7.6/10112 votesLoading...#1 - Cop Killer
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 8/11/2002
Two illegal aliens flee a barbershop when a New York City cop begins asking questions. When the cop turns up dead, Wolfe must clear the two of his murder.
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- 7.8/10128 votesLoading...
#2 - Disguise for Murder
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/17/2001
The Manhattan Flower Club's next visit to the brownstone proves fatal for one of the members. Fortunately, she talked to Archie just before she died, and one clue from their conversation proves critical.
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- 8.0/10116 votesLoading...
#3 - Murder Is Corny
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/5/2002
Inspector Cramer arrives with Wolfe's specially-picked corn, fresh from the murder scene of the delivery boy. Archie is the prime suspect in light of his infatuation with a "sweet" young farm girl turned fashion model. Once Wolfe realizes the inconvenience of Archie's potential incarceration, he joins the case, and the two eventually flush out the criminal -- but not before some deadly corn pops in their faces.
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- 8.1/10149 votesLoading...
#4 - Eeny, Meeny, Murder, Moe
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/3/2001
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.
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- 8.2/10151 votesLoading...
#5 - Prisoner's Base (1)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/13/2001
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.
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- 8.2/10118 votesLoading...
#6 - Poison a la Carte
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/26/2002
Someone's poisoned a lecherous producer during a banquet prepared by Fritz, and Wolfe starts investigating the kitchen before the victim has even stopped breathing. He boils down the pool of suspects to one of five female servers, but it takes a clever ruse to bring the killer out into the open.
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- 8.3/10239 votesLoading...
#7 - The Doorbell Rang
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/22/2001
A 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.
Director: Timothy Hutton
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10182 votesLoading...
#8 - Champagne for One (1)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/29/2001
Archie is standing in for a friend at a party for unwed mothers when one of the guests drops dead. Through she had often talked about killing herself and was known to carry cyanide, Archie does not believe her death was suicide. A little digging uncovers the connection that proves his hunch, and Wolfe helps bring the killer to justice.
Director: Timothy Hutton
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/10142 votesLoading...
#9 - Champagne for One (2)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/6/2001
Archie is standing in for a friend at a party for unwed mothers when one of the guests drops dead. Through she had often talked about killing herself and was known to carry cyanide, Archie does not believe her death was suicide. A little digging uncovers the connection that proves his hunch, and Wolfe helps bring the killer to justice.
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- 8.3/10128 votesLoading...
#10 - Prisoner's Base (2)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/20/2001
Moved by Archie Goodwin's zeal in trying to find the killer of heiress Priscilla Eads, Nero Wolfe takes on Archie as a client to aid him in his quest. Tension mounts when another woman who knew the heiress is found murdered.
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- 8.3/10134 votesLoading...
#11 - Door to Death
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/24/2001
Wolfe needs a new orchid man, and goes on an adventure to find him. Only to find a murder scene at his destination and no way of retrieving the horticulturalist without first solving the mystery.
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- 8.3/10114 votesLoading...
#12 - Die Like a Dog
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/28/2002
Archie stumbles onto a murder scene while trying to retrieve his raincoat. Not wanting to get involved, he leaves the scene only to discover a black Labrador retriever following him. Wolfe, surprisingly, is taken by the animal and christens him Jet. When Cramer shows up in search of the pet, wolfe gets Archie involved in the investigation in order to keep the dog.
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- 8.3/10108 votesLoading...
#13 - Help Wanted, Male
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/30/2002
After Wolfe turns down a request for help, the man is murdered. More troubling than that is that now Wolfe is the one being threatened. In order to buy some time Wolfe hires a body double, but will that be enough to keep him safe until he finds the killer?
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- 8.3/10107 votesLoading...
#14 - Immune to Murder
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 8/18/2002
Wolfe is asked to cook his famous baked trout for an oilman and an Eastern European ambassador. But when Archie finds a body in the trout stream, Wolfe must solve the murder first.
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- 8.4/10146 votesLoading...
#15 - Christmas Party
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/1/2001
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.
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- 8.4/10129 votesLoading...
#16 - Over My Dead Body (1)
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/8/2001
A woman from Montenegro claims that Wolfe's long-lost adopted daughter is in New York, and is accused of theft at a prestigious fencing club. Her troubles increase when a club member is found stabbed to death and she is the prime suspect.
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- 8.4/10110 votesLoading...
#17 - Before I Die
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/16/2002
The gangster Dazy Perrit wants to keep his daughter's identity a secret so he hires a stand in to pose as her. But when the stand in blackmails him, he turns to Wolfe and Archie for help.
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- 8.5/10115 votesLoading...
#18 - Over My Dead Body (2)
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/15/2001
As Wolfe tries to unravel the mystery of a young woman who could be his long-lost adopted daughter, she draws him and Archie Goodwin further and further into a web of deceit, political intrigue and murder.
Director: Timothy Hutton
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10114 votesLoading...
#19 - The Next Witness
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/2002
When Wolfe realizes his testimony will be used to convict a defendant he believes is innocent, he storms out of the trial in contempt of court. With Archie at his side and Inspector Cramer on his tail, Wolfe's investigation uncovers a complicated blackmail scheme. With the new evidence in hand, Wolfe returns to the court, much to the prosecuting attorney's annoyance.
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- 8.6/10129 votesLoading...
#20 - Motherhunt (1)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/12/2002
A baby is left on a widow's doorstep with a note implying that her late husband had been its father. The widow, Lucy Valdon, hires Wolfe and Archie to find the true mother, but soon the case turns deadly.
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- 8.6/10110 votesLoading...
#21 - Motherhunt (2)
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/19/2002
A baby is left on a widow's doorstep with a note implying that her late husband had been its father. The widow, Lucy Valdon, hires Wolfe and Archie to find the true mother, but soon the case turns deadly.
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- 8.7/10116 votesLoading...
#22 - Too Many Clients (1)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/2/2002
After Thomas Yeager hires Archie because he believes he's being followed, he winds up dead at a construction site. Wolfe and Archie's investigations show that the victim had many lovers.
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- 8.7/10106 votesLoading...
#23 - Too Many Clients (2)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/9/2002
After Thomas Yeager hires Archie because he believes he's being followed, he winds up dead at a construction site. Wolfe and Archie's investigations show that the victim had many lovers.
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- 8.7/10119 votesLoading...
#24 - The Silent Speaker (1)
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 7/14/2002
Wolfe and Archie investigate the murder of the Head of the Bureau of Price Regulations, who was about to speak before the National Industry Association.
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- 8.8/10142 votesLoading...
#25 - Death of a Doxy (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/14/2002
A simple favor for a friend leads Archie to a dead body. The friend is arrested but Wolfe suspects the real murderer is still on the loose, though Archie isn't so sure. His investigations take him to the victim's sister, who is willing to go to any length to keep her sibling's transgressions a secret. Only a clever ruse by Wolfe finally flushes out the killer.
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The Worst Episodes of A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Every episode of A Nero Wolfe Mystery ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of A Nero Wolfe Mystery!
Genius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes.
Genres:DramaComedyCrimeMystery
Network:A&E
Worst Episodes Summary
"Cop Killer" is the worst rated episode of "A Nero Wolfe Mystery". It scored 7.6/10 based on 112 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/11/2002. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Disguise for Murder".