Was the cartoon Davey and Goliath watched when and where you grew up?
I was watching Nirvana Unplugged and Kurt and Kris were talking about the Christian cartoon Davey and Goliath. Growing up in New England, only vaguely know of this show. I’ve only met one person who said they saw it and they only referenced in relation to the parody, Moral Oral. So I figured only people in Protestant group watched it, But as far as I know Kris and Kurt didn’t grow up heavily religious. Looking into a little further, the show was aired in some areas on secular stations during Saturday morning cartoons.
Was Davey and Goliath broadcast where you were? What did you think of it? It definitely wasn’t in Boston.
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If it ever aired where I lived, I wasn’t aware of it. If you were to tell me that it was never a real show and only existed via
[the numerous parodies and jokes about it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4bN-ZcOWx0), I’d probably believe you.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like your average redditor is going to be too young to have watched it when it was new. I’m aware of what it is, but it was well before my time, and I can’t say I ever remember seeing reruns being shown.
“Gee Davey!”
Child of the 70s… watched it. And it was produced by (IIRC) the Lutheran Church but was on regular TV during the Saturday morning cartoons.
I thought it was some type of Christian programming shown on cable or paid time on local channels? I remember it being on TV in the 80s, but I never watched it, not when GI Joe or Transformers was also a choice.
I had a single VHS tape of a Christmas episode. That is all that I know of it.
Was it on PBS?
Yes, it aired here in California and I watched it.
I’m not sure what you mean by “secular stations”. We only had like 12 channels, man. Sometimes they showed Jesusy stuff. There really weren’t any stations/networks that were dedicated to religious programming back in the 1970s. At least not in my part of the world.
I grew up in New England. It was shown Sunday mornings, on (I think) WCVB.
It was stop motion, not traditional animation. I can do a decent impression of Goliath.
I definitely remember watching it as a kid, although I can’t recall what channel they put it on. We never paid for cable or satellite when I was a kid, so I imagine it was one of those channels that turned into a different station at certain times of the day like they did for the 700 Club
Yep, it was on tv when I was a kid, but I don’t remember which channel (would’ve been eastern Iowa in the 70’s).
I think I randomly clicked through channels and it was on. Kind of a puppet animation thing IIRC. Goliath was the dog? I think
Never appealed to me due to content
Yes, I did. It just shows that there was nothing good to watch on Sunday morning.
I have a vague recollection of it maybe being on in the 80s when I was a kid but I can’t recall specifically.
Yes, every weekend (in Boston)
Yeah, it was the only show for kids in the timeslot. It was in Boston.
[We didn’t have many choices](https://imgur.com/a/xrLaj1L)
No, I’m not 70 years old.
Nope, and I’ve never heard of it. I googled and found this on wikipedia:
>The program had become a fixture on Saturday and/or Sunday mornings on TV stations (both religious and secular) across the country during the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s, commercial stations began gradually dropping the series. Religious stations picked it up in many markets and ran it in their blocks of Christian children’s programs. By 1990, only a handful of commercial stations still aired the series.
I was born in the late 70s, so my earliest memories of watching TV date from the early-mid 80s. Also my parents definitely never showed me Christian programming intentionally.
Went to Catholic School in the 90s. It was definitely screened there.
I don’t recall ever seeing it in the midwest, deep south, or mountain west in the ’70s and ’80s.
Hated that show. All whining and lame stories.
No, but I did watch Moral Orel.
Yes it was on TV Sunday mornings. I lived in Marshfield, MA. I watched it because there was nothing else on Sunday mornings. This was in the early to mid 70s.
I saw lots of bits and pieces of it. I wouldn’t say I watched it, but it definitely existed and was available on regular channels when I was a kid.
Eta – I grew up in NY (Queens) and then south east Alabama.
Watched it every Sunday in Detroit
We had a few VHS tapes in the church’s library…. There were a few Davey movies. And another series about time travelers who go back to witness bibical stories first hand… They had a robot or something that’d go with them & explain the situation…
I don’t know if they were shown on any of the local TV channels or not.
I sort of remember it. Sunday mornings. I only remember because Batman came on after that.
Yeah, occasionally. It was corny but good clean old fashioned lessons. I actually look back on them rather fondly.
Yeah, I did. It was like the disappointment show. Like when there was nothing else on we’d watch it. Claymation has always sort of freaked me out.