The BEST episodes of The Gumby Show

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - Tricky Train

Season 1963 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/18/1963

#5 - 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?

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - Candidate for President

Season 1965 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/2/1965

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.

#12 - Son of Liberty

Season 1966 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1966

In trying to get a message to Paul Revere, Gumby and Pokey are pursued by General Gage’s soldiers. Just as capture seems inevitable, Gumby’s cage building friend, The Groobee, sends the soldiers packing.

#13 - Who’s What?

Season 1963 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/22/1963

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’.

#14 - Santa-Witch

Season 1960 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/3/1960

Santa gets sick, and the witch is called on to fly the toy-laden sled through the sky. The children receive a big surprise on this particular Christmas.

#15 - The Glob

Season 1960 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/1960

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.

#16 - Even Steven

Season 1960 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/1960

A pair of comical mischief-makers scheme to take Gumby’s money away from him when he and Pokey decide to take a vacation.

#17 - The Zoops

Season 1960 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1960

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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - 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.

#20 - 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.

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - 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.

#24 - 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.

#25 - 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.