The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries premiered on ABC in January of 1977. Alternating between Hardy Boys stories featuring Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy, and Nancy Drew stories featuring Pamela Sue Martin (later replaced by Janet Louise Johnson), the series ran for three seasons, with the last season (retitled The Hardy Boys) focusing solely on Frank and Joe Hardy. Despite taking place in other locations, much of the series was filmed in California; mostly on the Universal backlot. The second season episode "The Lady on Thursday at Ten" (aired on January 1, 1978) takes place in Manhattan, but was filmed all around California, including at some locations used in the original Ghostbusters films.

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Sony's Waxwork Records label is set to release the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Original Motion Picture Music album on vinyl record on November 22nd. Read on to find out more about it...

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For the past 12 years, I posted a special Spook Central "Halloween Treat" every October 31st. It was never intended to be an annual thing, but I've managed to keep it going. This year, I didn't know if I would, as I had nothing planned that I could work on quickly. Well, I found something. It's not much, but it's something, and it's a "something" that I have been meaning to finish for eight years now.

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In early October 2024, Krispy Kreme released Ghostbusters doughnuts (henceforth "donuts") to various regions around the world. One of those regions was the United States, where the donuts were released in several different configurations. Join me as I do an unboxing review of them.

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On Saturday October 19, 2024, I attended Hasbro's New York Comic Con 2024 Breakfast Event in New York City, an offshoot of the larger New York Comic Con going on elsewhere in the city at the same time. Join me as I share with you my experience of the event.

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Running Press recently released the Ghostbusters Light-Up Slimer. Read on to find out more about it...

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In software development, "Beta" versions are compiled in order to see how the project is shaping up, garner feedback and work out bugs, or to have something to demonstrate to others. These work-in-progress "prototypes" can be used to determine where changes need to be made. For Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009), several pre-release versions are known to exist. Today, I will look at the video assets from one of them.

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In software development, "Beta" versions are compiled in order to see how the project is shaping up, garner feedback and work out bugs, or to have something to demonstrate to others. These work-in-progress "prototypes" can be used to determine where changes need to be made. For Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009), several pre-release versions are known to exist. Today, I will look at the video assets from one of them.

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This month marks the 28th anniversary of Spook Central. It was way back in the ancient times of August 1996 that the site launched. Since I never kept track of the exact day the site went live, when I note the anniversary, I always do it on the first of the month. Although I've kept some archived copies of the site from the late 1990s on the Website Archives - Paul's Sites page, none of them are complete. Thanks to James Eatock, one of them is now a tiny bit more complete.

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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire was recently released on Netflix in the U.S.; and last month on physical disc media in the following formats: Standard 4K+Blu-ray Combo Pack, Steelbook 4K+Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray+DVD Combo Pack, and Individual DVD. To celebrate, let's take a look at all of the movie's filming locations.

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