The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) The Lady on Thursday at Ten (1978) User Reviews

Pamela's last appearance as Nancy Drew

[coltras35 · 6/10 · 11 June 2023]

Nancy Drew's efforts to escape from New York take a tragic turn when she seemingly runs over a man in one of Manhattan's dark alleyways. Police officers at the scene assure her that the fellow was a nasty piece of work who'd escaped the Tombs. But the next day, the sleuth finds the authorities skeptical of her story. After all, no one has escaped from the Tombs in years!

As she attempts to unravel the mystery, Nancy encounters crooked cops, fiendish nursing home aides, a boxing trainer and a boxer.

This is one wild episode which has more twists than a pretzel, and though it's farfetched, it's fun and has enough intrigue to keep you watching.

Goodbye Nancy Drew

[bensonmum2 · 3/10 · 19 September 2019]

After dropping her father at the airport, Nancy gets lost on her way home. She makes a wrong turn and hits a guy. The next day, Nancy heads to the local precinct as instructed to make her report, but there's no record of an accident. In fact, the police officer she spoke to the night before doesn't exist. Nancy, quite naturally, sets out to investigate.

What a sorry way to send off Pamela Sue Martin. The Lady on Thursday at Ten has a multitude of problems, including poor direction, lazy editing, and distractingly bad ADR work. The absurd plot turns Nancy into an idiot, while making the bad guys look like magicians. The way they were able to clean-up all traces of Nancy's wreck in one night is nothing short of a miracle. By the time the episode's finale rolled around, I had lost all interest in what was going on. It's as if the people behind the show couldn't have cared less about the quality of what they were churning out. Overall, it's pretty much a disaster.

I really hate that Martin went out with such a whimper. Some of her Season 1 episodes are very well made and incredibly entertaining. Instead of this piece of garbage, judge Nancy Drew and Pamela Sue Martin by episodes like The Mystery of Pirate's Cove, A Haunting We Will Go, or, my favorite, The Secret of the Whispering Walls.

3/10

Suspense but really unbelievable

[ctyankee1 · 27 February 2014]

I cannot believe that this series stayed on so long.

The Hardy Boy/Nancy Drew episodes alternated some episodes with the Hardy Boys, some with Nancy Drew and in some of the episodes they work together.

In this episode Nancy drives her father's car after dropping him off at the airport. She gets lost in the city on the way back, turns into an alley and a man runs in front of her father's car and she hits him. Two man run out of a building and call an ambulance for the man and one man identifies himself as a policeman and takes her to a hotel to stay for the night.

The next day she goes to the police station to file a report as to what happened. Now we all know that Nancy is not stupid.

The police tell her there is not such cop by that name. A man watching her identifies himself as a cop and she falls for that to. He takes her to where she hit the man that went in the ambulance injured.

Unbelievable 1. Nancy describes the scene to him, there is no sign of a accident, no skid marks and her father's car that was wrecked in the front is parked undamaged. The criminal/fake cop did this to make Nancy think she imagined it. It did not work for her and it did not work for me.

2. The man that got hit who is a boxer is kept prisoner somewhere and Nancy is taken there as a prisoner. He tells her he was tortured and would not give in. He sitting on the ground with a white straight jacket on, clean as a can be, no marks on his face, his hair is not messed, his pants is spotless for someone who got hit by a car. He gets rescued by a stranger that had followed Nancy. Before they run off from their captives he takes time to put on his jacket, even though they are with killers and might be killed.

This whole episode was so fake it is unbelievable how they think we can enjoy it.

Nancy Drives A Station Wagon

[cutterccbaxter · 24 February 2024]

Has there ever been an episode of a TV show set in the Big Apple and shot in Hollywood that fails so miserably at looking like New York City?

It's almost like they purposely set out to find locations that look distinctly west coast.

Hey, here's an idea! Let's have Nancy on a roof top where we can see the LA skyline even though she is supposedly in NYC. I can only wonder how much cocaine was being snorted during production.

The first season of Nancy Drew at least seemingly aspired to capture the spirit of the books. This is just crap. In most of the scenes the actors look like they can't wait until the director yells "cut!" Joseph Pevney directed a zillion tv shows and movies but here he seems to be channeling Ed Wood. Not even the appearance of the brilliant Simon Oakland can save this turd.

I can see why Pamela Sue Martin jumped ship.