Once Upon a Time... The Explorers

{{Short description|French animated television series}}

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{{Infobox television

| image = Once Upon a Time The Explorers.jpg

| caption = DVD box set cover art

| camera =

| native_name = {{Infobox name module|fr|Il était une fois... les Explorateurs|nolink=1}}

| runtime = 26 minutes

| creator = Albert Barillé

| company = {{Collapsible list

| Procidis

| FR3

| Canal+

| {{lang|es|Televisión Española|i=no}}

| {{lang|de|Westdeutscher Rundfunk|i=no}}

| {{lang|de|Südwestrundfunk|i=no}}

| {{lang|de|Sender Freies Berlin|i=no}}

| Mediaset

| {{lang|fr|Radio Télévision Suisse Romande|i=no}}

| {{lang|it|Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana|i=no}}

| {{lang|fr|Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française|i=no}}

| {{lang|fr|Centre national de la cinématographie|i=no}}

}}

| executive_producer =

| voices = {{Plainlist|

• Roger Carel
• Olivier Destrez
• Hélène Levesque
• Patrick Préjean
• Daniel Beretta }}

| narrated =

| country = {{Collapsible list

| France

| Belgium

| Germany

| Italy

| Spain

| Switzerland

}}

| network = Canal+

| first_aired = {{start date|1996|12|10|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1997}}

| num_episodes = 26

| related = {{Plainlist|

• Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers (1994)
• Once Upon a Time... Planet Earth (2008)

}}

}}

Once Upon a Time... The Explorers ({{langx|fr|Il était une fois... les Explorateurs|link=no}}) is an educational animated television series created and directed by Albert Barillé. It is the sixth series in the Once Upon a Time... franchise.

The series was produced by French studio Procidis in co-production with {{lang|fr|FR3|i=no}} and Canal+ (France), {{lang|es|Televisión Española|i=no}} (TVE, Spain), {{lang|de|Westdeutscher Rundfunk|i=no}}, {{lang|de|Südwestrundfunk|i=no}}, and {{lang|de|Sender Freies Berlin|i=no}} (WDR, SWR, and SFB, Germany), Mediaset (Italy), {{lang|fr|Radio Télévision Suisse Romande|i=no}} and {{lang|it|Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana|i=no}} (RTSR and RTSI, Switzerland), {{lang|fr|Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française|i=no}} (RTBF, Belgium), and the French {{lang|fr|Centre national de la cinématographie|i=no}}. The series premiered in France on Canal+, beginning on 10 December 1996, and it was subsequently broadcast on the channels of the rest of the broadcasters that participated in the production dubbed into their own language.