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The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem appear with Oscar-winning Welsh actor Hugh Griffith in the TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Treasure Island. The program was broadcast on March 5, 1960 as part of the DuPont Show of the Month on American television.

Over the opening credits, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (billed at the time as The Clancy Boys and Tom Makem) sing the sea shanty, "Row, Bullies, Row."

In a later scene, Tom Clancy dances a hornpipe to the tune of the shanty, "South Australia." At the beginning of that scene, his brother Patrick "Paddy" Clancy can be seen sitting on the left side of the table near the bar (1:16). He waves to Tom Clancy, as he enters through the doorway (1:21) and goes to talk at the bar. Paddy has a brief close-up in profile at 3:08. Tom, as Israel Hinds, has a couple of lines in the scene and is often at the forefront of the cast. Long John Silver (Hugh Griffith) enlists Tom to show young Jim Hawkins (Richard O'Sullivan) how to dance a hornpipe. It may be Liam Clancy in the background who claps his hands (at 5:10) before Tom starts. Paddy Clancy can be seen playing the harmonica behind Tom while he dances. Behind Paddy's head, Tommy Makem can just be distinguished playing a tin whistle (5:19). Paddy can also be seen getting up and walking behind the main characters (6:19). At the end of the clip, Tommy Makem (with a beard and no mustache) appears briefly behind Tom Clancy's head (7:34). Michael Gough plays Dr. Livesey.

Although Tom Clancy would continue his acting career, this is one of the final acting jobs for the other Clancy brothers and Tommy Makem before they devoted themselves full-time to singing (and in Paddy's case, also to cattle breeding).