Samson & Goliath debuted on NBC on September 9, 1967. The series ran for a single season of 13 episodes, each containing two story segments. It was written by Tony Benedict, Walter Black, Eddie Brandt and Dalton Sandifer, with music by Ted Nichols. Like with all of Hanna-Barbera’s other action-oriented series, Alex Toth handled the initial character designs. Although its run was short, Samson & Goliath continued to air well into 1968. That April, its name was changed to Young Samson in order to differentiate it from the Claymation series, Davey and Goliath.
Samson & Goliath was an action series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC. It was sponsored by General Mills and distributed through their advertising agency, Dancer Fitzgerald Sample. It was the only DFS-sponsored cartoon to be outsourced to Hanna-Barbera, as the agency’s own in-house studio, Gamma Productions, was closed before production on the series began. It was also the only DFS show not to be created by either Jay Ward Productions or Total Television.