Once Upon a Time... Man
Once Upon a Time...Man () is a French animated TV series from 1978 directed by Albert Barillé. The series tells world history in a nutshell for children. The action focuses around one family. The same familiar characters reappear from episode to episode as they deal with the everyday problems of their time.
It was broadcast in Canada in both English and French versions. In 2005, the viewing of the program in an Inuit classroom in northern Quebec led to a controversy with the local school board, who, amid community opposition, initially banned the teaching of evolution in schools as a result. [1]
Characters
The series Once Upon a Time... Man demonstrated the history of the mankind from the point of view of gang / family / tribe that is always combined of similar recurring figures that represent typical different people:
- Maestro - The wise old guy. He usually serves as the head of the tribe, as a religious priest, as an adviser to the king and as an inventor. Maestro has a long white beard that cover all of his body. Sometimes he has tendencies to dissemination and sleepiness.
- Peter - The courageous and handsome young guy. He represents the image of the good person, Usually his development is being followed from his childhood to his adolescence.
- Jumbo - The obese young guy. Jumbo is the best friend of Peter. A quite large person, with red headed hair with great physical powers. At times he tends to be a little clumsy but he is very strong. Usually he defends Peter, Pierrette and Psi from the bad bullies.
- Psi - The good young girl. Dark haired woman, serves mostly as Peter's girlfriend, or as Peter's wife of.
- Pierrette - The good young woman. blond haired woman, serves mostly as Peter's mother, or as Jumbo's wife.
- The Pest - The big bully, friend of 'The Dwarf', large and strong bully that enjoys picking on others or attacking them. He is strong but Jumbo is stronger.
- The Dwarf - The little bully, friend of 'The Pest', weak and little bully but intriguer and shrewd. Has a malicious giggle.
- The Clock
Episodes
- 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 Époque" (1900 to 1914)
- The Crazy Years
- Once Upon a Time... the Earth (and tomorrow?)
Broadcast Information
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External links
- Web site for Procidis, the series' producer
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