Steve Carras
06-15-2008, 11:35 PM
For fans of the show as it originally aired before the middle nineteen-eighties, when the newer synthesiser music (sounding much like a Barney the Dinosaurized verison of the German "Krautropck" progessive art rock group Kraftwerk, best known for tbe pioneering 1974 techno prototypical-Blue-Man-Group nearly thirty minute long recording of "Autobahn", a much edited version a 1975 US hit), appeared, and all though other new episode,s the restored epsiodes (with a few original ones of those 80s oines.)
These have largely the older ones (No Prickle and Goo in the 1960s ones even though this decade was their debut), with the old stock music themes by Jack Shaindlin and Phil Green, the theme "He was once a little ball of clay" (and "Gumby! Gumby!" for you y9ounger fans, and the olriginal rochetsral theme), even a bonus,m the 1955 original "Gumby on the Moon" (these first showed up on "It's Howdy Doody Time", 1947-1960). Issued by Classic Media. Not Much otherwise..though 19853's earlier ":Gumbasia is there..."
IMO the best is the 1950s chapter, with the restored or reedited pairs (actually formerly one LONG episode) of episodes
1950s
"In the dough" [syndicated as the shorter title one and as "Baker's Tour"]
"Too Loo" [syndicated as the title and as "Gumby Concerto"]
"Rain Spirits" [likewise shortened down into both a shborter version with that title and as "The Kachinas"]
"Robot Rumopus" [Thbe famous MST3K short, split in two in reruns as the "Yard Work Made Easy" and like the longer one in the second half of the short, "Robot Rumpous"]
"Racing Game" [again split up but with overlapping footage, "Racing Game", "The Gumby Racer"]
1960s
"Richochet pete"
"Gumby crosses the delaware" (with later 1960s stock music)
"Groobee"(the title bee would have three more entries in the third 1960s and the final 1980s-9-0s seres]
"Hidden Valley"
"Small Planets" [the "Arpeggio" one, a return to planets for Gumby, nwo with pokey"
1980s
"Wold Horse"
"Knight Mare"
"Goo'sa Pies"
"To Bee or not to bee" (I think again with the Groobee (see above)
"Kid Brother Kids"
These are the debated opnes with chpeaer synth music but the older ones have the same soundtracks that they did when they first appeared and were in pre-1988 syndication!)
These have largely the older ones (No Prickle and Goo in the 1960s ones even though this decade was their debut), with the old stock music themes by Jack Shaindlin and Phil Green, the theme "He was once a little ball of clay" (and "Gumby! Gumby!" for you y9ounger fans, and the olriginal rochetsral theme), even a bonus,m the 1955 original "Gumby on the Moon" (these first showed up on "It's Howdy Doody Time", 1947-1960). Issued by Classic Media. Not Much otherwise..though 19853's earlier ":Gumbasia is there..."
IMO the best is the 1950s chapter, with the restored or reedited pairs (actually formerly one LONG episode) of episodes
1950s
"In the dough" [syndicated as the shorter title one and as "Baker's Tour"]
"Too Loo" [syndicated as the title and as "Gumby Concerto"]
"Rain Spirits" [likewise shortened down into both a shborter version with that title and as "The Kachinas"]
"Robot Rumopus" [Thbe famous MST3K short, split in two in reruns as the "Yard Work Made Easy" and like the longer one in the second half of the short, "Robot Rumpous"]
"Racing Game" [again split up but with overlapping footage, "Racing Game", "The Gumby Racer"]
1960s
"Richochet pete"
"Gumby crosses the delaware" (with later 1960s stock music)
"Groobee"(the title bee would have three more entries in the third 1960s and the final 1980s-9-0s seres]
"Hidden Valley"
"Small Planets" [the "Arpeggio" one, a return to planets for Gumby, nwo with pokey"
1980s
"Wold Horse"
"Knight Mare"
"Goo'sa Pies"
"To Bee or not to bee" (I think again with the Groobee (see above)
"Kid Brother Kids"
These are the debated opnes with chpeaer synth music but the older ones have the same soundtracks that they did when they first appeared and were in pre-1988 syndication!)