A Haunting We Will Go


A play is about to be staged in a soon-to-be-demolished theatre. To everyone's surprise five famous actors volunteer to appear. Five people, Nancy discovers, who appeared in that same play together - for one night - twenty years earlier. Even stranger they obviously hate one another (judging by the witty barbs that fly back and forth) yet they are to been seen together at odd hours, carrying a large amount of bricks and - on one occasion - a large sarcophagus (!!). The dialogue is fast and funny, the slapstick comedy is perfect, Nancy is as clever and persistent as ever, and the end result is the funniest and cleverest (and possibly best) episode of Nancy Drew.

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Great episode- all the 'old actors' are fun to watch as they insult each other.

My head hurts, my teeth itch, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus.

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I've been watching these old HDND episodes on Netflix at work (lots of filing to be done and I like to have something on in the background) and sort of cringing at melodrama. I've liked the Nancy Drew eps better than the Hardy Boys eps, but none of them are what I would consider stellar. The Netflix order is all whacked out, but it's what I've been following. I came across this one tonight, and I must say it's the best I've seen so far. It's certainly been the funniest.

I think this episode might best be classified as 'the cursed episode that killed its guest stars' though. This episode aired in '77, and by '83 most of the guests were dead.

Carl Betz, January 1978, 56 years old
Bob Crane, June 1978, 49
Bob Golden, November 1979, 53
Robert Karnes, December 1979, 62
Victor Buono, January 1982, 43
Peter Brandon, November 1983, 57

In 1980 life expectancy was 70 for a man. These guys were considerably younger than that.

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