Once Huck's father disappears, Tom shows up and frees Huck the two hurry to the Wilkes' place. Huck slips away from the pair, hoping to beat them to the estate and warn Mary Jane, but his father suddenly appears and chains him up in an abandoned steamship. Huck realizes they are planning to travel to the Wilkes homestead and trick Mary Jane into giving them her late father's fortune by pretending to be her uncles. Using a raft Tom has provided, Huck makes a getaway and soon encounters a pair of con men-the Duke and the Dauphin-on the run from the law. Tom pays a visit to the cabin while Huck's father is away and helps engineer Huck's escape. When Huck tells his father Judge Thatcher has control of his money, Huck's father kidnaps him and spirits him away to a shabby cabin where he torments and beats Huck. Shortly afterward, Huck is visited by his father who threatens him if he doesn't give up his fortune. Tom warns Huck that Huck's wandering, drunken father has come back to town after erroneously having been presumed drowned. Mary Jane suggests the Widow and Huck also come along on the trip. The Widow Douglas introduces Huck to Mary Jane Wilkes, Aunt Polly's visiting niece, whom Aunt Polly and Tom will soon be accompanying on her journey back down river. But instead, Huck ends up adopted by the Widow Douglas, who conspires with Tom's Aunt Polly to turn the newly wealthy boys into proper gentlemen. Tom and Huck smoke their corncob pipes and daydream about the lives of leisure they will enjoy now they are rich. Huck notes the abyss is "so deep it goes 'most to China" and Tom assures him Injun Joe will "never bother us no more." To celebrate, Tom and Huck become blood-brothers by nicking their thumbs with Tom's pocketknife and pressing their thumbs together. Just as they discover a chest full of gold, Injun Joe leaps out of the shadows, attempting to kill them, but he falls into a watery pit. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are digging for treasure in a cave along the Mississippi River. Robert Tyler Lee and Albert Heschong provided the art direction. The teleplay was adapted for Climax! by DeWitt Bodeen based on the novel by Mark Twain. Martin Manulis was the producer and Herbert Swope Jr. The following actors received screen credit for their performances:
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