32 Days of Halloween VI, Day 28: The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew Meet Dracula

By Widge - posted 10.27.12 @ 6:00 am

Though I read Hardy Boys books like they were going out of style, I missed The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries when it originally aired and was only peripherally aware of it. Not quite sure how that happened because that was a time in my life when I had time to read and watch TV. Luxury!

That being said, watching it now, I find that the retro cheese factor is impressive. Especially with the two-parter The Hardy Boys & Nancy Drew Meet Dracula. Not only do you have Bernie Taupin and Paul Williams appearing but the fact that Glen A. Larson brought you both this and Battlestar Galactica means that he can enlist the acting services of someone like guest-star Lorne Greene. Enjoy this trip (as in falling over) into yesteryear. Beware the hair, though.

This hails from Season 2 of the series, which is available on DVD from Amazon.

Previously on this day we've also checked out The Devil and Daniel Mouse, The Monsters Crashed the Pajama Party because I couldn't help myself, a slew of Vincent Price commercials, and the original Hellraiser.

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Widgett Walls is Need Coffee's Chief Cook and Bottle Washer. He is the author of the novel Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point, and two collections of short stories, Magnificent Desolation and Something Else: The Complete First Season. He is also co-author of the children's book There's a Zombie in My Treehouse! All of those books are available in paperback or for the Kindle from Amazon. He is also the narrator and publisher of the first unabridged recording of Seneca's letters, available here. He is active on both Twitter and Facebook. (If you befriend him on Facebook, do say you came via Need Coffee.) He lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. He hardly ever sleeps.

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