I'm 40 now and I know it's not very blokeish but hearing this tune chokes me up; takes me away from all the grown-up problems of life in the adult world and back to when I was a kid to a time when a cuddle from my mum could make everything alright again. :'(

Okay. It`s the year 2022 now. I´m 46 years old, German, and this fantastic TV show was one of the best parts of my childhood. Listen to this wonderful melody almost breaks my heart. After the last years I´m so fed up with the world, the politics, the lies, the wars, the desasters, the darkness..... I want my childhood back, I want to feel secure and safe again!!!!!! (I know, this will never happen) I´m sure I´m not the only one that feels like that.

52 years old and this took me back to the eighties. Carefree playing outside then running in barefoot to sit front of tv. Gosh I miss those times.

We kids of a certain age remember this. I was born in 1974 and this was staple television on BBC one in the UK. Wonderful. (Comment left by my brother Stephen)

Oh god, I am 47 and I hear this and I am immediately feeling tearful and nostalgic. Life seemed so much simpler then; being with your parents and feeling secure and happy. Astonishing what these tunes and memories can do, even now. A reminder that those sunny childhood days soon pass and the reality and responsibility of life is never easy.

being a kid in the late 70s and 80s was the best. i loved playing down the woods and beck, making hay dens and tree houses. i loved my zx spectrum 48k playing manic miner but the majority of the time i was out playing. I loved watching huck finn, almost brought a tear to my eye. Im being biased but these were good times to live as a kid

I watched this with my dad, when I was younger. For some reason this song really does make you wonder why life can't be more care free.

summer of 83 here in the UK I think, great days!! none of the facebook shite kids use nowadays. I'd watch huck finn then off out down the woods makin tarzy's, tree houses, hay dams gettin chased off the farmer makin go-karts, bmx'ing to boynton bumps, acky baths, conkering, buddying, nicky knocky nydo, bommy nights, the kader, swinger, bulldogs, kerby..aye the 70s n 80s were great times to be a kid. huck finn juust brought it all back to me hahaaa up the boro

Wow, as many others have said! That theme tune takes me right back to my childhood. The BBC in the UK used to run this, along with Heidi and Silas during the summer holidays as there were so many episodes. They don't make 'em like that any longer.

makes me cry this looking back when I was a little boy in the 70s

I loved this show ..every morning about 10 AM during the school summer holidays along with Roland Rat in Kowloon Hong Kong! 1985 what i wouldnt give to re live them days again..

Just watched this. I'm 48 and I'm feeling a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. I recall this all too well. Xx

i am too nostalgic and tearful to listen to this tune. I go back to my childhood. Oh! how nice my childhood is.

Skateboards Bmx's Go karts Tree climbing Flying kites Zx spectrum Manic miner Conkering Collecting footie cards Grange hill Why dont you Vinyl records Huck finn. We all watched it..had no choice with only 3 or 4 channels. But it was great 😁 Lump in my throat thinking back at 70s 80s growing up as a kid we were very very lucky to have those decades without the internet. Cheers 👍

So many great memories listening to this that care free time has passed now and life has got a lot more tough

Great series. I was six in 1979 living in Ireland when this came out. Loved the character of Huckleberry Finn as I think most boys did. It sure does bring back happy childhood memories. I remember that episode when the two conmen get tared and feathered and my mother had smoked kippers on for supper. To this day when I have smoked kippers I think of that scene, I can't help associating the two things with each other. It's funny I think if I were ever to witness someone getting tared and feathered I would almost expect them to smell of smoked kippers.😁😁😁

tears are flowing

We was so inspired by this show in early 1980`s dublin Ireland ,that we decided to build a half arsed raft in tribute, And On the Royal Canal Dublin we did launch and on the royal canal we did sink, Wet clothes explained away to parents due to rain! Great show great momories...

Brings back lovely memory’s of sitting on the floor round my nans as a child. I’m 42 now.

Just received my dvd box set.Have,nt stopped watching it.One to treasure.

When I watched this series on DVD in 2008 it was like being transported in a time machine back to when I originally watched it. It really is the theme tune that does it.

Im in my mid 30's and had an urge to hear this, after hearing the Littlest Hobo music on an advert.Ahh, those were the days.

Just the theme tune has put a nostalgic smile on my face!

No TV series will be better than this is 💗💗 R.I.P. Mark Twain.

A few people in the comments have memories of this being on British TV during the summer holidays, but I know when it was shown in 1982 I was in my first year of high school, and I would watch it after school at about 4.30pm, with a slice of chocolate swiss roll.

The year now is 2021..yet,I'm still here.my God,I feel choked with my childhood memories.life is more simpler n cooler back then.time passed,but memory remains.

I saw this as a kid. It was shown on a friday afternoon after school. It reminds me of time spent with mum and dad.

This was my favourite tv show....as a kid always wanted to go on an adventure with them....44 now...sigh

I remember watching this every day in the mornings of summer holidays before we went out to

I ordered the released DVD series and in two days during last weekend I watched it all. This was without any doubt the best series from my youth. I also had a major crush on Huck Finn, and I cried when the show was over. If then I had only known that 25 years later I could see it all again ... ;)

I remember watching this during my summer holidays in the early 80s. Loved it then and love it even more now. Thank you.

