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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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* [[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''
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* [[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
* [[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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