Series synopsis
The Gumby Show is an American family animation kids television series that premiered on NBC on May 1, 1956. It ended on July 9, 1968. It was created by Art Clokey. It stars Dal McKennon, Art Clokey, Bobby Nicholson and Pinky Lee.
Innovative "Claymation" adventures of Gumby and his horse Pokey.
Premise
Innovative "Claymation" adventures of Gumby and his horse Pokey.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Dal McKennon as Gumby (voice)
- Art Clokey as Pokey (voice)
- Bobby Nicholson as Self - Host
- Pinky Lee as Self - Host
- Don Messick as (voice)
- Paul Frees as (voice)
- Hal Smith as (voice)
- Ginny Tyler as (voice)
Supporting cast
- Betty Harford as (voice)
- Ruth Eggleston as (voice)
- Dick Beals as (voice)
- Chuck McCann as (voice)
- Norma MacMillan as (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 11 seasons with 112 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 3 | September 2, 1953 | June 2, 1963 |
| Season 1 | 109 | May 1, 1956 | July 9, 1968 |
| Season 1956 | 0 | May 1, 1956 | August 17, 1956 |
| Season 1957 | 0 | May 4, 1957 | June 22, 1957 |
| Season 1960 | 0 | January 1, 1960 | December 17, 1960 |
| Season 1963 | 0 | January 1, 1963 | May 22, 1963 |
| Season 1964 | 0 | June 9, 1964 | July 31, 1964 |
| Season 1965 | 0 | August 2, 1965 | September 30, 1965 |
| Season 1966 | 0 | October 1, 1966 | November 18, 1966 |
| Season 1967 | 0 | November 19, 1967 | December 31, 1967 |
| Season 1968 | 0 | January 1, 1968 | July 9, 1968 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Gumbasia Art Clokey's first clay animation film. Runtime: 3 minutes, 11 seconds. |
September 2, 1953 |
| 2 |
The Space Ball Professor Kapp has invented a ball-shaped ship that travels out of his control with a passenger on board. Only available in The Adventures of Gumby: 60's Series Volume 1 as one of the special features. This special is not counted among the 234 episodes. It also does not feature Gumby. This is the first day in the limelight short, and a clip of this short appears in the Gumby Adventures episode, Minga-Sitting. |
June 2, 1963 |
| 3 |
First Gumby Pilot Never aired |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon Trip | May 1, 1956 |
| 2 |
Mirrorland When Gumby loses his coin through one of three mirrors, he begins a search within the virtual images of each. In one of the mirrors, Gumby's reflection assists him. Instructed to do everything backwards in the Mirror Land, Gumby is able to trace the location of his coin. |
June 15, 1956 |
| 3 |
The Little Lost Pony A television bulletin warns people to be on the look-out for a lost red pony, with a reward set at 100 ice cream cones. Meanwhile, Gumby goes outside to play and hears a whinny of distress. Rushing to the sound, Gumby finds the pony named Pokey caught on a railroad track and wiggles him free. With hopes of gaining the ice cream cone reward, G and J Blockhead try to get rid of Gumby and capture Pokey. |
June 22, 1956 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Moon Trip (Part One) Gumby discovers a spaceship in a toy store and decides to visit the moon. Upon reaching the moon, his space-ship is destroyed by a meteorite, leaving him stranded and confronted with strange objects that look like rocks, but which sometimes move and sprout eyes. |
May 1, 1956 |
| 2 |
Moon Trip (Gumby on the Moon) 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. |
May 1, 1956 |
| 3 |
Trapped on the Moon The rock-like moon creatures pursue Gumby to a crater. Here, the low temperature of the moon causes him to become stiff and unable to move. Gumby's parents bring him back to Earth and revive him in a hospital. |
May 1, 1956 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Odd Balls Gumby searches for the sound that will make two odd marbles hard and round again. |
May 4, 1957 |
| 2 |
Outcast Marbles 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. |
May 4, 1957 |
| 3 |
Gumby Business Gumby and Pokey have many mishaps while trying to play an accordion, look through a microscope and work a chewing gum machine. |
May 4, 1957 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Zoops An old man sells Gumby a potion that turns watermelons into strange animals that zip around crying "zoop, zoop!" There is trouble when the magic potion is washed off. |
January 1, 1960 |
| 2 |
Even Steven A pair of comical mischief-makers scheme to take Gumby's money away from him when he and Pokey decide to take a vacation. |
January 3, 1960 |
| 3 |
The Glob Gumby is a sculptor. His large glob of clay comes to life. It chases him and Pokey through a toyshop and into a book where Dill Pickle ‘shoots it out' with the glob for a surprise ending. |
January 15, 1960 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Dragon Witch Gumby's pals, Henry and Rodgy, set out to rescue a damsel in distress. The damsel turns out to be a witch who is about to be eaten by a dragon. Using Rodgy as a decoy, Henry lassoes the dragon's tail. |
January 1, 1963 |
| 2 |
Treasure for Henry Gumby's friends, Henry and Rodgy, sneak into the hold of a pirate ship. They are caught whilst helping themselves to some of the pirate's loot. A Man-O-War attacks the pirate ship and Henry helps defeat the pirates. |
May 15, 1963 |
| 3 |
Who's What? A bear is playing with clay when a sculpture he has made comes to life. The creature becomes a lion who immediately begins chasing Henry and his other ‘claymates'. |
May 22, 1963 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Reluctant Gargoyles 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. |
June 9, 1964 |
| 2 |
Tricky Train The Gumbopolis Gadget Works sends Gumby a whole box full of new toys to test. One of the toys is a little locomotive that makes its own track as it goes along. Nopey thinks this is great for him to chase and poor Gumby has quite a time before he gets both of the under control. |
June 18, 1964 |
| 3 |
Siege of Boonesborough Daniel Boone brings Gumby to Boonesborough. The Shawnee Indians pick this very moment to attack the fort. Again, our little clay friend comes up with the winning idea and the fort is saved. |
June 19, 1964 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Candidate for President Gumby is nominated for President. Prickle and Goo interview the country's great presidents of the past so that they can help their friend in his campaign. |
August 2, 1965 |
| 2 |
G.F.D. (Gumby's Fire Department) 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. |
August 15, 1965 |
| 3 |
Making Squares 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. |
August 22, 1965 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Mason Hornet 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. |
October 1, 1966 |
| 2 |
Prickle's Problem 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. |
October 2, 1966 |
| 3 |
The Golden Gosling 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. |
October 14, 1966 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Of Clay and Critters 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. |
November 19, 1967 |
| 2 |
Tricky Ball 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. |
November 22, 1967 |
| 3 |
Dragon Daffy 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. |
November 25, 1967 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Behind the Puffball 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. |
January 1, 1968 |
| 2 |
Weight and See Gumby has his fortune told by a weighing machine. When the fortune begins to come true he immediately decides to investigate this amazing machine. There is quite a surprise in store when he looks inside. |
January 3, 1968 |
| 3 |
Pokey Minds the Baby 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. |
January 15, 1968 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | NBC |
|---|---|
| First aired | May 1, 1956 |
| Last aired | July 9, 1968 |
| Runtime | 6 minutes |
| Status | ended |