So, it was something of a shock to longtime fans that the opening scene of The CW's "Nancy Drew" began like this. Definitely not getting married!" laughed Fisher. She even had a list of things that her Nancy would never do – like drive above the speed limit.
Adams, said Fisher, "was very protective of the character." Details about The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries Season One (DVD Box Set) NEW 70s TV NEW Rating: NR Genre: Drama Product Information. That later Nancy Drew was the work of the daughter of Edward Stratemeyer, Harriet Adams, who treated Nancy like family. The "Later Nancy"? That's right, you just heard a clue that your great-grandmother's Nancy was not the Nancy of the '50s and '60s and '70s. Dixon) and has seen many TV productions since the 1950s, most memorably in the late 1970s, when the brothers teamed up with Nancy Drew in a show that capitalized on Shaun Cassidys.
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"So, Mildred's Nancy was very similar to Mildred, kind of out there in the world, a little more rough-and-tumble than later Nancy," Fisher said. Though possibly new to todays kids, The Hardy Boys provenance goes back to pre-Depression days (a book series written by many authors under the name Franklin W. She was 24 when she wrote the first Nancy Drew book."īenson wrote 23 of the first 30 books. Said Fisher, "There have been numerous ghostwriters, men and women, over the years that have written under that pseudonym."įisher said there were ghostwriters, and then there was Mildred Benson: "Millie was a real-life Nancy Drew. So, who then, you might wonder, is Carolyn Keene?Ī penname. She was the creation of children's publishing magnate Edward Stratemeyer, who then – plot twist! – passed away days after the first book was published. The girl gumshoe breezed into print in 1930. Also, Carson could not give a shit about Nancy and just spends the entire episode chilling with Fenton Hardy.Fisher said Nancy has always been ahead of her time: "Very sophisticated for an 18-year-old, that was what was so appealing, I think, 'cause Nancy would often best the local police force and solve cases they couldn't solve." Nope, everyone’s just fine with it, including Carson. And after it’s all over, no one thinks to ask if anything questionable happened up in that penthouse over that 6 month period, whether she was abused, properly fed, etc. Like Nancy was investigating some embezzlement scheme involving the CEO when he randomly decides to kidnap her and dress her up as the wife he murdered, and for 6 months she’s just stuck there watching movies with this old coot.
Tbh, the show is not exactly groundbreaking, the ND storylines are kinda boring, imo? I think the most memorable episodes for me are the Dracula/Hollywood crossover episodes, the episode where Nancy has been kidnapped by a reclusive billionaire and is now trapped in his penthouse (!) and Frank has to save her like an action hero as the entire building is on fire, the safari episode where Frank has a romantic subplot with the daughter of a big game hunter, and the episode which takes place in Egypt, “Mystery of King Tut’s Tomb”.ĮDIT: The reclusive billionaire kidnapping is so random and out of left field it’s hilarious. Yeah, same with me, for some reason I don’t remember that many Joe songs, but maybe I need to rewatch certain episodes.
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