The BEST episodes of The Gumby Show
Every episode of The Gumby Show ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Gumby Show!
Gumby first appeared in the 1953 film short Gumbasia, (believed to be one of the first music videos). In 1956 Gumby and his horse friend Pokey hit the airways on The Howdy Doody Show in their first shorts in 1956. It was so popular that it became its own show in 1957 called The Gumby Show. The show contained the 1956 shorts along with new ones. Each episode contained 3 cartoons. In the 1960's Goo the blue mermaid, Prickle the yellow dinosaur, and Nopey the dog were introduced. The Blockheads sometimes chased after Gumby, Pokey, Prickle, and Goo with some scheme. Gumbo and Gumba were Gumby's Dad and Mother.
#1 - Do-It-Yourself Gumby
Season 1967 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/31/1967
Gumby has created a machine that can make whatever he wants. After a few successful tests, things go terribly wrong and Gumby learns that if you want something done, you’re better off doing it yourself.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - The Golden Gosling
Season 1966 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1966
The King’s main occupation is counting his golden eggs laid by a captive goose that is under a witch’s spell to lay only golden eggs. A servant’s carelessness allows the goose to escape out the window. It lands by Gumby and Pokey who are having a picnic in the park. The king’s soldier finds and arrests them all and retrieves the goose that has already drunk a potion to cure the gold-egg-laying spell. When the king learns the goose can only lay real eggs he is sad, but Gumby assures him that real golden goslings are more valuable than gold.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Foxy Box
Season 1968 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/31/1968
Gumby discovers a mysterious box that seems to have an unlimited supply of interesting toys. A stubborn tractor and a diving plane are but two of the toys that amuse him in this adventure.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Gabby Auntie
Season 1968 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/22/1968
Gumby and Pokey visit Aunt Gumbiddy. Auntie likes to talk and Pokey gets sleepy and starts to sleepwalk. Gumby and Auntie try to catch the sleeping Pokey but first they have a nightmare of a ride through streets and canyons.
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#5 - Stuck On Books
Season 1968 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/30/1968
Gumby and Pokey can’t understand why Nopey is afraid to go through books to adventureland the way they do. Gumby coaxes but gets nowhere. Pokey tries another method and bucks Pokey through to the other side. Getting him out again though, proves to be a real problem.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Dog Catchers
Season 1968 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/22/1968
Prickle makes a skateboard for Nopey. Nopey is really enjoying his ride until the dogcatcher goes after him with his net. Gumby and Pokey get on their skateboards to rescue Nopey but the only one who escapes the dogcatcher’s net is Nopey.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - A Bone For Nopey
Season 1968 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/15/1968
Gumby promises Nopey the biggest bone in town. Nopey’s eyes nearly pop out when Gumby makes good his promise by driving him to the Dinosaur Bone State Park. But of course Nopey wants to bury his big bone and the fun comes in when Gumby tries to solve this gigantic problem.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Behind the Puffball
Season 1968 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1968
Puff balls and gold balls get mixed in this miniature golf game of Pokey and Prickle. Pokey’s puff ball becomes a gigantic growing ball absorbing everything in its path. Gumby and Goo race to the rescue with the fire truck and dissolve the ball with the water hose.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Gumby on the Moon
Season 1956 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/1/1956
Looking through a telescope, Gumby’s parents discover that Gumby is in great need of help. Gumby’s father sets out to rescue him in a fire engine that has a long extension ladder. Using the fire extinguisher, he sprays the moon creatures and takes Gumby back to earth by retracting the extension ladder.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Grub Grabber Gumby
Season 1968 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/1968
Gumby can’t eat just one cookie. After eating more than allowed, he realizes he must right his wrong, but can only think of one thing – eating. Will his appetite be his undoing?
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Mason Hornet
Season 1966 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1966
Pokey and Prickle are playing ball in the toyshop. Their play is interrupted dramatically by an intruding hornet. Goo is there and informs Gumby of the problem – the hornet encases everyone and everything in little yellow bricks. Only a hammer can free the victims. Goo finally persuades the hornet to repair the damage and free everybody by reversing its process.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - A Groobee Fight
Season 1966 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1966
The devious Blockheads manage to get their hands on another Groobee, and in doing so manages to frame Gumby for kidnapping. Gumby solves the issue by setting his Groobee upon the Blockheads and boxing them up before they can cause any more trouble.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - The Gumby League
Season 1966 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1966
The Gumby League and the Blockheads play are locked in a tense baseball match. Things looks grim when The Gumby League strike out, but some inventive field work from Gumby, Pokey and Professor Kap saves the day.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Haunted Hot Dog
Season 1967 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1967
Gumby and Pokey run out of gas while on a drive in the country. They enter an old house looking for help, but instead find an old friend who scares the daylights out of them.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Tricky Ball
Season 1967 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/22/1967
Gumby and Nopey play with a trick ball. This very unusual ball turns various colors, rolls in opposite directions, grows bigger and ends up chasing the pair through the toy store.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - Dragon Daffy
Season 1967 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/25/1967
Prickle can’t get an ice cream soda because the shopkeeper thinks he is a dragon, and dragons melt the ice cream. Prickle enlists the help of Gumby, who travels to dinosaur land to find Prickle’s mother. Angry at the bully shopkeeper, Prickles mother travels to the ice cream store and gives the mean man what for.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - Moon Madness
Season 1967 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/24/1967
Prickle and Pokey think they are being chased by mechanical feet with legs attached. Gumby tells them they are crazy, until he is reminded by Goo of a mistake he made that might explain the curious happenings.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Shady Lemonade
Season 1967 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/25/1967
Gumby, Prickle, Pokey and Goo are tricked by the nasty soda salesman. While figuring out how to get even, they stumble across a man who is distressed that his cat is stuck in a tree. The gang rescue the cat and are rewarded handsomely, which gives them the perfect opportunity to get their revenge.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - Piano Rolling Blues
Season 1967 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1967
The evil professor can’t concentrate due to a noisy piano player next door, so he arranges for Gumby to move the piano away. Just as the plan seems successful, the professor gets greedy and lands himself in some serious trouble.
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#20 - Hot Ice
Season 1967 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1967
The evil professor wants to steal Goo’s ice jewels, but when he gets too greedy, he ends up in the cooler.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - Pokey Minds The Baby
Season 1968 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/1968
Gumby turns baby sitter in this episode but when Pokey’s help is enlisted, trouble begins. Little baby Goobalee crawls out the door and from then on, has a really wild adventure.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - El Toro
Season 1968 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/28/1968
A bull has escaped from the stadium and chases Gumby and Goo up a tree. Prickle thinks he can avoid the bull by acting calm, but he soon ends up in the tree too. Finally Pokey arrives, and promptly scales the branches. All the weight causes the branch to break, but just before the bull can attack, a toreador arrives and saves the day.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - Puppy Talk
Season 1967 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/23/1967
Gumby and Pokey stumble across Madam She’s Fog School, where dogs can learn to talk. They take a liking to one particular underachiever who can only say ‘no’, and with some quick thing, Gumby and Pokey use the dogs limited talents to prevent a trip to the dog pound.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Puppy Dog School
Season 1967 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/22/1967
A dog trainer attempts to teach Nopey four new words, but finds it far more difficult than he anticipated. After some frustration, the trainer finds a clever way to earn his pay.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - Dopey Nopey
Season 1968 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/3/1968
Gumby’s little dog Nopey finds a pair of spectacles. He is sure that wearing them will make him smart. Pokey wants them for the same reason and chases Nopey right into a little boy who settles the argument by taking the glasses.
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