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Mar 31, 2024 · Following her divorce from Art Clokey in 1966, Ruth continued to produce Davey and Goliath from 1967 to the mid-1970s. In 1969, the Lutheran church asked Premavision - the Clokey's production studio - to create a run of 15-minute episodes of the program with Ruth supervising production.
Jan 22, 2009 · Home. News Story. Ruth Clokey, Producer of ELCA's Davey and Goliath, Dies. 1/22/2009 12:00:00 AM. CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Ruth Parkander Clokey Goodell, producer. of the animated television series, "Davey and Goliath," died. Dec. 28, 2008, from Alzheimer's disease. She was 85. A memorial. service was held Jan. 7.
Jan 15, 2021 · An active ULCA member and the daughter of a Lutheran pastor, Ruth Clokey began her career producing religious programs for the Lutheran church in the 1940s. She met Art at Hartford (Conn.) Seminary, where they both attended and were interested in creating faith-based films.
Ruth Clokey, daughter of a Lutheran minister, and her husband, Art, were the producers. Art created the Gumby character — remembered as much for Eddie Murphy’s “Saturday Night Live” skits ...
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Franklin Clark Fry, president of the ULCA, designates $1 million of the church budget to fund the production of a TV program.
The ULCA contracts with Clokey Productions Inc., headed by Gumby creators Art and Ruth Clokey, to create a children’s show, Davey and Goliath. Scripts were written by children’s book author Nancy Moore in consultation with the church.
The ULCA Department of Press, Radio and Television reports to the church’s biennial convention that they hope to have the first season of the series ready for broadcast by the end of the year.
Episodes of the show are given, free of charge, to nearly 200 television markets in North America. The series also appears overseas, including Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Cantonese translations.
Davey and Goliath premiered in syndication on Feb. 25 with its first 15-minute episode, “Lost in a Cave.”
The ULCA merges with several other Lutheran churches to form the Lutheran Church in America (LCA), which takes over funding of the series.
The LCA funds another run of 27 episodes. In addition to the spiritual themes of the earlier episodes, these stories deal with integration, racism, violence and other topical issues. The series includes some of the earliest minority main characters in a children’s show.
The LCA joins with the American Lutheran Church and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the ELCA, which now holds all rights to Davey and Goliath.
Throughout the decade, Davey and Goliath is referenced in prominent pop-culture properties such as The Simpsons, Friends and Mad TV.
After a nearly 30-year hiatus, the characters are featured in a Mountain Dew commercial. Ad royalties are used to fund the production of a new Davey and Goliath special, to be developed over the next several years.
May 25, 2008 · He was 90. He died shortly after suffering a stroke, said his daughter, Judy Towne Sutcliffe. “Davey and Goliath” was a stop-action animated show about a boy and his dog finding their way in a...
Davey and Goliath is a Christian clay-animated children's television series, whose central characters were created by Art Clokey, Ruth Clokey, and Dick Sutcliffe, [2] and which was produced first by the United Lutheran Church in America and later by the Lutheran Church in America.
