Just got this on dvd. Loving it. I used to watch it as a kid but all I could remember was the theme. Now I remember why I used to watch it all the time.

I MISS THIS SHOW SO MUCH!! MY MAMAW USED TO WATCH IT WITH ME!LOL!

My brother in law has a book on gnomes and they're drawn just like they were in the cartoon. Also, there needs to be a retro channel on TV that plays David the gnome and other classics. The modern drivel my nieces watch makes you wanna hit yourself in the head with a tack hammer.

Hello the data on this show is wrong, this show was created by Claudio Biern Boyd for spanish channel TVE,
and aired in 1985, so country of origin of this show is Spain. imdb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283721/

OMG! i wish this show still came on i miss it so much

I was browsing through the list & when I saw this show I thought it sounded familiar so I clicked on it. As I was watching the theme I realized I actually knew some of the words & sang along! haha. I haven't even thought of this show in years. It's so weird what your brain stores that you don't even realize. This is the best website ever. I can't believe I'm just now finding it. I have alot of lost time to make up.

I so miss this Nick lineup that aired. It was Eureka's Castle, Little Koala, David the Gnome and Mya...Mya the Bee. (Not in order). This was the good days of real cartoons. Todays cartoons are not the same. Please tell me where I can get dvds of these cartoons for my kids one day. Thanks for this website, too!!!

you can find the dvd series at freewebs.com/stuffilike

the person who does this loves great retro cartoons

The final episode of this show made me cry so hard. and it still makes me shead a tear.

omg this show was the greatest show i ever seen!

I remember watching this back in the 80's, along with the adventures of little koala and maya the bee. I miss those times.

I really loved this show... Oh, what a memories ;D

This show is the best cartoon they ever ran on Nickelodeon! I remember so well, my aunt even has episodes recorded on VHS tapes. I wish there was some way to get this show either back on air or for a DVD box set to be made! This is a great show for kids and the parents who have to watch cartoons daily! =)

I am 21 and I remember this show very well.It was my Fav and i miss it.I have 2 kids now and could only hope that it would come back on or someone would make shows like this now days.

I know this is said, but I even had the book of the Gnomes collection book thingies. Each week you collect a new Gnome and the books made a picture when you put the all together. I thought it rocked!

I didn't grow up with this show, but I watched some of it on Youtube... and thought it was the best show ever. It had a fox (foxes are awesome), and it was about animals and nature, which interests me. I pretty much want to see all the other old school Nick Jr cartoons like Little Prince and Littl' Bits, 'cause old school cartoons are awesome

Yeah I remembered this show. I have only vague memories of it, but I will always remember Swift. I liked him a lot.

Then again, foxes make anything cool.

Tom Bosley's voice was just so soothing, this was definitly a great pre-nap show

The animated series David the Gnome is spanish. Not american.

i use to watch this show everyday during the week. I remember my aunt had coffee mugs where the handles look just like the gnomes. I really liked the animals in the show and how they always helped the gnomes against the trolls.

wow i used ta love this program as a kid. id forgotton that it even existed. lol

This show brings back some memories of my and my brothers kicked back when it was on...munching out on cereal out of the box. Those were the days!

this was really the only cartoon that my mom would watch with me. and i loved every minute of an episode. god this needs a dvd release!

my mom says she loved this show when I was a kid but for the life of me I can't remember anything about it!

I cried and cried for a couple of days when David the Gnome died! What a way to end the series! But still - OMG what a beautiful wonderful show!

my mom just hummed the whole theme song haha. i was obsessed with this when i was little- my dad taped like alll the episodes for me lol

I used to love watching this as a kid

My mum continue to tell me how good this was but I don't remember it!

i like this song but there was a spin off cartoon called Wisdom of the Gnomes, the outro/credit song for that cartoon i think is better... u may not think so, but if only you heard it when growing up, u would agree. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_1IL3HAf9U

man, Nick had some amazing cartoons!

i cried when i saw the last episode when david and lisa let swift go and then they turned into trees. it kinda ruined my day.

Here is the outro to David the Gnome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVVDdM56I8g&feature=related

i loved the theme song...

I can hear the theme song! I know we are older now droopy, but it was a BEAR trap...not a BEER trap! LOL...but if we were watching it today....who knows! LOL!

oh man, i loved this show i watched it on nick when i was about 4 or 5 with my dad.
and Eurekas castle

Wow, I actually teared watching this. How I miss my childhood.

his foxes name was swift and he found it caught in a beer trap

i spent most of my child hood n an out of hospital'z an let me tell u the only way i cant get ajusted every time i went n waz this show..haaa !!,. if this show didnt com on or i didnt get the channel..there waz a problem

LMAO, You know...I actaully liked this show! I'm smiling from ear to ear.

Aww! This was one of my favorites as a kid! I couldn't remember what it was called though but I definitely recognize the intro songs and the fox!

I'd love to find a set of these episodes.

I have seen it being sold but they are probably shoddy bootlegs I don't think they have officially released it

I remember this tv show! Does anyone know how i can buy this on vhs or dvd?

This makes me very VERY happy to see... haven't seen this show since I was WEEEE LITTLE.

Sailor Moon Girl, sometimes, people get on here, and they mess with other people.

I almost peed my pants when I saw this show up on here.

wtf dude they weren't even old enough to do voices for cartoons

Whoa, I haven't heard that since I was five, ( back in 1992 ). Brings back memories, when life was good, TV shows were awsome.

You know this is one of the greatest cartoon series of the 80's. There were some real lessons and the voice actors were top notch! I loved David the Gnome!

jeez I han't seen this show since I was like 4 years old! awww!!

