Adapted by Lynda LaPlante from her own 1983 British miniseries of the same name, the ABC four-parter Widows was set in motion by a bungled art heist, in which three thieves and a possible fourth were betrayed and killed. Rather than grieve over their fallen husbands, the three widows of the thievesDolly Mercedes Ruehl, Linda Rosie Perez, and Shirley Brooke Shieldsjoin forces to complete the original "caper, and to track down their spouses' murderers. The ladies are joined by exotic dancer Bella N'Bushe Wright, whose missing-in-action boyfriend may have been slaughtered along with the other three crooks. The American version of Widows debuted August 6, 2002.
