S01E01 Welcome Neighbour
Aunt Polly isn't very young anymore when she takes her two nephews Tom and Sid Sawyer under her wing after their parents died. Tom doesn't like to go to school and is always full of...
Huckleberry Finn and His Friends
S01E18: Meet the Grangerfords
Tired and worn out after the raft accident Huck comes across a large farm estate a few hundred yards from the river. After some initial scepticism the Grangerford family who live there take pity on Huck and welcome him into their home. They explain to him that they were afraid he may have been a member of a rival family called the Shepherdsons whom they are having a live in feud with. Huck fakes his identity and introduces himself as George Jackson. He settles in well with the family, making good friends with one of the boys, Buck, and even being awarded his own slave. However on a hunting trip Huck soon realises the true scale of the feud when Buck spots and attempts to shoot one of the Shepherdons from his horse.
Overview
Huckleberry Finn and His Friends was a 1979 television series documenting the exploits of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, based on the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American writer Mark Twain. The series was made up of 26 episodes and was a Canadian/German coproduction.
Huckleberry Finn is played by Ian Tracey who is also the narrator. Tom Sawyer is played by Sammy Snyders.
Directed by Jack B. Hively and Ken Jubenvill, this mini-series was broadcast in many countries such as Germany, UK, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Venezuela and many other Latin American nations. The series was re-shown many times during the 1980s to early 1990s and has grown somewhat of a cult following.
Even though Mark Twain originally wrote the books The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as separate units, this mini-series conjures up both literary works as only one story. Therefore, it places greater importance on Huckleberry's character without putting aside Tom Sawyer's.
In 2007, the complete series was released as a 4 DVD box set by Fabulous Films in the UK. It contains many extras including a 12 page color booklet and a 30 minute 'making of' documentary featuring interviews with many stars of the series including Sammy Snyders, Ian Tracey, and Blu Mankuma.
Episodes
S01E02 Love in Bloom
Because Tom Sawyer is always into mischief, Aunt Polly punishes him by whitewashing the fence. Tom who doesn't really feel like doing it, lets his friends and some village kids do it for him after...
S01E03 The Engagement
Tom Sawyer tells his brother Sid that he isn't feeling well and doesn't want to go to school. Aunt Polly sees him through and when he suddenly claims to have a loose tooth aunt Polly...
S01E04 Mystery at Midnight
Because Tom Sawyer doesn't feel well, aunt Polly gives him a spoon full of her famous, but awful tasting spring-elixer. That did the trick and on his way to school and meets his friend Huckleberry...
S01E05 The Pirates
Tom Sawyer meets his friend Joe Harper on his way to school. Joe is convinced that his mother doesn't love him. Because Tom isn't happy at home, the two boys decide to runaway and start...
S01E06 How nice to be missed
When Huck Finn, Joe Harper and Tom Sawyer hide out Jackson's Island, aunt Polly and Mrs. Harper realise that the boys have run away from home. They go to constable Moeller and explained what had...
S01E07 Such a lovely Funeral
Tom Sawyer decides to swim back to St. Petersburg en goes to his house. He sees and hears how aunt Polly, Sid and Mrs. Harper are grieving the loss of their children. Tom hears about...
S01E08 Muff Potter's Trial
Muff Potter was arrested because he was accused of murdering doctor Robinson. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn witnessed the murder in the churchyard. But it wasn't Muff who killed the doctor, but it was Injun...
S01E09 Buried Treasure
Because Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are still stressed out of the escape of Injun Joe from the courthouse, the two boys decide to dig for burried treasures. They start to dig in de area...
S01E10 Huck Is A Hero
S01E11 Millionaires
Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher get lost in a cave during their school field trip. Their teacher and the other pupils don't even miss them and leave them behind. Back in St. Petersburg the schoolteacher...
S01E12 I Want to Be Free
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn return to St. Petersburg with their found treasure. The two find out that the widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson want to give Huck a home. Judge Thatcher is...
S01E13 Huck Becomes a Victim
Huck doesn't enjoy his new life with the widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson. On his way to school, Huck sees a print of the heel of his father Pap Finn's shoe. He knows...
S01E14 Huck gets away
The widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson both realize that Huck is missing. Pap Finn gets questioned about his son's whereabouts. He denies everything about the kidnapping and he's banned from St. Petersburg. Huck...
S01E15 Huck Finds Jim
Huck evades bounty hunters on Jackson Island but is suspicious to find someone else staying on the other side of the island. When Huck and Jim meet they are overjoyed to see each other, but...
S01E16 The Rains Come
On Jackson Island Huck and Jim are hiding in a cave when a massive storm suddenly breaks loose and devastates the island. All kinds of things float past on the river including a house, in...
S01E17 Smallpox
Huck and Jim build a shelter for Jim on their raft for Jim to hide in when other boats come near them. When this actually happens Huck tells the boatmen that his very sick father,who...
S01E18 Meet the Grangerfords
Tired and worn out after the raft accident Huck comes across a large farm estate a few hundred yards from the river. After some initial scepticism the Grangerford family who live there take pity on...
S01E19 The Thing About Feuding
Huck is entangled further into the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons and realise that he himself is now as much a target as any of the family. He discusses the feud with Buck...
S01E20 End of the Feud
When Huck returns to the Grangefords he finds that the house is empty. His slave Jack informs him that the feud has erupted after Sophia took off to marry one of the Shepherdon boys. Huck...
S01E21 Meet the Duke and the Dauphin
Upon resuming their travels down the Mississippi Huck and Jim encounter two strangers whom they pick up and save from a group of chasing gunmen. The pair pretend to be royalty so that they get...
S01E22 Where Art Thou, Romeo?
The Duke and the Dauphin rehearse their wacky Shakespeare-act on the raft. The Dauphin falls into the water but Huck manages to help him back on the raft again. On opening night, the Duke and...
S01E23 Jim Disappears
Jim warns Huck, that every time he feels his shoulder twitching, that something bad is going to happen. The Duke goes to town to look for venues for the Shakespeare play they want to perform....
S01E24 Huck Sawyer-Tom Finn
Tom Sawyer's aunt Sally mistakingly sees Huck as her nephew Tom, who is on his way to visit her. Huck decides to go along lends a horse and wagon to pick up his belongings from...
S01E25 The Rescue
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are digging a tunnel beneath the the hut where Jim is held prisoner. The first attempt is a complete failure. Jim wants to try to escape, but Tom wants to...
S01E26 The Whole Truth
Huck and Tom help Jim escape from the hut. A search party catches up on them and shoot Tom in the leg. Huck finds a doctor who wants to help Tom and the threesome are...
Cast
Ian Tracey
Sammy Snyders
Brigitte Horney
Bernie Coulson
Blu Mankuma
Walter Marsh
