Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers (French: Il était une fois... les Découvreurs) 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 FR3 and Canal+ (France), Televisión Española (TVE, Spain), Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunk (WDR and SWR, Germany), Reteitalia (Italy), Radio Télévision Suisse Romande and Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana (RTSR and RTSI, Switzerland), Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (RTBF, Belgium), Oy. Yleisradio Ab. (Yle, Finland), and the French Centre national de la cinématographie. 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.
Contents
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
* Contributing co-producer