The opening credits featured a maze under the series title, and shifts plane of focus supposedly to "3-D."Īt the end of the haunting theme music, a voice-over announcer would state who was featured in the episode and the episode title. List of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries episodes First seasonĭuring the first season individual episodes were entirely focused either on the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew, and aired alternately. Main article: List of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries episodes The show was filmed at Universal Studios on the studio lot on parts of Colonial Street, the backlot street which was later used in the Tom Hanks film The 'Burbs and was used as Wisteria Lane in the hit TV series Desperate Housewives.Īctress Jamie Lee Curtis stated that she had auditioned for the role of Nancy Drew. Gary Springer as Chet Morton (Season 1).
Lisa Eilbacher as Callie Shaw (Season 1).Edith Atwater as Aunt Gertrude (Season 1).
In addition to the Hardy Boys, their stories feature two other characters with some regularity: Aunt Gertrude and a platonic female friend of the boys, Callie Shaw, who also does part-time work for their father. The two boys live in the fictional city of Bayport, Massachusetts (a change from the book series, which sets Bayport in the state of New York) with their famous father, Fenton Hardy, a private detective who spent "twenty years" with the New York Police Department. The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe, are brother amateur detectives. The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew were both successful book publishing franchises, owned by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a publishing group which owned many successful children's book lines.