Even though Mark Twain originally wrote the books The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as separate units, Huckleberry Finn And His Friends, the amazing series on Canadian television, conjures up both literary works as a single story.

[1] Episode 9 - Buried treasure - was filmed in part at the Alaksen National Wildlife Area.

The Julia Belle Swain appears in the opening and closing credits, and are the only scenes that were shot on the Mississippi River.

The small sternwheeler in episode 10 - Huck is a hero - was one of an identical pair of boats built in 1964 that ferried tourists around Vancouver's harbour from the 1960s to the 1980s.

[4] The series was broadcast in the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Canada, South Africa Israel, and various as Latin America countries.