This must have been one of the first 'event' TV shows with big budgets and production values as high as that of a film. It may have also been one of the last TV shows to actually be fun before everything turned to grimdark.
If you aren't familiar with the Nero Wolfe books, all you need to know is that he's a fat bad-tempered detective genius who refuses to leave the house and sends his wise-cracking ladies'-man sidekick Archie Goodwin to do the legwork. If you do know the books, this show gets everyone and everything right (except perhaps that Saul Panzer is younger and better-looking than I envisaged him), even the furniture.
If you aren't familiar with the Nero Wolfe books, all you need to know is that he's a fat bad-tempered detective genius who refuses to leave the house and sends his wise-cracking ladies'-man sidekick Archie Goodwin to do the legwork. If you do know the books, this show gets everyone and everything right (except perhaps that Saul Panzer is younger and better-looking than I envisaged him), even the furniture.