The Gumby Show: The Complete '50s Series (With Bendable Gumby Toy)

This item was a gift and the person that I gave it to simply loves it!

I've always enjoyed watching Gumby and Pokey back when I was a kid in the 70s. It's just pure nostalgia and fun at heart. The best part of this package is the retro Gumby figure. So cool!

After reading a number of negative reviewes about this set, I was pretty sure I didn't want to buy it. People complained that the music wasn't original. They said the original print looks bad.After buying this set a couple of months ago...I'm really glad I did. I love it!Firstly, the music: I'm 35 and I remember watching Gumby on TV very very early in the morning. You know what I don't remember? I don't remember what the music sounded like. Mind you, I would absolutely love to hear it with the original music. At the very beginning of the Gumby The Movie there is some kind of martian person sitting in an easy chair watching an episode of Gumby. The music that's in it is probably the original soundtrack. Strings and flutes. I love that stuff. Kind of like perky 101 Strings. I love the fact that old TV shows had lots of neat incidental music. (crash your fathers new Buick, you get a bassoon or whooping trombones, that's all gone. Too bad, I never get sick of it.) The music that's on this set however just..fits. In fact, it sounds a lot like the music in the Gumby Movie. It's made with some kind of electronic keybord. I never think about the original music anymore..like I did before I actually bought and watched the set.Secondly, the print: It's fine. The colors seem a bit washed out. I recently bought a new TV and it looks better. These are old films. They sould look old. Any jumps or hairs or whatever is bothering people in the print is minimal. Once again based on reading the reviews, I expected it to look crummy and I expected it to sound lousy. I like reviews. I like Amazon reviews. Reviews are one of the best features of Amazon. In this one case, I think some people could be misled by the reviewers who remember Gumby either differently or more accurately than the rest of us. So, they're disapointed with this product. Maybe I remember Gumby just well enough to know I wanted this set, but not so well that I felt any kind of let down.My only complaints are that: The DVD takes about a minute and a half to go through it's pre-menu deal. You have to watch an FBI warning, then you have to watch a Rhino ball bounce up and down with "splat" and "whisker pluck" sounds thrown in, then you have to watch a lame newly claynimated Gumby, Pokey and Rhino rhino sitting on a couch before you can get to the main menu. Then, there is a canned intro to each and every single episode. There's a Pokey one, a Gumby one, a Goo one, and a Ma n Pa Gumby intro. They're brand new and very bright. They say the same exact thing every single time. I hate them. Lastly, the packaging is akward. I'm going to buy 7 CD/DVD envelopes instead and throw the box into the fire.Don't be too much of a purist here. It's a great set, it's fun, it's damn good, it's loaded with lot's of cool vintage toys, situations that don't make any sense, and plots that don't resolve.Lastly, the interview with Dal McKennon (Kinnon?) is useless. He's a kook, you hear the answers, but not the questions. It had to have been pieced together by an amateur.I wish there were more than 112 episodes.

I was a child of the 80's. So, I grew up watching these versions of Gumby. I never knew about the original soundtracks at the time. Since then, I have hunted down some of the original versions of the show from the 50's and 60's to see what all the hubbub was about the Rhino set with the 'ruined' soundtrack. I came to find out I do not at all like the original soundtracks. It probably has something to do with the fact that this version is the Gumby I grew up with, but I also feel that the weird, synth soundtrack just seems to fit the surreal nature of the show that much better. It all is going to come down to personal taste and what you are familiar with, I guess. But as for me, this set has been an awesome addition to my DVD collection, and me and my kids watch it together all the time. I totally prefer the 80's weird music and redone audio over the original versions generic music, so I am glad I went ahead with this purchase and didn't listen to all the Gumby purists bashing this set.

Nostalgia aside, this DVD collection is a MUST to all Gumby fans. I introduced Gumby to my daughter and she loved it!! We watched it together and it was so fun. Much laughter because of the plots and simplicity of it all. This is so great and brings back so many memories. My favorite all time episode is the one where he goes to the moon. The funny thing is he takes a rocket ship to the moon, but when his Dad goes to save him, he uses a firetruck and a ladder!!! That is priceless!!!The bonus for me is the Gumby figure. This is great. And I also bought the Pokey edition where it comes with a Pokey as well, which completing the set.

watched these as a kid and just had to have a collection of themit comes with a gumby - what could be betterquality transfer no glitches

Gracias por el buen producto

Great Show - Came in a Perfect Complete Box with Gumby figurine, and the show transfer is actually quite good for its age! If you can look past the dated look, you will actually find some pretty creative stuff going on in these short episodes, and the quality picks up as it goes along. My very favorite will always be the Moon debut though, something so simple, nostalgic, and graceful about it,Great for small children, lots to look at and marvel over, its not overly complicated but worth a watch!

The package was damaged, I did not purchase it for the package so I was less concerned about that. The product description stated that it had a Gumby inside, when the package arrived there was a sticker over the "Gumby inside" spot. I ended up having to order a Gumby as that was the whole point of purchasing a DVD set with the character inside. The DVD set also still had Walmart stickers on it, again I knew what I was purchasing so not a huge deal. The character being described as inside the package and then not was fairly unacceptable.

I guess 'Complete' means ''the things we put on this DVD may be seen completely... or you may take breaks... we don't care'. Maybe someone should have told the producers of this DVD that the DVD media format isn't like VHS and that you can insert the title sequences and then choose to have them play or not, depending if you'd like to see it with the individual titles, or played back-to-back without interruption. In this DVD set, every second episode is butt-end edited to its companion episode and the cute title animation for the second episode is not included (although you can still see them on the web). At least the episodes are all there, unlike the 60's Gumby Collection, which have been censored for your protection. From Gumby. Because Gumby is a subversive hazard and should be stopped.I wish I could un-buy this 'complete' collection, but I love Gumby.

Brought back a lot of good memories.

Great for its time