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| Runtime: | 26 minutes | ||
| Creator: | Albert Barillé | ||
| Network: | Canal+ | ||
| Num Episodes: | 26 |
Once Upon a Time... The Explorers (fr|Il était une fois... les Explorateurs|link=no) is an educational animated television series created and directed by Albert Barillé. It is the sixth 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, German: [[Südwestrundfunk]]|i=no, and German: [[Sender Freies Berlin]]|i=no (WDR, SWR, and SFB, Germany), Mediaset (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), 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+, beginning on 10 December 1996, and it was subsequently broadcast on the channels of the rest of the broadcasters that participated in the production dubbed into their own language.