Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers

Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers
Format Animated television series
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
Broadcast
Original channel France 3
Canal+
Original airing 1994
Chronology
Preceded by Once Upon a Time... The Americas (1991)
Followed by Once Upon a Time... The Explorers (1996)

Il était une fois... les Découvreurs (English: Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers) was a French animated TV series from 1994. Directed by Albert Barillé.

Contents

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. Gutenberg and Printing
  7. Leonardo da Vinci, a Jack-of-all trades
  8. The Doctors (Paracelsus, Andreas Vesalius, Ambroise Paré, etc.)
  9. Galileo Galilei
  10. Isaac Newton
  11. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (Discovering the Past)
  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 (Otto Lilienthal, Wright brothers, etc.)
  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

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 *
Switzerland TSR (French) *, RTSI (Italian) *
Belgium RTBF
Poland Telewizja Polska (TVP), TV Puls
Portugal RTP
Sweden Sveriges Television (SVT)
Finland Yleisradio (YLE) *
Hungary Magyar Televízió, Minimax, Da Vinci Learning
Republic of Ireland RTÉ
United Kingdom Channel 4
Iceland Sjónvarpið (RÚV)
Israel Channel 6
Russia Culture

* Contributing co-producer

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