Nancy Drew
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Cast & Crew
James Frawley
Maggie Lawson
Lauren Birkell
Jill Ritchie
Brett Cullen
Charlie Finn
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Synopsis
Teen sleuth Nancy Drew comes of age in this contemporary reworking of the famous character. Nancy is a college freshman/journalism arriving at River Heights University and rushing a sorority. But when the sorority president's boyfriend dies from performance enhancing drugs, she is accused of contributing to his death. Nancy, with the help of longtime friends George and Bess, seek to find the truth and wind up uncovering a conspiracy that threatens her academic career and causes a clash with her father.
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James Frawley
Cast
Maggie Lawson
Lauren Birkell
Jill Ritchie
Brett Cullen
Charlie Finn
Marieh Delfino
Heath Freeman
Sabine Singh
James L. Avery
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Brian White
Kevin Tighe
Dale Midkiff
Jenny O'hara
Nick Stabile
Joanna Canton
Michelle Morgan
Claudette Sutherland
Ellen Geer
Wiley Pickett
Sloan Robinson
Todd Sandler
Giselle Loren
Jeff D'agostino
Andrew Leeds
Ryan Scott
Drew Tyler Bell
Crew
Walter Anderson
Lawrence Bender
David Blair
Rick Blumenthal
Micky Blythe
Kevin Brown
James Chressanthis
Delia Circelli
Donna Lee Ebbs
Kevin J Edelman
James Frawley
Charissa Gilmore
Andrew Glover
Vincent Jefferds
Scott C Johnson
Carolyn Keene
Teri Anne Kopp
Kevin Koster
Ami Canaan Mann
Ami Canaan Mann
Richard Marvin
Virginia Mastroianni
James M Mccabe
Florence-isabelle Megginson
Bridget Ostersehlte
Mike Painter
Alexandra Patsavas
Ashlee Petersen
Hans Proppe
Donna Robenstein
Deborah Romare Sahagun
Scott Steele
Edward Stratemeyer
Scott Vickrey
Sharon West
Leo Zisman
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Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States December 15, 2002
Status Update: Wrapped, was scheduled to air on October 20, 2002 but postponed to December 15, 2002. Originally set up as a backdoor pilot but ultimately ended up as an MOW as part of "The Wonderful World of Disney" series for ABC.
Edward Stratemeyer created the character of Nancy Drew and, in 1929, hired Mildred Augustine Wirt, aka Mildred A. Wirt Benson, to ghostwrite the mystery series under the pen name Carolyn Keene. She wrote 22 of the first 25 volumes. Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, wrote later volumes under the pen name of Carolyn Keene.