Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers

Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers
DVD box set cover art
FrenchIl était une fois... les Découvreurs
Created byAlbert Barillé
Voices of
  • Roger Carel
  • Olivier Destrez
  • Marie-Laure Beneston
  • Patrick Préjean
  • Sady Rebbot
Country of origin
List
  • France
  • Belgium
  • Finland
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
No. of episodes26
Production
Running time26 minutes
Production companies
List
Original release
NetworkCanal+
Release3 January (1994-01-03) –
5 September 1994 (1994-09-05)
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Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers (French: Il était une fois... les Découvreurs) is an educational animated television series created and directed by Albert Barillé. It is the fifth series in the Once Upon a Time... franchise.

The series was produced by French studio Procidis in co-production with FR3 and Canal+ (France), Televisión Española (TVE, Spain), Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunk (WDR and SWR, Germany), Reteitalia (Italy), Radio Télévision Suisse Romande and Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana (RTSR and RTSI, Switzerland), Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (RTBF, Belgium), Oy. Yleisradio Ab. (Yle, Finland), and the French Centre national de la cinématographie. The series premiered in France on Canal+, between 3 January and 5 September 1994, and it was subsequently broadcast on the channels of the rest of the broadcasters that participated in the production dubbed into their own language.

The series aired in the United States on the History Channel starting in April 1995.[1]

Episodes

  1. The Chinese, our Ancestors
  2. Archimedes and the Greek
  3. Hero of Alexandria
  4. The Measuring of Time
  5. Henry the Navigator and Cartography
  6. Johannes Gutenberg and Printing
  7. Leonardo da Vinci, a Jack-of-all-trades
  8. The Doctors (Paracelsus, Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Paré, etc.)
  9. Galileo Galilei
  10. Isaac Newton
  11. Comte de Buffon (Discovering the Past)
  12. Antoine Lavoisier and Chemistry
  13. George Stephenson, Full Steam Ahead!
  14. Michael Faraday and Electricity
  15. Charles Darwin and Evolution
  16. Gregor Mendel and Peas
  17. Louis Pasteur and Micro-organisms
  18. Thomas Edison and Applied Science
  19. Guglielmo Marconi and Sound Waves
  20. Henry Ford and the Adventure of Motorcar
  21. Aviation (Otto Lilienthal, Wright brothers, etc.)
  22. Marie Curie
  23. Albert Einstein
  24. Konrad Lorenz, Father of the Geese
  25. Neil Armstrong, the Moon and the Space
  26. Tomorrow?

Broadcast information

Country Television broadcasts
France France France 3 * Canal+ *
Canada Canada CBC Television, Télévision de Radio-Canada
Spain Spain Televisión Española (TVE) *
Germany Germany WDR *, SWF *
Austria Austria ORF
Italy Italy Italia 1 *, Cartoon Network
Greece Greece ERT Cine+
Indonesia Indonesia STOON (Indonesia) *, STOON I
Switzerland Switzerland TSR (French) *, RTSI (Italian) *
Belgium Belgium RTBF
Poland Poland Telewizja Polska (TVP), TV Puls
Portugal Portugal RTP
Sweden Sweden Sveriges Television (SVT)
Finland Finland Yle *
Hungary Hungary Magyar Televízió, Minimax, Da Vinci Learning
Republic of Ireland Republic of Ireland RTÉ
United States United States of America PBS
Iceland Iceland Sjónvarpið
Israel Israel Logi
Russia Russia Culture
Serbia Serbia RTS

* Contributing co-producer

See also

References

  1. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 596. ISBN 978-1476665993.


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