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Directed by Hiroshi Saito First episode date 6 January 1980 Network Fuji Television | 8.1/10 IMDb Original network Fuji TV Number of seasons 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original run 6 January 1980 – 28 December 1980 Characters Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, Prof Dobbins, Sid Sawyer Similar The Swiss Family Robinson, Princess Sarah, My Daddy Long Legs, Dog of Flanders, World Masterpiece Theater | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (トム・ソーヤーの冒険, Tomu Sōyā no Bōken) is a Japanese/American anime series, directed by Hiroshi Saitô which was aired in 1980. It is based on the well-known and popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
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The series was broadcast on the World Masterpiece Theater, an animation staple on Fuji TV that showcased each year an animated version of a different classical book or story of Western literature, and was originally titled "Tom Sawyer no Bōken". It was the second installment of the series, after 1977's Rascal the Raccoon, to feature the work of an American author.
This series was also dubbed to English by Saban International and aired on HBO c. 1988 under the title "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." It aired during the 7:30AM time slot and alternated with the later WMT version of "Little Women." Celebrity Home Entertainment released videos in the United States under the title "All New Adventures of Tom Sawyer".
In 1997, 2008, 2010, 2014, it was aired on ABS-CBN. In 2015 and 2016 digitally remastered version was aired on ABS-CBN Digital TV subchannel Yey! in the Philippines.
As of January 2011, the anime is airing in the United States (in the original Japanese) on the NHK's cable channel TV Japan.