Gumby

Our Gumby and Blockhead figures have been very popular with our grandkids these past couple of years. Clara has been very excited about Gumby in particular and wants him to be around constantly. When she is at our house she wants to play with him and when she is home and is on the video phone with us she wants to see him.

I've also been using Gumby and Blockheads as props in a series of beer pics in the kitchen and photos of albums in my Vinyl Spins series on the 3rd floor. I've posted a lot of those pics on Facebook and Instagram and Gumby is very popular and has generated a lot of comments.

We got these figures when our kids were little and I know there is also a Pokey figure somewhere in the house probably in a box somewhere.

A few months ago I looked online to see if the Gumby show was streaming anywhere and discovered there was a recent promotion of Gumby on Amazon Prime for the original first run series starting in 1956. I sat the kids down, fired up Amazon Prime and started the first episode of season one when Gumby goes to the Moon. It was a little scary for them. We watched another show from later in the season and the kids loved it.

However, the show certainly was of it's time in the 1950's and there was serious amount of fear and anxiety running through both episodes we watched. It kind of reminded me of the duck and cover drills we had in school at the time.

Added: Recently Ashley and Sean got Stella a Gumby dog toy for Christmas but Clara claimed it for her own.