Editing Nero Wolfe (section)

===Radio===
[[File:Wolfe-Greenstreet-1950.jpg|thumb|[[Sydney Greenstreet]] starred in NBC's ''[[The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe]]'' (1950–1951)]]
Nero Wolfe has been portrayed in four [[radio drama]] series on five different networks.

====''The Adventures of Nero Wolfe'' (ABC)====
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Three actors portrayed Nero Wolfe over the course of the 1943–44 radio series, ''[[The Adventures of Nero Wolfe]]''. J. B. Williams starred in its first incarnation (April 10 – June 26, 1943) on the regional New England Network. [[Santos Ortega]] assumed the role when the suspense drama moved to ABC (July 5 – September 27, 1943; January 21 – July 14, 1944). [[Luis Van Rooten]] succeeded Ortega sometime in 1944. Louis Vittes wrote most of the scripts for the 30-minute episodes, basing none of them on Stout's original stories.<ref name="DD NW">{{cite web |url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Nero-Wolfe.html |title=The Nero Wolfe Programs |website=The Digital Deli Too |access-date=2015-04-16}}</ref>

Only one episode of the series is in circulation. "The Last Laugh Murder Case" (July 14, 1944) was chosen for rebroadcast by the [[American Forces Network|Armed Forces Radio Service]]'s ''[[Mystery Playhouse]]'' series.<ref name="DD NW"/><ref name="Goldin">{{cite web |title=Nero Wolfe |website=Radio Gold Index |url=http://www.radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Nero+Wolfe |access-date=2015-04-18}}</ref>

====''The Amazing Nero Wolfe'' (MBS)====
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[[Francis X. Bushman]] starred in ''[[The Amazing Nero Wolfe]]'', a 1945 radio drama series on the [[Mutual Broadcasting System]]. Broadcast July 17 – November 30, 1945, the series was a product of the [[Don Lee (broadcaster)|Don Lee Network]], a California affiliate, and may have been broadcast only in that region.<ref name="DD NW"/><ref name="Radio Life">{{cite magazine |date=September 23, 1945 |title=In harness again! Silent movie idol Francis X. Bushman has new air role portraying Nero Wolfe |magazine=Radio Life |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=26–27 |url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Life/40s/45/Radio-Life-1945-09-23.pdf |access-date=2015-04-18}}</ref> 
Louis Vittes wrote the scripts for the 30-minute program,<ref name=Dunning/> based on Stout's principal characters but not his stories.<ref name=McAleer/>{{Rp|324}}

Although 21 episodes were produced, the series finale, "The Case of the Shakespeare Folio", is the only episode that has survived in radio collections.<ref name="DD NW"/>

====''The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe'' (NBC)====
{{Main|The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe}}
[[Sydney Greenstreet]] starred in ''[[The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe]]'', a 1950–51 series that aired on [[NBC Red Network|NBC]] October 20, 1950 – April 27, 1951. Produced by Edwin Fadiman and directed by [[J. Donald Wilson]],<ref name="Dunning">{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (radio historian) |date=1998 |title=On the Air: The encyclopedia of old-time radio |location=New York, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/onairencyclop00dunn/page/10 10] |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/onairencyclop00dunn/page/10 }}</ref> the show was written by [[Alfred Bester]].<ref name=McAleer>{{cite book |last=McAleer |first=John J. |year=1977 |title=Rex Stout: A biography |location=Boston, MA |publisher=[[Little, Brown and Company]] |isbn=9780316553407 }}</ref>{{Rp|325}}

Biographer John McAleer reported that Stout enjoyed Greenstreet's portrayal. ''The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe'' was the first radio series that, like the Stout stories themselves, stressed characterization over plot.<ref name=McAleer/>{{Rp|325}} With all but one episode in circulation, it is regarded as the series that is most responsible for popularizing Nero Wolfe on radio.<ref name="DD NW"/>

====''Nero Wolfe'' (CBC)====
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[[Mavor Moore]] starred in the 1982 [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] series ''[[Nero Wolfe (1982 radio series)|Nero Wolfe]]'', broadcast January 16 – April 10, 1982. [[Don Francks]] portrayed Archie Goodwin, and [[Cec Linder]] played Inspector Cramer. The series was produced and directed by actor Ron Hartmann, who spent two years writing the hour-long radio adaptations of Stout's original stories.<ref name=GAM>{{cite news |last=MacNiven |first=Elina |date=January 16, 1982 |title=Nero Wolfe: Wolfe's verbal coups rendered on radio |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] }}</ref> The 13&nbsp;episode series was praised for its high production values and faithful presentation.<ref name="DD NW"/>

===="The Boy who Cried Wolfe"====
The Post Meridian Radio Players, a radio theater troupe in Boston, presented a gender-swapped staged radio drama titled "The Boy who Cried Wolfe" July 20–28, 2018. An adaptation of a December&nbsp;1950 episode of the [[The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe|NBC radio series]], the production changed the genders of all of the characters; Nero Wolfe became Vera Wolfe, and Archie became Audrey Goodwin. The piece was performed along with an [[Arsene Lupin]] story and an adaptation of the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story "[[The Final Problem]]" as part of the troupe's summer mystery series, "Moriarty's Mysteries".<ref>{{cite web |title=Moriarty's Mysteries |publisher=The Post Meridian Radio Players |url=http://pmrp.org/events/srt18 |access-date=December 22, 2018 }}</ref>