Hardy Boys (1956)

Original title

The Hardy Boys

Genre

kids, mystery

Country

United States

Length

2 seasons, 35 episodes

Rating

8.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two teenage brothers solve mysteries in their hometown. The show follows their adventures as they uncover clues and face challenges in a serialized format.

nostalgiclightheartedadventurousfamily-friendlyfast-pacedwholesomecheerfulplayful

What happens

In the late 1950s, Disney contracted with the Stratemeyer Syndicate and Grosset & Dunlap to produce two Hardy Boys TV serials, starring Tim Considine and Tommy Kirk. The first of the serials, The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure, was aired on The Mickey Mouse Club in 1956 during the show's second season. To appeal to the show's audience, the Hardy Boys were portrayed as younger than in the books (Considine was 15 and Kirk was 14 during filming). The script, written by Jackson Gillis, was based on the first Hardy Boys book, The Tower Treasure, and the serial was aired in 19 episodes of fifteen minutes each with production costs of $5,700. A second serial, The Mystery of Ghost Farm, followed in 1957, with an original story by Jackson Gillis. This serial shares some elements with "The House on the Cliff", the second Hardy Boys book. Kirk said The Mystery of Ghost Farm was "inferior to the first one. It's a real mishmash; it's pretty terrible... real cheap. Gobbledygook." Kirk recalled Charles Haas, who directed the first as "a very strict, very tough, no-nonsense director. That's what I remember: very stern and rough, really. The other was directed by Bud Springsteen, who I've never heard of before or since, and who was a real happy-go-lucky." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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