Once Upon a Time... Man Season 1 Episode 12 The Travels of Marco Polo 1978
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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.
- Released: 1978-12-09
- Runtime: 26 minutes
- Genre: Kids, Animation, Documentary, Family
- Stars: Roger Carel, Annie Balestra, Albert Barillé, Yves Barsacq, Claude Bertrand
- Director: René Borg, Michel Legrand
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1. And Earth was created... 1978-09-23
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2. Neanderthal Man 1978-09-30
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3. Cro-Magnon Man 1978-10-07
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4. The Fertile Valleys 1978-10-14
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5. The First Empires 1978-10-21
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6. The Age of Pericles 1978-10-28
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7. The Pax Romana 1978-11-04
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8. The Conquest of Islam 1978-11-11
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9. The Carolingians 1978-11-18
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10. The Age of Vikings 1978-11-25
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11. The Cathedral Builders 1978-12-02
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12. The Travels of Marco Polo 1978-12-09
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13. The Hundred Years' War 1978-12-16
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14. The Quattrocento 1978-12-23
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15. The Golden Age of Spain 1978-12-30
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16. Elizabethan England 1979-01-06
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17. The Golden Age of the Low Countries 1979-01-13
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18. The Great Reign of Louis XIV 1979-01-20
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19. Peter the Great and his Times 1979-01-27
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20. The Age of Reason (18th) 1979-02-03
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21. America 1979-03-03
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22. 1789–1814 (The French Revolution) 1979-03-10
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24. The Belle Epoque 1979-03-24
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25. The Crazy Years 1979-03-31
