series, Supernatural, viewers are wandering, what's next? What would be a great
series to replace the characters of Sam and Dean Winchester in such a way as to
hold their interest for as long or longer as the viewers have with these two brothers?
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.
series Nancy Drew has led it to a second
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.
Orlando A. Sanchez book series about two monster hunters from the tales of the
‘Montague & Strong Case Files’. In these stories, Simon Strong is an
immortal, who is also the best private detective in New York City, and his partner
the surly Tristan Montague, a mage of
indeterminate age, they must find other Supernatural
brings to a war of wars that would ravages the earth, destroys humanity, and
Simon’s local coffee shop.
The ‘Montague & Strong Case Files’ is a collection of eleven books
worth a read. They are as follow:
Tombyards & Butterflies | (2017) | |
Full Moon Howl | (2017) | |
No God is Safe | (2017) | |
The Date | (2017) | |
Blood is Thicker | (2017) | |
Silver Clouds Dirty Sky | (2018) | |
The War Mage | (2018) | |
Homecoming | (2018) | |
Dragons & Demigods | (2018) | |
A Proper Hellhound | (2018) | |
Bullets & Blades | (2018) | |
Hellhound Blues | (2018) | |
Hell Hath No Fury | (2019) | |
Reaping Wind | (2019) | |
The Perfect Cup | (2019) | |
The Golem | (2019) | |
Saving Mr. K | (2020) | |
Dark Glass | (2020) |
many ghostwriters of the Hardy Boys stories. The first author was Charles
Leslie McFarlane, who wrote 'The Tower Treasure' in 1927 for the Edward Stratemeyer
founder of Stratemeyer Syndicate publishing company and creator of the Hardy Boys.
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