A Gummi a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Adventures of the Gummi Bears
"A Gummi a Day Keeps the Doctor Away"

Season 5

Number 2B

Episode information

Written by

Mark Seidenberg

Directed by

David Block

Original air date

September 16, 1989

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"A Gummi a Day Keeps the Doctor Away" is the second segment of the forty-first episode of the Adventures of the Gummi Bears. It premiered on September 16, 1989 alongside "Let Sleeping Giants Lie", and is the second segment of the second episode in the fifth season.

Plot

Tummi takes pity on Doctor Dexter, an unsuccessful pharmacist, and decides to improve his concoctions with a shot of Gummiberry juice. Unfortunately, this new wonder medicine also attracts the attention of Igthorn, and without the knowledge of how to exactly replicate the formula, the Doctor is caught between a rock and a hard place.

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Media
Adventures of the Gummi Bears • Comic strip • Videography

Books
Cubbi Finds a Friend • Gummies to the Rescue • Tummi and the Dragon • Zummi's Magic Spell

Characters

Gummi Bears: Zummi • Gruffi • Grammi • Tummi • Sunni • Cubbi • Gusto • Buddy • Gritty • Chummi Gummi • Sir Gallent • Sir Thornberry • Ursa

Other Characters: Cavin • Princess Calla • King Gregor • Sir Tuxford • Artie Deco • Loopy • Gryphons • Aquarianne • Finwithit • Chillbeard • Chillbeard Jr. • Real Dragon • Sir Gawain • Prince Yen Moon • Princess Marie • King Jean-Claude • Doctor Dexter • Madame Placebo • Ramas • Victor Igthorn • Nogum • Giggilen • Abbot Costello • Tree Folk • Cliff Dragons • Gustav the Giant
Villains: Duke Igthorn • Toadwart • Tadpole • Ogres • Lady Bane • Evelyn and Emmadrille • Trolls • Troggles • Carpies • Airiels • Spinster • Floogel • Jabberflies • Slugger • Gargoyle • Hunter • Giant • Malsinger • Angelo Davini • Rotocelli • Lord Willoughby • Flint Shrubwood • Zorlock and Grot • Marquis de Bouillabaisse • Marzipan • Dreaded One • Mysterious Knight • Unwin

Episodes

Season One: "A New Beginning" • "The Sinister Sculptor/Zummi Makes it Hot" • "Someday My Prints Will Come/Can I Keep Him?" • "A Gummi in a Gilded Cage" • "The Oracle/When You Wish Upon a Stone" • "A Gummi by Any Other Name" • "Loopy, Go Home/A-Hunting We Will Go" • "The Fence Sitter/Night of the Gargoyle" • "The Secret of the Juice" • "Sweet and Sour Gruffi/Duel of the Wizards" • "What You See is Me/Toadie's Wild Ride" • "Bubble Trouble/Gummi in a Strange Land" • "Light Makes Right"

Season Two: "Up, Up, and Away" • "Faster Than a Speeding Tummi/For a Few Sovereigns More" • "Over the River and Through the Trolls/You Snooze, You Lose" • "The Crimson Avenger" • "A Hard Dazed Knight/Do Unto Ogres" • "For Whom the Spell Holds" • "Little Bears Lost/Guess Who's Gumming to Dinner?" • "My Gummi Lies Over the Ocean"
Season Three: "Too Many Cooks/Just a Tad Smarter" • "If I Were You/Eye of the Beholder" • "Presto Gummo/A Tree Grows in Dunwyn" • "Day of the Beevilweevils" • "Water Way to Go/Close Encounters of the Gummi Kind" • "Snows Your Old Man/Boggling the Bears" • "The Knights of Gummadoon" • "Mirthy Me/Gummi Dearest"
Season Four: "The Magnificent Seven Gummies" • "Music Hath Charms/Dress for Success" • "A Knight to Remember/Gummies Just Want to Have Fun" • "Color Me Gummi/There's No Place Like Home" • "He Who Laughs Last" • "Tummi's Last Stand/The Crimson Avenger Strikes Again" • "Ogre Baby Boom/The White Knight" • "Girl's Knight Out/Good Neighbor Gummi" • "Top Gum/Gummi's At Sea"
Season Five: "The Road to Ursalia" • "Let Sleeping Giants Lie/A Gummi a Day Keeps the Doctor Away" • "Life of the Party/Bridge on the River Gummi" • "My Kingdom for a Pie/The World According to Gusto" • "Ogre for a Day" • "Princess Problems/A Gummi is a Gummi's Best Friend" • "Beg, Burrow and Steal"
Season Six: "Return to Ursalia" • "Never Give a Gummi an Even Break" • "A Gummi's Work is Never Done" • "Friar Tum" • "Tuxford's Turnaround" • "Toadie the Conqueror" • "Zummi in Slumberland" • "Patchwork Gummi/Once More, the Crimson Avenger" • "Thornberry to the Rescue" • "A Recipe for Trouble" • "Queen of the Carpies" • "True Gritty" • "King Igthorn" • "Tummi Trouble" • "Rocking Chair Bear" • "Trading Faces" • "May the Best Princess Win" • "Wings Over Dunwyn" • "The Rite Stuff"

Locations
Dunwyn Castle • Drekmore Castle • Gummi Glen • Gummadoon • Quick Tunnels • Gusto Falls • Ursalia • Airiel Island • New Gumbrea

Objects
Great Book of Gummi • Gummiberry Juice • Gummi Flying Machine • Changing Hat • Gummi Bear Medallion • Gummiscope • Tall Tales of The Gummi Bear • Dragon Decoy • Ursalia Horn • Doomsday Clock

Songs
Gummi Bears Theme • Gummiberry Juice • Rough, Tough, Burly Sailor Song

See also
The Disney Afternoon • Disney Afternoon Soundtrack • Let's Go to Disneyland Paris

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