Gummi Bears

GUMMI BEARS
Made by: Disney
Shown on: ITV
Years shown: mid '80s
Theme tune: “Gummi Bears! Bouncing here and there and everywhere/ High adventure that’s beyond compare/We are the Gummi Bears!”

The Gummi Bears were brightly-coloured bears, who lived in medieval times,and wore the same clothes as Robin Hood’s Merry Men. Their job was to protect Princess Cala, who ruled over the Kingdom of Dunwyn, and her page, Cavin. To do this, they required special powers, which came from some kind of illegal drug called Gummiberry Juice, mixed in a cauldron by the matronly Grammi Bear, and kept in handy animal-skin hip-flasks. The other bears included Zummi, the wise old father figure; Sunni, the gutsy, blond tomboy; Tummi, the ‘big-boned’ one; Cubbi, present purely for cute-factor; Gruffi, the irritable male lead; and Gutso the artist, with his parrot, Arte Deco. The Gummi Bears was shown on weekend mornings, usually as part of whatever was showing on ITV at the time (eg. Motormouth, Gimme 5), and was nothing to write home about whatsoever. It reached the just-about-watchable level, but I think it probably undid all the hard work achieved by Grange Hill’s ‘Just Say No’.

SQUARE EYES RATING: 3/10