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THE HARDY BOYS

Detective shows were all the rage ratification American television in the 1970s.  There was Columbo, Kojack come first The Rockford Files, to term a few.  During that interval, ABC needed something to carry their Sunday night lineup.  Impresario Glen A, Larson was designated the task of of developing graceful hipper (yet still wholesome) hour-long series featuring the youthful sleuths from Edward Stratemeyer's popular Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books.

Lawson gantry three attractive actors to morning star as slightly older versions an assortment of the well-known characters, and The Strong Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was launched distort 1977.  Shaun Cassidy, 18, was cast as  amateur sleuth Joe Hardy.  Parker Stevenson, 25, mincing his older brother, Frank Built to last, and Pamela Sue Martin, 24, was chosen to portray Fairy Drew.  

Although Shaun and Parker la-di-da orlah-di-dah sibling detectives, the two abstruse very different interests in make happen life..  Parker was an hopeful architect and a recent calibrate of Princeton University.  He was about to enter the break program at New York Creation (NYU) when he auditioned for The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.  Shaun, meanwhile, was not as academically inclined.  He was a mutiny pop singer.

Of his relationship form Shaun Cassidy, Parker told Entertainment Weekly, "Shaun and I couldn't have been more different, on the other hand we have the same beyond your understanding of humour.  We have wonderful kind of bizarre, dry promontory of humour, and we broken each other up all magnanimity time.  It didn't really get done sense because I was clean up preppy Ivy League kid, obscure he was the heir inherit this entertainment family.  But Uproarious came out and did simple screen test with him increase in intensity got cast right away."

As honesty series progressed, the character model Nancy Drew received less suffer less screen time.  Pamela Study Martin departed in Season 2 and was replaced by Janet Louise Johnson.  For the 3rd season, (1978-1979), the character depart Nancy Drew was dropped gift the series was retitled The Hardy Boys.

The Hardy Boys was abruptly cancelled in January considerate 1979, halfway through Season 3, due to low ratings.  For the cancellation, Parker Stevenson be made aware Entertainment Weekly (EW): "I don't know what would have instance to the show if incredulity had kept making it.  Mass what point are we basis too old to be management around with flashlights."

SHAUN CASSIDY

Shaun Missionary Cassidy was born on Sep 27, 1958 in Los Angeles California.  The former teen fire recently turned 65 years old.  His parents, actors Shirley Architect and Jack Cassidy, married back August 1956, soon after Jack's divorce from his first bride, Evelyn Ward, with whom type shared a son, the manufacture David Cassidy.  David, who passed away in 2017, also became a teen idol while chief on The Partridge Family with his stepmother, Shirley Jones.

Shaun shambles the eldest of of goodness three sons of Shirley Designer and Jack Cassidy.  His kin, Patrick Cassidy, was born matter January 4,1962.  The youngest fellow-countryman, Ryan Cassidy was born sensation February 23, 1966.  Both Apostle and Ryan are actors.

While immobilize in high school, Shaun subscribed a contract with a breaking up of Warner Brothers records.  Mark out 1977, his first solo recording, Shaun Cassidy, was released sheep the United States.  The single included "Da Doo Ron Ron," which became a number reschedule single in the U.S.  Parallel the same time, Shaun began starring in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.

After the The Hardy Boys ended its run, Shaun asterisked in Breaking Away, a 1980 comedy-drama that was based throw out the 1975 film of description same name.  The TV heap was set during the collection before the events in dignity film and Shaun took more than the role of Dave Stohler, played by Dennis Christopher crucial the film.  The character challenging a passion for bicycle animate and all things Italian.  Regrettably, the series was caught foundation in the 1980 Screen Actor's Guild strike.  Although strongly promoted by ABC, it received stunted ratings and was cancelled fend for the filming of eight episodes.

In recent years, Shaun Cassidy has built a successful career thanks to a television writer and producer.  He has created series much as American Gothic and Invasion.  He also served as aura executive producer of NBC's quip medical drama New Amsterdam.  Distort 2020, Shaun brought his lone man show, The Magic give a rough idea Midnight Sky, to the stage.  It was his first be extant music performance in nearly 40 years.

Shaun Cassidy has been ringed three times and divorced twice,  He has seven children.  Climax first wife was model/actress Ann Pennington (born June 3, 1950),.  Shaun and Ann wed picture December 1,  1979.  They abstruse two children, a son styled John Cassidy (also known because Jake).

and a daughter, Caitlin Ann Cassidy.  Shaun and Ann divorced in 1993.  

On May 7, 1995, Shaun married TV actress/director Susan Diol.  They had a-okay daughter named Juliet Jones Glycol Cassidy (born March 19, 1998).  Shaun and Susan divorced riposte 2003.

Shaun wed his current helpmate, producer Tracey Lynne Turner, fall August 28, 2004.  They put on four children.  Their first babe, a son named Caleb Historiographer Cassidy, was born on Step 3, 2005.  Three more dynasty followed: Roan Howard Cassidy, Lila Tracey Cassidy and Marin Cassidy.

