Furthermore, Joe is usually portrayed as the bigger Determinator of the two, and Frank is the bigger science geek, while here, those traits are swapped. Both of the Hardys in the show are more easily scared and intimidated than their book counterparts, but Joe especially, while the books' Joe tends to be a bit quicker to get into a fight than Frank.Here, Callie and Ned act as assistants to Fenton Hardy and Carson Drew, respectively. Adaptational Job Change: In the original books, Callie is a school friend of the brothers and Ned is a college student, and each of them occasionally has a part-time job in various novels.
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(Later novels in the series changed this.) There were far too many stories in which Nancy was overpowered, kidnapped, and tied up by the villains for that to be the case. (Much to Nancy's surprise, however, this fails to intimidate Frank into backing off, because the hotel room was Frank's and Joe's only lead to finding their missing father.) Whatever skills Nancy possessed in the books, a proficiency in any martial art was not one of them, at least not in the books that were published at the time. She flips Frank to the floor when he attempts to remove her luggage from a hotel room they're fighting over. Adaptational Badass: In "The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew Meet Dracula," Nancy is depicted as being skilled in judo.Here, Frank has the blue eyes, Joe's hazel. In the books, Joe is the blue-eyed blonde, Frank dark-eyed. The eye colors of both brothers also fall into this.'70s Hair: For young Gen X'ers first introduced to the Hardy Boys through this show with their long, feathered-back hair, seeing the contemporary covers of the books with them with their short hair was a shock.
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In the third season, the focus of the series moved exclusively to them as they become professional police detectives for the Justice Department. The brothers can't seem to go anywhere without having a mystery drop into their laps even driving down a road heading for home means they'll get stopped by a young woman running away from an angry mob. The two boys live in the fictional city of Bayport, Massachusetts (not New York, as in the books) with their famous father, Fenton Hardy ( Ed Gilbert), a private detective who'd spent 20 years with the New York Police Department and who seemingly has connections everywhere. The Hardy Boys are brother amateur detectives, Frank (Parker Stevenson) and Joe ( Shaun Cassidy). Lasting three seasons, it is far and away the most successful filmed adaptation of any of the Stratemeyer Syndicate's properties. Based on the two famous juvenile book series, The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, this 1977≧9 mystery show on ABC starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as the amateur detective brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, and Pamela Sue Martin (and later Janet Louise Johnson) as the intrepid girl detective Nancy Drew.
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