How did you become interested in photography? It was the closest to me in terms of how I think and what I'm like in real life.Ĭafé : I recently came across your photography website. It was up against The Cosby Show or something, so it struggled in the ratings. It was Isaac Asimov's Probe, so it had really trippy interesting stories. PS: My favorite was Probe (1988), which I did for ABC. Out of all your TV series, which one is your favorite and why? Really.Ĭafé : You've appeared in a number of popular series like Melrose Place and Falcon Crest in addition to The Hardy Boys and Baywatch. PS: I did a movie called Lifeguard with Sam Elliott and the producers thought I might be okay playing a lifeguard (laughs). I discovered the books really doing the show. But in those years, I wasn't much of a reader. I was really late getting started on my reading, which now I'm crazy about. I was familiar with bits and pieces of the books, but I hadn't read them. He's still a good friend.Ĭafé: Had you read any of The Hardy Boys books or seen the serial from The Micky Mouse Club? Part of what the show was about was two brothers who actually get along and get into trouble together. That's probably why we got cast together, because we just liked each other. PS: Great. He's really an easygoing guy and his sense of humor is like mine. So, I think that was the connection for them.Ĭafé: How did you and Shaun Cassidy get along on the show? In fact, I had done one with Pamela Sue Martin a couple of years before (1974's Our Time) and she ended up being Nancy Drew. PS: I got it because the producers has seen me in a couple of the movies I'd done. Just as I was graduating, I got offered The Hardy Boys, so I made the switch and really committed to acting at that point.Ĭafé: How did you get the role of Frank Hardy? I'd been acting since I was 14, doing movies, television, and commercials.

I graduated from the architecture program at Princeton, but decided I didn't want to keep doing architecture and I really didn't know what to do. Parker Stevenson: I needed a job (laughs). Stevenson sat down for an interview with yours truly.Ĭafé: How did you go from Princeton University to acting? The daughter looked at me, smiled, and said: 'Mom is still gooey from meeting Parker Stevenson.' As agreeable in real life as he is on the screen, Mr. As I rode up the elevator with a mother and daughter, the former was staring off into space. I recently attended the 2014 Western Film Fair, where the star of the The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977-79) was one of the guests. Parker Stevenson can still make ladies swoon.

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