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Huckleberry no Bouken
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Huckleberry Finn on Italia 1
Genre Adventure
Anime television series
Directed by Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu
Tameo Kohanawa
Produced by Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu
Masakazu Higuchi
Tameo Kohanawa
Written by Mamoru Sasaki
Music by Nobuyoshi Koshibe
Studio Group TAC
Network Fuji Television
Original run 2 January 197625 June 1976
Episodes 26
Anime film
Directed by Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu
Tameo Kohanawa
Produced by Hiroyoshi Mitsunobu
Masakazu Higuchi
Tameo Kohanawa
Written by Mamoru Sasaki
Music by Nobuyoshi Koshibe
Studio Group TAC
Released August 16, 1991
Runtime 86 minutes

Huckleberry no Bōken (ハックルベリィの冒険) is a 1976 anime series based on the 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. It is the first of two Huckleberry Finn anime. A second Huck Finn television series was made in 1994, Huckleberry Finn Monogatari.

A feature-length English dub of this series was made in the early 1980s, and broadcast on cable TV in the United States.

The English-dubbed version for the episodic TV version of Huckleberry Finn was owned by Saban Entertainment in 1993.

As with most of the programming library and properties of Saban Entertainment and Fox Children's Productions, the rights to this series is now owned by Disney Enterprises through BVS Entertainment, who acquired the Fox Kids Worldwide franchise in Summer 2001.

Some episodes of Saban's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were released on Region 2 DVD by Maximum Entertainment Ltd. in the 2000s. However, there were no plans to release the English dub version of the series on Region 1 DVD.

Plot summary

At the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck is adopted by the Widow Douglas in return for saving her life. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in some respects a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the widow attempts to "civilize" the newly rich Huck.

Huck is kidnapped by his father but manages to fake his own death and escape to Jackson's Island, where he coincidentally meets up with Jim, a slave of the Widow Douglas' sister, Miss Watson. Jim is running for freedom because he has found out that Miss Watson plans to "sell him South" for $800. Together they construct a raft and travel on the Mississippi River, Jim hoping for freedom from slavery, and Huck searching freedom from his negligent father and controlling foster parent.

Cast

Main cast

Additional cast

  • Chikao Otsuka
  • Daisuke Umon
  • Kei Tomiyama
  • Miyoko Aso
  • Reiko Mutoh

Episode list

Episode Title
1 "Homeless Huck"
2 "A Scary Father"
3 "Log Cabin in a Secluded Wood"
4 "Huck's Great Escape"
5 "Death of Father"
6 "A Sure Handshake"
7 "Thieves Are Human Too"
8 "Jim in Danger"
9 "Mission to Rescue Jim"
10 "Huck Wanders into a House"
11 "Don't Shoot Hearney!"
12 "A Gentlemen's Agreement"
13 "After the Fight"
14 "In the Mist"
15 "Huck Protects the Delivery"
16 "Illusive Mother"
17 "Boys in the Wild"
18 "Jim's Prediction"
19 "Run, Huck"
20 "$3 Fare"
21 "The King and the Count"
22 "A Grandfather from England"
23 "Mary Smiles"
24 "Jim Is Sold"
25 "Escape, Jim"
26 "Huck Arrives Back Home"

Music

Performer Description
"Hora Huckleberry Finn" "Hey There, Huckleberry Finn" Horie Mitsuko and Korogi '73 Opening Theme
"Kawa no Uta" "Song of the River" Horie Mitsuko and Korogi '73 Ending Theme

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn (anime de 1976) para niños

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