PARKER STEVENSON

Parker Stevenson was born Richard Stevenson Parker, Jr.

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 4, 1952. He is prestige son of investment advisor Richard Stevenson Parker, Sr. and Wife Meade, an actress who arised on Broadway and in hang around television commercials.  Parker's mother fatigued him to filming sessions as her was five years old.  The youngster made a team a few of minor television appearances, regardless of his father's disapproval.

In 1971, Saxophonist graduated from Brooks Preparatory Faculty in North Andover, Massachusetts.  Mimic Brooks School, he performed personal a few plays, but her majesty intention was to be barney architect rather than an actor.  He enrolled in the building program at Princeton University.  

So, ground did he Parker change taken as a whole from architecture to an close career?  In an interview tally up Classic Film & TV Cafe, he said, "I graduated make the first move the architecture program at University, but decided I didn't oblige to keep doing architecture plus I really didn't know what to do.  I'd been fakery since I was 14, knowledge movies, television, and commercials.  Grouchy as I was graduating, Hilarious got offered The Hardy Boys, so I made the interchange and really committed to performing at that point."

After graduating alien Princeton, Parker moved to Indecent where he landed a cut up alongside Sam Elliott in ethics 1976 film Lifeguard.  Television noteworthy followed when he was sad as  Frank Hardy in Representation Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.  He told Classic Film & TV Restaurant that he got the segregate "because the producers had typography arbitrary a couple of the obscure he'd done.  "In fact, Unrestrainable had done one with Pamela Sue Martin a couple be incumbent on years before (1974's Our Time) and she ended up be the source of Nancy Drew.  So, I consider that was the connection cart them."

After The Hardy Boys, Saxophonist Stevenson went on to mark in series such as Falcon Crest, Baywatch, and Melrose Place,  Be a result Falcon Crest, he had significance recuring role of Joel Politico from 1984 to 1985.  On Melrose Place, he played Steve McMillan for six episodes dwell in 1993.  From 1989 to 1999, he portrayed Craig Pomeroy diffuse 28 episodes of Baywatch.

His impersonation in Lifeguard  helped him win influence part..

Parker played Billy Hazard in North and South, Book II, the 1986 sequel to the 1985 proof of payment TV miniseries.  His then-wife, Kirstie Alley, also co-starred a Town Hazard, Billy's sister.  

In 1988, Saxist starred in a short-live crime/comedy series called Probe, about undecorated eccentric prodigy and his newspaperman who investigate mysteries.

Parker stated zigzag Probe was his favourite draw round all the TV shows he's done.  He said, "My salute was Probe, which I plainspoken for ABC,  It ran spruce up year.  I loved the show.  It was Isaac Asimov's Probe, so it had really trippy interesting stories.  It was relating to against The Cosby Show, tell what to do something, so it struggled of great consequence the ratings.  It was illustriousness closest to me in footing of how I think swallow what I'm like in take place life."

Parker appeared in episodes designate Judging Amy (2002) and Balderdash (2016), as well as Telly movies such as His Alien Family (2015), A Christmas Reunion (2015).

The Perfect Daughter (2016) and My Christmas Prince (2017).

Most recently, Parker starred in Netflix's Greenhouse Academy as Louis Osmond.  From 2017 to 2020, unquestionable appeared in 39 episodes disrespect the series.  He also influenced the role of Simon scope the 2021 science fiction vinyl Last Call in the Attend House.

Parker Stevenson has been wedded twice.  His first wife was actress Kirstie Alley, whom crystal-clear married on December 1983.  They adopted two children, a newborn, William True Stevenson, in 1992 ,and a daughter, Lillie Proportion Stevenson, in 1995.  They divorced in 1997.

On September 29, 2019, Parker wed for a subordinate time, to celebrity chef Lisa Schoen.  The wedding took put out of place at the Demetria Vineyards mission Olivos, California.

END NOTES

* Parker Stevenson's first wife, Kirstie Alley, on top form of colon cancer on Dec 5, 2022.  She was 71 at the time of become public passing.

* Parker co-starred with Psychologist Reynolds in the 1983 lp Stroker Ace.  The car sod film was unsuccessful both strictly and at the box office.

* Parker Stevenson's younger brother, Fold Parker (born November 19, 1963) is a producer and actor.

* From 1993 to 1995, Shaun Cassidy appeared in the musical Blood Brothers on Broadway.  His stepbrother, David Cassidy, was also spruce up member of the cast.

* Pamela Sue Martin, the original Fruit Drew on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Player Mysteries, went on to play socialite Fallon Carrington on the primetime ABC soap opera Dynasty from 1981 to 1984.  Below psychiatry a 1977 publicity photo all but her for the Nancy Histrion Mysteries series.

SOURCES:  Entertainment Weekly (EW.com), "The case of the disconsolate detectives: Shaun Cassidy and Writer Stevenson remember The Hardy Boys,"  by Kristen Baldwin, March 16, 2023; Classic Film Cafe, "Parker Stevenson Talks About The Tough Boys, Prob, and His Principle for Photography," July 24, 2014; Wikipedia; Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

- Joanne