Once Upon a Time... Man - Season 1
Once Upon a Time… Man is a French animated TV series from 1978 directed by Albert Barillé. It is the first in the Once Upon a Time... franchise. The series explains world history in a format designed for children. The action focuses around one group. The same familiar characters appear in all episodes as they deal with the problems of their time.
The series' opening and ending title sequences famously used Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor as the main title theme music. Shortening the piece to only 2 minutes in length, the introduction uses the very beginning, which jumps into the start of the middle section and finally the dramatic ending to coincide with the destruction of Earth at the end of the intro.
Year: 1979
Genre: Kids, Animation, Documentary, Family
Studio: France 3
Director: Albert Barillé
Cast: Roger Carel, Annie Balestra, Albert Barillé, Yves Barsacq, Claude Bertrand, Patrick Préjean
Crew: René Borg (Art Direction), Michel Legrand (Original Music Composer)
First Air Date: Sep 23, 1978
Last Air date: Apr 07, 1979
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 26 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 8.20/10 by 113.00 users
Popularity: 14.927
Language: French
Keyword : european history, world history
Season
Season 1
Episode
And Earth was created...
Neanderthal Man
Cro-Magnon Man
The Fertile Valleys
The First Empires
The Age of Pericles
The Pax Romana
The Conquest of Islam
The Carolingians
The Age of Vikings
The Cathedral Builders
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Hundred Years' War
The Quattrocento
The Golden Age of Spain
Elizabethan England
The Golden Age of the Low Countries
The Great Reign of Louis XIV
Peter the Great and his Times
The Age of Reason (18th)
America
1789–1814 (The French Revolution)
The Awakening of the People (Revolutions of 1848)
The Belle Epoque
The Crazy Years
Once Upon a Time... the Earth (and tomorrow?)