In case people didn't know, you CAN get World of David the Gnome on DVD set these days, among with other classic series such as Dogtanian etc. Buy it, show it to your kids, watch them yourself...it's worth it! I did

The Olsen twin and Kirstie Alley were not in this show, someone needs to fix the cast page.

You know what sucks... this site brings all us oldschoolers togather... but it makes us so sad cause we cant go back in time and injoy what we had you know? This song reminds me so much of when i was a young tyke.

I remember watching this cartoon on Nickelodeon. Brings back alot of memories!

aw man i want to get it on dvd now i loved it

I really don't remember much about this show. Since Mary- Kate and Ashley were doing voices they must have been doing baby babble or something considering that when this show started they were only one.

This show was awesome...I use to watch this show alot the theme got me teary eyed..

It made me want to cry too! I honestly thought that I had dreamed this show and that it didn't really exist until I came here and the memories started flooding back, now I can't believe I almost forgot it! None of my friends seemed to remember it. Thank god for this site.

This theme song just brought back memories. Every time hear it, it makes me wanna cry.

The narrator of this show was also the narrator on Madeline, too.

The World Of David The Gnome was a very good cartoon. It is a shame it did not last longer. If I found it in a box set, I would buy it imediatly!

Oh my god, every hair on the back of my neck is standing up. I never thought I'd see this again. Now I got that damn theme song stuck in my head.

What's Good Medicine?

The guy who sings this intro sings it strangely.

I love that friggin' theme song.

This show actually respects Foxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!! I love foxes!!!!!!!!

I remember eating this show up as a kid, but now that I go back and watch it... Ah well, yay for David shaping my childhood!

I remeber this show It was a big part of my childhood. I remember how the trolls turned to stone in sunlight. I also remember when he helped a human out by giving him some gold but it turns all wrong.

David the Gnome was a great childrens program. I hope they'll bring David the Gnome to DVD.

when i was little i always wanted to be the fox. he kicked @$$!

yes david is a classic i think we should intro this to the new kids in this generation.

I miss this show. I wish Nick Jr. could cancel Dora and put David back on.

this show rocked it was so good and like crazy my favorite character was always the fox the trolls scared me alot ..

I remember fighting with my cousin to watch this show; he hated it, I loved it!

What the Hell?! Is that how the show ended?! That sucks!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW! Swift was the name of the fox - I loved him.

It's funny my sister and I were JUST talking about this show a couple weeks ago.

The TROLLS who would give David grief, they were cool to! I remember in one episode one of the trolls got caught in the sun light and turned too stone. That scared the piss outta me! *Sigh* Good times.
TROLLS AND WIZARDS AND FAIRY KINGS.
BIRDS THAT TALK AND FISH THAT SING.
AND IF YOUR HEART IS TRUE, THEN YOU WILL FIND THEM TO!

AWW DUDE! This cartoon was the shiznit! I remember how Dave would ride on top a fox! Swift I think his name was? COOL BEANS!

David is the best gnome in the whole world! he's the reason i've always loved lawn gnomes cuz they remind me of back in the day! I remember him and his wife did that nose thing ...it was cute! I d/l one of the episodes and felt like a kid again!

I thought it was produced in France/Italie (indeed by BRB International, but also CINAR and Miramax Films). The story is based on the dutch book by Rien Poortvliet and Wil Huygen. The original name was "Le Monde de David le Gnome", obviously, it's been translated to about every conceivable language. >_>

See here for details in dutch :p
http://users.skynet.be/Timo/jeugdsentiment/tekenfilm/david_de_kabouter.htm

Hi, I'm new to the site. I have a comment to post about this show. It is not from the US, as you say. I is from Spain, where it was first released in 1985 (IMDb), when I was 11 (yes, besides being Spanish, I am that old). Funny thing, my best friend ended up working for BRB, the company that created it (which, by the way, hasn't produced any good show since the 80's).
Willy Fog travels around the world is also a Spanish show, from 1981.
And... yes, it IS a great show!!

were Pot, Pan, and...Lid? the trolls names?...I remember the theme still and some episodes...like the one where the twow deer were fighting over a doe and thier hornes locked and Dave had to saw em apart...or when the wedding was crashed because the trolls tried to fumigate the tree they held it under. Or when Lisa and Davids niece ventured too far and ate a berry that poisoned her. Man...great show...didnt like the courtroom show it spun off of though....and Swift rules!

This show rocked and I'm really glad to meet some people who thought it kicked as much ass as I do. They just don't make'm like they used to.

GNOME KISSES ALL AROUND!!

this was my favorite show on nick! the only part i didnt like was the trolls because they were mean and ugly and didnt look anything like the toy trolls
BRING DAVID BACK!

This stopped airing in 1998?!? Woah...I thought it was probably like 95 or 96 because I don't remember this show much past when I was younger. We used to watch this at school back in the day.

I thick there is something wrong here because that tv show is made in spain, not US, for further information visit the website of the creators, http://www.brb.es

Btw, there is a continuation of that tv show called "the call of the gnomes"

Ah, a quality show! I almost forgot it existed till I saw it listed on Retro Junk a while ago. I remember the scene artwork being of high quality like several older cartoons (Tom and Jerry, Looney Toons, etc.). As you mentioned above, storylines that could melt a Satan worshiper's heart!

This was a great series. Based on short stories, it only released 26 episodes. I loved this as a child, with swift the fox and lessons on how they made things. It’s a series that truly deserves to be re-released. I looked for a dvd release note…none found. Not even a petition. Though, Ebay uses are getting ride of VHS versions.

I remember the fox, his name was swift!!!