"You do need one more thing Davey, the will to help people and the world you live in."~Davey's friendly, neighborhood PastorAs previously mentioned, we don’t have cable or satellite television in our home, just five, or occasionally six, television stations. One of those stations that comes in on a clear morning when the planets are in alignment is TCT, or the Tri-State Christian Television Network. TCT is a Christian television network which features many pastors, reverends and their families testifying. Another facet of their programming, one that is intermittently entertaining is their children’s programming. This morning at 6:30 a.m. as I sat down to check my e-mail, I came across an old “friend” while avoiding Chuck Norris infomercials, Davey and Goliath.
For the initiated, Davey and Goliath is a 1960s stop-motion animated television series produced by the Lutheran Church in America, and created by Art Clokey after the success of his Gumby series. Somewhere along the line it became somewhat "kewl" to deride Davey and his talking dog (for example on The Simpsons and MadTV), but I think the show still holds up pretty well, in its attempt to teach or illustrate simple ways that people can be better to one another. Granted, the show does have a(n intentionally) Christian bent, but regardless of one's faith affiliation, the messages Davey and his friends (among them one of the first African-American characters to be respectfully portrayed) are universal, if not a little hokey in their presentation.
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2 comments:
I loved Davey and Goliath. Watched it every Saturday morning on CBC, and I don't think it ever occurred to me then that it was religious
Sure it was hokey, but it was way better than some of the crap my kids are watching today.
I wonder if it's on DVD yet?
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Davey & Goliath is available on dvd at most larger stores or amazon.com... i was wondering the same thing and did the e-search... ;-)
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