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

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 | Private Eye | Nero Wolfe | Anonymous Letter | Narration

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:

Elements of the plot from an earlier Wolfe story, "Booby Trap" qualify this as a sequel to the earlier story.

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: Now listen, Tiger Eyes, do you see me sneaking up behind you?
Jane Geer: I should have known you have so many women you have to issue ration coupons, and yet you find so much time for me.
Archie Goodwin: Well, you know why?
Jane Geer: Do I?
Archie Goodwin: Tou've got a mirror.
Jane Geer: [pleased and purring] Mmmmm.