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The logo used for the show.

Status: Partially Found

Once Upon A Tree was a puppet TV series that aired on Animal Planet and two public television stations (KTCA, a PBS station in Minneapolis and WYBE, an independent public station in Philadelphia.). The show was created by Tremendous Productions Inc., a company made to produce the show. Very little is known about the show. 27 episodes are known to exist, possibly divided into two 13 episode seasons and a pilot episode. Part of the reason why info about the show is so hard to find online is that the name of the show is similar to the more well-known show Once Upon A Time.

It is unknown exactly when the show started and stopped airing. However, the show probably aired from 1997 until 2001. The show probably started in 1997 as show's website mentions the show winning a Parent's Choice Gold Award in 1997.[1] The show's website got taken down in 2001, likely because the show ended. It's possible that Once Upon a Tree stopped airing new episodes after 1999 as the website took off all of its other pages after that.[2]

Navarre Corporation released 26 episodes across 13 volumes of VHS tapes, handling all episodes except for "Scaredy Cat", which is believed to be the pilot. Individual episodes, including the pilot, were released by other companies. Some of the VHS release episodes have alternate titles. The VHS releases were possibly mail order only as evidenced by the ending of an episode. Many of the original episode air dates are unknown. However, it's possible that the archival date for the full episode description was near or was on the same day as when each episode aired. A company called Childbook released VHS episodes of Once Upon a Tree in Mandarin for Discovery Kids. This possibly suggests that sometime during the airing of Once Upon a Tree in the United States, Discovery Kids aired the show in Mandarin-speaking countries. It also aired on Discovery Kids in Latin America and Brazil.

Three of the episodes (Carrot Caper, Can't Wait to Paint, and What if the Dinosaurs Came Back) were released on an edutainment console that was released in 1999 called the Video Buddy. The Video Buddy would use VHS tapes and were the full episodes of various children's shows at the time of its release. The console had "breaks" in the middle of the show where the Video Buddy character would ask questions related to the part of the episode that was shown. The official website of the Video Buddy says that these three episodes were the only episodes released on the console.[3]

In 2009, A YouTube video titled "Death of Analog" had the episode Scaredy Cat featured in it. Unfortunately, the video itself got deleted from YouTube and only mirrored onto Veoh. It was later extracted and re-uploaded to YouTube.

On April 4th/6th of 2018, YouTube user The Fabulatory uploaded 2 versions of the intro, with one having 5 seconds of footage from the episode Night Owl. On May 15th and 16th, 2018, LMW user TropesAreDangerous (YouTube username The Boss) uploaded three episodes from the series, those being Carrot Caper, Can't Wait to Paint, and What if the Dinosaurs Came Back, from the Video Buddy to YouTube and later the Internet Archive. On May 22nd, 2018, LMW user Nanis149 uploaded two episodes (with permission from another LMW user, Bisou5) named Growing Pains and There's No Business Like Show Business on Archive.org.

On August 23rd, 2018, LMW user TropesAreDangerous uploaded the Volume 1 and Volume 2 Navarre VHS releases to YouTube and later the Internet Archive, containing the episodes "Teamwork Rules", "The Secret Club", "Winning the Race", and "Big Ears".

On August 25th, 2018, LMW user TropesAreDangerous uploaded the Volume 3 and Volume 13 Navarre VHS releases to YouTube and the Internet Archive, containing the episodes "Night Owl", "Its Amazing", "Track It Down" and "Count On Me".

Episode List

Navarre VHS Release # Episode Title Air Date Status
Volume 1 7 Teamwork Rules Unknown Found
Volume 1 8 The Secret Club Unknown Found
Volume 2 23 Winning the Race Unknown Found
Volume 2 24 Big Ears Unknown Found
Volume 3 21 Night Owl Unknown Found
Volume 3 22 It's Amazing Unknown Found
Volume 4 19 Bionic Beaver Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 4 20 Hide and Seek Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 5 9 Taking the Plunge Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 5 10 Sounds of the Forest Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 6 3 There's No Business Like Show Business Unknown Found
Volume 6 4 Growing Pains Unknown Found
Volume 7 17 Can't Wait to Paint Unknown Found
Volume 7 18 Duck Tales Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 8 5 The Carrot Caper Unknown Found
Volume 8 6 Family Tree Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 9 26 One Egg or Two Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 9 29 Going Places Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 10 28 Heatwave Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 10 13 What if the Dinosaurs Came Back? Unknown Found
Volume 11 1 No Place Like Home Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 11 2 Lost & Found Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 12 15 A Rude Dude Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 12 16 Happy Birthday Oakley Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
Volume 13 12 Count on Me Unknown Found
Volume 13 14 Track it Down Unknown Found
None 11 Scaredy Cat (Pilot Episode?) Unknown Found

Gallery

The intro to Once Upon a Tree.

A cover from one of the VHS tapes.

References