The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1980 TV series)


The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a Japanese anime television series produced by Nippon Animation and directed by Hiroshi Saito, which premiered on Fuji Television and its affiliates on January 6, 1980, and ended its run on December 28 the same year. It is based on the 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
The series was broadcast on the World Masterpiece Theater, an animation staple on Fuji TV, that each year showcased an animated version of a classical book or story of Western literature, and was originally titled Tom Sawyer no Bōken. It was the second installment of the series, after Rascal the Raccoon in 1977, to feature the work of an American author.
This series was dubbed into English by Saban International and broadcast on HBO in 1988 under the title The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at 7:30 am. It alternated with the later World Masterpiece Theater version of Tales of Little Women. Celebrity Home Entertainment released videos in the United States under the title All New Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It also aired on The Children's Channel in the UK and Network 10 in Australia and has also been dubbed in other languages, including French, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Dutch, Filipino and Spanish. In January 2011, it was shown in the United States in the original Japanese on the NHK's cable channel TV Japan. In the Philippines, it was shown on ABS-CBN, Q, Kapamilya Channel and A2Z, it would be also shown on TV5.

Plot

Tom Sawyer is a rustic, and mischievous boy who lives with his stepbrother Sid, his Aunt Polly, and her daughter, Mary. After the death of his parents, Polly raised her sister's two sons as if they were her own, with love, tenderness, and affection. Tom spends most of his time with his best friend, Huck Finn, sharing all kinds of adventures such as playing pirates on the Mississippi River or traveling in a balloon. While enjoying various adventures and fun, Tom and Huck accidentally discover hidden gold, which Injun Joe had supposedly found in the haunted house. He requires much of the heart of Rebecca Thacher, who believes she is his future wife.

Characters

Sawyers

Phelpses

Finns

Thatchers

Others

Episodes

English episode titles from the 1988 Saban dub are listed in parentheses.
#TitleOriginal Air Date
01The Small World of Tom Sawyer
02A Fun Punishment
03Love At First Sight
04The Magic Spell
05Becky
06Huck's House
07The Rival
08Panic at Board
09Aunt Polly is Sick
10Injun Joe.
11The Treasure
12The Professor
13The Pirates
14Pirates Don't Go To School
15Poor Aunt Polly
16The Funeral
17Back to School
18Reconciliation
19The Frog Race
20The Secret of Mr. Dobbins
21The Summer Holidays
22The Charlatan
23Fishing Party
24Huck Wears a Tie
25A Stubborn Boy
26Lisette
27The Rising of the Curtain
28Help Lisette!
29Goodbye Lisette
30Huck's Father
31The Candlestick
32Gold in Petersburg
33Escape to Freedom
34The Man who Came from the Sky
35Tom wants to Fly
36Fixing the Balloon
37Goodbye Arthur
38The Accident
39A Question of Confidence
40The Trial
41Where is Injun Joe?
42A Pleasant Journey
43The White Horse
44The Capture
45Freedom
46The Haunted House
47The Cave
48The Death of Injun Joe
49The Sad Ending

International titles

  • As aventuras de Tom Sawyer
  • De avonturen van Tom Sawyer
  • Las Aventuras de Tom Sawyer
  • Le avventure di Tom Sawyer
  • Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer
  • Przygody Tomka Sawyera
  • Tom Sawyer
  • Tom Sawyer no Bōken
  • Tom Sawyers Abenteuer
  • Tom Sawyerin ja Huckleberry Finnin seikkailut
  • Tom Story
  • תום סוייר
  • توم سوير
  • ماجراهای تام سایر
  • トム・ソーヤーの冒険
  • 湯姆歷險記
  • 톰 소여의 모험
  • Приключения Тома Сойера

Reception