About

Once Upon A Time is, at its core, a story about hope. “For us, that’s what a fairytale is. It’s that ability to think your life will get better. It’s why you buy a lottery ticket—because if you win you get to tell your boss that you’re quitting and you get to move to Paris or wherever and be who you always wanted to be. And that’s Cinderella, right? One day she’s sweeping up and the next she’s going to the ball. Adam and I just wanted to write about something hopeful that for one hour a week allows one to put everything aside and have that feeling that your dreams just may come true.”
- Edward Kitsis, Co-Creator/Executive Producer

• Once Upon a Time is a television show that premiered on October 23, 2011, on ABC.
• ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group.
• Once Upon a Time is produced and created by Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis.
• The plot of Once Upon A Time is much like the plot of Disney’s Enchanted, where a girl from a fairytale land, is sent to our world by an evil queen.
• Many of the episodes contains multiple allusions to the Disney versions of the stories. Snow White’s dwarfs, unnamed in traditional versions of the story, here have the names they were given in the Disney film. Similarly, Sleeping Beauty was cursed by an individual named Maleficent, again the Disney name for the wicked fairy godmother that lacked a name in many other versions (In Tchaikovsky’s ballet, she was named Carabosse). In the pilot episode, Leroy (the real world counterpart to the dwarf Grumpy) whistles Whistle While You Work, a song written for the 1937 film. Gepetto’s fairy friend is called The Blue Fairy as in the 1940 Disney film, rather than The Fairy with Turquoise Hair and Jiminy Cricket rather than “the Talking Cricket,” as in Carlo Collodi’s novel. It should also be noted that the princes from Snow White and Cinderella have been given the names of “James” and “Thomas” respectively. They were unnamed in their original Disney films and traditional versions of their stories.