He wasn't one of the party hardy characters.
Beginning in 1959, the books were extensively revised, and some commentators find that the Hardys' characters changed in the process.
As the teasing image of female pulchritude gives way to chaotic violence, about all that keeps your interest is the way Mr. Hardy's character, Tuck, shoots near groin level, more old-west "Rifleman" gunslinger than modern action hero, and the brutal good looks of Til Schweiger as the villain, Heinrich.
It is a time when the answers to every question come out rote, memorized from briefing books or memos, when the sheer physical drain of a long campaign starts to wear out even the most hardy of characters.
It was perhaps easier for Hardy to play a character with that arc because, in many ways, he already had it in him.
FAR from monopolizing the laughs in "The Allergist's Wife," Ms. Lavin's character has a hardy foil in her mother, Frieda.
His series hero, Joe Gunther of the Vermont Bureau of Investigation, thinks the mountain topography and long, snowy winters have something to do with nurturing a local character at once "hardy, independent, self-sufficient and sometimes a little cranky".
From Hardy I nicked six main characters and some bits of the plot.
He creates a theatrical effect on the quarter-deck of HMS Victory, with a spotlight on the dying Nelson and Captain Hardy while all the other characters around are left in the shadows.
III? Perhaps creator and creative director Kenji Oguro saw potential in the characters of Lost Planet – those hardy souls sent to the other side of the universe to try to solve a little problem called Earth.
