"A Nero Wolfe Mystery" Help Wanted, Male (2002)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

John L'Ecuyer

Writers:

Mark Stein (teleplay)
Rex Stout (novella "Help Wanted, Male")

TV Series:

"A Nero Wolfe Mystery" (2001)

Original Air Date:

23 June 2002 (Season 2, Episode 12)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Action

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Death Threat | Based On Novella | Body Double | Private Eye | Peep Hole

Cast

Timothy Hutton	...	Archie Goodwin
Maury Chaykin	...	Nero Wolfe
Colin Fox	...	Fritz Brenner
Bill Smitrovich	...	Inspector Cramer
R.D. Reid	...	Sergeant Purley Stebbins
James Tolkan	...	Ben Jenson
Richard Waugh	...	Major Emil Jensen
George Plimpton	...	General Carpenter
Robert Bockstael	...	Colonel Dickey
Steve Cumyn	...	Peter Root
Kari Matchett	...	Jane Geer
Larry Drake	...	Fake Wolfe
Randy Butcher	...	Doyle

Runtime:

45 min

Company:

A&E Television Networks

Trivia:

"Before I Die" was chosen as the second entry of the thirteen part "Nero Wolfe" radio series and was broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Company on January 23, 1982.

Goofs:

Continuity: The same headline appears on the back of Fritz's newspaper several days later - apparently the same prop was used both times.

Quotes:

Archie Goodwin: [to Wolfe] Look, I admit that you're a great detective, a champion beer drinker, and a genius, but this is a hell of a way to spend a war. If Carpenter calls, and you tell him you can't do without me, I am going to put gristle in your crabmeeat and sugar in your beer.