Once Upon a Time (TV Series)

Once Upon a Time
Genre	Adventure Fantasy Mystery
Created by	Edward Kitsis Adam Horowitz
Starring	Ginnifer Goodwin Jennifer Morrison Lana Parrilla Josh Dallas Jared S. Gilmore Raphael Sbarge Jamie Dornan Robert Carlyle Eion Bailey Emilie de Ravin Meghan Ory Colin O'Donoghue Michael Raymond-James Michael Socha Rebecca Mader Sean Maguire
Composer(s)	Mark Isham
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	123 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Edward Kitsis Adam Horowitz Steve Pearlman David H. Goodman Andrew Chambliss
Producer(s)	Damon Lindelof Christine Boylan Robert Hull Kalinda Vazquez Jane Espenson Daniel T. Thomsen Brian Wankum Kathy Gilroy Ian Goldberg Liz Tigelaar Samantha Thomas Jerome Schwartz Helga Ungurait
Location(s)	Steveston, British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia
Cinematography	Steven Fierberg Stephen Jackson Tony Mirza
Editor(s)	Geofrey Hildrew Mark Goldman Scot J. Kelly Joe Talbot Hall
Running time	43 minutes
Production company(s)	ABC Studios Kitsis/Horowitz
Distributor	Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	720p (16:9 HDTV)
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	October 23, 2011 (2011-10-23) – present
Chronology
Related shows	Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
External links
Official website

Once Upon a Time is an American fairy tale television series that premiered on October 23, 2011, on ABC. The show takes place in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, whose residents are characters from various fairy tales transported to the "real world" town and robbed of their real memories by a powerful curse. It follows the heroine Emma Swan as she protects the town and its inhabitants from various curses and villains, sometimes involving traveling to other realms. Most episodes involve flashbacks telling its numerous characters' stories such as Snow White and Beauty & the Beast. The show airs Sundays at 8:00 pm ET/7:00 pm CT.

It borrows elements and characters from the Disney-franchise and popular Western literature, folklore, and fairy tales. Once Upon a Time was created by Lost and Tron: Legacy writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. A spin-off series, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, consisting of 13 episodes, premiered on October 10, 2013, and concluded on April 3, 2014. On March 3, 2016, ABC renewed the series for a sixth season, which premiered on September 25, 2016.

The series takes place in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, in which the residents are actually characters from various fairy tales and other stories that were transported to the "real world" town and robbed of their original memories by the Evil Queen Regina (Lana Parrilla), using a powerful curse obtained from Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle). The residents of Storybrooke, where Regina is mayor, have lived an unchanging existence for 28 years, unaware of their own lack of aging. The town's only hope lies with a bail-bonds person named Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), the daughter of Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), who was transported from the Enchanted Forest to our world via a magic wardrobe as an infant before she could be cursed. As such, she is the only person who can break the curse and restore the characters' lost memories. She is aided by her son, Henry (Jared S. Gilmore), with whom she has recently reunited after giving him up for adoption upon his birth, and his Once Upon a Time book of fairy tales that holds the key to breaking the curse. Henry is also the adopted son of Regina, providing a source of both conflict and common interest between the two women.

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