The WORST episodes of The Gumby Show

#1 - 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.

#2 - Hot Ice

Season 1967 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1967

The evil professor wants to steal Goo’s ice jewels, but when he gets too greedy, he ends up in the cooler.

#3 - The Moon Boggles

Season 1967 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/30/1967

The Moon Boggles escape from their cage at the zoo, causing everyone to panic. Gumby and Pokey do their best to capture them, but end up frozen. Thankfully, the Moon Boggles only wanted a little fresh air.

#4 - Piano Rolling Blues

Season 1967 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1967

The evil professor can’t concentrate due to a noisy piano player next door, so he arranges for Gumby to move the piano away. Just as the plan seems successful, the professor gets greedy and lands himself in some serious trouble.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - Tricky Train

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

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - Pokey Minds The Baby

Season 1968 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/1968

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.

#18 - 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

#19 - 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.

#20 - Goo for Pokey

Season 1964 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/31/1964

Goo plays several tricks on Pokey getting him in trouble at school. This is not at al to Pokey’s liking so he tries to get away from Goo. This proves to be much more difficult than he anticipated.

#21 - A Hair-Raising Adventure

Season 1964 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/10/1964

Prickle is about to try Professor Kap’s new hair growing formula when the Blockheads grab the liquid. Gumby and Prickle set off in hot pursuit while the Blockheads keep their lead by shooting them with candy. Eventually, the liquid itself plays a role in the capture of the Blockheads. At last, Prickle can try the formula but he is in for quite a surprise.

#22 - Dragon Witch

Season 1963 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/1/1963

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.

#23 - Lawn Party

Season 1967 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/8/1967

Gumby introduces some of his ‘human friends’ as they have a most peculiar picnic.

#24 - The Big Eye

Season 1967 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/1/1967

Gumby and Pokey shrink themselves down to microscopic size when Gumby’s hemoglobin friend, Fred, is having his oxygen stolen by a seemingly malicious scientist germ. When confronted about their actions, the scientist germs explain that they need the oxygen for their rocket ship to investigate a giant eye that has been peering at them.

#25 - 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.