Once Upon a Time... Space

Once Upon a Time… Space
Format	Animated television series
Created by	Albert Barillé
Developed by	Procidis
Voices of	Roger Carel Annie Balestra Vincent Ropion Alain Dorval
Composer(s)	Michel Legrand
Country of origin	France
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	26 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	FR3
Picture format	SECAM (576i)
Original airing	1982
Chronology
Preceded by	Once Upon a Time… Man (1978)
Followed by	Once Upon a Time… Life (1987)
External links
Production website

Once Upon a Time… Space (French: Il était une fois… l'Espace) was a French animated TV series from 1982, directed by Albert Barillé.

Synopsis

Once Upon a Time... Space differs from the rest of the Once Upon a Time titles in the sense that the series revolve on a dramatic content rather than an educational premise. The series still has a handful of educational information (such as an episode discussing the rings of the planet Saturn).

The series succeeds Once Upon a Time... Man. It reprises almost the entire totality of the characters of the previous series and adapts them into a science-fiction context.

The story tells about the confrontation of many big galactic powers. Among them there is the Omega Confederation, of which Earth is a member of; the military republic of Cassiopeia led by the general The Pest; and a powerful supercomputer which controls an army of robots. A group of super powerful creatures called the Humanoids later appear in the series. Once Upon a Time... Space features the adventures of Peter (son of colonel Pierre and president Pierrette) and his friend Psi.

Characters

• Colonel Pierre … Roger Carel
• President Pierrette … Annie Balestra
• Lieutenant/Captain Peter … Vincent Ropion
• Psi (Mercedes) … Annie Balestra
• Positronic brain android Métro … Roger Carel
• Commander Jumbo … Alain Dorval
• Petit Gros
• Grand Ordinateur
• Professor Maestro … Roger Carel
• 20th century Maestro
• General The Pest … Alain Dorval
• The Dwarf … Roger Carel

Spacecraft

The French illustrator Philippe Bouchet (better known as Manchu) worked on some of the spacecraft and set designs.

Omega Confederation:

• Flea
• Hummingbird
• Spider
• Dragonfly
• Omega Cruiser
• Omega Shuttle
• Cosmopolitan

Cassiopeia:

• Nautilus
• Murene
• Battle cruiser

Earth:

• Ursus

Episodes

1. The Planet Omega
2. The Saurians
3. The Green Planet
4. Towards Andromeda
5. The Cro-Magnons
6. The Revolt of the Robots
7. The Planet Mytho
8. The Long Voyage
9. In Cassiopea
10. A Planet Blown to Pieces
11. Shipwrecked in Space
12. The Giants
13. The Incas
14. In the Land of the Dinosaurs
15. The Rings of Saturn
16. The Unstoppable Menace
17. Earth
18. Atlantis
19. The Strange Return to Omega
20. The Revenge of the Robots
21. The Humanoids
22. An Hostile World
23. City in Flight
24. The Great Computer
25. The Battle of the Titans
26. The Infinity of Space

Broadcast Information

Country	Television broadcasts
France	FR3 **
Finland	MTV3
Australia	SBS
Canada	CBC Television, Télévision de Radio-Canada **
Italy	RAI **
Greece	ERT
Spain	Televisión Española (TVE) **
Netherlands	Katholieke Radio Omroep (KRO) **
Switzerland	SSR (French)
Belgium	RTBF, BRT
Argentina	Crustel S.A. */**
Japan	Eiken Co. Ltd. */**
Norway	NRK, Norsk Rikskringkasting
West Germany	WDR, SWF
Austria	ORF
Sweden	SVT
Portugal	RTP
Republic of Ireland	RTÉ
Iceland	Sjónvarpið (RÚV)
United Kingdom	Channel 4
Poland	Telewizja Polska (TVP), TV Puls
South Africa	SABC
Taiwan	Taiwan Television (TTV)
Hungary	Minimax
Czech	ČT1

* Production company
** Contributing co-producer

External links

• Web site for Procidis, the series' producer
• generic in french
• Once Upon a Time... Space at the Internet Movie Database
• Revenge of the Humanoids at the Internet Movie Database