To date we have the series Nancy Drew, the female sleuth and which is based on publisher Edward Stratemeyer stories. The original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series started in 1930 and ended in 2003. However, during that time the love for teenage horrors, mysteries, and the uncanny grew as the genre grew.
season, which will air this winter on January 20, 2021. As announced recently, the CW's has green lighted the spin-off series 'Tom Swift' who in the original book series revolved around science fiction mysteries and the creation of fanciful technology.
However, in this proposed CW's series of Tom Swift, Swift is a gay black billionaire and genius techno-inventor forced to enter a world of dark sci-fi conspiracy and the unexplained after the disappearance of his father. To find the truth and his father, Swift must stay ahead of his nemesis, the Illuminati, an evil group dead-set on stopping him anyway they can.
The character of Tom Swift is scheduled the debut on Nancy Drew this winter. While this is all well and good, and the series of ‘Tom Swift’ appears to show promise, there is one other book-based series in which the main characters delve into the realm of mystery and the unexplained; and that is the series based on the brothers Frank and Joe Hardy who are known as The Hardy Boys, which is strongly connected to the two in genre and time periods in publications.
It is a given that without Tom Swift (1910) that neither The Hardy Boys (1927), nor Nancy Drew (1930) would have existed. However, for reasons unknown, or perhaps because in the Hardy Boys adventures, the brothers spend their time investigating and solving cases with twists in the occult, sci-fi, and espionage that they resemble Sam and Dean in Supernatural. Or, one could say that the Winchesters resemble the Hardy Boys in many ways. Although not strictly based on the occult, as the series Supernatural, The Hardy Boys adventures are worthy of another look from the perspective of a series that could replace and possibly surpass the soon to end series Supernatural.
The Hardy Boys book series is an all-time favorite, and since its debut in 1927 there have been
countless of new adventures added to the already original fifty-eight stories. As proof of the versatility of the series, adventure stories such as The Tower Treasure, The House on the Cliff, The Mummy Case, Night of the Werewolf, The Secret Agent on Flight 101 and Danger on Vampire Trail, all add up to interesting stories to opening the door for a third remake of the Hardy Boys as a television series on the CW.
The first television appearance of The Hardy Boys was in the late1950s on The Mickey Mouse Club. Then in 1969 the series was renewed as The Hardy Boys, and again in 1977 as The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries and the final adaptation in1995 in as The Hardy Boys. However CGI and other special effects were not what they are today, so series like The Hardy Boys could not presents the stories in formats as described in the book series. Not like they have been able to in Supernatural.
Perhaps in the future and with the ever evolving special effects the CW will consider a new scripted version of the adventures of Joe and Frank Hardy, fondly known as The Hardy Boys.
The ‘Montague & Strong Case Files’ is a collection of eleven books worth a read. They are as follow:
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Tombyards & Butterflies |
(2017) |
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Full Moon Howl |
(2017) |
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No God is Safe |
(2017) |
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The Date |
(2017) |
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Blood is Thicker |
(2017) |
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Silver Clouds Dirty Sky |
(2018) |
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The War Mage |
(2018) |
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Homecoming |
(2018) |
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Dragons & Demigods |
(2018) |
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A Proper Hellhound |
(2018) |
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Bullets & Blades |
(2018) |
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Hellhound Blues |
(2018) |
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Hell Hath No Fury |
(2019) |
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Reaping Wind |
(2019) |
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The Perfect Cup |
(2019) |
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The Golem |
(2019) |
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Saving Mr. K |
(2020) |
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Dark Glass |
(2020) |
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