Here is a question on the animated TV-series aired on Saturdays in the early 80s. I’m sure these cartoons were aired before the summer of 1983, thus the release date could be no later then 1983. I’ve attempted to find these on Saturday Morning TV Schedules of the 80s, but no luck whatsoever. Thought it might be ‘The Littles’, but the description and the outlines do not match. Also, ‘The Littles’ were released a little bit later.
The plot is somewhat the following:
A family moves into a new country house and at some point children discover that certain tiny little people (resembling elves or gnomes) are living next to them in the garden (or perhaps under the house). As I recall, each episode was a single story, however there was this general intrigue with some ‘snake people’ being mentioned repeatedly. The ‘gnomes’ believed ‘snake people’ to be their main frightful enemies.
At the end of the series (or the first season) children and ‘gnomes’ explore a network of underground caves, resembling the snakes’ opened mouths, and discover an old comic book about snake people. So it turns out that no snake people exist.
Sounds a bit like the borrowers?
It does sound like The Borrowers, but as far as I know (though I could be wrong) there was never an animated version of The Borrowers. It also sounds like The Littles (as you mentioned) but I don’t remember anything about snake people or a comic/book proving they never existed. Now, I’ll admit I haven’t watched an entire season, I’ve only seen episodes, but I did some googling and noting came up about that part either. Time wise, it could be The Littles because the first season aired in 1983. Is it possible you’re mixing two things together?
These ‘snake people’ (serpent people? snake men?) where like the pivotal point of the whole show… They were mentioned in almost all of the episodes and then there was this conclusion. This was truly an amazing cartoon somewhat similar to Over the Garden Wall. I am now wondering if that could be something dubbed… French or even Japanese!.. still I believe it was American.
I want to say David and the gnomes or something along them lines?
http://www.tv.com/m/shows/david-the-gnome/the-shadowless-stone-178308/
I’m pretty sure it’s the ABC Weekend Special “The Secret World of Og”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_World_of_Og
Wikipedia describes the story a bit and contains a link at the bottom to its IMDb page.
the search for the “snake people” here:
https://youtu.be/MwozAXixpko?t=3607
Seems like it is ‘The Secret World of Og’!
Thank you so much everyone!
Glad to help, avb! 🙂
Wow, nice one, jennagain!