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    Huckleberry Finn

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    1 9 5 2 (UK)
    7 x 30 minute episodes

    The perennial tales of two boys whose antics light up the sleepy town of St Petersburg in America’s Deep South in the middle of the 19th century were first tackled in 1952 with this BBC adaptation.

    The story sees Huck Finn (Colin Campbell who, 12 years later, would take the lead role in The Leather Boys) and his buddy Tom Sawyer (Jeremy Spenser) take a journey down the Mississippi River after fleeing with their escaped slave friend Jim (Orlando Martins).

    While full of mischief and incident, their journey is a leisurely one which the producers felt would probably last the same seven weeks as the serial itself.

    Their river journey went from St Petersburg to Illinois to Jackson’s Island, St Louis and on to Hicksville. Although since this was the BBC in the 1950s, it was considered a big deal to even have shot establishing location footage on the Norfolk Broads . . .

    Huckleberry Finn
    Colin Campbell
    Tom Sawyer
    Jeremy Spenser
    Jim
    Orlando Martins
    Judge Thatcher
    Shaun Sutton
    Pap Finn
    Kenneth Connor
    Dolphin of France
    Mark Daly
    Duke of Bridgewater
    Peter Martyn
    Bill Trout
    Thomas Conniffe
    Miss Watson
    Aimée Delamain
    Deacon Hovey
    Brown Derby
    Susan
    Susanna Hogan
    Aunt Sally
    Megs Jenkins
    Widow Douglas
    Janet Joye
    Jed
    John Knight
    Tommy Barnes
    John Levitt

    Episodes

    The Widow Douglas’s | Jackson’s Island | Life on the Mississippi | The Rightful King of France? | The Wilks’ Fortune | The Auction | Back to the River

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