The first clay animation film by Art Clokey and the work that helped give birth to the Gumby phenomenon. A series of clay shapes twist, turn and contort in kaleidoscopic patterns, all set to a happening jazz soundtrack. Sam Engel at 20th Century Fox referred to it as “the most exciting film I’ve ever seen” – and the rest, as they say, is history.
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.
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.
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.
On his way to the store, Gumby passes through a part of the toyshop where there are several mirrors. He loses his coin and hunts for it within three of the mirrors. In one of the mirrors, Gumby meets his ‘mirror image’ who tells him that in order to find the coin, he must do everything backwards. Gumby finally succeeds in doing this and the hunt ends successfully.
Gumby has a wild ride through buildings and streets while searching for his lost money. The car finally comes to a stop beside a pile of sand and there Gumby finds his coin.
The episode in which Gumby first meets Pokey. With the promise of a reward of 100 free ice cream cones, Gumby heads off in search of the missing red pony Pokey. Gumby finds Pokey with his hoof caught in a railroad track. Rushing to the rescue, Gumby manages to free Pokey a moment before the train goes by.
The Blockheads are bent on kidnapping Pokey, but to succeed in this, they must get rid of Gumby. Their scheme of freezing Gumby enables them to lasso Pokey, but Gumby unfreezes in time to give hot pursuit and rescue the Pony.
Gumby goes to Farmer Glenn’s Ranch. His crops are not growing properly, so Gumby helps in every way he can and finally divides himself into a lot of Gumbys, which go over the fields with many different farm machines.
In order to feed his large, hungry family, a chemist gopher injects roots of corn plants with a chemical that makes them grow into giant ears and roots. This causes great problems for Farmer Glenn. Gumby solves the problem by inventing a root machine that makes tasty roots out of weeds.
Gumby visits a medieval kingdom. Here he finds that he must fight in a joust with the Black Knight in order to save the kingdom. Just when defeat seems certain for Gumby, a fire-breathing dragon assists him.
The ingenious Gumby uses a modern invention to help a medieval kingdom, which is threatened with famine because its wheat fields are being destroyed by fires.
Too and Loo are two music notes who escape from a cracked record with a bully sour note in pursuit. Gumby hides the notes and manages to trap the bully sour note.
Gumby tries to cheer up two lost musical notes that have forgotten what kind of instrument they came out of. He takes them to music land and cheers them up with various antics.
Gumby is using robots to do his chores around the house while he and Pokey play, but the robots get out of control and Gumby has a frantic time trying to get things back in order.
Pokey wants Gumby to play with him but Gumby has yard work to keep him from play. Pokey discovers a unique way of getting work done easily and quickly.
It is Gumby’s birthday and he is permitted to choose his own present from the toy store. He selects a train but while he is taking it home, it escapes out of the back of the van he is driving.
Gumby tries out various toys in the toy store including a tricycle, musical instruments, a swimming pool, rocking horse and finally a tiny toy train, which he manages to shrink himself into by shrinking himself down to a very small size.
A lion escapes from the zoo, frightening Gumby and Pokey who have been playing in the park. The lion proves to be friendly and asks Gumby and Pokey to show him how to go about seeing the world. Meanwhile, the zookeeper sets a lion trap to recapture the lion but instead succeeds in capturing Gumby’s father.
Richard the lion sets out to see the world in a fast sports car, taking Gumby and Pokey with him. A wild and frightening ride through the streets of the city gets even scarier when they become airborne. Richard wisely decides that life outside the zoo is too much for him.
Gumby has a daydream adventure with a young dinosaur named Trixie. The pre-historic adventure provides an authentic view of these times.
Gumby has an exciting adventure in Dinosaurland. Volcanoes erupting, an earthquake and a dinosaur stampede all cause Gumby trouble before his adventure is over.
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.
Gumby searches for the sound that will make two odd marbles hard and round again.
Gumby and Pokey have many mishaps while trying to play an accordion, look through a microscope and work a chewing gum machine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gumby, Pokey and the Blockheads compete in an exciting auto race. Many obstacles must be overcome before Gumby becomes the winner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gumby and Pokey encounter rolling pins, cookie decorators and animated bread dough before emerging from the oven as cookies on a cookie sheet.
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.
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.
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.
Gumby, Pokey and some clay birds get up to some clever hi-jinks with some very interesting toys.
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.
A pair of comical mischief-makers scheme to take Gumby’s money away from him when he and Pokey decide to take a vacation.
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.
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.
Gumby and Pokey riding an antique car, land in a hidden valley where they discover dinosaurs surviving since 170 million years ago.
Gumby captures several wild animals for the zoo with the help of a bee who builds wooden crates instead of honeycomb.
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.
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.
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.
Gumby rescues the princess from the castle of the black knight with the help of a morph which changes into a small elephant.
Gumby saves the King of Ott by jousting with the black knight and winning in an original manner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
An escaped missile bird has the entire Air Force trying to capture it but it isn’t until Gumby turns the Missile Bird into a Love Bird that the country is safe again.
Gumby’s friend, Prickle, is mistaken for a fierce dragon but Gumby, dressed in knight’s armor, captures the real dragon using a very sticky substance provided by Goo.
While fighting the Black Baron in his tri-plane, Gumby crashes. Pokey and Prickle vow to carry on the fight for Gumby. Goo is ordered to remain on the ground because she is a girl – but Goo has her own ideas about that – and it is through her efforts that the mission is carried out successfully.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gumby and Pokey meet a little pilgrim boy who takes them to the Mayflower. Here they learn some of the reasons why the pilgrims came to America. Before the adventure is over, Gumby takes a hand in bringing the ship safely into harbor.
