The BEST episodes of The Gumby Show

#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.

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - Of Clay And Critters

Season 1967 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/19/1967

A surrealistic film where strange things happen to Gumby and Pokey on the desert and in the forest. A mysterious box falls off a truck in the desert. It ‘digests’ Gumby and Pokey and then lets them float away in the form of umbrellas. From nowhere a weird artist enters following a traveling thumb he is trying to paint as he carries his easel, pallet and brush with him. In a forest a strange plant reacts to water by expelling little seed-people.

#6 - 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.

#7 - Indian Country

Season 1968 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/9/1968

Gumby, Prickle, Pokey and Goo go for a picnic where they are stalked by Indians. Gumby’s friends run away and hide, but Gumby is convinced there are no Indians around. Through a series of lucky circumstances, Gumby prevents the Indians from causing any mischief.

#8 - Tricky Train

Season 1964 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/18/1964

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - Prickle's Problem

Season 1966 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1966

Prickle feels that he goes unnoticed and that his life lacks excitement. While eating ice cream with Gumby, Pokey and Goo, Prickle notices a baby about to be hit by a car. He saves the child and becomes famous – but his fame turns out to be a curse, as the evil Doctor Zveegee decides he wants to capture Prickle to add to his collection.

#12 - The Reluctant Gargoyles

Season 1964 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/9/1964

While building a tinker-toy high-rise structure, Prickle and Goo are incessantly bothered by the mischievous Blockheads, who attempt to destroy the structure by catapulting watermelons at Prickle and trying to knock it over with a bulldozer. Goo captures the Blockheads in a unique fashion and takes them to the top of the tower where they are mounted as gargoyles for punishment.

#13 - 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.

#14 - Super Spray

Season 1967 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/29/1967

The professor has come up with a great invention – a spray that will shrink objects. Prickle and Pokey decide to have some fun with it and head for the zoo. All kinds of funny things happen when the spray is used, until they come to the gorilla. Then they wish they had left the spray in the Professor’s lab. Gumby and the Professor arrive in time to rescue them.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - The Ferris Wheel Mystery

Season 1965 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/30/1965

Gumby has a detective agency in this adventure. A very baffling mystery is given to him to solve by Bill Waffle from the carnival. Bill’s prizes of stuffed animals are disappearing from under his nose. Sherlock Pokey tries to solve the case.

#19 - Sticky Pokey

Season 1968 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/23/1968

Pokey is tired of trying to keep out of the clutches of the Blockheads so he goes to Professor Kap for help. The professor and his gluepot provide help all right, but in a most unexpected manner.

#20 - The Magic Flute

Season 1965 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/21/1965

Goo has a wonderful flute. Whenever it is played, objects dance. Prickle and Pokey are building a fence and see the flute as a device to get out of some work. However, it doesn’t quite turn out as they had hoped and Gumby ends up calling the tune.

#21 - School for Squares

Season 1965 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/18/1965

The pesky Indians need help. Strange things are happening to their children. They are captured, sent to a special school and when they return, their shapes have changed. Gumby soon discovers that his old enemies, the Blockheads, are the cause of the trouble. He sends in Goo to capture them and teach them a good lesson.

#22 - The Golden Iguana

Season 1965 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/14/1965

Prickle wins a national pet contest and is awarded a prize golden iguana. The professor mixes a special formula for its food but there is one wrong ingredient. This causes the iguana to double its size. The blockheads decide to take the iguana but Gumby again manages to foil them. Before things are over though, the iguana gives them all a shock.

#23 - Point of Honor

Season 1968 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/24/1968

Gumby is angry. Prickle is trying to win Goo’s favor at Gumby’s expense, so Gumby has challenged Prickle to a duel. This turns out to be quite a duel and since all is fair in love and war, many tricks are used. Goo is the only one who wins this round

#24 - Making Squares

Season 1965 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/22/1965

The villainous Blockheads want robots to work in their factory. Pokey, Prickle and Goo are captured, placed on the conveyer belt and turned into Blockheads for this purpose. Luckily, Gumby has a scheme for fixing things and the Blockheads are given a taste of their own medicine before Gumby is through with them.

#25 - Gumby's Fire Department

Season 1965 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/15/1965

Fireman Gumby goes to the rescue of Professor Kap and his laboratory in this exciting episode. Things seem pretty hopeless for the professor until Goo manages to come up with an idea for smothering the fire.