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Once Upon a Time... The Explorers

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Once Upon a Time... The Explorers
DVD box set cover art
FrenchIl était une fois... les Explorateurs
Created byAlbert Barillé
Voices of
Country of origin
List
  • France
  • Belgium
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
No. of episodes26
Production
Running time26 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkCanal+
Release10 December 1996 (1996-12-10) –
1997 (1997)
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Once Upon a Time... The Explorers (French: Il était une fois... les Explorateurs) 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 FR3 and Canal+ (France), Televisión Española (TVE, Spain), Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Südwestrundfunk, and Sender Freies Berlin (WDR, SWR, and SFB, Germany), Mediaset (Italy), Radio Télévision Suisse Romande and Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana (RTSR and RTSI, Switzerland), Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (RTBF, Belgium), and the French Centre national de la cinématographie. 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.

Episodes

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  1. The First Navigators
  2. Alexander the Great
  3. Erik the Red and the Discovery of America
  4. Genghis Khan
  5. Ibn Battuta (in Marco Polo's footsteps)
  6. The Great Junks
  7. Vasco da Gama
  8. The Taxis and the first Postal System
  9. The Pinzon Brothers (The Hidden Side of Christopher Columbus)
  10. Amerigo Vespucci
  11. Ferdinand Magellan and Elcano
  12. Cabeza de Vaca
  13. Vitus Bering
  14. Louis Antoine de Bougainville and the Pacifique
  15. Bruce and the Nile
  16. Charles Marie de La Condamine
  17. James Cook
  18. Alexander von Humboldt
  19. Lewis and Clark Expedition
  20. Stuart & Burke and Australia
  21. Stanley & Livingstone
  22. Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott and the South Pole
  23. Alexandra David-Néel in Tibet
  24. Piccard from the Mountain Tops to the Depth of the Sea
  25. Up to the Peaks
  26. Up to the Stars

See also

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