Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers

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.

FrenchIl était une fois... les Découvreurs

Created byAlbert Barillé

Voices of

• Roger Carel
• Olivier Destrez
• Marie-Laure Beneston
• Patrick Préjean
• Sady Rebbot

Country of origin

List

• France
• Belgium
• Finland
• Germany
• Italy
• Spain
• Switzerland

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Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers
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French	Il était une fois... les Découvreurs
Created by	Albert Barillé
Voices of	Roger Carel Olivier Destrez Marie-Laure Beneston Patrick Préjean Sady Rebbot
Country of origin	List France Belgium Finland Germany Italy Spain Switzerland
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	26 minutes
Production companies	List Procidis FR3 Canal+ Televisión Española Westdeutscher Rundfunk Südwestrundfunk Reteitalia Radio Télévision Suisse Romande Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française Oy. Yleisradio Ab. Centre national de la cinématographie
Original release
Network	Canal+
Release	3 January (1994-01-03) – 5 September 1994 (1994-09-05)
Related
Once Upon a Time... The Americas (1991) Once Upon a Time... The Explorers (1996)

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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.^[1]