Digital studio Worldwide Biggies acquired movie rights to Tom Swift and announced plans to release a feature film and video game, followed by a television series.
A derivative of this series featuring Tom Swift and the Hardy Boys called A Hardy Boys & Tom Swift Ultra Thriller was published from 1992 to 1993, and only had two volumes released.
The rights to the Tom Swift character, along with the Stratemeyer Syndicate, were sold to publishers Simon & Schuster, and the year that the third series ended.
Willie Aames appeared as Tom Swift along with Lori Loughlin as Linda Craig in a television special, The Tom Swift and Linda Craig Mystery Hour, which was broadcast. It was a ratings failure.
Filming was to have begun for Twentieth Century Fox Tom Swift feature movie. However, the project was canceled owing to the poor reception of the movies Doctor Dolittle and Star!
Twentieth Century Fox planned a Tom Swift feature movie, to be directed by Gene Kelly. A script was written and approved, and filming was to have begun during 1969.
A television pilot show for a series to be called The Adventures of Tom Swift was filmed, featuring Gary Vinson. However, legal problems prevented the pilot's distribution, and it was never broadcast.
Harriet Adams created the Tom Swift, Jr. series, which was published using the pseudonym "Victor Appleton II" as author. Tom Swift and His Flying Lab was also published.
The year that Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter was published, featuring a flying submarine similar to one planned by the United States Department of Defense four years later in 1956.
The year that Tom Swift and His Magnetic Silencer was published, featuring a device for silencing airplane engines that has not been realized, and the last year of the original Tom Swift series.
The year that Tom Swift and His House on Wheels was published, pre-dating the first house trailer by a year and the year that Tom Swift gets married to Mary Nestor.
The year that Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive was published, two years before the Central Railroad of New Jersey began using the first diesel electric locomotive.
The year that Edward Stratemeyer proposed making a Tom Swift movie, but no such movie was made, and the year that Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone was published. Sending photographs by telephone was not fully developed until 1925.
The year that Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle was published, which depicts Africans in a negative and racist way, and the year that Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers was based on Charles Parsons's attempts to synthesize diamonds using electric current.
The year the Tom Swift book series was inaugurated by Edward Stratemeyer. This marked the beginning of a long-running and influential series of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasized science, invention, and technology.
