 Clokey and his wife Ruth subsequently came up with the clay character Gumby and his horse Pokey, who first appeared in the "Howdy Doody Show" and later got their own series "The Adventures of Gumby", from which they became a familiar presence on American television.The characters enjoyed a renewal of interest in the 1980s when American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on "Saturday Night Live".Clokey's second most famous production is the duo of "Davey and Goliath", funded by the Lutheran Church in America (now the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America).