Young Samson
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| Network | NBC |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera |
| Distributor | The Program Exchange |
| Original release | September 9, 1967—August 31, 1968 |
| Starring | Tim Matthieson Don Messick |
| Producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Music composed by | Ted Nichols |
| Director(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
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Young Samson, also known as Young Samson & Goliath, is an American animated fantasy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran from 1967 to 1968, airing 26 episodes.
The series has had a couple of pratfalls. The first was having the initial name of the series being called Samson & Goliath, but was changed to avoid confusion with the Christian stop motion series Davey & Goliath, while the other was when Young Samson should be packaged together with The Space Kidettes, but in order to do that some genius decided that the master copies should be shortened in length, leaving the syndicated edits as the only extant broadcast quality versions of the episodes. General Mills also had remaining six cartoons of the series destroyed in order to package it with The Space Kidettes.
A teenager named Samson, and his dog, Goliath, travel the globe on a motorbike, but when trouble comes, Samson hits his golden wristbands together, turning him into a super-powered superhero, and a second slam turns Goliath into a super-powered lion. Together, they fight off the forces of evil.
The entire series has been released on DVD.
Production
Development
Music
The music was composed by Ted Nichols.
Episodes
| Title | Number | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| "The Curse of Monatabu" | 1x01 | September 9, 1967 |
| "The Aurora Borealis Creature" | 1x02 | September 16, 1967 |
| "The Great Colossus" | 1x03 | September 23, 1967 |
| "Cold Wind from Venus" | 1x04 | September 30, 1967 |
| "The SSX-19" | 1x05 | October 7, 1967 |
| "Operation Peril" | 1x06 | October 14, 1967 |
| "The Secret of Evil Island" | 1x07 | October 21, 1967 |
| "The Monsteroids" | 1x08 | October 28, 1967 |
| "The Idol Rama-Keesh" | 1x09 | November 4, 1967 |
| "Salamandro" | 1x10 | November 11, 1967 |
| "Baron Von Skull" | 1x11 | November 18, 1967 |
| "Moon Rendezvous" | 1x12 | November 25, 1967 |
| "The Lost City of the Dragon Men" | 1x13 | December 2, 1967 |
| "The Colossal Coral Creature" | 1x14 | December 9, 1967 |
| "Zuran's Creature" | 1x15 | December 16, 1967 |
| "The Dome" | 1x16 | December 23, 1967 |
| "Nerod" | 1x17 | December 30, 1967 |
| "The Terrible Dr. Desto" | 1x18 | January 6, 1968 |
| "From Out of the Deep" | 1x19 | January 13, 1968 |
| "Thing from the Black Mountains" | 1x20 | January 20, 1968 |
Cast
In other languages
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Brazilian | O Jovem Sansão |
| French | Samson et Goliath |
| Japanese | 怪力サムソン (Monster Samson) |
| Spanish | Sansón y Goliat |
