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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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* [[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''
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