Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers

Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers
DVD box set cover art

French	Il était une fois... les Découvreurs

Created by	Albert 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 episodes	26
Production
Running time	26 minutes
Production companies	List Procidis FR3 Canal+ Televisión Española Westdeutscher Rundfunk Südwestrundfunk Reteitalia Radio Télévision Suisse Romande Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française Oy. Yleisradio Ab. Centre national de la cinématographie
Original release
Network	Canal+
Release	3 January (1994-01-03) – 5 September 1994 (1994-09-05)
Related
Once Upon a Time... The Americas (1991) Once Upon a Time... The Explorers (1996)

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

The Chinese, our Ancestors
Archimedes and the Greek
Hero of Alexandria
The Measuring of Time
Henry the Navigator and Cartography
Johannes Gutenberg and Printing
Leonardo da Vinci, a Jack-of-all-trades
The Doctors (Paracelsus, Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Paré, etc.)
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Comte de Buffon (Discovering the Past)
Antoine Lavoisier and Chemistry
George Stephenson, Full Steam Ahead!
Michael Faraday and Electricity
Charles Darwin and Evolution
Gregor Mendel and Peas
Louis Pasteur and Micro-organisms
Thomas Edison and Applied Science
Guglielmo Marconi and Sound Waves
Henry Ford and the Adventure of Motorcar
Aviation (Otto Lilienthal, Wright brothers, etc.)
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Konrad Lorenz, Father of the Geese
Neil Armstrong, the Moon and the Space
Tomorrow?

Broadcast information

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

* Contributing co-producer

References

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