The BEST episodes of The Gumby Show season 1957
Every episode of The Gumby Show season 1957, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Gumby Show season 1957!
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 - Gumby Business
Season 1957 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/4/1957
Gumby and Pokey have many mishaps while trying to play an accordion, look through a microscope and work a chewing gum machine.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - The Mocking Monkey
Season 1957 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/11/1957
Gumby and Pokey think they are being chased by a lion whilst on a hunting trip in Africa. Instead, they discover they are hearing a monkey who can imitate any animal in the jungle.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Pokey Express
Season 1957 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/18/1957
Learning that the Pony Express is unable to get riders, Gumby and Pokey volunteer to try to get the mail through. The local tribe do their best to stop them, but in the end the mail is delivered.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - The Racing Game
Season 1957 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/25/1957
Gumby, Pokey and the Blockheads compete in an exciting auto race. Many obstacles must be overcome before Gumby becomes the winner.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Rain Spirits
Season 1957 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/1/1957
Gumby and Pokey are playing in a toy swimming pool when a Hopi Native American boy appears. He is lost, so Gumby helps him find his way to the rain spirits’ cave. Gumby and Pokey see the dramatic results of the visit to the spirits’ caves.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - In The Dough
Season 1957 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/8/1957
An animated piece of dough induces Gumby to visit a huge automated bakery to learn the secret of good baking. They reach a big oven only to find that the dough waiting to be baked has taken on menacing shapes, which surround Gumby and Pokey.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Tree Trouble
Season 1957 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/15/1957
Gumby and Pokey take a big excavation machine into the forest to dig for buried treasure. In their digging they uproot a tree in which an owl is asleep. The owl tells them a story to help them be more careful when they are in the woods.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Odd Balls
Season 1957 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/4/1957
Gumby searches for the sound that will make two odd marbles hard and round again.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - In a Fix
Season 1957 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/22/1957
Gumby, Pokey and some clay birds get up to some clever hi-jinks with some very interesting toys.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Train Trouble
Season 1957 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/15/1957
Gumby wins a toy train in a contest, but has trouble collecting his prize because the train keeps trying to get away. The little train enlists the help of a big train to escape, but in the end the little train befriends Gumby and lets him take a ride.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - Toying Around
Season 1957 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/1/1957
Gumby and Pokey have fun in a toyshop. An inflated balloon carries Pokey high in the air and Gumby must find a method for rescuing his pal.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - The Magic Show
Season 1957 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/18/1957
Gumby is trapped in Magic Land by Whitey and Red, the local police force. He finally manages to outwit them and make his way back home.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Baker’s Tour
Season 1957 - Episode 18 - Aired 6/8/1957
Gumby and Pokey encounter rolling pins, cookie decorators and animated bread dough before emerging from the oven as cookies on a cookie sheet.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Outcast Marbles
Season 1957 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/4/1957
Gumby reads in a storybook about two marbles that have lost their shape and hardness and become soft and pliable. The two marbles suddenly pop out of the book and solicit Gumby’s help in regaining their shape.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - Toy Fun
Season 1957 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/11/1957
While playing with toy robots, magical construction sets and toy baking sets, Gumby falls into a toaster. He pops up well browned, but Pokey scrapes off the brown.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - How Not to Trap Lions
Season 1957 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/11/1957
Gumby and Pokey go to Africa to capture a lion to keep Richard The Lion from becoming too lonely at the zoo. They prepare a large trap, but the only animals caught are Gumby and Pokey.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - The Magic Wand
Season 1957 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/1957
Gumby takes a trip to Magic Land to return the magician’s wand. He is rewarded with a miniature wand that will perform just one magic trick.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Indian Trouble
Season 1957 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/25/1957
While traveling out west, Gumby and Pokey encounter a local tribe who shoot arrows tipped with suction cups. They try to hide but are surrounded. Gumby scares them away by multiplying himself into a whole regiment of Gumby’s.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - Gumby Racer
Season 1957 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/25/1957
When the Blockheads sabotage the racer Gumby and Pokey are using, Gumby forms himself into a small but powerful racer and ends the race as the winner.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - The Kachinas
Season 1957 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/1/1957
Gumby and Pokey accompany a Hopi Native American boy to look for rain spirits, or Kachinas. The Kachinas send rain for the corn and the crops are saved.
#21 - Toy Capers
Season 1957 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/8/1957
Many toys come to life in Gumby’s toyshop and chase Gumby through an amusement park. Gumby and Pokey have scary rides on the monorail train, the ferris wheel and the cars.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Eager Beavers
Season 1957 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/15/1957
Gumby starts to go for a swim but finds his river suddenly dry. He and his forest friends hunt for the cause and find that a couple of beavers are the culprits.