Davey and Goliath

Davey is being lazy. He is sitting around watching TV and ignoring his chores. Davey claims that he will do his chores later, and is being told frequently by his parents to do his chores. Davey doesn't, and it's time to turn the tide on Davey. Elaine decides not to wash dishes. John decides not to go to work because he just didn't feel like it. Davey doesn't like it one bit. He cannot eat for the moment. He would not have a roof over his head if he didn't all of a sudden, feel like working. He realizes that everybody has to do their part in order to make things run smoothly, and keep things in proper order.

Sally is trying to play the piano so that people would want to listen. Davey has taken up bowling. Both are rotten at their new interests, so they pray that they would become champions overnight. Unfortunately, Davey still bowls bad and Sally plays bad. Davey and Sally both quit. Davey and Sally both tell their dad that prayer hasn't helped and that they quit their new interests. Davey's dad provides wisdom by saying ""Champions aren't made in a week Davey. It wouldn't mean anything if just suddenly like magic, you were both the best."" Davey's mom replies ""Something God did, not something you did."" Davey's dad adds ""He expects you to do your part."" After John talks to the kids about the hard work it took them to be champion skaters, they realize that working at it will go a long way and that when you fail at something, you should practice and try again. They also learn that when they pray, they should ask God to help them stick with it and not ask him to supernaturally just give them th

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 is not listening to Goliath. As Davey and Goliath go hiking in a forrest park, Goliath saved Davey's life from a train. Goliath also encounters a deer which tells Goliath to tell Davey that the summer is dry and not to light a match. Davey does not believe him, but the deer is watching. When Davey and Goliath encounter a well, Davey has a little fun with it. He dips Goliath in the water to get cooled down. After Goliath is out, Davey pours red paint into the well to make it look like ""Strawberry pop"". Later, Davey's dad picks up Davey from the hike and needs water for the radiator. Some of the people around that area are thirsty and need water. Davey realizes what he did was completely stupid.

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.

Davey and Jonathan have a picnic on the roof of a building. Since Hank the janitor let the boys and Goliath have lunch on the roof, the boys try to return the favor by unraveling a tangled flag that is on the flagpole that extends from the six story building. When Jonathan goes to unravel the flag, the pole gives out and Jonathan is hanging on to it before it falls six stories down. Goliath runs to get Officer Dan, who is across the street writing the number of a man who hit Pop's hot dog stand. Goliath communicates with Officer Dan and has to leave Pops. After saving Johnathan by just a hair, Pops is angry at Dan for his ""abandoning"" him. Officer Dan explains that protecting lives are more important than protecting property. Pops then gets the picture.

Davey and Johnathan hunt to recycle old bottles in order to earn money to go to the movies. The kids raid most of the garbage cans and get a lot of bottles. Meanwhile Davey and Jonathan encounter competition when a new boy named Tommy is collecting bottles in the same area. When Davey and Jonathan go to face the boy, it turns out that his mother is sick and he doesn't have a dad. Tommy is collecting bottles to buy food for him and his brothers and sisters. Davey and Jonathan give Tommy their bottles and build up a coalition of people to aid the boy in trouble. After making sacrifices, sharing, and helping this boy, the three boys go together to find bottles to pay for their movie tickets.

Racism is the issue and diversity is the experiment in this episode. Jonathan's racist cousin Scottie is visiting. He had an accident with a chemistry set and is blindfolded. Knowing that Scottie is racist, Jonathan's dad concocts an experiment that tests to see if Scottie can change his heart. After having so much in common and becoming friends with Davey, the blindfold comes off and Scottie's prejuidice dominates him. Angry because Davey is white, he storms out of the doctor's office. Meanwhile, Goliath has been a little prejuidice as well. He does not like another dog because the dog is different. The difference is that the dog has spots. Eventually, both Scottie and Goliath realize that true colorblindness is when you look at the heart instead of looking, and judging falsely about someone just because their skin color is a little different.

How can you love your neighbor when you don't know your neighbor? That is the question here when Mr. Hunt, a man in the city, appears to be missing. As people think that he is actually missing, they do not realize that the reason that he is not making appearances is because he is at home, very sick with pneumonia. Mr. Hunt tried to call someone, but dropped his phone's receiver off the hook. Mr. Hunt was too sick to pick up the receiver, which made the phone busy, thusly making it impossible to contact him. As the man lies sick, Davey and Johnathan start to help this man whom they never saw before. As the mystery grows about this man, Davey wants to see what this man looks like. Davey ends up on the fire escape and sees the condition that Mr. Hunt is in. He calls an ambulance as he is being a good neighbor to someone he's never met before.

Dognappers are foiled by the identification number given to Goliath by the authorities.

Davey and Mickey and Jonathan get together to play ""Row, Row, Row Your Boat"" and ""Skip to My Lou"" on drums and trumpet and harmonica (with Goliath playing triangle, cymbal and bulb horn -- dancing too). They're hired for two dollars apiece to play in front of the Bijou Theater, but Jonathan brings them along while he delivers medicine to the hospital Children's Center. They realize it would be nice to play for the injured children during a garden outing next day, but it would be for free and the theater job is at the very same time. What to do? They all want to make a zillion dollars...

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.

Davey is helping Officer Dan direct traffic on the sidewalk. He encounters a kid who is walking and almost gets killed a couple of times. Goliath saves the kid from almost getting hit by an ambulance. As the kid is on the ground, Davey asks what's the matter with him. It looks as though he is pointing to his head. Davey then says ""You bet you ought to shoot yourself for being so dumb"". Davey then learns later on that the kid is deaf and cannot speak. It all makes sense to him now. Davey eventually wants to know what it's like to be deaf so he wears earplugs and doesn't talk to see what it's like. Davey then realizes how fortunate he is to be able to posess the sense of hearing. He goes to a deaf school to visit the kid and the kid says ""Thank you"" through signs, for saving his life.

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.

Goliath, Sally, and John learn a lesson on what it's like to follow everyone else and experience consequences. When Davey's friends play ""Follow-the-leader"", danger strikes when they all play on an active construction site. After a couple of stunts, it's Cisco's turn to be the leader and his stunt is the most dangerous of all. He wants everyone to take the rope from the crane and swong from one balcony to another (On the 2nd floor). After everyone goes, it's Davey's turn. After Davey takes his turn, the fence on the balcony breaks. Davey falls, breaks his leg and ends up at the hospital, all bandaged up. After being knocked out for a while, he remembers that Goliath is still on the 2nf floor at the site. The pastor who is visiting Davey goes to the site to take Goliath down safely. (Original C. 1971)

Goliath's doghouse is damaged by lightning in a big thunder storm. Goliath is upset because his place of privacy is now gone. Davey then asks his dad for help building a doghouse for Goliath. To his surprise, Davey's dad thinks that Davey can build it himself. Davey, not wanting to take the full responsibility tries to do a crummy job re-building the dog house so that his dad will ""have to"" help him. As Davey's dad sees the monstrosity, he asks Davey if he really cares for Goliath and that that care should be his motivation for building the doghouse right. Finally Davey's care takes over and the inspiration that Jesus was a carpenter and didn't do crummy work inspires Davey to build Goliath a very nice doghouse dreamhouse.

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.