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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 2279
Released: March 22, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Color Full Screen NTSC Closed-captioned | |
Editorial Review:
Follow the clues to mystery, adventure and thrills as Season One of the The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries comes to DVD for the first time ever! Teen sensations Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson and Pamela Sue Martin star as brave super-sleuths in 14 spooky episodes loaded with spellbinding action and smash-hit pop songs, including Shaun Cassidy’s #1 hit "Da Doo Ron Ron." Inspired by the hugely popular books and with an amazing lineup of guest stars, including Jamie Lee Curtis, Mark Harmon, Bob Crane, Rick Nelson and more, it’s no surprise that The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries is an open-and-shut case for fun!
Description of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season One:
The Hardy Boys Mysteries and The Nancy Drew Mysteries began in 1977 as separate series alternating in the same time slot on ABC. Early the following year, the casts combined, and in the fall of 1978 the Nancy Drew thread was dropped and The Hardy Boys Mysteries continued on alone. This Season One boxed set captures the twin-series idea at its most ambitious, with adolescent brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, created by author Franklin W. Dixon, sleuthing for clues one week and Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew investigating crimes the next.
Actually, as fans of the books know, Dixon and Keene were both pen names used by Edward Stratemeyer when he created those characters in 1927. Just as the young detectives have been updated in print every so often to accommodate successive generations of readers, so too did the TV show present Joe (Shaun Cassidy, brother of David Cassidy of The Partridge Family), Frank (Parker Stevenson), and Nancy (Pamela Sue Martin) as thoroughly 1970s kids. The boys are outfitted with motorcycles, Joe enjoys a retro-pop singing career, and Nancy has a certain freedom of movement only the hippest of dads in a permissive age would allow. Hardy Boys finds the always-amicable siblings following in the footsteps of their father, Fenton (Edmund Gilbert), a private detective, as they untangle capers that take them from haunted houses to Hawaii. The Hardy episodes make for brisk, family viewing, much better than the bubblegum reputation that built up, undeservedly, around the series. Slightly less interesting are the Nancy Drew programs (despite a more entertaining supporting cast), but only because the heroine is less focused and distractingly man-crazy, and the storylines are less exotic. An emphasis on the supernatural and science-fiction themes lends a Scooby-Doo vibe to several programs in both series, though the best stories are the ones with straightforward, meat-and-potatoes detective work. Among the directors on either series are Jack Arnold (The Creature from the Black Lagoon), Winrich Kolbe (Star Trek: The Next Generation), and actors Vince Edwards and Stuart Margolin. --Tom Keogh
The Hardy Boys Mysteries and The Nancy Drew Mysteries Trivia
• Jamie Lee Curtis and Robert Englund, who played the biker couple Mary and Gar in an episode of this series, started acting in horror films during this era.
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season One Reviews:
Awesome mystery series! 
2009-02-25 - These two tv series from the late '70s are soooo well done. There is very little that could be offensive(ie sometimes are there are some girls in bikinis, but that is not the norm). The mystery stories are intricate & challenging to figure out. The writers make the audience suspect more than one person, so it's hard to figure out. Very well done. We love it!
As Pure Nostalgia 
2008-12-23 - I vivid remember this show. I loved this show very much, but I was 10!!! Now as an adult, you can definately find alot of plot problems, cheap sets and chances on seeing Shawn Cassidy or Parker S. shirtless! (not that it bothers me, but what sluts!!! remember the Fitzpatricks??) The writers must have been smokin' lotz of Wacky Tobaccy when they worked this show, but so did the Krofft Brothers. There lots of bad dialogue and direction to quibble on Hardy Boys.
Then , why was Nancy Drew such a better show? Acting, better. sets still cheap, but i liked this half of the double bill. Actually, the shows were shown back to back by weeks (one week Boys, next week Nancy) I maybe mistaken, but the episode format may have changed over the years. I believed Boys was a lot more popular than Nancy.
Anywho, this compliation is well done, sound is good. Transfer from tape to DVD is pretty good.
Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, season one
2008-10-16 - I really liked watching these and didn't really remember many of the episodes b/c I was only 9 when they aired. I love the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew! It was fun to watch, especially Parker Stevenson & Shaun Cassidy.
Christine :)
the best season
2008-07-27 - It's my favorite season, but I'm a Nancy Drew Fan, and this was the year that they had the most Nancy Drew episodes
Great video
2008-07-17 - I'm a huge fan of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew so I knew I was going to enjoy watching the show all over again. Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson perform their roles like pros. I especially enjoy the episodes where Shaun performs his songs. Also like the episodes where Parker is surfing in Hawaii. I like Pamela Sue Martin. Just wish she was in all the Nancy Drew episodes. There are a few episodes with two different actresses playing Nancy. Not as good as the original. There are so many good guest stars in the episodes, too, like Valerie Bertanelli, Rick Springfield, and Bobby Troup. Lots of mystery and guessing "who did it?" Video quality is good and I'd recommend it for all ages.
