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.
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| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | And Earth Was Created... | 1979-03-23 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Neanderthal Man | 1979-03-30 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Cro-Magnon Man | 1979-04-06 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | The Fertile Valleys | 1979-04-13 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | The First Empires | 1979-04-20 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | The Age of Pericles | 1979-04-27 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | The Pax Romana | 1979-05-11 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | The Conquest of Islam | 1979-05-18 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | The Carolingians | 1979-05-25 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | The Age of Vikings | 1979-06-01 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | The Cathedral Builders | 1979-06-08 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | The Travels of Marco Polo | 1979-06-15 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | The Hundred Years' War | 1979-06-22 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | The Quattrocento | 1981-09-05 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | The Golden Age of Spain | 1981-09-12 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | Elizabethan England | 1981-09-19 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | The Golden Age of the Low Countries | 1981-09-26 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | The Great Reign of Louis XIV | 1981-10-01 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | Peter the Great and his Times | 1981-10-08 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | The Age of Reason (18th) | 1981-10-16 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | America | 1981-10-22 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | 1789–1814 (The French Revolution) | 1981-10-29 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | The Awakening of the People (Revolutions of 1848) | 1981-11-05 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | The Belle Epoque | 1981-11-12 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | The Crazy Years | 1981-11-19 | 30 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | Once Upon a Time... the Earth (and tomorrow?) | 1981-11-26 | 30 min |
| Art | René Borg | Art Direction |
| Sound | Michel Legrand | Original Music Composer |
