Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.

• Jaffe/Braunstein Films
• Pearson Television International
• Maury Chaykin
• Timothy Hutton
• Bill Smitrovich
• Mimi Kuzyk
• Colin Fox
• Saul Rubinek
• Larissa Laskin
• Gary Reineke