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<i>Return to Oz</i> 1985 US-UK film directed by Walter Murch

Return to Oz is a 1985 fantasy film directed and written by Walter Murch, co-written by Gill Dennis and produced by Paul Maslansky. It stars Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie, and Fairuza Balk as Dorothy Gale in her first screen role. The film is an unofficial sequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film The Wizard of Oz, and is based on L. Frank Baum's Oz novels, mainly The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) and Ozma of Oz (1907). In the plot, Dorothy returns to the Land of Oz to find it has been overthrown by the villainous Nome King, and must restore it with her new friends Tik-Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and Princess Ozma.

Return to Oz is a 1964 animated television special produced by Crawley Films for Videocraft International. It first aired 9 February 1964 in the United States on NBC's The General Electric Fantasy Hour. It was directed by F. R. Crawley, Thomas Glynn and Larry Roemer from a teleplay by Romeo Muller, who later wrote Dorothy in the Land of Oz.

<i>Scissor Sisters</i> (album) 2004 studio album by Scissor Sisters

Scissor Sisters is the debut studio album by American glam rock band Scissor Sisters, first released in 2004. It was released by Polydor in the UK. It reached number 1 on the UK and Irish albums charts, and was the best-selling album of 2004 in the UK. Since its release it has gone 9× Platinum in the UK, selling over 2,700,000 copies in the country alone. In Ireland it has been certified 5× Platinum. The album was not as successful in their native USA, peaking at #102 on the Billboard 200. As of February 2007 it has sold 299,000 copies in United States. The album has sold 3,300,000 copies worldwide, and is listed as one of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die in the book of the same name, edited by Robert Dimery.

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<i>We Are Scissor Sisters... And So Are You</i> 2004 video by Scissor Sisters

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<i>Ta-Dah</i> 2006 studio album by Scissor Sisters

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<i>Hurrah! A Year of Ta-Dah</i> 2007 video by Scissor Sisters

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<i>K-Mart Disco</i> 2007 demo album by Scissor Sisters

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Only the Horses 2012 single by Scissor Sisters

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