The Necklace (E1): Long John is falsely accused and imprisoned for robbery and murder. Miss Purity and Jim Hawkins endeavour to prove his innocence and find the real culprit. It features Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Kit Taylor, Grant Taylor, Eric Reiman, John Brunskill, and Harry Hambleton. The Adventures of Long John Silver is a television series about the Long John Silver character from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. It was made in 1954 in colour in Australia for the American and British markets before the development of Australian television.