The Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible 2-Disc Box Set DVD

The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible is the long-running Hanna-Barbera animated series that adapts classic Old and New Testament stories into half-hour adventures, framed by a small group of modern-day archaeologists who get pulled back through time to witness each biblical event firsthand. The series ran across TBN and the Family Channel from 1985 into the early 1990s, with 13 episodes that mix biblical adaptation with the era's standard Hanna-Barbera adventure-cartoon format.

What stands out is the show's commitment to honoring the source stories. Each episode adapts one major biblical narrative, with the modern-day archaeologist framing device giving the writers a way to introduce historical context, geography, and character relationships that a straight retelling would not have time for. The animation is solid late-80s Hanna-Barbera, the music is sweeping and orchestral, and the voice work is performed in earnest.

It belongs to a specific late-80s and early-90s wave of family-and-faith-targeted animation, the same family of religious-leaning broadcast programming that TBN and the Family Channel were building their afternoon and weekend blocks around. For households whose Bible-story education came partly through animated retellings, this series is one of the period's most carefully-produced entries.

Highlights in the set include "Moses," "Noah's Ark," "David And Goliath," "Samson And Delilah," "Daniel And The Lions' Den," "Joshua And The Battle Of Jericho," "The Nativity," "The Easter Story," "Joseph And His Brothers," "Jonah," and "Queen Esther," episodes that cover the canonical biblical narratives the show adapts. This 2-DVD collection gathers all 13 episodes, the complete Greatest Adventure series in one place.