Goliath - Deep-voiced talking dog and the conscience to a 10-year-old boy on the stop-motion animation series DAVEY AND GOLIATH/SYN/1960-65. Each fifteen-minute tale follows a young Davey Hanson (Dick Beals/Norma McMillan) and his dog Goliath (Hal Smith) as they learn lessons on life and morality. Of course, Goliath only spoke to Davey; to everybody else he just barked and growled. Goliath and Davey had many adventures together. They went to a museum and Goliath climbed up a dinosaur; Goliath helped Davey build a gocart for a race; and Goliath rode a carnival roller-coaster and commented "I don't know if I care for this...No I don't care for it." Besides Davey, Goliath interacted with a number of people including Davey's parents and his little blond-haired sister Sally; police officer Dan or Bob; Davey's best friend, Jonathon Reed; a paranoid boy named Jimmy and Davey's shy school buddy, Teddy who was afraid of dogs including Goliath [who gets scared easily and doesn't much care for cats]. In all their adventures Goliath always cautioned Davey with the trademark catchphrase "But, Daaavey." Davey and Goliath's fondness for each other revealed itself once on a camping trip when Goliath asked Davey "Would you like to be a dog" and Davey answered "If I was Goliath." Davey then asked Goliath if he would like to be a boy, and Goliath responded "If I was Davey." Note: The series was produced by Clokey Productions (creator of TV's Gumby) for the Lutheran Council of Churches. Davy and Goliath reprised their roles in the half-hour specials Christmas Lost and Found (1965), New Year Promise (1967), Happy Easter (1967), School...Who Needs It? (1971), To The Rescue (1975), and Halloween Who-Dun-It? (1977). The DAVEY & GOLIATH series has become a part of pop culture, with references found on shows like The Simpsons, Beavis and Butthead, Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Mad TV. On THE SIMPSONS cartoon show the Simpson's next-door neighbors [The Flanders] doorbell plays the 'Davey & Goliath' theme song [Episode "Homer Vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"] and Maude Flanders once remarked about her son Todd "Well, he used to watch 'Davey and Goliath' but he thought the idea of a talking dog was blasphemous" [Episode "Bart "Lover"]. And on a MAD TV spoof sketch "Son of Goliath" episode #114 Goliath tells Davey to "Kill, kill, kill." "DAAvey, I need more blood!"