Once upon a time... Man - Opening Theme
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- Opening "Once upon a time... Man", Toccata e fuga in D minor from Jean-Sébastien BACH
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When I was like 7 and watched this, the intro just made me watch in awe, this was literaly the intro to why I am who I am today. I'm so happy that my family kept all the Once upon a time series.
I loved this cartoon as a child i am glad our history teacher also showed these to us.
Same here man, watched this when I was in kindergarten. I love Toccata & Fugue in D Minor because of this series
I was about seven when I found a 5 hour collection of this series. Binged it all, I think it was the first time i stayed up til 1-3 am; definitely worth it.
Best intro ever 🤗
For real! Have u watched the space ones?
I almost cried, because after this years i realized how sad and painful the truth is about ending of the intro...
We may expirence it someday if we are not lucky...
That’s what will happen if we keep fucking up this planet we evolved on
Stop climate change habitat loss and pollution and we might just not go extinct
But it seems we humans are incapable of that crap
What is it meant to be? Nuclear war?
That ending gave me creeps all my childhood.
+Bill Kilgore still...its the second law of thermodynamics
This child of the 80s knows that feel.
And now we know...a prophetic show, it foresaw Trump :P
daddyleon lol
u dont say
I think *this is the best opening ever made in the history of television* from start to finish to the extent and in the mix, music with the theme "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach and flash sequences of what happened term after term, resulting in something. .. PERFECT, BRIGHT. Well ... I can only say that it is a MASTERPIECE.
ficxify It's definitely very good (though the theme sounds like it's played incorrect to me) but I personally much prefer the german intro I grew up with because it's a lot more inviting for kids.
This actually introduced me to my love of classical music after my mum told me what it was!
Apsolutelly correct, entirelly planet waching this tv5 series, good childhood memories never erase until the end
The spanish version is the best one
@@BlueGangsta1958Superjojo
My favourite show as a child. Love that piece.
I grew up with the german version and i think it fits better than this.
If you want to watch it, the series is called *Es war einmal der Mensch*
well that insipiring me in playing piano, cuz i heard this as 5yo dude : D
Always liked the Discoverers more than this, but this was still a masterpiece
You have to love the closing caption:
"And Earth ....was."
It's the delightfully morbid cherry on top of a big depressing ending.
@Alexandre Phaneuf élève Still, morbidly fitting for the first episode to be called "And Earth... was" and for that episode title to flash up just after the Earth *explodes.*
I'm 13 but my mom kept a bunch of CDs with all the episodes, this is the reason I'm so obsessed with history, this was my early childhood!
I also have once upon a time... Space and the one about the human body that I can't remember the name of.
@@AleksIsSoBASED ive only ever seen the german translation but id assume once upon a life or the life. This was totally my childhood. If id known there was an english version i wouldve forced my friends to watch it.
Yeah is my obsession to history just because of this cartoon. This is masterpiece.
Same here. Watched it again and again as a child at my grandma's. I'm known as the "curious guy" bc of this show lol.
so much stuff changed in scine this cartoon around %80 accurate
that ending always gave the chills(still does) as a child, made me think about philosophical questions before i even knew what philosophy is.
Probably the darkest cartoon intro ever, especially at the end. 😞
But the cartoon itself is both funny, entertaining, and educating 😊
Figra Ardham Its really strange, I grew up with a complete different opening song: Tausend Jahre sind ein tag by Udo Jürgens, its complete different of this theme. In my opinion everyone should know this Cartoon. Unfortunately cartoons in this generation are completely dumb and do nothing for education or they do it in complete wrong ways. (no offense, just my own opinion) I watch a lot of cartoons in my youth but nothing can beat this masterpiece.
+John Henry Signed. Those "educational" cartoons nowadays do really suck. The german intro to this Cartoon was also a looot more lighthearted ;).
***** Totally agree^^
In Spain the song was replaced with a much happier Beethoven piece, with lyrics on top. Much nicer in my opinion :)
We even censored the opening (the Earth doesn't explode at the end)
carmarcam98
Cant imagine the Intro without this^^ This scene added a lot in my opinion:)
This is my childhood right here. I had no idea that this was watched around the world by so many people. Amazing. The song still gives me chills. The whole production was mind-blowingly awesome.
+XalphYT Well, the insane number of TV channels from different countries which are shown in these opening credits are a big clue. And I agree that for its time it was an awesome learning tool due to how entertaining it was - most modern edutainment shows don't even come close to it. That series was one of the main gateways to my lifelong love of history.
