

The show follows the adventures of a teenager named Samson and his dog, Goliath as they ride around the country on a motorbike. (It was also the only cartoon in the DFS portfolio not to be created either by Jay Ward Productions or by Total Television.) The series was the only Dancer Fitzgerald Sample-sponsored cartoon to be outsourced to Hanna-Barbera the agency's in-house studio, Gamma Productions, had closed shortly before the series began. Television Distribution when it became rights owner of the Hanna-Barbera catalog. Young Samson was later shown in syndication with The Space Kidettes as The Space Kidettes and Young Samson, distributed by The Program Exchange. Samson & Goliath cartoons were paired with other General Mills-sponsored shows such as Tennessee Tuxedo and Go Go Gophers to form a full half-hour for their original network broadcasts. Twenty-six 12-minute episodes of the series were produced, six of which no longer exist. Primarily sponsored by General Mills, who controlled the distribution rights through its agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, Samson & Goliath was retitled Young Samson in April 1968 to avoid confusion with the stop-motion Christian television series Davey and Goliath. Samson & Goliath, also known as Young Samson, is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC, where it debuted on September 9, 1967. American TV series or program Samson & Goliath
