Long shot on this. You'd probably only know this if you had CCD (Confraternity of Christian Doctrine aka Catholic education classes)
The teacher would show this VHS Catholic education series. It was live action. It involved these kids who helped this old man who hated kids and wanted to be left alone. They help the old man find God again.
He's so thankful he sets them up with a meeting place/club house. They call themselves something heart club or they named their club after a tree or street. And of course they would learn to be good Catholics. 1989-1991 is when I would have seen this.
Something of an update to report. I finally stumbled onto the name of the VHS series. I remembered the tree was a Oak. So I did a google search using this as the search term: "CCD VHS catholic series Oak Street" and pulled up a Reddit thread describing the first episode I watched. And I got a name.
"Oak Street Flyers"
Unfortunately this VHS series seems to have been limited to CCD classes in the East Coast/New England area. And doesn't have any pictures and no video seems to have been uploaded to the net.
Has anyone ever heard of the Oak Street Flyers VHS series?
Something of an update to report. I finally stumbled onto the name of the VHS series. I remembered the tree was a Oak. So I did a google search using this as the search term: "CCD VHS catholic series Oak Street" and pulled up a Reddit thread describing the first episode I watched. And I got a name.
"Oak Street Flyers"
Unfortunately this VHS series seems to have been limited to CCD classes in the East Coast/New England area. And doesn't have any pictures and no video seems to have been uploaded to the net.
Has anyone ever heard of the Oak Street Flyers VHS series?
I swear I've seen tapes or DVDs of this at the thrift stores I frequent
"oooh, you're a- a freaked out child in the woods..."
Just throwing out the idea, but it could have been dubbed into Latino Spanish, knowing the huge following the religion has depending on the country.
Growing up catholic here in Mexico, I remember we were given vhs and dvds of animated movies about saints and bible stories for our first comunions, and you can always find them if you went to a religious school.
I doubt Oak Street Flyers was dubbed since it looks like a very local production that never got out of United States, but I'll keep my eye for old vhs tapes that goes with the description you wrote.
Maybe you should ask catholic communities in other states to see if it could have been released in more.
Post by sakuraradiochan on Sept 18, 2022 16:09:22 GMT
I've seen these tapes at thrift shops and watched it myself when I was little. It was also on EWTN TV in the States (Catholic TV cable channel).
Best bet would try to reach out to any Catholic churches in your area and ask if they still had copies. Long shot but it's not like the Catholic church isn't well known to have long term media storage.