I was born Jewish but raised Catholic ('mixed marriage'). I watched this series every Sunday morning with joy and delight. Discovering a low cost DVD of 6 episodes, I watched with hesitation, fearful my memory had betrayed me. It hadn't - this is a wonderful animated series for all children of any of the traditions of Western religions.Besides the wonderful stop-motion animation, the characters are supremely well-drawn, and the lessons learned here concern everyday ethical choices that face the young, without unnecessary political intrusions.Speaking about which - and the reader should be warned, I will get totally personal here - I hate the religious right (Falwell, Robertson, etc., etc.) for insisting on a 'christian' totalitarianism. Davey and Goliath belong to an older, longer lasting, better tradition of Christian ethics - not theocratic, not homophobic, not racist, not fearful of Muslim others, but a Christian tradition based on love and the willingness to go the extra mile for others because this is what Christ asks us to do.God bless Davey and Goliath; you probably know what I wish God would do to phony Right religionists.This series is a memory of what America once was, before the right-wingers decided what it should be.

What great memories! In the DFW Metroplex, kids got to watch this show on "The Children's Hour", a Sunday morning entertainment/educational show that ran just before Oral Roberts weekly proclamation that "something good is going to happen to you!".Davey & Goliath was a Lutheran church based show with heavy religious and moral overtones, but it never came across as heavy handed as did "Jot", the other long running series featured on the Children's Hour. The show featured a young boy, Davey Hansen, his dog Goliath, his family & friends and the everyday moral choices young people face, as well as the consequences of those choices, right or wrong. It's been well notedby other reviewers that this kind of show would never fly in todays ultra PC "don't offend anybody" world, and I find that unfortunate. Regardless of your religious beliefs,this show preached a higher standing of morality and common courtesy toward your fellow man that I find sorely lacking in todays world. No matter if you're Christian, Muslim, Buddist, Atheist or whatever, the values of responsibility and consequences for you own actions, love of your neighbor and moral awareness that this show emphasized are values we could all benefit from. I do find it humorous that the moral sounding board and conscience for Davey, his dog Goliath, was voiced by the town drunk from the Andy Griffith show, Hal Smith. If you've never seen this show and have an opportunity, watch it if for no other reason than to get a pulse on what children's TV was like before "Cat Dog" and all the other mentally and spiritually bankrupt garbage our kids have to watch today.

This show brings back nice memories of childhood. It deals with moral issues without being doophy. I believe it would hold up today. I would love to see a modern day version of Davey & Goliath. It would be interesting to see a show with maybe Davey as an adult dealing with his children.

Some of my best memories as a boy were getting up early on Saturday mornings to watch "Davey and Goliath." they were enjoyable, moralistic without being heavy-handed about it, and the characters were very much like people you knew, not goody-goody types. Unfortunately, kids today are very different, and I doubt that they would respond to it the way our generation did (I'm 42 now). Still and all, a good show, despite what the authors of "Saturday Morning Fever" have to say, and I still get a nostalgic twinge when I see it on cable TV these days.Incidentally, I didn't realize until I saw IMDB's profile that upright father figure John Hanson was voiced by Hal "Otis-the-Mayberry-town-drunk" Smith. Talk about diametricaly opposed!