adaptation of a December 1950 episode of the NBC radio series, the production changed the genders of all of the characters; Nero Wolfe became Vera Wolfe, and Archie became Audrey Goodwin. Broadcast July 17 November 30, 1945, the series was a product of the Don Lee Network, a California affiliate, and may have been broadcast only in that region. "Columbia's idea was to keep Arnold busy with low-cost Wolfe films between features. [87], On September 15, 1949, Rex Stout wrote a confidential memo to Edwin Fadiman, who represented his radio, film and television interests. Seated at his desk, Wolfe presses the button twice to ring for beer, and Fritz delivers the bottles unopened; Wolfe uncaps the bottles himself, using an 18-karat gold bottle opener given to him by a satisfied client. Grandly obese and famously eccentric, Wolfe is a genius who lives inand rarely leavesa large and comfortably furnished brownstone he owns on West 35th Street in Manhattan. "Jaffe/Braunstein was one of the first to experiment with HD for television," reported the industry publication HiDef Magazine: Their landmark series 100 Centre Street was one of the first hour dramas to use HDCam as the capture medium. "The episodes look excellent clear and colorful in their broadcast full-frame presentation," wrote Scarlet Street magazine. [10] A person in an alcove at the end of the hallway can open a sliding panel covering the hole, so as to see and hear conversations and other events in the office without being noticed. Ethelbert Hitchcock Wolfe's contact in London who handles enquiries to be made in Europe. In The Father Hunt, after Dorothy Sebor provides the information that solves the case, Wolfe tells Archie, "We'll send her some sprays of Phalaenopsis Aphrodite. [85] Writer Sidney Carroll received the 1957 Edgar Award for Best Episode in a TV Series. When Archie reveals he's getting married as a prank, the resulting tension between him and Wolfe leads to both men becoming involved in a Christmas party where the host is poisoned. [4]:2. This was intended to indicate unusual obesity at the time of the first book (1934), especially through the use of the word "ton" as the unit of measure. Archie indicates in various stories that Wolfe prefers to finish a paragraph before acknowledging an interruption in his reading. Archie eats his separately in the kitchen, although Wolfe might ask Fritz to send Archie upstairs if he has morning instructions for him. The front room, the elevator, the three-foot globeall persist in place through forty years of American history. Either you get it or you don't. The brownstone has three floors plus a large basement with living quarters, a rooftop greenhouse also with living quarters, and a small elevator, used almost exclusively by Wolfe. [126][127], "For audiences who might not be familiar with Wolfe and his trusty assistant Archie Goodwin, it's a terrific introduction to the characters and the milieu", wrote the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. Distributed by the A&E Television Networks in the United States and Canada, Nero Wolfe first aired on the A&E Network April 22, 2001. It was, therefore, shown from angles that would camouflage any slight discrepancies. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. The New York Times recalled that television climate, and A&E's response to it, in June 2004: Two years ago Nick Davatzes, president and chief executive of A&E Television Networks, called his executives to a retreat, to "wallow in the mud," as he described the exercise. A German TV adaption of Too Many CooksZu viele Kche (1961)starred Heinz Klevenow as Nero Wolfe, and Joachim Fuchsberger as Archie Goodwin. "Firecrackers". And one of the most beloved murder techniques used by mystery writers is, after all, poisoned food and to kill someone in this way, you not only have to be cold-blooded, but know what youre doing in the kitchen as well. The third collection released in April 2010 made the 90-minute features "Wolfe Goes Out" and "Wolfe Stays In" available on home video for the first time; until then, the linked episodes "Door to Death"/ "Christmas Party" and "Eeny Meeny Murder Moe"/"Disguise for Murder" were available only in the abbreviated form sold by A&E Home Video. Shad roe is a particular favorite, prepared in a number of different ways. [1]:488. Herb Aronson and Al Goller friendly cabbies who make themselves available to Archie for mobile surveillance jobs. The corpus implies or states that Nero Wolfe was born in Montenegro, with one exception. Wolfe does not suffer idiots well. Commentators have noted a coincidence in the names "Sherlock Holmes" and "Nero Wolfe": the same vowels appear in the same order. A&E initially planned that The Golden Spiders would be the first in a series of two-hour mystery movies featuring Nero Wolfe. Effective novelistic dialogue is not usually effective screen dialogue, as Raymond Chandler discovered when he worked on the script for the 1944 film of James M. Cain's Double Indemnity. