History WesternAnimation / DaveyAndGoliath

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome/WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Davey's friends, Teddy and Nathaniel are absent in the revival and are respectively replaced with Nicky and Jonathan.

%%* AnAesop

* TalkingAnimal: Goliath though he is only heard by Davey.

* ProductPlacement: ''David and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas'' has Goliath sport an ELCA logo dog tag. This tags also appears on newly-commissioned promos for the show's website attached to TBN broadcasts.

* JesusTaboo: Although the series was produced by the Lutheran Church, the characters rarely mentioned specific religious grounds, to ensure the show had a broad appeal.[[note]]A notable exception is the Easter episode, where Davey's father uses the Easter story to help Davey cope with the death of his beloved grandmother. There's also an episode where Davey and his friends take First Communion in their church, but that one was not as widely released. ''Davey and Goliath's Snowboard Christmas'' mentions Jesus as a setup for Davey learning about Chanukah and Ramadan.[[/note]]

''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episodes "Bart the Lover", "Simpsons Bible Stories", "HOMR" and "Ned 'n' Edna's Blend" all include mocking references to ''Davey and Goliath''. Creator/AdultSwim's ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' started as a direct spoof (at least, that's what popular belief will tell you)[[note]]the show's creator only says it was inspired by ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'', but the homage in the character design seems obvious[[/note]].

* JesusTaboo: Although the series was produced by the Lutheran Church, the characters rarely mentioned specific religious grounds, to ensure the show had a broad appeal.[[note]]A notable exception is the Easter episode, where Davey's father uses the Easter story to help Davey cope with the death of his beloved grandmother. There's also an episode where Davey and his friends take First Communion in their church, but that one was not as widely released.[[/note]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Instead of the more simple {{Aesop}}s they had in the early 1960s, which consisted of sharing and forgiveness, the 1970s episodes dealt with racism, parental loss, and death. Mind you, the 1970s series did often revisit the same Aesops dealt with the earlier episodes, but took them to a whole new level, for example, the Aesop of 1964's "Good Neighbor" was, you guessed it, loving your neighbor as yourself, and it followed a simple storyline of Davey sacrificing the chance of getting a free good neighbor balloon to help a lost little girl find her way home. But it's 1970s counterpart, "Who's George", has a man in Jonathan Reed's apartment building get severely ill, but everyone thinks he is just being lazy until Davey and Johnathan climb the fire escape and see that he’s on the verge of DEATH, and get him medical help in the nick of time. Wow, quite a step.

Art Clokey, the creator of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'', produced this syndicated ReligiousEdutainment series in the early 1960s for one of the predecessors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It centered on a young boy named Davey Hansen and his talking dog, Goliath. When Goliath speaks, only Davey can hear him.