I lived in the middle east & watched this . Extraordinary
Even Cuba !
@@paireon3419 And yet I don't recall ever seen hardly any of these show up on TV in the US, though I could be wrong if someone remembers. I know The History Channel in their early years played one of the later shows (The Discoverers).
@@ChristopherSobieniak Eeehh, it was a French cartoon. Those just don't show up all that often on US TV AFAIK; it was probably aired only once, and likely on local affiliates rather than nationwide (I could also be wrong though). I've seen it so many times due to being a French-Canadian from Quebec province, where it aired many, many times from the 80's to the late 00's on Francophone channels.
Gotta admit though, that while by 80's standards it was great, nowadays the history portrayed is rather... dated. Unfortunately, the last episode is still depressingly relevant today (even though it ends on a hopeful note; it's basically an expansion on the intro's last few seconds).
No wonder I ended up loving Bach's music well into adulthood.
I never figured where that love really began; now I'm almost certain that it started with this theme that I heard weekly in the early 80s when this was originally aired. I had no knowledge of composers or anything like that back then, not really until TH-cam became a thing and I heard people performing his music; it was instant love again.
Everyone likes bach i ven if they don't know it
Let's put this straight: this was your first interaction with Bach.
*CHILDREN! YOU MUST LEARN STUFF OR EARTH WILL EXPLODE!*
i Laughed way to hard
so true
TH-cam gold
The best animation opening ever
I always get tears into my eyes at the end of the intro - so incredibly sad at the end and almost true it seems....the music denoting the passage of time and finally at the end with its dissonant cadence chords accentuating the demise of humanity and the Earth....So simple yet effective!
And yet humanity still exists for some reason...
It's the truth of humankind! We make same mistakes every loop.
It's funny, even if I had chills from it obviously I never was scared of the ending, I never interpreted it as "man destroys Earth with a nuclear war or something" but more like how it is planned that the Earth will disappear in a few billion years since after all the intro starts with the creation of Earth. I always saw it as the circle of life on Earth
Watch the German intro, it is different, with a singer. I always loved that one as a child.
And what a song: The producers chose the harmless cute first stanza about children always questioning...
... questioning the necessity to do greedy global war (that is revealed in the second stanza, and NOT in the intro).
When I discovered the full version several years later in growing up, I became a fan of antiwar songs.
@@Enyavar1 Wow, I didn't even know there was a genre of antiwar songs. Which ones would you recomend?
The theme music caught my attention as a kid and I watched every episode over and over again on TVO. The music gave me chills and still does, thank you JS Bach.
+neirBOevaD same here, it was chilling but captivating at the same time. stuck in my memory forever
The theme tune introduced me to the world of classical music after my mum told me what it was!
What a genius
All human history hope and tragedy in the opening.
Bretagne jean I don't like it at the end of the opening show earth blowing up because 7 billion years from now the sun will run out of hydrogen and become a red giant and blows up
Holly deemer i think earth blows up cause of human...
This cartoon was created in frozen war. When u know that 3 biggest nuclear bomb can broke the earth...creators cartoons thank earth ll be destroy by human before sun eat it.
@@bretagnejean2410 You aint wrong. There was lots of fear back then of nuclear war. Not sure how high it was in the 1980s but i think there generally was just lots of paranoia. Think this cartoon was published in the 1970s though
After many years I revisited this intro and I got goosebumps at the end
It's will some to humankind, and the loop begin again and again ....
One of the best TV show openings. Ever.
One of the best TV shows. Ever.
yes
@@user-dh1qc1nu5c yes
Used to be on Tv on Sunday mornings..in the early 80s..here in the uk. Around 9-30am if i recall. I watched it every week
I thought it was the 6, 6:30 slot.
It was on most weekdays as well.
I thought it was kids TV in the mornings during the summer on weekdays
1:10-1:28 - creepy as fuuuck.
wow indid
its feel the same as I remember from my childhood
agree
Polska
Well that is probably the future. It will all end because of humans.
Reminds me a lot of super metroid.
masterpiece of a tv series from my childhood!
The only cartoon opening ever to showcase mass fiery death by rocket ignition.
This just took me back to parts of my childhood that I seemed like a day dream. Your childhood was on another level if you watched this series.
Yes, the history of France is incredible. 😮
That ending combined with the music still gives me chills as an adult.
One of the greatest animated tv series of all time
One of my most beloved cartoon as a kid
The "And earth... was" at the end, dear lord this intro was ominous.
