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In 1983, an abortive attempt at a television adaptation was made. ''[[The Tom Swift/Linda Craig Mystery Hour]]'' starred [[Willie Aames]] and [[Lori Loughlin]] as the title characters. It only got as far as a [[Pilot Episode]] which was broadcast as a [[TV Movie]] to disappointing ratings.
For a brief time in the early 1990s, there was an abortive crossover series between Tom Swift IV and the [[Hardy Boys]], called ''Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Ultra Thriller''; only two books were published under this name.
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* [[Tom Swifty]], though, as mentioned above, actual examples are rare.
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* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: Inevitable, due to the time they were written.
* [[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]]: Probably the [[Ur Example]].
* [[Cold War]]: The backdrop for much of the "Tom Swift, Jr." series.
* [[Defictionalization]]: [[Shock and Awe|Thomas Swift's Electric Rifle]] is the source of the term "TaSER".
* [[Dirty Communists]]: A frequent antagonist in the "Tom Swift, Jr." books, almost always originating from the fictional Soviet nations [[Ruritania|Brungaria or Kranjovia]].
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Tom's "invention" ability was initially fixing mundane technology for the first two books, then the third had him assisting an adult expert in creating a mundane airship, while the submarine of the fourth book is his father's invention. Only in the fifth book does Tom actually invent anything of his own.
* [[Either or Title]]: All of the books in the original series, such as ''Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle; or, Fun and Adventure on the Road''
* [[First Contact Math]]: Tom Swift Jr. and his father communicate with aliens this way.
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* [[Kid Detective]]
* [[MST]]: ''[http://keithpalmer.ca/mst3k/favourites/tom-swifts-war-tank.txt Tom Swift's War Tank]'' is one of the more extensive [[MSTing]]s available.
* [[Old Hero, New Pals]]: The series uses this trope when they're not using [[Generation Xerox|the next Swift generation]].
* [[Parrot Exposition]]: Notoriously overused in the earlier novels and the source for much of the humor in the aforementioned [[MSTing]].
* [[Phlebotinum Du Jour]]: Electricity and internal combustion for Tom Swift; nuclear power for Tom Swift Jr.
* [[Phlebotinum Handling Equipment]]: Tom Swift Jr. had labs with remotely-operated "waldoes".
* [[Public Domain Character]]: 30 of the 40 books from the original series are public domain as of 2023. Additionally, failure to renew copyright put ''Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X'' and ''Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung'' in the public domain.
* [[Raygun Gothic]]
* [[Revival]]: Tom Swift Jr. in the 1950s, and again in the 1980s, and again in the 90s, and for good measure in 2006.
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