The World of David the Gnome
The World of David the Gnome
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The World of David the Gnome

7.1 / 10
1985
1 season
26 episodes
AnimationKidsSci-Fi & Fantasy

A Spanish animated television series based on the children's book The Secret Book of Gnomes, by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet.

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  • Good Medicine

    1.Good Medicine

    26-10-198523m

    In the first episode ""Good Medicine"" we are told some facts that Gnomes, such as their height, weight, strength and what they like to eat. David also tells us all about their ene...

  • Witch Way Out

    2.Witch Way Out

    02-11-198523m

    Lisa is very worried about David and Swift, their red fox, when they don't arrive home from a trip in ""Witch Way Out"". In fact, they have been captured by some trolls called Hool...

  • David to the Rescue

    3.David to the Rescue

    09-11-198523m

    David is called to Italy to treat a gnome girl. She had eaten a strawberry that had been sprayed with pesticide. The only plant that can cure her is the Shining Begonia. David trav...

  • The Baby Troll

    4.The Baby Troll

    16-11-198523m

    The episode starts with Lisa explaining about the clothes gnomes wear. She mentions that David is out helping two deer who have their antlers locked together. David has to saw thro...

  • Little Houses for Little People

    5.Little Houses for Little People

    23-11-198523m

    David explains how gnomes build their houses. The entrance of the house is under a tree, with an underground tunnel leading to another tree. Many other gnomes and animals help buil...

  • The Wedding That Almost Wasn't

    6.The Wedding That Almost Wasn't

    30-11-198523m

    It is wintertime in the forest, and David and Lisa are going to a friend's wedding. David explains that trolls love to ruin weddings, so the gnomes had already set up some clever t...

  • To Grandfather's House We Go

    7.To Grandfather's House We Go

    07-12-198523m

    David is expecting a visit from his granddaughter, Susan. In a deep part of the forest lives a real witch with her cat. Once the witch leaves for the day, her cat goes wandering in...

  • Ghost of Black Lake

    8.Ghost of Black Lake

    14-12-198523m

    This episode begins with David explaining how gnomes make glass. Then he is called to the palace, where the king tells him about a little wizard named Tiraland. The wizard stole al...

  • Kingdom Of The Elves

    9.Kingdom Of The Elves

    21-12-198523m

    The episode starts out with David telling how gnomes make pottery and candles. When he goes outside, another gnome tells him that a little deer has a barbed wire around his neck an...

  • The Magic Knife

    10.The Magic Knife

    28-12-198523m

    Lisa's sister, Julie, comes to visit, and she brings along a copy of a scalpel. Julie says the copy came from the Himalayas. David decides to journey there to find the original kni...

  • Young Dr. Gnome

    11.Young Dr. Gnome

    04-01-198623m

    David's nephew Jonathan is coming to visit. Jonathan is a city gnome and his parents want him to be a doctor, but he doesn't want to. On the way to David's house, Jonathan meets a...

  • Happy Birthday to You

    12.Happy Birthday to You

    11-01-198623m

    David tells about the childhood of gnomes, using his friend Harry and his family as an example. David tells about Harry's children, Billy and Belle, and the way children grow up. I...

  • The Siberian Bear

    13.The Siberian Bear

    18-01-198623m

    David is in his garden picking vegetables when he receives a telepathic message. The message is coming from the king of Siberia. David tells Lisa that they will be gone for a long...

  • Foxy Dilemma

    14.Foxy Dilemma

    25-01-198623m

    Susan goes to a sawmill with David, who explains how gnomes cut down dead trees to make furniture and birdhouses. Susan gets bored and goes for a ride on Swift with a little boy na...

  • Three Wishes

    15.Three Wishes

    01-02-198623m

    A poor woodsman saves Lisa after she is attacked by his cat. To express his generosity, David grants the woodsman three wishes, which do not go as planned. When David grants the wo...

  • Ivan the Terrible

    16.Ivan the Terrible

    08-02-198623m

    David and Lisa travel to Siberia where David is called upon by the gnome king. The king wants David to stop a mean gnome called Ivan, who is stealing furs from the human hunters an...

  • Rabbits, Rabbits Everywhere

    17.Rabbits, Rabbits Everywhere

    15-02-198623m

    David and Lisa journey to Holland to help some farmer gnomes. It is raining heavily, and there are dozens of rabbits trapped on a small island in the floodwater. The gnomes build r...

  • Any Milk Today

    18.Any Milk Today

    22-02-198623m

    David remembers a time when his children Lily and Harold were kids. Lisa realized the milkwoman had not delivered milk that day, and she knew something was wrong. David and Harold...

  • The Shadowless Stone

    19.The Shadowless Stone

    01-03-198623m

    David and Lisa are summoned to the palace of King Conrad. The king lives behind a waterfall and has a jester named Tim. King Conrad tells the gnomes he wants them to go to the isla...

  • Friends in Trouble

    20.Friends in Trouble

    08-03-198623m

    David and Lisa learn that a hunter is in the forest trapping birds. The man even caught David's friend, the flycatcher. While Lisa tries to feed the flycatcher's family, David ride...

  • Airlift

    21.Airlift

    15-03-198623m

    David meets up with his friend Cosmo, who says he is worried about the bats in the forest. Cosmo says the humans are poisoning the insects the bats eat, and many of them are starvi...

  • Big Bad Tom

    22.Big Bad Tom

    22-03-198623m

    David and Lisa go to a birthday party in a windmill for a David's nephew, Maxmilion, where the two cure the former's twin brother Paul's cold. The farm has three friendly cats and...

  • Kangaroo Adventure

    23.Kangaroo Adventure

    29-03-198623m

    Susan is staying with David and Lisa and finds a gnome xray in an old trunk. It is an xray of the Australian Prince Rex, who just happens to be coming to visit David that day. Davi...

  • The Careless Cub

    24.The Careless Cub

    05-04-198623m

    David and Lisa go for a walk in the forest and meet a wolf. The wolf tells David that his wife and one of his cubs ate meat that had been poisoned by a shepherd. The wife had died,...

  • The Gift

    25.The Gift

    12-04-198623m

    David goes to see an old friend of his, a human doctor named Walter. David wants to give Walter a pocketwatch that has been in the gnome family for generations. David tells Walter...

  • The Mountains of Beyond

    26.The Mountains of Beyond

    19-04-198623m

    David and his wife Lisa must go off into the mountains because their time on Earth is almost over. They know they will not live past 400 years old.

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