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Once Upon a Time... Life

★ 8.2 6K votes 1987–1988 1 season · 26 episodes Ended Canal+
Nature & scienceThe natural world or science itself as the subject.This show: 10/10Kids & familyGenuinely watchable for and with children.This show: 9/10Family-safeNothing to worry about with anyone in the room.This show: 9/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 8/10WholesomeKindness and decency at the core, with barely a trace of cynicism.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Roger CarelMarie-Laure BenestonAlain DorvalGilles LaurentHenry Djanik
Starring
Roger CarelMarie-Laure BenestonAlain DorvalGilles LaurentHenry Djanik
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"Biology class reimagined as an epic inner-space adventure"

This French animated series shrinks viewers down to explore the human body, turning cells, viruses, and organs into characters in tiny adventures. White blood cells act as soldiers, germs invade like villains, and organs work like factories, all to explain biology to kids without dumbing it down. The tone is earnest and gently theatrical, closer to a classroom filmstrip with heart than a wacky cartoon. It's slow by modern animation standards, but the charm lies in how sincerely it treats the body as a wondrous, cooperative little universe worth understanding.

Watch it for

the inventive way it turns cells and organs into a working, dramatic society kids can actually follow.

Maybe skip if

you want fast-paced modern animation rather than a gentle, classroom-style adventure.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 11987
7.52K2610h 40m
Buckle up for a head-to-toe adventure through the human body as this animated series explores the workings of our cells, hearts, brains and more.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1La cellule7.4
12923 min
▶2La naissance7.4
11824 min
▶3Les sentinelles du corps7.7
10725 min
▶4La moelle osseuse7.6
9525 min
▶5Le sang7.6
9524 min
▶6Les petites plaquettes7.6
8722 min
▶7Le coeur7.5
8524 min
▶8La respiration7.5
8024 min
▶9Le cerveau7.6
8025 min
▶10Les neurones7.3
7725 min
▶11L'oeil7.2
7624 min
▶12L'oreille7.3
7525 min
▶13La peau7.7
7524 min
▶14La bouche et les dents7.6
7526 min
▶15La digestion7.5
7425 min
▶16L'usine du foie7.4
6925 min
▶17Les reins7.4
7225 min
▶18Le système lymphatique7.4
7225 min
▶19Les os et le squelette7.6
6825 min
▶20Les muscles et la graisse7.6
7025 min
▶21La guerre des toxines7.7
6725 min
▶22La vaccination7.8
7325 min
▶23Les hormones7.4
7125 min
▶24Les chaînes de la vie7.6
7125 min
▶25Réparations et transformation7.6
7025 min
▶26Et la vie va...7.7
7125 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Roger Carel Maestro
Marie-Laure Beneston Psi
Alain Dorval
Gilles Laurent
Henry Djanik

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