Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears - Season 1

First aired: 9/14/1985 21 episodes

Season 1 of Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985) introduced a world where the legendary Gummi Bears—long thought to be myths by humans—are rediscovered by a young boy named Cavin. The season focuses on the bears coming out of hiding to protect their home, Gummi Glen, while rediscovering their lost heritage through the Great Book of Gummi.

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Episodes

1. A New Beginning

Aired: 9/14/1985

Calvin meets the Gummi Bears and asks if they will help stop Duke Igthorn from destroying Castle Dunwyn.

2. The Sinister Sculptor

Aired: 9/21/1985

A sculptor changes all the Gummies except for Gruffi and Grammi into statues with magic dust. Meanwhile, Gruffi and Grammi are frequently fighting and don't want to work together. King Gregor then buys the statues for Princess Calla. So it's up to Gruffi, Grammi and Cavin to turn the others back to normal. Can they do it, or will Gruffi and Grammi's arguing get in the way?

3. Zummi Makes It Hot

Aired: 9/21/1985

The Gummis are nearly out of Gummiberry juice so Grammi needs to make more, but the spigot is stuck so Zummi, Grammi, Cubbi, and Cavin go to the pumping station to fix the problem. But they discover that the facility is near a maritime boundary that separates Dunwyn and Drekmore – where Duke Igthorn and his ogres live. They only have four bottles of Gummiberry juice left, that's one for each of them. Can they fix the problem and get back home safely to Gummi Glen without being noticed by the ogres?

4. Someday My Prints Will Come

Aired: 9/28/1985

While exploring an ancient storeroom of the Great Gummis, Tummi discovers a mechanical decoy used to make dragon footprints, but accidentally starts the ignition on the machine and begins bouncing all across the land. The footprints attract a real dragon who proves to be different from the stereotype of large dragons. The knights of Dunwyn also see the machine and think it is a real dragon.

5. Can I Keep Him?

Aired: 9/28/1985

Zummi gives Cubbi a whistle from his old treasure chest while Sunni is having trouble babysitting Cubbi. The whistle attracts a brine dragon, which takes Sunni and Cubbi on an unexpected adventure to Drekmore Castle.

6. A Gummi in a Gilded Cage

Aired: 10/5/1985

Sunni is kidnapped by a flock of ugly bird-like creatures known as Carpies, whose king wants her for a song bird. The Gummis (Gruffi, Zummi, and Cubbi) must use their new flying machine to get to the top of the mountain and rescue her, all whiledealing with Zummi's acrophobia and Gruffi's insistence that "Gummis were not meant to fly".

7. The Oracle

Aired: 10/12/1985

While trying to sneak out of his new diet, Tummi finds a stone ogre oracle and uses it to trick Duke Igthorn and the ogres with it.

8. When You Wish Upon a Stone

Aired: 10/12/1985

Cavin is having problems with knight training. Cubbi suggests an underground wishing stone could be a big help, but they soon learn the stone is guarded by a mean giant. Cavin and Cubbi must find several different ways to thwart to giant, until Cavin finally realizes being a knight is not always about strength.

9. A Gummi by Any Other Name

Aired: 10/26/1985

Zummi makes a magic hat for Sunni, which can change her appearance to anyone she wants by speaking that person's name, and Sunni turns herself into Princess Calla to enjoy the comforts of royalty. Coincidentally, the real Princess Calla is kidnapped by Igthorn while going outside Dunwyn's castle walls. When the two princess contestants meet in a Drekmore tower cell, what will happen once the true princess exerts her right of existence?

10. Loopy, Go Home

Aired: 11/2/1985

Despite Gruffi's objections, Cubbi finds a wolf cub and raises it.

11. A-Hunting We Will Go

Aired: 11/2/1985

With a vicious wild boar on the loose in Dunwyn Forest, Calla, Sunni and Grammi must warn King Gregor, Sir Tuxford and Cavin.

12. The Fence Sitter

Aired: 11/9/1985

A bird threatens the Gummiberry bushes and nobody will listen to Cubbi's ideas to get rid of it.

13. Night of the Gargoyle

Aired: 11/9/1985

Duke Igthorn sends a cursed gargoyle to King Gregor. The gargoyle comes alive at night and starts trying to destroy things – including the king himself.

14. The Secret of the Juice

Aired: 11/23/1985

Grammi believes it is time to teach another Gummi Bear how to make Gummiberry juice. Sunni is chosen as the most eligible candidate, but is more into fashion and spending time with Calla. The Ogres kidnap Grammi and take her to Castle Drekmore, where Duke Igthorn attempts to coax the recipe for Gummiberry juice from her. When the Gummis go on a rescue mission, they request Sunni to follow and bring some Gummiberry juice, which Sunni does not know how to make because she failed to pay attention to Grammi's lessons.

15. Sweet and Sour Gruffi

Aired: 11/30/1985

The Gummies try to sweeten Gruffi's sour disposition by magic, but the conditions of the spell they use turn this affair into a two-edged sword.

16. Duel of the Wizards

Aired: 11/30/1985

The pompous wizard Don Gordo will not accept Zummi's help in finding his missing magic key, so a battle of magic ensues.

17. What You See is Me

Aired: 12/7/1985

Tummi learns through his new friend, the blind shepherd Trina, that handicapped people are not helpless.

18. Toadie’s Wild Ride

Aired: 12/7/1985

Duke Igthorn catapults Toadie into the forest, where he accidentally makes his way into Gummi Glen and begins snooping around. When Tummi, who has been caught eating the other bears' picnic lunches and lying about it, sees him, no one believes him when he tries to tell them.

19. Bubble Trouble

Aired: 12/14/1985

Sunni finds a baby cliff dragon with a hiccup, and a swig of Gummiberry juice only aggravates the problem.

20. Gummi in a Strange Land

Aired: 12/14/1985

A Slumber Sprite puts Gruffi to sleep, requiring Grammi and Cubbi to trek across hostile terrain to find the sprite and keep Gruffi from suffering nasty accidents.

21. Light Makes Right

Aired: 12/21/1985

The Gummies find a Gummiscope, a gigantic machine that harnesses sunlight as a means of long-range communication, that could allow them to make contact with the Great Gummis across the ocean – but it can also be used as a weapon, causing Duke Igthorn to use it as a laser-type weapon to force King Gregor into surrender.