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 line). Lloyd Bochner and Dorothy Malone (The House on Possessed Hill); Diana Muldaur (Sole Survivor); Ray Milland and call girl Raipur 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 (Seek for Atlantis); June Lockhart and Robert Loggia (Dangerous Waters). 12, “The Mystery of the Ghostwriter’s Cruise”, is noteworthy because it contains a sequence by which a tsunami seems to strategy a cruise ship, a deliberate homage to the 1972 catastrophe movie, The Poseidon Adventure, by which Martin had additionally starred. She later visitor starred in a Nancy Drew episode, “The Mystery of the Fallen Angels”. Sidaris acknowledged that casting Nancy Drew was more durable, as “everybody had a hard and fast image in their heads” of what she was like. Adams wished Brotman and Sidaris to maintain the healthful, conservative values of the characters; when Brotman and Sideris agreed, she permitted of the sequence, but with full script approval.
The episodes are then storyboarded by artists, who produce 500 to 800 drawings over three weeks while consulting the author’s script. Stevenson, Cassidy and Martin are credited as Starring. Martin, Stevenson, and Cassidy have been all credited in all episodes, despite the program alternating between the characters. Whereas the characters had been usually depicted as teenagers in the original books and most earlier display adaptations, such as the serialized Hardy Boys tales of the 1950s’ Mickey Mouse Club series and the Bonita Granville Nancy Drew films of the late thirties, the Tv sequence “aged-up” Frank and Nancy, as Stevenson and Martin have been each in their mid-20s; only Cassidy was nonetheless a teen at the time the collection entered manufacturing. Adams had inherited the Syndicate from her father, Edward Stratemeyer, after his death in 1930. Within the late 1930s, 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 At first, the 83-year-outdated Adams was skeptical.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 minimize the Nancy Drew character, and the series, now titled The Hardy Boys, centered solely on the Hardys. The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew have been each profitable guide publishing franchises owned by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a publishing group which owned many successful children’s guide traces.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis auditioned for the role of Nancy Drew. Rick Springfield also portrayed Ned Nickerson in a single season two episode, however Springfield’s role was unrelated to O’Hanlon’s. Joe Hardy was engaged in the first episode, however his fiancée was killed in a hit-and-run, investigated by the FBI. For the primary season, the opening credits featured a maze under the series title. For the third season, the series’ theme track was remixed, and given more of an upbeat disco sound. This backlot street was later used in the Tom Hanks comedy film The ‘Burbs; the music video for Smash Mouth’s hit song “All Star”; and as Wisteria Lane within the ABC drama Desperate Housewives, through which the home of the Hardys also served the house of principal character Susan Mayer. Universal gave the task 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 in the episode and the episode title.
For the second season, the title sequence was altered; the maze was changed with clips from the sequence and a collage of book covers from the guide collection. Following the ending of the second season, the Nancy Drew character was dropped, and the series was re-titled The Hardy Boys. Following the departure of Pamela Sue Martin and the next blended reaction with alternative Janet Louise Johnson, producers once once more rebooted the series. Janet Louise Johnson was also in her late teenagers when she changed Martin as Nancy Drew. The collection changed the brief-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 in the late 1950s, and a Saturday morning cartoon sequence in the late 1960s, both of which disenchanted Adams once more. Larson later stated the network had “cancellation remorse”, whereas Stevenson said that, years later, an ABC government on the time stated his greatest mistake was cancelling The Hardy Boys.