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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 goregaon call girl 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 as a result of it accommodates a sequence wherein a tsunami appears to method a cruise ship, a deliberate homage to the 1972 catastrophe movie, The Poseidon Adventure, wherein Martin had additionally starred. She later guest starred in a Nancy Drew episode, "The Mystery of the Fallen Angels". Sidaris acknowledged that casting Nancy Drew was tougher, as "everybody had a fixed picture in their heads" of what she was like. Adams needed Brotman and Sidaris to maintain the wholesome, conservative values of the characters; when Brotman and Sideris agreed, she approved of the collection, 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 the program alternating between the characters. Whereas the characters had been usually depicted as teenagers in the unique books and most previous display screen adaptations, such as the serialized Hardy Boys stories of the 1950s' Mickey Mouse Club series and the Bonita Granville Nancy Drew movies of the late nineteen thirties, the Tv sequence "aged-up" Frank and Nancy, as Stevenson and Martin had been both of their mid-20s; solely Cassidy was nonetheless a teen on the time the series entered production. Adams had inherited the Syndicate from her father, Edward Stratemeyer, after his death in 1930. Within the late thirties, Warner Bros. At first, the 83-year-old Adams was skeptical. Adams about buying 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 were each successful e-book publishing franchises owned by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a publishing group which owned many profitable kids's guide lines.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis auditioned for the function of Nancy Drew. Rick Springfield also portrayed Ned Nickerson in a single season two episode, however Springfield's position was unrelated to O'Hanlon's. Joe Hardy was engaged in the primary episode, however his fiancée was killed in a success-and-run, investigated by the FBI. For the first season, the opening credit featured a maze beneath the collection title. For the third season, the sequence' theme music was remixed, and given more of an upbeat disco sound. This backlot road was later used within the Tom Hanks comedy movie The 'Burbs; the music video for Smash Mouth's hit song "All Star"; and as Wisteria Lane within the ABC drama Desperate Housewives, in which the house of the Hardys also served the house of fundamental character Susan Mayer. Universal gave the task to Glen A. Larson, who had produced the police drama Get Christie Love! At the end 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 replaced with clips from the collection and a collage of ebook covers from the book series. 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 following mixed response with alternative Janet Louise Johnson, producers as soon as once more rebooted the collection. Janet Louise Johnson was additionally in her late teens when she changed Martin as Nancy Drew. The series changed the quick-lived Cos, and aired earlier than Top 10 hits The Six Million Dollar Man and The ABC Sunday Night Movie. The Hardy Boys had beforehand been tailored for The Mickey Mouse Club within the late 1950s, and a Saturday morning cartoon sequence in the late 1960s, both of which dissatisfied Adams again. Larson later acknowledged the community had "cancellation remorse", while Stevenson stated that, years later, an ABC govt on the time mentioned his largest mistake was cancelling The Hardy Boys.