The mysteries themselves are well-told with the possible exceptions of “The Asylum” and “The Stranger on the Road” which felt like a story I’d seen before we three women running frantically around an abandoned insane asylum and haunted house respectively. Nancy finds herself battling a phony marriage racket, video pirates, international jewel thieves, and the Russian Mafia. Other than in the Billy Feral episode, the hotel setting is never fully developed which was a shame because it had a lot of potential.īeyond these snags, the situations themselves are quite lively. Its hotel clerk is a mysterious man named Seymour. After the first episode, Nancy lands herself a room in a mysterious hotel in the college town of Callisto.
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It seems to me she could do that just as easily in the third world.īeyond her relationship with poor Ned, the series does work but leaves a lot of ground uncovered. She’s just sitting around waiting for another mystery to pop up. She wants to study criminology with a professor who appears in two episodes, but what is she going for? We never see her in class and don’t know what her major is. And Nancy-um, it’s still not clear what Nancy is doing. Ned is going to spend his life helping people in the third world. Its clear that Nancy and Ned are going in separate directions. All Ned wants during his brief visits is to spend time with Nancy without getting involved in a mystery. One big change with the series was Ned Nickerson, who had become an international aid worker, which was not a move I would predict. I responded, “She’s Nancy Drew.” However, at some point that doesn’t hold water particularly in a case like, “The Death and Life of Buddy Feral.” After the first episode, my wife was watching and asked how the “mystery” she’d investigated (which didn’t involve any crime) was any of her business. Though occasionally this crossed the line into nothing other than nosiness. She did a good job capturing the inquisitive nature of Nancy Drew, so that I grew to more or less accept her in the role. However, once I got used to her not looking anything like the Nancy Drew I knew, she became acceptable in the role. Nancy was a Strawberry blonde with gorgeous blonde hair. I’d read the Nancy Drew files of the late 80s and early 90s as well as the older novels. The first one I encountered was that the star (Tracy Ryan) looked nothing like the Nancy Drew I’d read about in books. Nancy Drew presented me with a few problems. What’s surprising is that more of them weren’t. Given the limitations, it’s not a surprise that some episodes were weak or not all that interesting.
The programs were syndicated for half hour time slots which left the writers with 21 minutes to resolve the story. Of the three leads, only Paul Popowich (Frank Hardy) would ever have much of a career. The show was filmed and produced in Canada. The 1990s series would not make anyone forget the 1970s version. Joe Hardy and Nancy Drew were college, and Joe Hardy had started first job as a reporter for the Bayport Eagle.
For these shows, the characters aged a bit. However, in 1990s, they returned to television in separate programs. The 1970s “Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries” is the best known TV adaptation of the two famous stars of young adult detective novels. THE GREAT DETECTIVES of Old Time Radio With Host Adam Graham Main menu Skip to content
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