Once Upon a Time
"Magic is coming."
Plot Summary
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.
Cast & Characters
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Seasons (8)
Season 1
22 episodes
Aired: 2011
Emma Swan wonders if the residents of Storybrooke, Maine are somehow actual characters from legendary children’s tales. Parallel worlds unravel in this modern take on classic fables where a curse has trapped famed storybook characters in our world.
Season 2
22 episodes
Aired: 2012
The second season follows the introduction of magic by Mr. Gold / Rumplestiltskin into Storybrooke, leaving the fate of both the real world and the Fairytale Land that was, intertwined, resulting in new threats emerging.
Season 3
22 episodes
Aired: 2013
The third season revolves around the main characters travelling from Storybrooke to Neverland to retrieve Henry Mills, featuring crossover episodes connecting with the spin-off Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.
Season 4
23 episodes
Aired: 2014
Season 5
23 episodes
Aired: 2015
Season 6
22 episodes
Aired: 2016
Season 7
22 episodes
Aired: 2017
After six seasons, the residents of the enchanted forest face their greatest challenge yet as The Evil Queen, Captain Hook and Rumplestiltskin join forces with a grown-up Henry Mills and his daughter Lucy on an epic quest to once again bring hope to their world and ours. Along the way, new fairy tale characters and old search for true love, find adventure and once again take sides in the struggle of good against evil, as classic tales are once more twisted and reimagined.
Production
Kitsis/Horowitz
ABC Studios