Davey and Goliath (1960)
Saisons & Épisode
Davey finds ten dollars and wants to spend it on a birthday present for Goliath, but whose is it?
Davey's geography lesson on Australia is very amusing at first with its dingos and kookaburras, but he soon tires of it and doesn't study for the test. He resorts to cheating, but that night his conscience begins to bother him...
Davey learns ""the hard way"" at the natural history museum that grownups have rules ""for your own good.""
Davey's friend Larry has a little trouble with his French and starts smashing up the classroom furniture. Davey reminds him of the school cheer, and helps him prepare for a test next day.
Dognappers are foiled by the identification number given to Goliath by the authorities.
Alone during a thunderstorm, Davey and Goliath imagine all sorts of things, but afterward, Davey contemplates his father's saying that ""God gave us a mind to use"", and considers how he ought to have acted.
After a lecture by Mrs. Reed on caring for the world (and keeping your room neat), Davey and Jonathan clean up a favorite city park gone to rack and ruin (and rats).
Davey and Jonathan decide to help the church with a bell choir. They rehearse ""Kum Ba Yah"" with Cisco, whose mynah bird offends Goliath because nobody understands Goliath except Davey. The bell choir disbands until Pastor Miller has a little talk with Davey about the meaning of the song.
Davey imagines gruesome revenges against a new kid who's crossed him.
Davey is having a grand time reading Treasure Island, and so is Goliath. Davey is elected Treasurer of the Jickets, and becomes inspired to bury the club's savings. A heavy rainstorm leaves no trace of the treasury, but the Jickets have plans to buy a baseball bat at the next meeting.
Davey's class goes on a field trip to the woods. He's resentful of his teacher's strict guidance, and becomes lost. Goliath has a cold and can't follow the trail back...
Davey accidentally watches a robbery while camping in his backyard, and is threatened into silence by the robber who catches him. (C. 1971)
Pastor Miller tells his Sunday School class that, as Americans, they ultimately come from somewhere else (except George Soaring Eagle, who is of the Sioux tribe). They hold a Family Folk Fair and dress like their ancestors in different parts of the world. Goliath doesn't know where his dog-parents came from, until Davey learns the answer.