[post_page_title]Reinvention[/post_page_title]
‘The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries’ were not the first time that either property had been adapted for the screen. An animated series, ‘The Hardy Boys’, premiered in 1969 and featured the crime-solving brothers touring the country with a band and solving mysteries.
It was short-lived, only running for 17 episodes. Nancy made her silver screen debut in the late 1930s, in a series of B-movies. The films were controversial for significantly altering Nancy’s personality, making her character very different to the book version.