Once Upon A Tree (found children's puppet TV series; 1997-early 2000s)

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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. 28 episodes are known to exist, possibly divided into two 14 episode seasons. 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]

24 of the 28 episodes were released on VHS. None of these VHS airings have surfaced on the internet. 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.

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 is only mirrored onto Veoh.

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. 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.

Episode List

# Episode Title Air Date Status
1 No Place Like Home Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
2 Lost & Found Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
3 There's No Business Like Show Business Unknown Found
4 Growing Pains Unknown Found
5 The Carrot Caper Unknown Found
6 Family Tree Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
7 Teamwork Rules Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
8 The Secret Club Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
9 Taking the Plunge Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
10 Sounds of the Forest Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
11 Scaredy Cat Unknown Found
12 Count on Me Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
13 What if the Dinosaurs Came Back? Unknown Found
14 Track it Down Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
15 A Rude Dude Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
16 Happy Birthday Oakley Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
17 Can't Wait to Paint Unknown Found
18 Duck Tales Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
19 Bionic Beaver Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
20 Hide and Seek Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
21 Night Owl Unknown Partially Found; On VHS Release
22 It's Amazing Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
23 Winning the Race Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
24 Big Ears Unknown Lost; On VHS Release
25 Not Allowed Unknown Lost
26 One Egg or Two Unknown Lost
27 Now You See Me, Now You Don't Unknown Lost
28 Heatwave Unknown Lost

Gallery

The intro to Once Upon a Tree.

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References