

While the two book series wasn’t initially meant to cross over, Nancy and the Hardy Boys have appeared in each other’s worlds for years, both in adaptations and in spin-off book series.


Frank and Joe Hardy have been paired with Nancy for years, with the original Nancy Drew television show in the 1970s featuring the adventures of both Nancy and the Hardys each week. Who are the most famous of those characters? Nancy Drew … and the Hardy Boys. With the introduction of Tom Swift and the Bobbsey Twins to season 2 of Nancy Drew, the writers of the series indicated that they would be mining the legacy Stratemeyer Syndicate characters and reimagining them for the modern era.
