Nicholas Hammond and John Karlen (The Lady on Thursday at Ten); Melanie Griffith (The House on Possessed Hill); Kim Cattrall and Linda Dano (Voodoo Doll); Valerie Bertinelli, Stepfanie Kramer and Kim Lankford (Campus Terror); and Ana Alicia (Life on the road). Lloyd Bochner and Dorothy Malone (The House on Possessed Hill); Diana Muldaur (Sole Survivor); Ray Milland and Howard Duff (Voodoo Doll); Vic Damone, Fabian and Troy Donahue (Mystery on the Avalanche Express); Jack Jones (Death Surf); Pernell Roberts and Joseph Cotten (Arson and Old Lace); Kevin Tighe (Last Kiss of Summer) Dana Andrews and Patrick Macnee (Assault on the Tower); John Colicos (Search for Atlantis); June Lockhart and Robert Loggia (Dangerous Waters). 12, “The Mystery of the Ghostwriter’s Cruise”, is noteworthy as a result of it accommodates a sequence wherein a tsunami appears to strategy a cruise ship, a deliberate homage to the 1972 disaster film, The Poseidon Adventure, through which Martin had also starred. She later guest starred in a Nancy Drew episode, “The Mystery of the Fallen Angels”. Sidaris said that casting Nancy Drew was more durable, as “everyone had a hard and fast image of their heads” of what she was like. Adams wished Brotman and Sidaris to maintain the wholesome, conservative values of the characters; when Brotman and Sideris agreed, she authorized of the series, but with full script approval.
The episodes are then storyboarded by artists, who produce 500 to 800 drawings over three weeks whereas consulting the writer’s script. Stevenson, Cassidy and Martin are credited as Starring. Martin, Stevenson, and Cassidy have been all credited in all episodes, regardless of this system alternating between the characters. Whereas the characters had been typically depicted as teenagers in the original books and most earlier display adaptations, such as the serialized Hardy Boys stories of the 1950s’ Mickey Mouse Club collection and the Bonita Granville Nancy Drew movies of the late thirties, the Tv series “aged-up” Frank and Nancy, as Stevenson and Martin have been each in their mid-20s; solely Cassidy was nonetheless a teen at the time the series entered manufacturing. Adams had inherited the Syndicate from her father, Edward Stratemeyer, after his death escort in Buxar 1930. Within the late nineteen thirties, Warner Bros. At first, the 83-year-outdated Adams was skeptical. Adams about shopping for the film rights to the Drew sequence. This time, they lower the Nancy Drew character, and the sequence, now titled The Hardy Boys, focused solely on the Hardys. The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew were both profitable book publishing franchises owned by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a publishing group which owned many successful youngsters’s guide strains.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis auditioned for the function of Nancy Drew. Rick Springfield also portrayed Ned Nickerson in one season two episode, but Springfield’s function was unrelated to O’Hanlon’s. Joe Hardy was engaged in the primary episode, but his fiancée was killed in a hit-and-run, investigated by the FBI. For the primary season, the opening credits featured a maze below the series title. For the third season, the collection’ theme track was remixed, and given more of an upbeat disco sound. This backlot street was later used within the Tom Hanks comedy film The ‘Burbs; the music video for Smash Mouth’s hit tune “All Star”; and as Wisteria Lane in the ABC drama Desperate Housewives, in which the home of the Hardys also served the home of main character Susan Mayer. Universal gave the assignment to Glen A. Larson, who had produced the police drama Get Christie Love! At the top of the haunting theme music, the voice-over announcer (William Conrad) would state who was featured within the episode and the episode title.
For the second season, the title sequence was altered; the maze was changed with clips from the series and a collage of e-book covers from the e-book sequence. Following the ending of the second season, the Nancy Drew character was dropped, and the collection was re-titled The Hardy Boys. Following the departure of Pamela Sue Martin and the subsequent combined reaction with replacement Janet Louise Johnson, producers as soon as again rebooted the sequence. Janet Louise Johnson was also in her late teenagers when she changed Martin as Nancy Drew. The collection changed the short-lived Cos, and aired earlier than Top 10 hits The Six Million Dollar Man and The ABC Sunday Night Movie. The Hardy Boys had previously been tailored for The Mickey Mouse Club within the late 1950s, and a Saturday morning cartoon collection within the late 1960s, both of which disenchanted Adams again. Larson later said the network had “cancellation remorse”, whereas Stevenson mentioned that, years later, an ABC govt at the time stated his greatest mistake was cancelling The Hardy Boys.
