Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers

*Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers*
Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers
Created by	Albert Barillé
Developed by	Procidis
Voices of	Roger Carel; Olivier Destrez; Marie-Laure Beneston; Patrick Préjean; Sady Rebbot
Country of origin	France
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	26 minutes
Original release
Network	France 3; Canal+
Release	1994
Related
	Once Upon a Time... The Americas (1991); Once Upon a Time... The Explorers (1996);

Il était une fois... les Découvreurs (English, Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers) is a French animated TV series from 1994, as part of the Once Upon a Time... franchise. It was directed by Albert Barillé. The show aired in the United States on the History Channel starting in April 1995.^[1]

Episodes[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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