French are hardcore.
This series gave me everything. Fascination in history, geography and eventually Bachs music!
Most extreme and true story if humanity.....itself.No fantasy can exceed reality...
I can see why the ending would be to many (including myself) emotional, but strangely enough that's not the bit that chokes me up, but the bit immediately before, when it shows the progress of the different vehicles. I must be strange.
That ending so sad...
because it's always the truth of humanity ?
The ending gave me anxiety when i was a kid and still after more than ten years it makes me anxieous :D
wow I remember this from the 70s uk summer holidays. my nephew and I lapped this up and spent hours talking about mankind for the rest of the day.I'd love to see this again in my 50's
Virtual reality is just around the corner. If you are into clean living and look after your health their is not reason as to why you will not get to experience advanced VR that will look like our world right now.
bighands69 I remember watching this has a child. Finally found it again!
I was responding to a fb meme on "what was the album that changed you" from a friend. I posted Bach toccata und fugue D minor. I then went into how I heard it from a European cartoon on history when I was a kid and that the music just stirred me...but didn't know what it was at the time.....but turned out to be the above.
I Googled the cartoon. European history cartoon with man in long white beard today and here's the series! Omg....amazing!
This is seriously the scariest opening ever.
how?
@@FernoHellbringer Because it starts with man appearing and making such accomplishments and ends with the earth getting destroyed
this show moved all of us
From this my love of history was born.
The best 80’s show for children
I just had a flashback! I was listening to toccata e fugue, then it hit me. Sweet baby jesus, I saw a cartoon-series almost 50 years ago. I FOUND IT! I FOUND IT!!!
Everybody talking about the sad tone of this intro and how the ending made them cry...Then you watch the Spanish version with a happy and cheerful tune and seems like a completely different cartoon.
That end bit was certainly somewhat of a downer... but this was one of the best history-oriented series I ever saw. Thanks for posting!
the german one "es war einmal der mensch" has a really excellent music theme in the intro
I’m 20. Once Upon a Time is still my favorite cartoon and Tocatta and Fugue by J.S. Bach is still my all time jam.
This is a half forgotten primordial memory for me.
Same
Not gonna lie this show made me happay when i was a kid i really enjoyed the show, but what really shocked me was when the intro ends, “end of the world”
My first touch upon learning history, very grateful for all I've learned from this series.
I used to love this show as a kid! This is a pure nostalgia trip - I'd love to watch some full episodes of the earlier seasons. I recall losing it's appeal as it ventured through the epochs, particularly when the industrial revolution was concerned..
It is ONLY the beginning. When you watch Once upon a time ...Space ! You understand nothing ever ends...
Agreed, though the last episode in the Man series was one of the most depressing episodes in children's TV I ever saw, mainly because it talks
about current socio-political problems, that we STILL haven't solved
40 years after the series ended.
This is a cult serie among all Israeli ppl born in the 70's growing up in the 80's. It was dubbed to Hebrew and we all loved it. It is called היה היה which means "once upon a time", the intro is classic, you just hum it and everyone knows it is from this serie lol. We also had the other serie, which was called once upon a time -life (about the human body), with all known characters from this serie but as bacterias, cells and germs. Lovely!
Whatched this on DVD all my childhood, was looking for english name for YEARS. finally.
I think we were lucky as kids in the 70s and 80s having T.V. programmes with this much intelligence put into them. Oh god, yes, this intro is infinitely sad - but doesn't it make you think ??! As a kid it profoundly moved me and played not a small part in shaping the way I thought as I grew up.
A classic opening to a brilliant animated show using the music of Bach. I remember this so many decades ago and it makes the hairs stand up.
Been looking for this for SO MANY YEARS!! THANK YOU!!!!
That ending always made me so sad and freaked out as a child. And actually as I just watched it again, it still does.
core memory
I just realised where my obsession with classical music came from :,3
Its a beautiful animation.. always give me goose pimples at the end, music is so synchronized- Magnifique!
I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, this cartoon series is not only prophetic, it is correct in every sense of the word. I was 2.5 years old when I saw it and I booked my ticket to ride the rocket when I was 30. See you rotters later, when you get your potata...
This series broadcast in Australia in the very early 80's on the multicultural station SBS, and was a strong part of my childhood. Thank you to the producers and crew of this marvelous show. Interesting that Tatsunoko was involved in the production, as they also produced Gatchaman, aka Battle of the Planets, another of my favourite shows from that era. Also interesting is that SBS screened the animated series Colargol at the same time, both Colargol and Once Upon A Time being produced by Procidis. I wonder if SBS had a deal with Procidis back then?
