Once Upon a Time... Man (1978)
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.
Season 1 Episode List
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Episode 1 - And Earth was created...
Release Date: 1978-09-23 -
Episode 2 - Neanderthal Man
Release Date: 1978-09-30 -
Episode 3 - Cro-Magnon Man
Release Date: 1978-10-07 -
Episode 4 - The Fertile Valleys
Release Date: 1978-10-14 -
Episode 5 - The First Empires
Release Date: 1978-10-21 -
Episode 6 - The Age of Pericles
Release Date: 1978-10-28 -
Episode 7 - The Pax Romana
Release Date: 1978-11-04 -
Episode 8 - The Conquest of Islam
Release Date: 1978-11-11 -
Episode 9 - The Carolingians
Release Date: 1978-11-18 -
Episode 10 - The Age of Vikings
Release Date: 1978-11-25 -
Episode 11 - The Cathedral Builders
Release Date: 1978-12-02 -
Episode 12 - The Travels of Marco Polo
Release Date: 1978-12-09 -
Episode 13 - The Hundred Years' War
Release Date: 1978-12-16 -
Episode 14 - The Quattrocento
Release Date: 1978-12-23 -
Episode 15 - The Golden Age of Spain
Release Date: 1978-12-30 -
Episode 16 - Elizabethan England
Release Date: 1979-01-06 -
Episode 17 - The Golden Age of the Low Countries
Release Date: 1979-01-13 -
Episode 18 - The Great Reign of Louis XIV
Release Date: 1979-01-20 -
Episode 19 - Peter the Great and his Times
Release Date: 1979-01-27 -
Episode 20 - The Age of Reason (18th)
Release Date: 1979-02-03 -
Episode 21 - America
Release Date: 1979-03-03 -
Episode 22 - 1789–1814 (The French Revolution)
Release Date: 1979-03-10 -
Episode 23 - The Awakening of the People (Revolutions of 1848)
Release Date: 1979-03-17 -
Episode 24 - The Belle Epoque
Release Date: 1979-03-24 -
Episode 25 - The Crazy Years
Release Date: 1979-03-31 -
Episode 26 - Once Upon a Time... the Earth (and tomorrow?)
Release Date: 1979-04-07