Scarlet Street
"These poker scenes were put in for marketing reasons," executive producer Michael Jaffe told "Scarlet Street" magazine. ""Nero Wolfe" airs as a two-hour show overseas and the two episodes had to be tied together. So we looked for ways to do that. We've heard Archie talk about poker a million times. So there was nothing abnormal about seeing them play poker, except that we don't see them do it in the book."