The WORST episodes of The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Every episode of The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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.
#2 - Will the Real Santa Claus...
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1977
Nancy is determined to restore the honor of a dear old gentleman who claims to be Santa Claus when he is accused of burglary.
#3 - The Lady on Thursday at Ten
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/1978
Nancy is held for psychiatric observation when she tells the police an unbelievable story.
#4 - Oh Say Can You Sing
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1978
The lead singer of a rock band runs down investigative reporter Jerry Morgan.
#5 - The House on Possessed Hill
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/1978
Townspeople revile a psychically gifted girl (Melanie Griffith) who has a mysterious tie to an eerie mansion.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - The Mystery of the Silent Scream
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1977
A deaf woman witnesses a terrorist negotiating plans on the telephone.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#20 - Voodoo Doll (2)
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1978
The brothers find a dead man in a coffin in their hotel room.
#21 - The Mystery of the Hollywood Phantom (2)
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1977
Frank & Joe team up with Nancy Drew again in Los Angeles to attend the 14th Annual Detectives' Convention at a TV & movie studio. Joe pursues an illusory figure through the back lot of the studio's stage 24.
#22 - The Last Kiss of Summer (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1978
Joe Hardy is still haunted by memories of his dead fiancee, but has to focus his mind on the case when Jocco's girlfriend overhears him talking to the police on the phone. Meanwhile, Frank Hardy tries to help Joe by going undercover too, but Jocco finds out and traps Frank in a shark-infested area.
#23 - Defection to Paradise (2)
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1978
Marla falls for an American agent, but Soviet killers pursue her.
#24 - Nancy Drew's Love Match
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1977
Nancy goes under cover to keep a light-fingered tennis star out of trouble.
#25 - The Mystery of the Haunted House
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/30/1977
Frank and Joe end up in a haunted house and a cemetery when they follow two men trailing their father, Fenton.