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{{short description|Spanish animated series}}

{{Notability|Television|date=January 2021}}

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| creator = [[Claudio Biern Boyd]]

| director = Luis Ballester

| voices = Félix Acaso<br>Manuel Peiró<br>Cristina Victoria<br>Paco Hernández<br>Manuel Peiró<br>Ángel Egido<br>José Moratalia

| narrated = Teófilo Martínez

| opentheme = "Wisdom of the Gnomes"

| endtheme = "Little Planet"

| composer = Óscar Gómez

| country = Spain

| language = Spanish

| num_series = 1

| num_episodes = 26<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-09-21 |title=LA LLAMADA DE LOS GNOMOS {{!}} BRB Internacional |url=http://brb.es/es/producciones/series-de-animacion/la-llamada-de-los-gnomos |access-date=2022-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921031249/http://brb.es/es/producciones/series-de-animacion/la-llamada-de-los-gnomos |archive-date=2011-09-21 }}</ref>

| producer = José Luis Rodríguez<br>José Manuel Iglesias

| runtime = 23 minutes (approx.)

| company = [[BRB Internacional]]<br>[[Televisión Española]]

| network = {{Plainlist|

* [[La 1 (Spanish TV channel)|TVE1]] (Spain)

* [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] (UK)

| first_aired = {{Start date|1987|10|04}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1988|12|26}}

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}}'''''Wisdom of the Gnomes''''' ({{lang-es|La llamada de los gnomos}}, literally "Call of the gnomes") is an animated series produced by Spanish company [[BRB Internacional]] and [[Televisión Española]] about Gnomes. It was a spin-off of the series ''[[The World of David the Gnome]]''. It was based on the books ''[[The Secret Book of Gnomes]]'' by [[Wil Huygen]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-19 |title=ABC MADRID 04-10-1987 página 142 - Archivo ABC |url=https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-madrid-19871004-142.html |access-date=2022-06-20 |website=abc}}</ref>

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 World of David the Gnome]]'', the [[trolls]] also appear in this series. David himself appears in the final episode (albeit voiced by a different actor).

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 ==

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!Character

!Spanish

!English

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!Klaus

|Félix Acaso

|[[Doug Stone (voice actor)|Mathew Stone]]

|-

!Dany

|Manuel Peiró

|[[Ardwight Chamberlain|R. Dwight]]

|-

!Bruna

|Cristina Victoria

|[[Wendee Lee|Wendee Swann]]

|-

!Holler

|Paco Hernández

|[[Steve Kramer (actor)|Drew Thomas]]

|-

!Pit

|José Moratalia

|[[Dave Mallow|Colin Phillips]]

|-

!Pat

|Manuel Peiró

|[[Michael Sorich|Mickey Godzilla]]

|-

!Pot

|Ángel Egido

|[[Kerrigan Mahan|Ryan O'Flannigan]]

|-

!Narrator

|Teófilo Martínez

|[[Michael McConnohie|Jeffrey Platt]]

|}

=== English dub crew ===

* [[Robert Axelrod (actor)|Robert Axelrod]] - Adaptation

* [[Richard Epcar]] - Adaptation

* [[Melora Harte]] - Adaptation

* [[Dave Mallow]] - Adaptation, Director

* [[Doug Stone (voice actor)|Doug Stone]] - 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==

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* {{IMDb title|0476099}}

{{BRB Internacional}}

{{Televisión Española original series}}

{{The Secret Book of Gnomes}}

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[[Category:1987 Spanish television series debuts]]

[[Category:1988 Spanish television series endings]]

[[Category:1980s Spanish television series]]

[[Category:1980s animated television series]]

[[Category:Television shows based on children's books]]

[[Category:Spanish children's animated adventure television series]]

[[Category:RTVE shows]]

[[Category:ITV children's television shows]]

[[Category:Fictional gnomes]]

[[Category:Animated television series spinoffs]]

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