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, After he protested that his story was used without permission, Rex Stout received a $3,500 settlement. [96] The half-hour program concerned the mysterious death of a scientist during a guided missile launch at Cape Canaveral. On a sad note for hard-boiled detective fans, cable TV station A&E announced it has cancelled its Nero Wolfeseries after two seasons. Connolly did portray Wolfe in the latter film, after Arnold decided he did not want to become identified in the public mind with one part. "Nero Wolfe is a beautifully shot series, and its release on DVD is frequently stunning," wrote DVD Talk's Adam Tyner in his comprehensive review of A&E Home Video's "Nero Wolfe: The Complete Classic Whodunit Series": I didn't feel at all as if I'd been watching a television show. The success of the series is significant especially because the scripts remained remarkably faithful to the novels. I see the script process as writing his second draft. I feel a great belief in Rex Stout. The project was recast with William Conrad stepping into the role of Nero Wolfe and Lee Horsley portraying Archie Goodwin. [e] The front room is used as a waiting area for visitors while Archie informs Wolfe of their arrival, and also as a place for Archie to hide one visitor from another. The show began to be released on Region 2 DVD in December 2009, marketed in the Netherlands by Just Entertainment. That is why his employer and companion had to be made corpulent to match. He then joined the Serbian-Montenegrin army and fought against the Austrians and Germans. Early in the first novel Archie explains why there is a gong under his bed that will ring upon any intrusion into or near Wolfe's own bedroom: "Wolfe told me once that he really had no cowardice in him, he only had an intense distaste for being touched by anyone ". How would you feel if someone wanted to continue the Wolfe series after you laid aside your pen?I don't know whether vampirism or cannibalism is the better term for it. ET on another of the A&E Networks, The Biography Channel. Wolfe sometimes calls upon freelance detectives Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin and Orrie Cather; but he depends upon his assistant Archie Goodwin, the street-smart legman whose wisecracking, irreverent voice narrates the stories. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in New York City, and he is loath to leave his home for business or anything that would keep him from reading his books, tending his orchids, or eating the gourmet meals prepared by his chef, Fritz Brenner. 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"If you become focused on the crime, I think you're kind of in the wrong place. Although the Nero Wolfe stories take place contemporaneously with their writing and depict a changing landscape and society, the principal characters in the corpus do not age. They are complementary in the unheard-of ratio of 5050. Marko Vuki A fellow Montenegrin whom Wolfe has known since childhood, possibly a blood relative (since "vuk" means "wolf"). 'Every other show agonizes about casting,' Jaffe says. 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. [78][80] Lunch and dinner are served in the dining room, on the opposite side of the first-floor hallway from the front room and the office. In forty years Wolfe has scarcely ever shortened an orchid schedule. The stories have been adapted for film, radio, television and the stage. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. They have never been finer. I am a naturalized American citizen. [90], In March 1959, The New York Times reported that Kurt Kasznar and William Shatner would portray Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin in the CBS-TV series. Jaffe/Braunstein Films, which retained ownership of the series in the rest of the world, licensed distribution outside the U.S. to Pearson International Television (now FremantleMedia, Ltd.). WebThis is a bibliography of fiction by and works about the American writer Rex Stout (December 1, 1886 October 27, 1975), an American writer noted for his detective fiction. In October 2012 a region-free limited-edition box set of the complete series in 4:3 format was released by independent Australian DVD distributor Shock Entertainment,[110] which also made the series available through Australian iTunes. Goldsborough resumed the series in 2012 with Archie Meets Nero Wolfe, a prequel to Stout's novels. In rank order, the top 10 basic cable dramas for 2002 were, "There isn't anything collected in this box set besides the episodes themselves, plus bios and filmographies for Hutton and Chaykin," Vitaris wrote in her earlier review of the first-season DVD set. Previously, foils such as Dr. Watson or Arthur Hastings were employed as confidants and narrators, but none had such a fully developed personality or was such an integral part of the plot as Archie. Colin Fox (Fritz) even brushed some lint off my lapel. Paramount Television remounted Nero