I do remember this show coming on around supper time on Sunday nights. It was really unique in it's mix of live action and animation and I thought it was a great format for youngsters (I was nine at the time). It was easy to identify with the "trio" of stars and the animated back-drop enabled them to visit any land or time in history and encounter any type of villain (of course all the villain's looked suspiciously like Injun Joe!)...... One would think that this live action/animation format would have become more popular but I heard that it was quite expensive to create at the time (without computers) and this may have had a lot to do with the show's early demise. When a syndicated half-hour version of the "Banana Splits" aired in the late 70's, it periodically featured episodes of this particular Huck Finn show.
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(1968–1969)
A unique format great for youngsters...
20 June 2004