Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers
Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers 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 France 3 and Canal+, Televisión Española, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunk, Reteitalia, Radio Télévision Suisse and Radiotelevisione svizzera, RTBF, Yle, and the French Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée. 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.
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
- Galileo Galilei
- Isaac Newton
- Comte de Buffon
- 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
- Marie Curie
- Albert Einstein
- Konrad Lorenz, Father of the Geese
- Neil Armstrong, the Moon and the Space
- Tomorrow?
Broadcast information
- Contributing co-producer