Wolfe as a weekly one-hour series that ran on NBC TV from January through August 1981. In 1986 journalist Robert Goldsborough published the first of seven Nero Wolfe mysteries issued by Bantam Books. [111] It is a clone of A&E Home Video's "Complete Classic Whodunit Series", with the shorter North American versions of the episodes, the first-season films split into two parts as broadcast by A&E, and A&E's brief "making of" documentary. Written by Joseph Goodrich and directed by Peter Moore, the two-act production starred E.J. This Manhattan brownstone lacked some peculiarities of Wolfe's home, unlike the model specially constructed on the Toronto set where most of the series was filmed[i]for example, the correct number of steps leading up to the stoop. She devoted most of her attention to the dialogue: What Stout writes actually sounds good when you say it out loud, but the stuff that makes you laugh out loud and fall on the floor in the books doesn't work most of the time when you transpose it directly into actors' mouths. It's worth mentioning that these DVDs present the episodes as they appeared on A&E, and although longer versions aired overseas (several were literally twice as long), none of that additional footage is offered here. Timothy Hutton is Wolfe's irreverent assistant Archie Goodwin, whose voice narrates the stories. He is fatalistic toward death. Copyright Office Document Number V3412D882, recorded March 13, 1998. These are not people who do series. NEW YORK High production costs and low ratings have spelled doom for A&Es Nero Wolfe, starring Timothy Hutton. On the eve of the premiere of Nero Wolfe, The Hollywood Reporter credited "the incredible attention to detail paid by production designer Lindsey Hermer-Bell and set decorator Odetta Stoddard, who not only re-create the world Stout so carefully described but also impart an overall feeling of stylishness and taste."[25]. I've known him for years and years. Archie's initial rough edges become smoother across the decades, much as American norms evolved over the years. Some commentators note both physical and psychological resemblances and suggest Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes as a more likely father for Wolfe. Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries (The Nero Wolfe Mysteries) Book 8 of 16: The Nero Wolfe Mysteries | by Robert Goldsborough | Nov 13, 2012. "[1]:554[y], "When Columbia pictures bought the screen rights to Fer-de-Lance for $7,500 and secured the option to buy further stories in the series, it was thought the role would go to Walter Connolly. Don Francks portrayed Archie Goodwin, and Cec Linder played Inspector Cramer. 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. [1]:324, Although 21 episodes were produced, the series finale, "The Case of the Shakespeare Folio", is the only episode that has survived in radio collections. "I seem to remember Charles being very interested in the character of Nero Wolfe," she told him. When A&E announced the cancellation of Nero Wolfe in August 2002, the network took the unusual step of posting an "Important Message" on its website: "We at A&E remain extremely proud of Nero Wolfe. It is a high quality, beautifully produced and entertaining show, unlike anything else currently on the television landscape. I do know A&E's decision not to continue didn't have anything to do with ratings; it was their highest-rated series. In the first chapter of Over My Dead Body (1939), Wolfe tells an FBI agent that he was born in the United Statesa declaration at odds with all other references. He began his literary career in the 1910s, writing more than 40 stories that appeared primarily in pulp magazines between 1912 and 1918. Wolfe either takes to bed and eats nothing but bread and onion soup, or else he consults with Fritz on menus and the preparation of nonstop meals. [18] He never drinks directly from the bottle, but instead pours the beer into a glass and lets the foam settle to an appropriate level before drinking. Besides the varying street addresses, he retained minor inconsistencies, and catching them is one of the pleasures of readers of the Nero Wolfe stories. In The Red Box (chapter 11), Wolfe states, "I know nothing of restaurants; short of compulsion, I would not eat in one were Vatel himself the chef. "Just as the series beautifully captures a time when cars with fins, fedoras worn at right angles and women's hats with feathers were all the rage, the existence of such a company also evokes another era," wrote syndicated journalist Jacqueline Cutler, who quotes Timothy Hutton as saying, "I don't think it's been done for a very long time. Regularly scheduled mealtimes for lunch and dinner are part of Wolfe's daily routine. An actor who had been "killed off" in one show might portray the murderer in the next. In 2003, A&E presented "The Golden Spiders" February 23, and "Death of a Doxy" February 20 and April 13. WebIt was the first Nero Wolfe mystery novella. The cause is unknown. [1]:76. Archie