48 now, loved this in the Summer of 1983

I was hooked on this series back in the 80's. Saw every episode on Showtime!

dam what a blast from the past, id love 2 go back 2 them years times were much better wish my kids could grow up back then

loved this TV show back in the early 80s growing up in northern Ireland when it was on you used to lose yourself in the program and forget about the troubles

I received my Huckleberry Finn And His Friends box set this morning from Amazon. Excellent job and many thanks to the people at Fabulous Films for this release. LOve the cover, DVD art, booklet, etc. An amazing job. I and many other fans will treasure this collection. Ashley Irons

yep back when living was easy and neighbours were friends. oh to bring back those days

What a great intro tune and happy memories!

You are spot on - the long school summer holidays mornings in the 80s! I always had a vivid imagination as a young boy and this whole series seemed to relate to that with the boys exploring in the open country. Life as an adult is so much more serious and complicated now!

I must echo the remarks of so many others on here. I'm 40 now and have very happy memories of those times back in the late seventies and early eighties. It was a wonderful time to be young. Endless summer holidays, BWX's and great TV programmes like this that had proper stories to them. All this nostalgia brings a joyful tear to my eye... Thank you for uploading.

Loved watching this series as a kid. Takes me back to when things were better. So pleased to find a few episodes on here

the tune takes you back ;)

Loved watching this in the summer holidays's during the early to mid 1980's brings back some good memories of my childhood. Even if I did have all the money in the world, it could not buy me what I want most - A TIME MACHINE TO TAKE ME BACK TO THE LATE 70'S AND 80'S - they were good times.

this is by far the best huck finn ever, i used to watch this in the 6 week holidays from school, if it wasnt for this intro being posted, i wouldnt have known it was out on dvd. so i have just ordered it off play. cheers

I just bought the DVD box set of this series. The special features include interviews with Sammy Snyders (Tom) and Ian Tracey (Huck) as they are now. It's fascinating to hear them talk about the making of this series - and especially about how Sammy still gets Christmas cards from the girl who played Becky Thatcher!

I remember watching this TV series when i was just in High School back in 1986, the good ol days

I LOVED this show!! Ian Tracey is my favourite Huck ever. Huck and Tom were an inspiration to me when I was a kid, I always wanted to be just like them. Building rafts, running around barefoot, climbing trees, fishing with sticks, etc. One of my favourite shows of the era...the other was Grizzly Adams.

Wow memories! I wish I was 10 years old again!

I watched this all one summer when I was little and still remember the whole theme tune, lovely music.

I remember so much this show when I was young.

I hope Injun Joe goes after all the people who gave this a thumbs down!

I used to absolutely love watching this!

Wow.. Huck Finn. Fantastic opening theme. School holiday mornings went something like this.. Wake up. watch 'Why Don't You'.. watch Huckleberry Finn .. go out and play.. come back.. watch Silas.. it's all coming back maan.. remember one episode where there was this shoot out between two rival families, very sad.. Thanks for posting

i am 32...watching this again reduced me to tears...that song and the black geezer cooking his food brought it all back

in the UK 84/85 ish loved it. Why dont you,the moomins,pac-man,roland rat,top cat,grange hill but huckleberry finn was my favourite. Anyone remember finger bobs? if not type it in youtube search..man the really freaked me out as a kid. Im off to play manic miner ;)

loved this program ,omg brings back good memories love to see this back on tv :) :)

I loved this growing up! I remember watching it at my nans house on a Thursday after school

I loved it, I'm in my early 40's now, I would love for them to repeat the shows for old times sake!

This really takes me back as well, and clutches at the heartstrings as a beloved childhood show (and books), but it's also astonishing to me that this was kids' TV within my lifetime: the credits and theme tune in particular serve up this portrait of a perfect and wonderful sadly-bygone age, and literally include a shot of a grinning runaway slave. Of course the show was more complex than the Care Bears-style theme tune (which I do still love btw) and Mark Twain was a humanist and brilliant satirist but the packaging here is incredible to me now in 2024. I'd be very interested to see a modern reworking of this material, if it's even possible.

This is one series where you can watch over and over again and not get bored with it.

I grew up watching this series, in the 1980's great show,awesome memories.

Thanks for uploading that.It has brought some good memories to me.I'm 39 and i live in Greece. I remember that T.V. series from the early '80s .Saturday morning watching it...loved that music theme too.

I'am 36 and this is pure memories........

I was always SO MUCH IN LOVE with Huckleberry in my books

Same here mate, good times stay with us. Keep the memories with you and she will be with you. X

17 years since I last managed to see ANY of this on British TV.... most anticipated DVD release EVER !!

Feeling emotional at this. When life was so much simpler c

my first crush was on Huck! thanks for the memory revival!

I remember watching this as a ''rerun'' in the UK in 1982, around about September of that year. Loved the song. One of the lads in my class reminded me of Ian Tracey.

