The BEST episodes of The Gumby Show season 1960
Every episode of The Gumby Show season 1960, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Gumby Show season 1960!
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 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Rain for Roo
Season 1960 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/3/1960
Gumby shows King Ott how to make rain for his dry kingdom, but something goes wrong and it rains mud instead. This causes a number of problems in the kingdom of Roo, which are up to Gumby to fix.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
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#6 - The Witty Witch
Season 1960 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/1960
A helicopter-flying witch captures Gumby and Pokey. They fear a terrible fate but the witch surprises them by revealingly she is merely a friendly, underappreciated slapstick comedian who captures her audience literally.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Northland Follies
Season 1960 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/1/1960
Gumby and Pokey are stowaways on an army air cargo plane. They are dropped o top of an igloo where a walrus and a bird live. Before they can return home, Gumby and Pokey must repair the igloo.
#8 - Ricochet Pete
Season 1960 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/1960
While acting as a sheriff in a western town, Gumby encounters the town terror, Ricochet Pete. Gumby devises a unique method for reforming Pete.
#9 - The Groobee
Season 1960 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/1960
Gumby captures several wild animals for the zoo with the help of a bee who builds wooden crates instead of honeycomb.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Hidden Valley
Season 1960 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1960
Gumby and Pokey riding an antique car, land in a hidden valley where they discover dinosaurs surviving since 170 million years ago.
#11 - Chicken Feed
Season 1960 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/1960
A new chicken feed that Gumby gives his pet chicken causes the chicken to grow as big as a house. It takes the fire department and the animal doctor to finally rescue the situation.
#12 - Hot Rod Granny
Season 1960 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/24/1960
After her glasses are broken, an elderly woman mistakes Gumby’s hot rod for her old car. While driving his hot rod, she is chased by a motor cop through exciting sequences.
#13 - The Small Planets
Season 1960 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/12/1960
Gumby runs away from doing work at home by entering a space book. His exploration of three small planets convince him there is no place like home.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Sad King Ott’s Daughter
Season 1960 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/19/1960
Gumby rescues the princess from the castle of the black knight with the help of a morph which changes into a small elephant.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - King for a Day
Season 1960 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/25/1960
Gumby saves the King of Ott by jousting with the black knight and winning in an original manner.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - Scrooge Loose
Season 1960 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/10/1960
Scrooge escapes from his book and sets out to wreck all the toys in the toyshop, but Gumby, playing detective, captures Scrooge right at the crucial moment.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - Pigeon in a Plum Tree
Season 1960 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/17/1960
Prince Harold tries to find a partridge in a pear tree as a special Christmas gift for his girlfriend, but at the toy store he is sold a pigeon in a plum tree instead. Before the happy ending occurs, the prince battles a wolf and rescues an elf, all with the help of Pokey.
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