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- When a philandering womanizer with a lavish secret love nest penthouse is found murdered, Wolfe finds he has almost as many clients as suspects.
- In post-War America, where shortages are common, the Bureau of Price Regulations is a very controversial organization, and when its leader is murdered, Wolfe takes the case.
- When a baby, allegedly fathered by her late husband, is abandoned on the doorstep of his rich, beautiful widow, she hires Nero Wolfe to locate the mother.
- Wolfe defies a summons to testify against a man he believes innocent and incurs a contempt of court charge hunting for evidence to cast reasonable doubt on the case against him.
- When Rumpole is charged by Judge Oliphant with contempt of court and faces disbarment, Hilda persuades Sam Ballard to defend him.
- Nero Wolfe is stunned when Archie Goodwin reveals evidence of his impending engagement. However, Archie is no less shocked when accompanying his so-called fiancée to a Christmas party by the murder of their host.
- A notorious gangster hires Wolfe to protect his real daughter, who is unaware of who her father is, and stop the woman impersonating his daughter from blackmailing him.
- 1986–198852mTV-PG8.4 (1K)TV EpisodeAn obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery.
- Rumpole agrees to defend an elitist restaurateur whom he dislikes when a live mouse jumps out from one of his gourmet meals.
- 1978–199252mNot Rated8.4 (88)TV EpisodeRumpole defends career criminal Hugh Timson for receiving a garageful full of stolen wine.
- When Archie stands in for an acquaintance at a charity dance for unwed mothers, one of the mothers-to-be suddenly collapses and dies on the dance floor, an apparent suicide.
- An eccentric millionairess believes she is being followed, bugged, and generally harassed by the FBI and offers Wolfe $100,000 to get them off her back.
- In desperate need of a gardener for his beloved plant room, Wolfe undertakes a rare car trip to Westchester to recruit an orchidist and finds a body in the greenhouse.
- A murdered man's dog, who has attached himself to Archie and been accepted at the Wolfe brownstone, provides a vital clue to solving his master's murder.
- 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.
- Arriving at a remote lodge at the request of the State Department and a South American diplomat, a reluctant Wolfe prepares to cook trout for an oil tycoon's fishing party when Archie discovers one of the men dead in the river.
- 1978–199251mNot Rated8.3 (79)TV EpisodeAfter becoming enamored of a beautiful violinist, Rumpole finds himself defending her husband on a charge of murdering her lover.
- A beautiful heiress attempts to seek refuge in Nero Wolfe's house without revealing her identity or reasons for hiding. When she is turned away and found murdered shortly thereafter, Archie Goodwin takes off on his own to find the killer.
- At the annual meeting of Wolfe's gourmet society, Ten for Aristology, one of the members is poisoned, and Wolfe suspects one of the beautiful servers of the crime.
- 1978–199252mNot Rated8.2 (85)TV EpisodeAfter an army sergeant is found stabbed to death wearing a woman's dress, Rumpole is assigned to defend the accused murderer.
- 1978–199252mNot Rated8.2 (84)TV EpisodeA notorious tabloid hires Rumpole to defend it in a libel suit being brought by a puritanical novelist it has accused of sexual promiscuity.
- 1978–199252mNot Rated8.2 (97)TV EpisodeRumpole defends an eccentric artist in a forgery case before the newly appointed Judge Featherstone.
- 1978–199252mNot Rated8.2 (76)TV EpisodeRumpole defends the smarmy owner of a string of massage parlors on the charge of running "disorderly houses" (i.e. bordellos).
- 1978–199252mNot Rated8.2 (96)TV EpisodeRumpole tries to collect an old debt from an elusive deadbeat solicitor while defending a vacation planner on fraud charges.
- 1978–199251mNot Rated8.2 (65)TV EpisodeRumpole finds himself in the unusual position of defending a police officer on a charge of falsifying a confession.
- 1978–199252mNot Rated8.2 (88)TV EpisodeRumpole defends an eccentric spinster accused of being a government whistle-blower.
- 1978–199253mNot Rated8.2 (88)TV EpisodeRumpole reluctantly agrees to defend Fiona's sister, who's accused of murdering her husband with a shotgun.
- 1978–199251mNot Rated8.2 (80)TV EpisodeRumpole defends a union activist accused of manslaughter while Hilda goes on strike as Rumpole's cook because of his late hours..
- While on a Mediterranean cruise, Rumpole is confronted with his old nemesis, Judge Graves, and the unexplained disappearance of one of his fellow passengers.
- Andrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave), a classics teacher at an English school, is afflicted with a heart ailment and an unfaithful wife (Jean Kent). His interest in his pupils wanes as he looks towards his final days in employment.
- Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.
- 1986–198851mTV-PG8.1 (965)TV EpisodeHolmes is asked by the country's Prime Minister to aid in the recovery of a stolen diplomatic letter, which, if published, might lead England into war.
- When fastidious Nero Wolfe abandons a stained tie after eating his lunch in his study, it is used to strangle a prospective client shortly thereafter.
- Archie stands accused in the murder of a man delivering corn because both of them were rivals for the affections of the farmer's daughter.
- Troubled solicitor Nick Turner falls from the roof of his home; is this suicide disguised as murder?
- Sir Freddy Butler collapses during a speech. The PM suggests the death is due to natural causes, however Barnaby is not convinced. Sir Freddy's will is stolen and his lawyer's house is burned down in an arson attack.
- 1986–198851mTV-PG8.1 (925)TV EpisodeWhile convalescing in Cornwall, a depressive Holmes investigates the apparent death from apoplexy of a local woman and the unexplained sudden dementia of her two brothers.
- Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Professor Moriarity three years earlier, Sherlock Holmes returns to England to foil a plot to murder him by a former Moriarity gang member.
- 1978–199251mNot Rated8.1 (82)TV EpisodeNigel Timson, one of the few members of the notorious Timson clan to have a legitimate job, is defended by Rumpole on a charge of insider trading.
- 1978–199251mNot Rated8.1 (83)TV EpisodeRumpole defends a petty thief on charges of armed robbery while trying to get Fiona accepted into his chamber.
- 1978–199252mNot Rated8.1 (85)TV EpisodeAfter a fight with his wife Rumpole stays with Erskine-Browns and finds that Portia is prosecuting one of his clients.
- 1978–199251mNot Rated8.1 (81)TV EpisodeFeatherstone's controversial remarks and ruling in a domestic violence case causes fallout from women's rights groups and concern from the Lord Chancellor.
- 1978–199251mNot Rated8.1 (70)TV EpisodeRumpole agrees to prosecute for the first time in a private complaint brought by the rich father of a murdered girl.
- While defending one of the Timson clan, Rumpole makes an exotic horse racing bet which may allow him to retire if he wins.
- The saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.
- Documentary about the rise and fall of one of the greatest military geniuses of modern times from his Corsican childhood to final exile in St. Helena.
- When a provincial middle-aged retiree is found shot to death in his bedroom, his relationship with his irascible young maid comes under Maigret's scrutiny.
- 1986–198853mTV-PG8.0 (825)TV EpisodeSherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.
- 1986–198852mTV-PG8.0 (950)TV EpisodeThe headmaster of a prestigious prep school calls on Holmes for help when the ten year old only son of powerful but publicity-shy duke disappears.
- Rumpole defends a scrap dealer accused of selling arms to terrorists while Phyllida presides at the trial in her newly appointed job as recorder.