Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Pluskylang Great Film overall

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

winner55 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.

jfkclock Here's a show that if produced today, would be dubbed "offensive", unrealistic, too preachy, too right wing, too religious, too Bible-thumping, not sensitive to the needs of non-Christians and atheists, too "whatever", and just "inappropriate" for today's generation and "out of sync" with today's world.Rubbish. It's EXACTLY what this world needs, and right now. How come if it's all those "bad" things, WE (people in our thirties) turned out OK after having watched it 500 times in our childhoods? Seems to me that kids who watched it today would turn out just as OK as we did! Maybe BETTER, because it would counter some of the nonsense and swill* that's on the tube today and polluting our children.DAVEY & GOLIATH is pure fun. Pure innocence. With a lesson. Religious, yes, but not overly so.We need more of this, and less of the GARBAGE that's on TV today.What pleasant memories it brought back when I accidentally found it on Boston's Catholic TV station. I recall it as a kid, being on a local Boston station back in the 70s and early 80s; no WAY they would do that today on the public airwaves.....too "offensive", too "religious", etc. for the politically-correct types who make careers out of being offended at everything. If this was broadcast on anything except Catholic cable, someone would get "offended" and would sue the TV station. Yet this was standard Saturday and Sunday morning fare on local Boston TV well into the 1980s! How come none of US, or our parents, were offended? Let me just say that they don't make 'em like this anymore, and I will make darn sure my kids get to watch it.Enjoy. And get it for your kids. They'll be better adults when they grow up, if you do. And you (if you watched it as a kid), will get to be a kid again, 15 minutes at a time. It's worth it for that alone! *Swill: noun: something suggestive of slop or garbage: REFUSE (from Merriam-Webster online)

alexanddebra We are told and constantly reminded you can never go back. However, if there is a cycle to our nostalgia for fashion, I only hope and pray that television shows like this, with their wonderful messages, come back into fashion. Can anyone remember a show from our kids' generation that they can look back on and feel as we feel about this one? I can't. Let's just keep reminding everyone what a profound difference it made for us as adults to have been raised on shows like this one.

BobLib 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!