''Wisdom of the Gnomes'' ( es, La llamada de los gnomos, literally "Call of the gnomes") is an animated series produced by Spanish company

BRB Internacional BRB Internacional S.A.U is a Spanish licensing and production company of animated television series as ''Around the World with Willy Fog'', '' Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'' and ''The World of David the Gnome''. On 31 January 2018, WildBrai ...

and

Televisión Española Televisión Española (acronym TVE, branded tve, "Spanish Television") is Spain's national state-owned public television broadcaster and the oldest regular television service in the country. It was also the first regular television service in ...

about Gnomes. It was a spin-off of the series ''

The World of David the Gnome ''The World of David the Gnome'', originally titled ''David, el Gnomo'' (also known as ''David, the Gnome''), is a Spanish animated television series based on the children's book '' The Secret Book of Gnomes'', by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and ...

''. It was based on the books '' The Secret Book of Gnomes'' by

Wil Huygen Wil (Willibrord Joseph) Huygen (23 June 1922 – 14 January 2009) was a Dutch book author. He is best known for the picture books on gnome A gnome is a mythological creature and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, firs ...

. Other sequels, both in serial and movie form, were ''The Great Adventure of the Gnomes'' (1995), ''The Gnomes in the Snow'' (1999) and ''The Fantastic Adventures of the Gnomes'' (2000).

Plot

In this series the protagonist is a gnome called Klaus, a judge (aka "wise man Klaus"), who travels with his assistant Danny on Henry the Swan, trying to solve disputes and lawsuits between animals peacefully and wisely. Like in ''

'', the

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also appear in this series. David himself appears in one episode. The penultimate episode features Wil Huygen and his wife, the only pair of humans in direct communication with Gnomes. Klaus and Danny complain to Huygen of "inaccuracies" in his book, though what these errors are is not made specific.

Cast

English dub crew

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- Adaptation * Richard Epcar - Adaptation * Melora Harte - Adaptation * Dave Mallow - Adaptation, Director *

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- Adaptation, Director

Episodes

# Klaus the Judge (27 September 1989) # Loch Ness (4 October 1989) # Trip to Canada (11 October 1989) # The Magic Carpet (18 October 1989) # The Chamois (25 October 1989) # Trip to Nepal (1 November 1989) # The Gold-Diggers (8 November 1989) # Adventure in the Arctic (15 November 1989) # The Discovery of Ithaca (22 November 1989) # The Carpathians (29 November 1989) # Trip to Venice (6 December 1989) # The Ballad of Gnomoshima (13 December 1989) # The Gnome-Olympics (20 December 1989) # Trip to Siberia (10 June 1993) # Andalusia (17 June 1993) # China (24 June 1993) # France (1 July 1993) # Hawaii (8 July 1993) # The Stolen Mirror (15 July 1993) # The Winter Race (22 July 1993) # Mystery in the Forest (29 July 1993) # The Gnomewegians (5 August 1993) # Argentina (12 August 1993) # Dany's Wedding (19 August 1993) # Holland (26 August 1993) # Goodbye Klaus (2 September 1993)

References

External links

* 1987 Spanish television series debuts 1988 Spanish television series endings 1980s Spanish television series 1980s animated television series Television shows based on children's books Spanish children's animated adventure television series RTVE shows ITV children's television shows Fictional gnomes Animated television series spinoffs {{spain-tv-prog-stub