woops, I can't submit more than 3 videos. if anyone is interested in posting part 4, here is the URL:

http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/339539/saving-horse-face-gumby-arms.jhtml#id=1603844

http://www.videosift.com/video/Gumby-Banging-Horses
that vid is dead, just thought I'd let 'ya know.

Yeah, because everyone everywhere wants to buy old copies of Gumby's adventures.
Without the internet, a lot of these clips would never be watched and fade away into memories of "remember that show from when we were kids?"

I got a handfull of deads with no replacements already.....

Their list includes:
My Favorite Martian
Gumby
Gigantor
Daniel Boone
I Spy
Ultraman
Sky Surfer
The Roswell Conspiracies
Extreme Dinosaurs

Oh well....chump change in the world of copyrighted memories.....guess they don't suck real hard yet....give em some time, they will be masters of deep throat before you know it.....

Created by Art Clokey, Gumby had its genesis in a 1955 theatrical short called Gumbasia, which was a surreal short of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music. Gumby himself first appeared on the Howdy Doody show in 1956 and was given his own NBC series in 1957. Female performers (among them Norma MacMillan) originally supplied Gumby's voice during the initial episodes, as well as the child-like voice characterization provided by Dick Beals. Newly produced episodes were added in 1962, by which time Dallas McKennon became the voice of Gumby, and 1966-67. Besides Pokey, voiced by creator Art Clokey, and his dog Nopey – all the dog ever said was "No" – Gumby's friends included Prickle, a yellow dinosaur or dragon (there are stories that establish him as dragon, and some that establish him as dinosaur - he has been known to breathe fire); and Goo, a blue thumb-type mermaid blob who could fly.

....I'm not what you think!!! For Gumby's sake, I wear the same clothes every,FUCKING DAYYYY!"

The Gumby comeback is a great story that I read a while ago:

http://ezone.org/ez/e3/articles/mingo/gumby.html

Gumby started generating a lot of money. The problem was, Clokey wasn't getting much of it. He was paid a straight salary of $200 a week to write and produce the Gumby episodes. (That went up to $350 a week shortly before the Gumby Show was canceled in 1957.)

For eight years, he refused to license the Gumby image for merchandising. "I was a very idealistic person," he says, "and I didn't want to exploit children." That changed after Gumby's show left NBC and Clokey bought all rights back from the network. His Prema (Sanskrit for "universal love") Toy Corporation started manufacturing Gumby dolls and toys in 1964, the year that Gumby found new life in syndication and Clokey started getting rich.

Not long after, however, his personal life fell apart, and so did his fortune. He went through painful and expensive divorce proceedings with his wife of 18 years in 1966, about the time that TV stations began dropping Gumby in favor of newer and slicker kid shows. Clokey invested his last dollars in a new venture--a flexy-faced doll called Moody Rudy-- that bombed. His house went into foreclosure. In 1974, his daughter died in a car crash. Clokey went into heavy therapy and began "looking at various gurus" before adopting the teachings of Indian Swami Muktananda.

Clokey remarried in 1976 and three years later, he and his new wife Gloria traveled to Bangalore, India to visit a guru named Sathya Sai Baba who supposedly had amazingly magical powers. For some reason, Clokey brought a Gumby doll along to their audience with the guru. "I stood there with Gumby and he did this circular motion with his arms," Clokey says. "Out of nowhere he materialized this sacred ash. He plopped it right on top of Gumby. When we came home again, things started to happen." Gumby toy sales began to pick up, and then Eddie Murphy started doing a continuing Gumby skit on Saturday Night Live.. Suddenly, the phone started ringing and Gumby was hip again. Clokey went on a lecture tour and received an $8 million contract with Lorimar for a new Gumby series. He started work on Gumby--the Movie.

I was afraid of Gumby as a kid. I mean... just look at him! He still freaks me out.

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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 appeared on The Howdy Doody Show. 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 consisted of 3 cartoons. In the 1960s Goo the blue mermaid, Prickle the yellow dinosaur, and Nopey the dog were introduced. Later came the Blockheads, who sometimes chased after Gumby, Pokey, Prickle, and Goo with some scheme in their block heads. Gumbo and Gumba were Gumby's Father and Mother

awwww hell, does that mean my public domain announcement a few weeks ago after posting the gumby and pokey oldie is dead....chec-king (*old Star Track computer voice) SHEIT!!!!Gumby, My Favorite Martian, and I Spy, are now public domain.....soon, Simpson's and 24 posters will be subject to lawsuits......the end is here, near, and queer, and not going anywhere.....THIS VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

PSAHW!!! Thanks for the day-brightener there, auntee......Happy St. Paddies Day, toasting, roasting, boasting and hosting.

Looks like an annoying-voiced gumby rip-off.

Hey sadman, the post I made recently of Gumby being public domain, is a cloud forming in the world of law here in the seedbed of lawsuitdom, this may turn into a user violation downer, which will make many frustrated and bored with the time wasted, ala, dial-up modem blues...(never had one m'self)

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I don't know how many of you watched this as kids, but this, Thundercats (Hooo!), Voltron, and Gumby were all part of my morning routine. Ohh, the good old days.

I love Gumby

There are other rare footage pieces coming out, Cleese was actually in Chicago around this time doing an interview. there are some of him doing a Mr. Gumby spot for Chicago Public Television.