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Season 1 – Once Upon a Time: Man

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History lessons geared toward children.
Once Upon a Time: Man — Season 1

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Episode 1 Aired Mar 23, 1979 And the Earth Was Created Five thousand million years ago, Earth is racked by volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and lightning storms; as things begin to settle down, the sun reaches the ground and balance is established, marking the beginnings of the Earth as we know it. Details Episode 2 Aired Mar 30, 1979 Neanderthal Man A primitive man evolves into homo erectus, homo sapien and then Neanderthal man; he and his tribe, which includes about 20 individuals of both genders and various ages, are on the move, migrating to better areas. Details Episode 3 Aired Apr 6, 1979 Cro-Magnon Man In 35,000 B.C., a group of Homo sapiens, the Cro-Magnons, migrated; they are nomads and their tools are envied. Details Episode 4 Aired Apr 13, 1979 The Fertile Valleys In 7,000 B.C., in a Neolithic village, culture was invented; in 5,000 B.C., the Middle East grows. Details Episode 5 Aired Apr 20, 1979 The First Empires Mesopotamia; Hammurabi's code; Assyria; Babylon; Persia; Cyrus; Alexander the Great. Details Episode 6 Aired Apr 27, 1979 The Age of Pericles Athens reaches its cultural peak under Pericles; war with Sparta. Details Episode 7 Aired May 11, 1979 The Pax Romana Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon to rule Rome; he is assassinated. Details Episode 8 Aired May 18, 1979 The Conquest of Islam The Muslims conquer the aging Byzantine and Persian empires. Details Episode 9 Aired May 25, 1979 The Carolingians Attila the Hun; Clovis; Arab invaders; Charlemagne; Vikings. Details Episode 10 Aired Jun 1, 1979 The Vikings Vikings were feared warriors and great navigators who began raiding Europe in the eighth century; they were forced to look over the seas when their homelands and villages proved unable to sustain their growing population. Details Episode 11 Aired Jun 8, 1979 The Cathedral Builders Gothic cathedrals; feudalism; crusades; Barbarossa; Richard the Lion-Hearted. Details Episode 12 Aired Jun 15, 1979 The Travels of Marco Polo Genghis Khan and the Mongols; Marco Polo visits Kublai Khan. Details Episode 13 Aired Jun 22, 1979 The Hundred Years' War The Hundred Years' War; the Great Schism; Agincourt; Joan of Arc. Details Episode 14 Aired Sep 5, 1981 The Quattrocento Renaissance Florence; Medicis; Savonarola; Leonardo da Vinci. Details Episode 15 Aired Sep 12, 1981 The Golden Age of Spain Ferdinand and Isabella reconquer Spain; Columbus; Spanish Inquisition. Details Episode 16 Aired Sep 19, 1981 Elizabethan England In the middle of the 16th century, Queen Mary, daughter of Henry VIII, marries the crown prince of Spain, Philip II; "Bloody Mary," as she comes to be known, attempts to revive Catholicism in England. Details Episode 17 Aired Sep 26, 1981 The Golden Age of the Low Countries In 1533, all of the highly-valued Netherlands' provinces are part of the empire of Charles V. Details Episode 18 Aired Oct 1, 1981 The Great Reign of Louis XIV Louis XIV of France, the Sun King; Versailles; the Louvre. Details Episode 19 Aired Oct 8, 1981 Peter the Great and His Times Peter the Great westernizes Russia; St. Petersburg. Details Episode 20 Aired Oct 16, 1981 The Age of Reason The enlightenment defined the true character of humans by invoking reason and rational thinking. Details Episode 21 Aired Oct 22, 1981 America Colonial and revolutionary America. Details Episode 22 Aired Oct 29, 1981 The French Revolution The French Revolution; the Bastille; the Reign of Terror; Napoleon. Details Episode 23 Aired Nov 5, 1981 The Awakening of the People Industrialization; 1848 revolutions; independent Italy; united Germany; Bismarck. Details Episode 24 Aired Nov 12, 1981 The Belle Epoque (1900-1914) World War I; Russian Revolution. Details Episode 25 Aired Nov 19, 1981 The Crazy Years (Roaring Twenties) The development of aviation, the Roaring '20s, the Great Depression, and World War II. Details Episode 26 Aired Nov 26, 1981 The Earth and Tomorrow The Fifties; space travel; pollution; the future. Details

Season Info

Director
Albert Barillé
Network
History
Rating
TV-G
Genre
Kids & Family, Special Interest, History, Animation
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date
Mar 23, 1979