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I often wonder why, in this age of reboots and cinematic universes, no one has mined this series, and the Hardy Boys for material. Iirc, there was a tv series for each in the '70s.

Related; there was some really great writing for television back then; Circus Boy and The Rifleman are two examples.

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> I often wonder why, in this age of reboots and cinematic universes, no one has mined this series, and the Hardy Boys for material.

As of last year, a Nancy Drew series whose pilot had been rejected by CBS was in development at NBC.

> Iirc, there was a tv series for each in the '70s.

Also (and they flopped) the 1990s (in Canada, I believe.)

And Nancy Drew had an ABC TV movie intended to launch a series in 2002, but no series emerged.

And there was a 2007 Nancy Drew movie.

So, it's not exactly a property that's been ignored, even if there hasn't been much success with it since the 1970s.

Dynamite recently had a Nancy Drew miniseries comic

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