Actors amaze me. They try hard to get a part, then, so they tell me, they study the call sheets to see when they get their first day off.
Pamela Sue Martin ("The Poseidon Adventure") beat out other actresses for the part of Nancy Drew, then started whining about it. She wanted it to be more adult. Didn't she ever read any of the books?
Being an adolescent at the time, I loved "Nancy Drew" and stopped when she left. I can't say she embodied the character because I never read the books. I read Hardy Boys but never watched them. I had a low tolerance for Sean Cassidy. But leave she did, and did what all young/child actors did at the time in an attempt to divorce themselves from their kid image: she posed for Playboy. I've seen it. Big yawn.
Anyway, reviewing the episodes recently (not having seen them for 40 years) I think the late-1970s ambience feels ridiculous. But the stories aren't bad. And William Schallert privides a comforting presence as her father. And Martin is still beautiful.
I doubt kids today would care. It's too "current" (for 1977/1978, that is). And kids don't seem to care much for history. When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s I was obsessed with the 1920s. I thought the 1970s were dreadful. Good, if minor, guest stars. For the time. If you remember the likes of Monte Markham.
Pamela Sue Martin ("The Poseidon Adventure") beat out other actresses for the part of Nancy Drew, then started whining about it. She wanted it to be more adult. Didn't she ever read any of the books?
Being an adolescent at the time, I loved "Nancy Drew" and stopped when she left. I can't say she embodied the character because I never read the books. I read Hardy Boys but never watched them. I had a low tolerance for Sean Cassidy. But leave she did, and did what all young/child actors did at the time in an attempt to divorce themselves from their kid image: she posed for Playboy. I've seen it. Big yawn.
Anyway, reviewing the episodes recently (not having seen them for 40 years) I think the late-1970s ambience feels ridiculous. But the stories aren't bad. And William Schallert privides a comforting presence as her father. And Martin is still beautiful.
I doubt kids today would care. It's too "current" (for 1977/1978, that is). And kids don't seem to care much for history. When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s I was obsessed with the 1920s. I thought the 1970s were dreadful. Good, if minor, guest stars. For the time. If you remember the likes of Monte Markham.