Distributor:Universal Certificate:
2 discs (double sided)
| 11
hrs and 22 minutes Available to buy Extras: No
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Shaun
Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Sue Martin, Susan Buckner
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
The
cases of a pair teenage brothers
16 year old Joe (Cassidy) and 18
year old Frank (Stevenson) as
they tangle with crooks,
smugglers and ghostly
apparitions. Their father was
legendary private detective
Fenton Hardy (played by Edmund
Gilbert). Contrasting with that
are the exploits of junior
private eye Nancy Drew (Martin)
who helped her father on his
cases, she was generally
assisted by her friend George (a
girl played by Susan Buckner)
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
I’d
never seen an episode of this series before but had read the books back
in the day and guess what - I loved it, a wonderful hark back to a more
innocent TV time, although these stories were mostly written back in the
20’s and 30’s the period setting has been dropped for a contemporary
feel, the boys are trendy motorcycle riders and Nancy is even trying out
for her gliders license (episode 2 of her set is actually based around
this theme) but the stories themselves still have a wonderful timewarp
feel, like stepping into the ages of an Agatha Christie novel. Aiming at
the teenage audience the shows are nicely non-violent, Nancy might get
herself on the verge of trouble but the police or the authorities always
manage to turn up just in time.
On
it’s original run the two shows alternated with each other on a weekly
basis but wisely Universal have opted to keep the two separate, each
disc is Double Sided and they contain all 14 episodes of the first
series.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
No
extras as such but the Hardy Boys set does contain a great pin up poster
that is a reprint from an original 1970’s magazine.
