Posted on 08/04/2002 8:13:07 PM PDT by Lorenb420
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) . Oh Davey, welcome back.
Davey and Goliath, the stop-action animated stars of Sunday morning TV in the 1960s who recently reappeared in a soda commercial, are getting their TV show again.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will produce 26 new episodes of the Davey and Goliath show.
The denomination's predecessor, the United Lutheran Church in America, produced 65 episodes of the Davey and Goliath show and six specials from 1960 to 1971. In the show featured, Davey, a young boy, and his dog Goliath, whom only Davey can hear, face life together.
The shows were made by Art and Ruth Clokey, who also created Gumby.
The church hopes to introduce a new generation to the characters and create quality children's programming with a moral center and a Christian theme,'' said the Rev. Eric Shafer, the ELCA's communications director.
To help pay production costs, the ELCA agreed to sell the characters for commercial endorsements, leading to their appearance in a commercial for Mountain Dew this year.
The church is also licensing videos of old shows and other memorabilia, including t-shirts and bobblehead figures.
The new shows are expected to go on the air next year.
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ROFLMAO!! I saw that commercial and just rolled. I remember thinking, "........not once in all the years I watched Davey and Goliath as a kid do I ever remember hearing them use the word 'hosed'." :)
Yeah, we made fun of the show back then as kids, but it sort of hurts to see it mocked now, because in this cynical modern world, you cherish innocent things from childhood more and more.
I liked the show, but there was definitely a creepy weirdness about it.
I read an interview with the show's creator once where he was asked about kids being scared by Davey and Goliath. The creator didn't know what he was talking about, but I immediately understood.
Davey someimes got the most pained, sad expression on his face. No other kid show showed such realistic pain in children.
Also, the show opened with that theme song ("A Mighty Fortress") played with trumpets (I think). That opening was like a signal that this is not your usual kid show. Then, even though it was shown on a commercial station, the show never had commercials. How weird is that?
To this day, when I think of Easter, I remember the special Easter episode - poor Davey is inconsolable with greif when his grandmother suddenly dies fifteen minutes or so into the episode. Since when do people die in kid shows?
That episode still creeps me out when I think of it. I don't know if I even watched the whole thing - no doubt at the end Davey learns that Grandma is still alive in their hearts or in heaven or something, but still...
Also, everyone on the show always pronounced the word "God" as "Gawd". Maybe that's just how they say it in Missouri or something, but to a kid who always heard the word as "Gahd", well, it just sounded weird and added to the overall strangeness of the show.
Extreme No! given enough time even Davy and Goliath will be deemed non PC and be lobbied for change i hat to say this but it might be better off left alone i hate to see liberals get their hands on good things it winds up being ruined and rancid
A Davey and Goliath bump hey guys remember Davey and Goliath ?
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