I just purchased the first season of Nero Wolfe on DVD. I am curious to know how many seasons there were of this show (IMDB leads me to believe that there was 1), and if all of the show's episodes were included on the first DVD release.
shareTotal number of seasons is just two.
It's a real pity as this show was so good but folks never found it. A&E didn't really push it and the times moved around a lot and it was pre-empted more than a few times too. :(
How many seasons? Unfortunately not enough. I love the books/short stories and this television adaptation was fantastic. Sad that it's not still in production. :(
shareI agree there were just two seasons, and that there should have been many more. Episodes were incredibly true to the novels, as were the characterizations. I just found the series rerun on Biography Channel (cable) and have enjoyed at least 6 of them, one every Friday night (or two Fridays in a row if an extended episode.) I am so sorry this wonderfully acted and beautifully set-designed series is not destined to bring every Rex Stout "Nero Wolfe" series to television. What can we do....to whom do we write?
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I highly enjoy watching the episodes on Saturday nights followed by the 80s and 90s Columbo movies.
I'll bet the ratings have improved now! Too bad they couldn't go back to making movies (of the books) every year or so like they do with Columbo.
Great show. Great cast. Great pacing. Wonderful period detail. Someone will fry in Hell for cancelling this.
shareHow many novels did Rex Stout write? I've read many of them, and it seems that the show has an episode for every novel that I've read. If the producers of the show were running out of original work by Rex Stout I'm not sure that I would have enjoyed shows based on someone else's writings. I never liked the Sherlock Holmes movies and radio shows that weren't based on A. Conan Doyle's writings, but maybe I'm just too much of a purist.
shareThere were two seasons of "Nero Wolfe Mysteries" broadcast on the A&E Network in 2001 and 2002. Both seasons are now available on DVD. Rex Stout wrote 73 Nero Wolfe stories (novels and novellas) so the producers certainly weren't running out of original material. Unfortunately, A&E had a fit of nincompoopery and canceled the show after two short seasons. Producers Michael Jaffe, Timothy Hutton and Howard Braunstein, along with head writer Sharon Doyle, did an exemplary job of adapting Stout's works, capturing the characters of Wolfe and Archie, all of the characters, and the mood of the stories. They used as much of Stout's own language and action as possible to bring the stories to life.
In an interview in "Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine" June 2004, when asked if "Nero Wolfe" was a fun project, Timothy Hutton replied, "It really was. It was two years that were really creatively satisfying. Everyone had a wonderful time working on it. And it's something that we might do again. We might do a few more of the books down the road. That idea appeals to me a great deal, especially if we don't try to do a whole bunch in a short period of time, because they're difficult to do. They're 'period' stories, and if we do more, I want to make sure that they're done right, and that we have the time to tell the story and not lose anything in the adaptation."
So I haven't given up hope of seeing more "Nero Wolfe" done right by Timothy Hutton et al.
Maury, Tim and the gang back together again someday. Oh, let it be so!
shareThat would be wonderful! My family had just caught up with the show, and we were all looking forward to many more, when "Immune to Murder" played on TV.
Then, there weren't any more.
Now that the show's popularity is growing due to DVD sales, word-of-mouth, rerun showings, etc, I hope we will get to see more episodes of this brilliant show in the future!
If word of mouth has any real affect on the decision making process, this will have to come back, at least as a tv movie or two. Everyone I have exposed the show to has become a faom-at-the-mouth fanatic.
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