The Psychotronic Film Society’s long-running and award-winning Wednesday night series of overlooked, underappreciated or just plain oddball feature films continues Feb. 6 with a rare public screening of the 1981 picture “On the Right Track.” The film stands as the very first theatrical motion picture ever made by the late iconic child TV star Gary Coleman, who rocketed to fame in the late-1970s playing wisecracking orphan Arnold Jackson on the smash NBC sitcom “Different Strokes.”

Coleman was just 14 when he starred in this extremely wholesome and good-natured comedy as a homeless boy living illegally in a Chicago railway station and supporting himself by giving shoeshines. When it turns out the young entrepreneur has a strange knack for picking winning racehorses, every gambler in the city is jockeying to get a tip from the very kid they should be tipping themselves. Shown briefly in theaters, it found a home on cable TV where it was shown incessantly from 1983 untill around 1986 when its cornball cheese factor started to make even the most good-natured viewers cringe.

It has since lapsed into almost total obscurity, but stands as an example of the kind of goofy, family-oriented movies with a heavy-handed moral message that simply aren’t made much anymore. The supporting cast includes the late, great character actor Norman Fell (Mr. Roper on TV’s “Three’s Company”) and Maureen Stapleton (Edith Bunker on TV’s “All in the Family”)! Coleman passed away in 2010 at the age of 42, and the PFS’s screening takes place just a couple of days shy of what would have been the actor’s 51st birthday. Showtime 8 p.m.