Young Samson & Goliath Complete 1-Disc Box Set DVD

Young Samson & Goliath aired on NBC across the late 1960s, a Hanna-Barbera Saturday-morning superhero animation that paired a young hero named Samson with his giant lion companion Goliath, who could transform into mighty winged form when needed. The premise placed the duo at the center of weekly cosmic-and-earthly threats, with each episode delivering a self-contained adventure built around the two heroes' coordinated response to that week's monstrous menace, alien invasion, or technological villain.

What stands out is the show's particular transformation conceit. Where many superhero cartoons of the period stayed in single-form hero storytelling, this one used the transformation of Goliath into his powerful winged-lion form as a recurring weekly highlight, with the spectacle of the transformation providing both visual signature and narrative beat. The animation favored detailed creature design appropriate to the cosmic-threat register, the music carried heroic-fanfare cues, and the recurring villain dynamics gave each episode genuine stakes.

In the broader era of late-1960s NBC Saturday-morning programming, this kind of superhero-and-companion series was a particular fixture, with multiple studios producing hero-pair properties alongside their broader Saturday-morning lineups. It suited household morning viewing for elementary and middle-elementary kids, families who appreciated cosmic-action storytelling, and Saturday-morning audiences who liked their hero shows centered on dynamic transformations. It pairs well with other late-1960s Hanna-Barbera Saturday-morning programming.

Favorite episodes include the franchise-launching "The Curse Of Monatabu," the cosmic-creature "The Aurora Borealis Creature," the giant-threat "The Great Colossus," the planetary "Cold Wind From Venus," the technological "The SSX-19," the high-stakes "Operation Peril," the lost-civilization "The Lost City Of The Dragon Men," the cosmic-creature "The Colossal Coral Creature," the recurring-villain "Baron Von Skull," the lunar "Moon Rendezvous," and the closing arc "Thing From The Black Mountains." This 1-disc set gathers all 20 episodes of the run, a complete archive of late-1960s Hanna-Barbera superhero Saturday-morning animation that disc ownership keeps available.