Created by Martin Miehe-Renard No. of seasons 4 Running time 25 mins Number of seasons 4 Program creator Martin Miehe-Renard | Country of origin Denmark No. of episodes 96 Network TV 2 Number of episodes 96 Cast Jesper Klein | |
Starring Jan Linnebjerg
Poul Hüttel
Christiane Bjørg Nielsen
Jesper Klein
Jeanne Boel
Steen Stig Lommer
Karen Gardelli
Henrik H. Lund
Søren Østergård
Niccié Jølst
Nicolé Jølst Genre Children's television series | ||
The series about Pyrus is a julekalender (eng. Christmas Calendar) series broadcast on the Danish television station TV2 at Christmas time in Denmark.
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The series is about Pyrus, a nisse or tomten, who lives under the National Archives of Denmark with other nisser named Kandis and Gyldengrød. Gyldengrød is the nissearchivist and Pyrus and Kandis are his two trainees. The human archivist is called Birger Bertramsen and he also has a trainee, his daughter Josefine Brahe. The julekalender is about the History of Denmark and the humans and the nisser both study Denmark's history, though in different ways. The nisser can conjure themselves into history books and gather information from the historical people inside the books.
The series contains four tales and one movie about Pyrus and his friend. The first, from 1994, was called Alletiders Jul, (Great Christmas) followed by Alletiders Nisse (Great Nisse), broadcast in 1995; Alleiders Julemand (Great Santa Claus), broadcast in 1997 Alletiders Eventyr (Great Fairytale), broadcast in 2000; and Pyrus på Pletten (Pyrus on Duty), premiered Christmas Eve 2000.
Alletiders Jul
Pyrus, a young, undisciplined and lazy nisse boy, is going to be Gyldengrød's trainee for a year in the National Archives of Denmark but Pyrus only cares about eating and sleeping. Gyldengrød, an old and very intelligent nisse, tries to get Pyrus a little more interested in the history of Denmark, but Pyrus finds it boring. In the human world archivist Bertramsen is met by his trainee Josefine Brahe the same day.One day Gyldengrød leaves Pyrus alone in the little cavern without taking his magical book with him. Pyrus gets curious and tries to do some magic, to make Gyldengrød proud. But Pyrus is unlucky and conjures an earthquake and in the ensuing wreckage finds a girl with amnesia. The next day, Gyldengrød finds out that the problem is much bigger than first thought because Christmas has disappeared. Nobody knows that Christmas has disappeared except Gyldengrød, Pyrus, Bertramsen and Josefine Brahe. Through 24 episodes Gyldengrød, Pyrus and the girl are searching for Christmas in the history of Denmark by using magic to interact in the history book, and Betramsen and Brahe is rediscovering and reintroducing Christmas by studying the history of Denmark. In the end they discover that the girl they found in the mess whom they named Freya actually is the Goddess of Christmas. Christmas is saved. On December 23, it gets revealed that Bertramsen and Josefine Brahe are father and daughter.
Alletiders Jul episodes were broadcast on TV2 in 1994 and again in 2004.
Alletiders Nisse
Pyrus has just got home from the nisse university and is planning on relaxing during his vacation. Unfortunately, Gyldengrød tells him that every nisse who's at university has to write a paper during their holiday. Pyrus's theme for his paper is "Hvad er en nisse?" (eng. What is a nisse?). Pyrus finds out he has to work with a classmate, the sweet and very clever nissegirl called Kandis, to complete the rask. Through the 24 episodes of the series, Pyrus and Kandis travel into fictional books, fairytales, fables, children's books and other literature to research their papers.
In the human world, the National Archives of Denmark is going to be torn down, and all the national history removed to EDP. An EDP-expert, Uffe Andersen, is going to digitize the entire collection. Bertramsen and Josefine try to convince the government not to tear down the Archives by proving something you can't prove by searching on the internet: nisser exist! Through the series, Bertramsen and Josephine read everything about nisser, but as nobody has ever seen a nisse before they can't prove their existence. But one day, without realizing it, Uffe Andersen locks Kandis inside a closet. The only way Pyrus and Gyldengrød can rescue Kandis is by contacting the humans, breaking nisser law by showing themselves to the humans. The humans prove that nisser exist, the archives don't get torn down, and everybody ends up happy.
"Alletiders Nisse" were broadcast on TV2 in 1995 and again in 2006.
Alletiders Julemand
Pyrus is unsatisfied with the fact that nisser do not get presents from Santa Claus at Christmas Time. He writes a letter for Santa Claus resulting in Santa Claus arriving at the National Archives of Denmark the next day. Without knowing the fact that Santa Claus is already there, Pyrus steals Gyldengrød's magic book and tries to bring Santa Claus to the Archives from a book about Santa Claus, resulting in a Santa Claus with amnesia. Christmas is in a big danger because if there's no Santa Claus, there are no Christmas presents, and if there are no Christmas presents, then there will be a very sad Christmas. Pyrus, Gyldengrød, Kandis, Bertramsen and Josefine are all together trying to rediscover the myth about Santa Claus while they teach Santa about himself in hope of he might turn in to Santa Claus again.
"Alletiders Julemand" were broadcast on TV2 in 1997 and again in 2007 and 2014.