Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers explained

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Runtime:

26 minutes

Creator:

Albert Barillé

Network:

Canal+

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Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers (fr|Il était une fois... les Découvreurs|link=no) 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 French: [[France 3|FR3]]|i=no and Canal+ (France), Spanish; Castilian: [[Televisión Española]]|i=no (TVE, Spain), German: [[Westdeutscher Rundfunk]]|i=no and German: [[Südwestrundfunk]]|i=no (WDR and SWR, Germany), Italian: Reteitalia|i=no (Italy), French: [[Radio Télévision Suisse|Radio Télévision Suisse Romande]]|i=no and Italian: [[Radiotelevisione svizzera|Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana]]|i=no (RTSR and RTSI, Switzerland), French: [[RTBF|Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française]]|i=no (RTBF, Belgium), Finnish: [[Yle|Oy. Yleisradio Ab.]]|i=no (Yle, Finland), and the French French: [[Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée|Centre national de la cinématographie]]|i=no. 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
Poland	Telewizja Polska (TVP), TV Puls
Portugal	RTP
Sweden	Sveriges Television (SVT)
Finland	Yle *
Hungary
Republic of Ireland
United States of America	PBS
Iceland	Sjónvarpið
Israel	Logi
Russia	Culture
Serbia	RTS