Gumby and Pokey go to the rescue of their friends at Plymouth when they learn that the pilgrims are almost out of food. Pokey discovers a cache of corn, but trouble develops when Indians claim the corn.
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.
Gumby and Pokey bring 3000 Gumburgers to General Washington’s army. The General enlists the help of Pokey as his special spy when he learns about the amazing workings of Pokey’s walkie-talkie. Gumby nearly dooms his pal by calling him in the middle of enemy territory.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gumby introduces some of his ‘human friends’ as they have a most peculiar picnic.
Prickle wants to be an artist, but does not want to study for years. Luckily a mysterious man gives him an artifact that turns whatever it touches into a work of art. Prickle is excited at the prospect of becoming an artist, but quickly realizes that he has gotten more than he has bargained for.
A dog trainer attempts to teach Nopey four new words, but finds it far more difficult than he anticipated. After some frustration, the trainer finds a clever way to earn his pay.
Gumby and Pokey stumble across Madam She’s Fog School, where dogs can learn to talk. They take a liking to one particular underachiever who can only say ‘no’, and with some quick thing, Gumby and Pokey use the dogs limited talents to prevent a trip to the dog pound.
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.
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.
Prickle opens a box making business, but quickly angers his customers by painting faces on their items. Things look grim until the local art critic turns up and declares Prickle’s creations a work of genius.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Prickle and Goo put on a performance piece, but the pesky Blockheads ruin everything. Gumby comes to the rescue and shows the Blockheads how it feels to be all broken up.
Gumby is determined to win a prize at next month’s fair for his pet pig, but Gumby’s grandfather warns Gumby that raising a pig isn’t easy. Gumby is concerned when the pig won’t eat, but Gumby’s grandfather sees the problem and helps his grandson.
It is Prickle’s first birthday and the gang convinces Prickle to make a wish. Prickle locks himself away for fear his friends will trick him into revealing his wish – and his friends try to trick him into revealing his wish so Prickle will come out to play. Several elaborate failed plots later, Prickle realizes he’s forgotten his wish anyway.
Prickle remembers his birthday wish and in his excitement, accidentally builds his friends into a cage. A farmer comes and offers to fill the cage with turnips so that Pokey, Gumby and Goo can climb out. Incidentally, this unusual method of escape ends up granting Prickle’s wish.
Pokey thinks he is Bust-a-Bronc, the famous rodeo horse. After Prickle tries to cure him (to no avail), the gang decide to enter Pokey in a rodeo to set him straight. However, it turns out Pokey is a great rodeo horse, but quickly reconsiders his career when he sees how much media attention a famous pony can get.
Gumby is asked to baby-sit a troublesome young child. The young boy manages to turn the tables and tell Gumby what to do, before Gumby devises a plot to make the boy behave. However, before he can execute his elaborate plan, the boy’s mother comes home and praises Gumby for his good job.
A bull has escaped from the stadium and chases Gumby and Goo up a tree. Prickle thinks he can avoid the bull by acting calm, but he soon ends up in the tree too. Finally Pokey arrives, and promptly scales the branches. All the weight causes the branch to break, but just before the bull can attack, a toreador arrives and saves the day.
Gumby’s little dog Nopey finds a pair of spectacles. He is sure that wearing them will make him smart. Pokey wants them for the same reason and chases Nopey right into a little boy who settles the argument by taking the glasses.
Gumby and his pals take a trip to the gold country. They find the gold but also find trouble when the hostile Indians appears. The Indians capture them and take them to the chief. Pokey is sure his mane is about to be removed but Gumby discovers that the trouble centres around a toothache. All ends well with Gumby pulling the chief’s tooth and substituting a gold one made from his newly found nugget.
Prickle makes a skateboard for Nopey. Nopey is really enjoying his ride until the dogcatcher goes after him with his net. Gumby and Pokey get on their skateboards to rescue Nopey but the only one who escapes the dogcatcher’s net is Nopey.
Gumby and Pokey stop to buy apples from Tony’s apple cart. They are having a nice chat when the Blockhead mischief-makers play a joke on them with a toy bull. Gumby thinks of a joke of his own to get even and they end up with the last laugh.
Gumby promises Nopey the biggest bone in town. Nopey’s eyes nearly pop out when Gumby makes good his promise by driving him to the Dinosaur Bone State Park. But of course Nopey wants to bury his big bone and the fun comes in when Gumby tries to solve this gigantic problem.
Gumby and Pokey visit Aunt Gumbiddy. Auntie likes to talk and Pokey gets sleepy and starts to sleepwalk. Gumby and Auntie try to catch the sleeping Pokey but first they have a nightmare of a ride through streets and canyons.
Gumby discovers a mysterious box that seems to have an unlimited supply of interesting toys. A stubborn tractor and a diving plane are but two of the toys that amuse him in this adventure.
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.
Pokey agrees to allow Gumby to use him in testing his new teleporter machine, but Gumby has made a mistake in the construction and Pokey ends up with a flowerpot instead of a tail.
Gumby and Pokey are in a drag race to Caboodle Corners. Reggie Van Snoot is sure that his high-powered car will defeat them but in the end, Pokey’s horsepower proves superior.
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.
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
Prospector Pete has been telling lies about the Indians causing trouble amongst his people. The chief of the Indian tribe, Old Joe, is angry and seeking revenge. Gumby and Pokey spy on Old Joe to assess the situation, but discover he lies just as much as Prospector Pete. To settle issues, Joe and Pete enter a tall tale contest – whoever loses has to stop telling stories.