Leafing through today’s Wall Street Journal this evening, I spotted an item that was — sure enough — mystery related. (You have to know where to look.)

Due in theaters on June 15th is, if I am reading it correctly, a big-screen adaptation of Nancy Drew, girl detective. Other than mentioning that Emma Roberts, 15-year-old niece of Julia Roberts, will be playing title role, details are skimpy in the WSJ piece, but among other things, they do mention Nancy’s debut in the 1930 hardcover novel, The Secret of the Old Clock; the Warner Brothers series of movies made in the late 1930s (with Bonita Granville); and a made-for-TV version in 2002, “originally intended as a pilot, that didn’t attract much of an audience.”

I missed that one completely. I don’t remember it at all. But with www.imdb.com available to extend a helping hand whenever something like thus happens, I can tell you more. It starred Maggie Lawson as Nancy and was part of ABC’s The Wonderful World of Disney program, which goes a long way in explaining why I never heard about it until now.

One person who commented on the film said: “The acting has a three-second delay, and consists of making faces and striking poses.” Not good. But more recently Maggie Lawson seems to have found a home on the USA Networks’ Psych, as new, young (and very blonde) police detective Juliet O’Hara.

Strikingly, and I do not know for what reason, the piece in the Journal does not mention Pamela Sue Martin. Now that was a series (1977-79) I do remember.