Whenever the executives refused to give into his demands, Gumby would assert his star status by saying “I’m Gumby, Dammit.” According to Murphy’s parody, when the television cameras were turned off, the sweet Gumby reverted to his true self: a cigar chomping, irascible celebrity who was highly demanding of the production executives. Most episodes are available on home video and DVD.īeginning in 1982, Eddie Murphy began a parody of Gumby on Saturday Night Live. Clokey's rights to use the original Capitol Records production tracks could not be renewed at the time, due to legal issues. In addition to the new episodes, the classic 1950s and 1960s shorts were re-run as part of the series, but with newly recorded soundtracks, with the voices re-recorded and the original music replaced by Jerry Gerber's synthesizer score from the 1988 series. Dallas McKennon returned as the voice of Gumby in new adventures that would take Gumby and his pals beyond their toyland-type setting and establish themselves as a sing-a-long band.
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This led to a new incarnation of the series for television syndication by Lorimar-Telepictures in 1988–1989 that included new characters, such as Gumby's little sister Minga and a mastodon named Denali. īy the 1980s, the original Gumby shorts had enjoyed a revival, both on television and home video. On some occasions, his voice was provided by Ginny Tyler and Dick Beals. Production continued through 1967–1968, by which time Norma MacMillan voiced Gumby.
New episodes were added from 1960 to 1966. Gumby's voice was originally provided by Ruth Eggleston, wife of the show's art director Al Eggleston, and starting in 1957, Dallas McKennon became the voice of Gumby. The famous slanted shape of Gumby's head was based on the hair style of Clokey's father Charles Farrington in an old photograph. Gumby's legs and feet were made wide for pragmatic reasons: they ensured the clay character would stand up during stop-motion filming. Gumby was green because it was Clokey's favorite color. Gumby was inspired by a suggestion from Clokey's wife Ruth that he base his character on the Gingerbread man.
Featuring lots of Clokey's puppet films, as well as variety, interviews and games, it was hosted by Robert Nicholson ("Nick") from March to June, then by Pinky Lee until November. Gumby was an NBC series (a Howdy Doody spin-off) during 1957. "Robot Rumpus," was the third pilot which was used for the second season in 1957. This was a huge hit on the Howdy Doody show, so Tom gave Gumby his own show on NBC. NBC executive Thomas Warren Sarnoff saw and loved Art's first pilot and had Art make another one (Gumby on the Moon).
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In 1953 Clokey showed Gumbasia to movie producer Sam Engel, who encouraged him to develop his technique by adding figures. Clokey and wife, Ruth ( née Parkander), invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art finished film school at USC. Described as "massaging of the eye cells," this technique of camera movements and editing was responsible for much of the Gumby look and feel. Gumbasia was created in a style Clokey's professor Slavko Vorkapich taught at USC called Kinesthetic Film Principles. Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia. Gumby was created by Art Clokey in the early 1950s after finishing film school at University of Southern California. The later syndicated series in 1988 added Gumby's sister Minga and mastodon friend Denali. Also featured are Goo, a flying blue mermaid who spits blue goo balls and can change shape at will, and Gumby's parents, Gumbo and Gumba. Other characters are Gumby's dog Nopey whose entire vocabulary is the word "nope," and Prickle, a yellow dinosaur who sometimes styles himself as a detective with pipe and deerstalker hat like Sherlock Holmes. The Blockheads were inspired by the Katzenjammer Kids, who were always getting into scrapes and causing discomfort to others. His nemeses are the Blockheads, a pair of humanoid, red-colored figures with block-shaped heads, who wreak mischief and havoc. Gumby's principal sidekick is Pokey, a talking orange pony.
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