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Children's Television: Huckleberry Finn: 2: Jackson's Island

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by Mark Twain.
Adapted for television as a serial play in seven parts by W.S. Merwin.
The action takes place in a shack on the Illinois shore of the Mississippi, on Jackson's Island, and in a house on the Missouri shore. The time is about 1840.
(Jeremy Spenser is appearing in 'The Innocents' at Her Majesty's Theatre)

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Author:
Mark Twain
Adapted for television by:
W.S. Merwin
Producer:
Vivian Milroy
Settings:
Stephen Taylor
Huckleberry Finn:
Colin Campbell
Jim:
Orlando Martins
Tom Sawyer:
Jeremy Spenser
'Pap' Finn:
Kenneth Connor
Steamboat Captain:
John Boyd-Brent
Widow Douglas:
Janet Joye
Miss Watson:
Aimee Delamain
Judge Thatcher:
Shaun Sutton
Tommy Barnes:
John Levitt
Bill Trout:
Thomas Conniffe
Mrs. Loftus:
Peggy Merson
Source: Radio Times

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