Loved Huck, Tom & Jim just floating on the raft along the Mississippi River 🥰

Great show .would watch this every week when back from school

Same here m8 in 35 and for 2 minutes listening to the theme tune again i was 6 on a sunday morning in england ,happy times pal

Ahh! Saturday mornings. Brings it all back. Great series. I don't even think the inventors of KZfaq were born yet. God, I feel old. I think I'll go and lie down now.

Go on sing along! Try looking back more on days that were slower, When living came easy and neighbours were friends, Paddle wheels turning as kids on the river, Went seeking adventure or some pirate’s den, Marbles and fishing and wrestling and wishing, The day would come quickly when they would be men, That’s where they came from, the time that they came from, No better time to live and to grow, Oh that’s where they came from, the days that they came from, Life was so carefree not so long ago!

@RetroGirl1974 i came across this a month r so ago..was my favourite childhood programme..all the episodes are posted on youtube ive watched them all since..sad r what..great days

Wow......this just whizzed me back in time....I'm quite misty-eyed now...always thought Ian Tracey who plyed Huck was so cute....how old will he be now...I dread to think!!

Definitely watched this as a child my teacher thought I was Tom,,,,

I didn't grow up with this... Or... I first saw it when I was around 14 and it was just 5 years ago. Anyway, I have made it to a tradition to watch it once every year. But it still give me some fine memories. Thanks for sharing! :D

Spot on, WatfordDan! I love this theme tune :) so takes me back to my schooldays... happy memories...

You're both right. It was shown numerous times on the BBC between 1982-1986, both in the afternoon kiddies slot and also in the early morning summer slot. Then ITV/ LWT showed it in the early 90's in the saturday afternoon slot - I also have a recording of an episode from this airing.

Thanks for posting. Can't forget that theme tune!

Oh God WOW! I remember watching this great series on TV as a little kid with my mum (rest her good soul), this takes me right back... l loved the opening titles with the old paddle steamer chugging along on the Mississippi River, and the theme song... l'm getting quite emotional now, and have a few tears in my eyes just thinking of those good old innocent times, and about my mum, too, rest her good soul...

loved this show, haaaaaaaaa, the great old days. : )

I saw it when I was 10 or 11, then it was aired in The Netherlands (so around 1980). They never repeated it, so I saw it only once, but when I saw the DVD a couple of weeks ago, it really struck me how much I remembered. During highschool I had to read a lot of English books, and of course a.o. I read The adventures of Tom Sawyer and The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. During reading the book I kept seeing Sammy Snyders, Ian Tracey, and Blu Mankuma in my head, which made the books even better.

One scene that really amazed me was in the "End of the fued" episode, when Huck climbs a tree. I have never seen anyone climb a tree that fast, it really impresses me. When I was a kid, I used to climb trees all the time, but it took me just a little bit longer to get in top of them.

just bought this off e-bay, more on amazon, the entire series on dvd. happy days!!!

I never saw another television series that was so good as this one. Since I have the DVD box I have already watched it all twice, and it still is so nice to see, even when you know already what is going to happen. What I like very much, is that it follows the books of Mark Twain quite right, and of course the actors are amazing.

Primary school summer holidays in the 70s between Black Beauty, the Banana Splits, Follyfoot, the Double Deckers and a multitude of others wonderful shows, we had epic and wonderful childhood experience for a brief period every morning. Then we'd be outside playing until it got dark and exploring the woods or making a gang hut, entertaining ourselves in thoughtful ways until dinner time. What went wrong with the world. children today are nothing nore than contained Chickens playing video games under their parents watch! It's so sad!

What a beautiful tune :)

Watched this growing up...THANKS!!

i just bought the dvd. I wasn't sure what it would be like as i last watched this in about 85. i tell you this is brilliant now it just makes you wanna watch the next episode. who remembers Tom and the bible tickets and the characters Joe Harper, Big Jim and Indian Joe?

Try looking back more on days that were slower When living came easy and neighbours were friends Paddle wheels turning as kids on the river Went seeking adventure on some pirates den Marbles and fishing and resting and wishing The day would come quickly when they would be men Thats where they came from, the time that they came from No better time to live and to grow Oh thats where they came from, the days that they came from Life was so carefree not so long ago

Me and my mate used to watch this all the time!! Brilliant!!

@nufto We had the first Betamax video recorder in the street. A noisy, clunky top loader. I still remember having a load of my excited friends around and we watched "Jaws" mostly hiding behind the sofa or cushions, in about 1980 I think. I remember the shop starting to rent out videos. They had just 4 tapes to start with!

@jacmandora Absolutely brings back fond memories of school summer holidays. If I remember right, like 'Heidi' and 'Dogtanian' the series was so long that it never actually finished before you went back to school!

This clip instantly took me back to the school holidays, when my biggest concern was if i was gonna ride my bike or play kick a tin, the good ole day

spareroom2, & strangeloop - my childhood too! It must be an age thing. It was reminiscing about the good old days/school holidays which made me look up this theme tune - so good to hear it again.

I loved this, on tv in 1979

Haha, I've been reading the book and all I've had stuck in my head since I started it was this song, barely remembered from my childhood. I mentioned it at a barbeque the other day and almost everyone there joined in the tune, but were hazy on the words. Thanks for uploading.

i had a crush on huck lol