David to the Rescue

I use a picture from Will Huygen's book as the cover for this blog.

In the mid 1980s BRB Internacional aquired the rights to Will Huygen's gnomes and produced David the Gnome, the most important (for obvious reasons) cartoon of its era. First produced for Spanish television in 1985. It ran for 26 episodes, Nickelodeon acquired the syndicated rights and ran the show on the new Nick Jr network in 1987. It also ran on ABC, TLC, Discovery Kids, and Milkshake!

The main characters are David (obviously), a super old (399) doctor gnome. He has a family, a twin brother named Paul, and a best friend who is also a fox named Swift. The plot of show revolves around the patients David treats, defending himself and others from trolls, gnomes natural enemies, and going on treasure hunting adventures.

After two seasons, David the Gnome was followed up with a sequel spinoff called the Wisdom of the Gnomes, and a movie called The Gnomes Great Adventure.