| Num Episodes: | 7 |
| Producer: | Dorothea Brooking |
| Network: | BBC |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was a seven-part series produced by the BBC. After it was broadcast in England, it was brought to the U.S. as part of the What's New? series on National Educational Television.[1] Fred Smith, who played Tom Sawyer, and Mike Strotheide, who played Huckleberry Finn, were the sons of American servicemen stationed in Britain;[2] the rest of the cast was primarily British. The teleplay was adapted from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by C.E. Webber and incorporated folk songs from Peggy Seegar.[3] The series of 30-minute episodes originally debuted on the BBC on July 24, 1960 [4] and concluded on September 4, 1960.[5]