The Triplets

Vincent Van Gogh is a scatterbrained Dutch artist living in the south of France, where he spends his time painting sunflowers. The day the Triplets meet him he is especially happy because he has just learned that his friend, the great painter, Paul Gauguin, is coming to visit him. While the two painters wait for the rain to stop so that they can go outdoors and paint, they do portraits of the Triplets and of each other. But they wind up getting into an argument and Gauguin storms out of Van Gogh’s house in a huff.

Thanks to the Bored Witch, the Triplets help an eccentric professor win a strange contest which is to have an influence on the history of the printing press. Starting out in Egypt, and with one adventure following another, the three girls finally find themselves at the home of Professor Gutenberg. They do everything in their powers so that he, rather than the cheating Mr. Bisnes, finally wins the grand prize.

The Triplets find themselves in a palace where no one is allowed to laugh until the sad Princess Amalia laughs. Her father, the king, declares that he will give her hand in marriage to whomever is able to make her laugh, and he begins to receive the various suitors. Thanks to the three girls, a man named Pessoa manages to get hold of the Magical Bagpipe, the only thing capable of making the princess laugh and, at the same time, foils the plans of Amalia’s evil cousin who wants to marry her and become the king’s successor.

Anna, Teresa and Helena find themselves in Menorca. But since the Witch sent them into a story in the past, they come across pirates there, instead of tourists! The Triplets meet Catalina and they manage to explain to her the truth about the mysterious Xuroi: everyone is after him because they say he is a robber, but in fact he’s an Arab prince who had been fleeing from the nasty Agutzil and his pirates.

The Bored Witch sends the Triplets to 18th-century England where the Industrial Revolution has come to a standstill thanks to James Watt, who still hasn’t managed to invent a machine. One fine day, however, as he watches a tea kettle boiling on the stove, Watt has a brilliant idea. And that’s how the Triplets become firsthand witnesses to a great discovery: the steam engine!

Velazquez is a great painter, but because all of his portraits of King Phillip IV show His Majesty grimacing, the king becomes irritated and forbids Velazquez to paint any more portraits of him. He does, however, commission the painter to do a portrait of his daughter. Velazquez decides to do a painting in which the king discretely appears. The painting is titled “Las Meninas” (The Maids of Honor). The Triplets watch him at work and…they, too, may appear in the painting!

Years and years ago there was a little village living in terror of a big bully who did whatever he wanted to whenever he wanted to, just because he was bigger and taller than all the rest of the villagers. But the day that the Bored Witch sends the Triplets to that village, his luck changes: thanks to the girls, a brave little tailor is able to confront the village bully.

Beauty is a lovely young girl who lives with her father in the country. One day her father gives his daughter a gift of a flower, not knowing that the flower is from the garden of a terrible beast who becomes infuriated with the father and insists he repay his misdeed by working as the beast’s servant. But with the Triplets’ help, Beauty ends up substituting for her father at the beast’s mansion where she manages to bring about great changes.

William Tell is the bravest and best marksman in Switzerland. The Triplets meet him and his son, Gualteri, and they look on helplessly as an evil knight, named Gessler, takes Tell’s son prisoner. In order to free his son, William Tell must shoot an arrow into an apple set on Gualteri’s head. The Triplets do their best to help him out, but….will he be able to do it?

The Bored Witch sends the Triplets to a fishing schooner. There, Manuel, a fisherman on the boat goes to the rescue of Harvey, a boy who has fallen overboard from a passing ocean liner. The young boy demands to be taken to shore, but that can’t be, as the fishing season lasts for three more months. Harvey gets angry but, thanks to the efforts of the girls and Manuel, he finally becomes convinced that the seafaring life is a good one and, more importantly, he learns the value of friendship.

The Triplets find themselves in Africa where, with the help of a little magic and witchcraft they help Zelia, a gazelle, turn back into the woman she once was and they lend a hand in recovering her village’s hidden treasures. The evil witch who had hidden the treasures is forced to flee, and when he does, Zeilia’s village becomes, once again, the prosperous town it had been in the past.

The Triplets meet a prince whose father has arranged for him to marry a princess he doesn’t love. The girls do everything they can to see that he falls in love with the Little Mermaid. The Witch of the Sea gives them a magic potion allowing the Little Mermaid to shed her tail and turn into a young woman. But in exchange for that, she loses her voice. So, when the prince falls in love with another young woman, whom he has mistaken for his true love, the Little Mermaid can’t do anything to clarify the situation. The Witch of the Sea offers her a solution which poses the Little Mermaid with a terrible dilemma.