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

  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
  9. Galileo Galilei
  10. Isaac Newton
  11. Comte de Buffon
  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
  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

  • Contributing co-producer