She thought she’d be leaving her hometown for college, but when a family tragedy holds her back another year, she finds herself embroiled in a ghostly murder investigation - and along the way, uncovers secrets that run deeper than she ever imagined. Written by Noga Landau, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and directed by Larry Teng, the CW’s untitled Nancy Drew project, from Schwartz and Savage’s Fake Empire and CBS TV Studios, centers on 18-year-old Nancy Drew (McMann) and is set in the summer after her high school graduation. She will appear alongside newcomer Kennedy McMann, who is taking the mantle of playing the amateur detective. Apparently Pamela (who would star on Dynasty) had properly read the writing on the wall, because in season three Nancy Drew was dropped completely and the show was simply retitled The Hardy Boys.Martin, who will guest star in the pilot, played the brilliant teen sleuth in the first (and to date most successful) TV series adaptation of the Nancy Drew books, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, which ran from 1977-79 on ABC. Midway through the season, an unhappy Pamela left the series, to be replaced by actress Janet Louise Johnson. That may have been the intent, but as time went on, the Nancy Drew character was continually diminished in favor of the Hardys. But then in the middle of the show’s second season, the decision was made to have the trio solve mysteries together. As originally conceived, Nancy would alternate adventures with amateur detective brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, with episodes either focusing on her or on the boys. In 1977, Pamela found herself costarring with Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. According to Deadline, Pamela will be playing Harriet Grosset, who the site describes as “a small-town psychic who offers her talents to help Nancy investigate a murder - and ends up delivering an otherworldly clue that neither of them bargained for.” Whether she sticks around beyond the pilot should it go to series is anybody’s guess at this point.
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