Gumby

Gumby ( The Gumby Show ) is an American children's show that first aired in 1957. The main character of the Claymation cartoons is a green figure made of plasticine , accompanied by an orange horse named Pokey .

Gumby inventor Art Clokey had already gained experience with Claymation in his short film Gumbasia in 1955 , before he invented the character Gumby for the NBC program Howdy Doody in 1956 . In 1957 Gumby got his own series, which was supplemented by further episodes in 1962 and 1966/67. In 1988 a new Gumby series was created, in which old material was reused in addition to newly produced films, but the sound track (both music and dialogues) was exchanged. A total of 223 Gumby episodes exist.

In 1995 the feature film Gumby and his friends ( Gumby: The Movie ) was made.

In Germany, the original series was shown on ARD in 1961/62 . In the 1980s, a videotape with a few selected episodes was released, and in 2003 the 1995 film was released on DVD. Nevertheless, Gumby remained rather unknown in Germany.

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