Goodwin, the narrator of the stories, frequently describes Wolfe as weighing "a seventh of a ton". I suggest beginning with autobiographical sketches from each of us, and here is mine. [87] Nero Wolfe had averaged a 1.7 rating for the month of May 2002, while viewing levels for the A&E Network overall were 1.1. "There are people who know all the books, and they know all these specifics, and if you screw up, you know, they get really upset so everything is as per written", Hermer-Bell said. For surely Archie is one of the folk heroes in which the modern American temper can see itself transfigured. In its debut season on A&E, A Nero Wolfe Mystery averaged a 1.9 rating. Phalaenopsis is mentioned in 11 Wolfe stories, and Phalaenopsis Aphrodite is named in sevenmore than any other species. Except for breakfast (which chef Fritz Brenner generally serves him in the kitchen), Archie takes his meals at Wolfe's table, and has learned much about haute cuisine by listening to Wolfe and Fritz discuss food. In ". The series has been broadcast on public and commercial networks, cable television and satellite systems throughout the world, and was presented throughout Europe and Africa on the Hallmark Channel.[i]. The invitation is extended to readers as well as to clients. [131] The second stage production to be authorized by the estate of Rex Stout, the play was written by Joseph Goodrich and directed by Peter Moore. Thus, despite numerous statements by Wolfe and Archie regarding his Wolfe takes pride in being able to offer such assistance and once remarked, "The guest is a jewel resting on the cushion of hospitality".[9]. He felt that it was necessary to find actors who understood and fit in with the show's unique approach. Wolfe's hunt for a temporary replacement for his gardener leads him and Archie to a remote mansion where, in the greenhouse, a young woman has been gassed to death. biographer John McAleer asked the author. "We finally got this opportunity", said Michael Jaffe. He makes his last appearance in the novel, Theodolinda (Dol) Bonner and Sally Corbett (aka Sally Colt), Del Bascom independent investigator who runs a large conventional detective agency in Manhattan. Real people, for example, J. Edgar Hoover (notably in The Doorbell Rang), Walter Winchell and Texas Guinan are also mentioned. I didn't watch Nero Wolfe so much as devour it, and that this is such a rewatchable series makes it especially worth owning on DVD. "He is reluctant to work, accustomed to isolation from women. [78], Only one episode of the series is in circulation. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nero Wolfe is a television series adapted from Rex Stout 's series of detective stories that aired for two seasons (20012002) on A&E. Set in New York City sometime in the 1940s1950s, the stylized period drama stars Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin. [78][79], Francis X. Bushman starred in The Amazing Nero Wolfe, a 1945 radio drama series on the Mutual Broadcasting System. He often dog-ears a page to mark his place. When Wolfe receives a threatening letter soon after a previous client -- who received a similar letter -- is murdered, he hires a body double to lure the assassin out. The short story ", He restricts his visible reactions: as Archie puts it, "He shook his head, moving it a full half-inch right and left, which was for him a frenzy of negation. [7] The only mention of Wolfe's mother in Stout's stories is in the first novel, Fer-de-Lance (1935), in which it is stated that she lives in Budapest and Wolfe sends her a monthly check. "No, at bottom, it's not Rex Stout's Nero and Archie, but it's a well-developed mystery (thanks to Stout's plot) with compensations all its ownand an interesting piece of Wolfeana."[77]. Michael Small wrote the series theme "Boss Boogie", first heard in the titles for "The Doorbell Rang" and composed the original music heard in Nero Wolfe. 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[3] The high ratings (3.2 million households) and critical praise garnered by The Golden Spiders prompted A&E to consider a one-hour drama series. The mandate from executive producers Michael Jaffe and Timothy Hutton (who also directed episodes) was to 'do the books,' even if that meant violating some of the hard-and-fast rules of screenwriting."[14]. ", Wolfe appears to know his way around the kitchen; in Too Many Cooks (chapter 17), he tells Jerome Berin, "I spend quite a little time in the kitchen myself." At the age of sixteen I decided to move around, and in fourteen years I became acquainted with most of Europe, a little of Africa, and much of Asia, in a variety of roles and activities. Wolfe merely moved us, fictionally, from one place to the other in order to preserve his particular brand of privacy. Wolfe also has a rule against discussing business at the table, sometimes bent but very rarely overtly broken. In 2007, The Black Mountain was in the number five position. 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