The BEST episodes of The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Every episode of The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries!
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries recount the adventures of the famous teenage sleuths, based on the two series of juvenile mystery novels by the Edward Stratemeyer syndicate under the names Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene. Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of a private detective, and Nancy Drew is the daughter of a criminal attorney. In the first season, stories alternated week by week between the two families, but in the second season the independent Nancy Drew adventures were phased out so that all were working as a team. In the third season, Nancy Drew was eliminated completely and the Hardys became more involved in cases of international intrigue.
#1 - The Creatures Who Came on Sunday
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1977
The Hardy boys spot peculiar, alien-like people on an old missile site being guarded by federal agents.
#2 - The Mystery of Pirate's Cove
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/6/1977
Nancy and her friends see a beam of light coming from an abandoned lighthouse. When they call the local sheriff, he thinks they're imagining things because the light has disappeared. It's up to Nancy to Expose the strange mystery that surrounds the desolate structure. Soon, she finds herself in a deadly web of crime that could threaten her very life.
#3 - The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1977
Allison Troy's Transylvanian rock concert has locals fearing a reawakening of their most notorious denizen.
#4 - Strange Fate of Flight 608
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1977
Frank and Joe are invited to join a charter flight which passes over the Bermuda Triangle.
#5 - The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula (1)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1977
Nancy and the brothers team up to find Fenton Hardy, who disappeared while investigating a series of European art thefts.
#6 - Mystery of the Solid Gold Kicker
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/22/1977
Nancy and her girlfriend, George, attend a victory party where they find a star football player, standing over a prostate girl, with a broken crystal vase in his hand. Only the ever persistent Nancy can unravel who's out to frame the player and why.
#7 - Mystery of the Fallen Angels
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/17/1977
Nancy joins a carnival to prove a young man did not steal $1 million in jewels.
#8 - The Mystery of the Diamond Triangle
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/20/1977
After Nancy and her girlfriend, George, see an automobile run off the road. Nancy tells her boyfriend, Ned Nickerson, to report it to the sheriff. Later the sheriff tells Nancy that his men could not find any signs of an accident, and that the road has been closed for a long time. Nancy attempts to unravel the bizarre occurrence on her own, and soon finds herself in the midst of danger.
#9 - Mystery of the African Safari
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1977
Frank and Joe travel to an African game preserve to trap the mastermind of a huge poaching operation.
#10 - Sole Survivor
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/29/1978
Joe awakens in a Hong Kong hospital and is led to believe that he has been comatose for a year and his father and brother are dead.
#11 - Defection to Paradise (2)
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1978
Marla falls for an American agent, but Soviet killers pursue her.
#12 - Voodoo Doll (1)
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/12/1978
While in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, Frank and Joe's wallets are stolen; Nancy works under cover as a magician.
#13 - Mystery on the Avalanche Express
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1978
While aboard a ski train to Austria, a frightened girl fleeing unknown assailants switches flight bags with Nancy.
#14 - Death Surf
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/12/1978
While windsurfing in Hawaii, Frank tries to rescue a girl named Maryann (Maren Jensen) who disappears and is claimed to be dead. He then begins to become obsessed with finding out what happened to her, but someone, who is also on her trail, is watching him.
#15 - Arson and Old Lace
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/31/1978
A reclusive billionaire (Joseph Cotten) holds Nancy captive in his penthouse, and a girl (Cathy Rigby) sets fire to the building.
#16 - Campus Terror
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1978
The boys go under cover at a New England college where three coeds have been kidnapped.
#17 - The Last Kiss of Summer (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1978
After Joe Hardy's fiancée is killed by a hit-and-run driver, the FBI won't let the police arrest the man until their own case against him is finished. Joe takes the law into his own hands and goes undercover as a rich gambler with underworld connections.
#18 - Assault on the Tower
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1978
Joe and Frank Hardy go to London to find their missing father, but when Frank goes missing as well, Joe and an agent from the British Ministry must find a traitor together.
#19 - Search for Atlantis
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1978
In Greece to investigate drug smuggling, the Hardy Boys pose as archeology students on a dig for the lost city of Atlantis, but they are dogged by suspicious accidents and a dead body.
#20 - Dangerous Waters
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1978
Frank and Joe Hardy journey from the South of France to the Caribbean to find a girl who disappeared while hunting for pirate treasure.
#21 - Scorpion's Sting
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1978
Frank and Joe Hardy are assigned to go to Puerto Rico to protect a senator's daughter from an international blackmailer known as the Scorpion.
#22 - Defection to Paradise (1)
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1978
When the daughter of a Russian official defects to the U.S. by hiding in one of the rock band Bread's speaker cabinets sent to Hawaii, the Hardy Boys must track her down before the KGB does.
#23 - Game Plan
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1978
A woman executes a securities scam from Atlantic City casinos using a code that the Hardy Boys must break.
#25 - Voodoo Doll (2)
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1978
The brothers find a dead man in a coffin in their hotel room.