That French guy Albert Barillé who wrote most of the thing outsourced production to Tatsunoko. Back then the Japanese were already mass producing animes after all, so it was cheap. You can clearly tell the style of animation is very much 70's Japanese anime even though the executive producers, writers etc are all French names.
Omg ive been trying to find this classic from my youth for decades thank you for posting this its incredibly rare to see anything about this now.
It’s giving me crazy chills. It’s so thought provoking, and the music fits just perfectly.
holy shit they actually covered the whole history (and future) of human in one and a half minutes
I saw a video where a guy put a firework in his ass and when the rocket went off it didn't take off so it just burned his ass off and then exploded. It reminded me about the ending of this.
+Matti Seppänen that comment made my day X,D
+Avandix Gaming Lol, me too!
Well, just proves how inspiring this cartoon was if it was the first thing you thought of?
An apt description for the history of mankind.
Masterpiece of a cartoon
the fragment capturing human evolution gives me goosebumps
ayo are we gonna ignore the fact he totally killed those guys getting into the rocket?
i remind have some limited violence but i dont remind my childhood cartoon be thay dark and violent
Y vamos a ignorar que los primeros enfrentamientos mataron a humanos, desde las piedras, fechas, pasando por balas, granadas, bombas tantos millones murieron.
@Smile they are evil and got what they deserved
How doesn't this have more views? This series (and others made by Alber Barille) was stunningly epic. Most adults could benefit from watching this to brush up on their history as well. Hell, most of my peers at university studying history as well. Incredibly informative and surprisingly analytical for a childrens cartoon
1:16 holy shit they got INCINERATED. THEY DIED!
as they were fleeing their imploding earth...
innocent childrens cartoon D:
Damn that right there was a good flashback
those few notes in The Greatest Show on Earth... oh man so good!
I used to always watch this when I was a kid! This and "Mysterious Cities of Gold"!
It's incredible that so many people love French history.
i remember watching this series, wouldnt miss an episode, but never did get to see the last one, You can get this on DVD so might have to buy the collection. Thanks for the post
I remember this, I used to be so scared of this, but I still loved the show.
loved to watch this when it was on tv bitd. wish it would be shown again
Gracias! Sr Broun por su respuesta. Sobre la música de esta serie sobre la historia del hombre.
The ending scared me so much as a kid... and still do today
This works on so many levels.
Amazing ending. I always loved this as a kid
Very nostalgic
We used to watch this shit trough 2nd - 4th grade. Definitely scared the living shit out of me with that ending. I literally used to go around being afraid that earth might explode if i stepped out of the house. 8 year old me was traumatized.
big part of my childhood, wish i had a dvd of every episode
growing up i binged this show like crazy but i NEVER watched the last episode because of the ending of that intro >_>
AAAAH..CHILDHOOD HOW I MISS YOU
The best show ever
Ending is unsettling
I think even in 2023 (this is from 1978 so after 45 years) this series is untoucheable. I always was just glued to TV and ate every word, passionately rooted for the good guys and hoped the bad guys fail. Total masterpiece of a song, masterpiece of a series and absolutely unforgettable memory from my youth. I dont cry ever but this makes my eyes watery and sometimes I shed a tear. Absolutely in league of its own.
This show made me the person I am today fr
And the opening so fire
Same. It's like I lived it as a kid.
Who is hear in 2020!!
Yo! 😎✌
I have'nt seen this for thirty years at least, maybe more. Always remember there was an old man with a long white beard in it every week. and them all running for the ship at the end. Likes of this shames the efforts of todays cartoonists, the kids of nowadays are deffo missing out!!
Now that i`m older i understand the ending and damn that shit is fucking deep
I loved this as a kid. I await the follow up where the mobile phone is invented and then fuck all happens after that because 'man' is too busy texting!
glad to see im not the only one with nightmares about that theme
They absolutely had no need to make an ending like that, which shows the end of the world. But they did it anyway
1:17 -> Massacration in children's cartoon!
I know that experience. Same cartoon too. I'd watch this over playing with friends. lol
Valuable show
Missing my childhood 😊
This sounds depressing, the spanish version is so happy and cheerful
Yeah, I guess the French were more serious in their show.
I have a dvd of the French one and have seen the Spanish one on a coach with screens
I have the dvd in French because I lived in France for like 5 months when I was a baby