7.4/10218 votes#1 - A New Beginning
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1985
Calvin meets the Gummi Bears and asks if they will help stop Duke Igthorn from destroying Castle Dunwyn.
Director: Art Vitello
Writer: Doug Hutchinson
7.4/10155 votes#2 - The Sinister Sculptor
Season 1 Episode 2 - 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?
Director: Art Vitello
Writer: Jymn Magon, Michael Maurer
7.1/10132 votes#3 - Zummi Makes It Hot
Season 1 Episode 3 - 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?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10122 votes#4 - Someday My Prints Will Come
Season 1 Episode 4 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10114 votes#5 - Can I Keep Him?
Season 1 Episode 5 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10114 votes#6 - A Gummi in a Gilded Cage
Season 1 Episode 6 - 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".
Director: Art Vitello
Writer: Jymn Magon, Diane Dixon
7.3/10103 votes#7 - The Oracle
Season 1 Episode 7 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10109 votes#8 - When You Wish Upon a Stone
Season 1 Episode 8 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10100 votes#9 - A Gummi by Any Other Name
Season 1 Episode 9 - 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?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1099 votes#10 - Loopy, Go Home
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/2/1985
Despite Gruffi's objections, Cubbi finds a wolf cub and raises it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1099 votes#11 - A-Hunting We Will Go
Season 1 Episode 11 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/1097 votes#12 - The Fence Sitter
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/9/1985
A bird threatens the Gummiberry bushes and nobody will listen to Cubbi's ideas to get rid of it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1096 votes#13 - Night of the Gargoyle
Season 1 Episode 13 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/102 votes#14 - The Secret of the Juice
Season 1 Episode 14 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/102 votes#15 - Sweet and Sour Gruffi
Season 1 Episode 15 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/102 votes#16 - Duel of the Wizards
Season 1 Episode 16 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#17 - What You See is Me
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/7/1985
Tummi learns through his new friend, the blind shepherd Trina, that handicapped people are not helpless.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#18 - Toadie’s Wild Ride
Season 1 Episode 18 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#19 - Bubble Trouble
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 12/14/1985
Sunni finds a baby cliff dragon with a hiccup, and a swig of Gummiberry juice only aggravates the problem.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#20 - Gummi in a Strange Land
Season 1 Episode 20 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#21 - Light Makes Right
Season 1 Episode 21 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"A New Beginning" is the best rated episode of "Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears" season 1. It scored 7.4/10 based on 218 votes. Directed by Art Vitello and written by Doug Hutchinson, it aired on 9/14/1985. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Sinister Sculptor".