Tales of the Wizard of Oz

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Tales of the Wizard of Oz
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Genre Animation
Based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Directed byHarry Kerwin
Voices of Carl Banas
Corinne Conley
Bernard Cowan
Paul Kligman
Alfie Scopp
Country of originCanada
United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes110
Production
Producers Arthur Rankin Jr.
Jules Bass
Larry Roemer
Antony Peters
Bernard Cowan
Running time5 minutes
Production companies Crawley Films
Videocraft Productions
Original release
Network Syndicated
ReleaseSeptember 1, 1961 (1961-09-01) 
December 1961 (1961-12)

Tales of the Wizard of Oz is a 1961 animated television series produced by Crawley Films for Videocraft (later known as Rankin/Bass Productions). This is the second animated series produced by the studio and the first by Rankin/Bass to feature traditional animation. [1]

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Summary

The series features stories derived from characters created in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . Several characters are given additional names, including Dandy the Cowardly Lion, Rusty the Tin Man, and Socrates the Strawman. In this adaptation, rather than being dropped by a tornado, Dorothy and Toto are blown in from Kansas through a hole cut out of the landscape.

Each episode is a brief vignette about an adventure that the characters are involved in, often centering around the Wizard's attempts to fulfil the characters' wishes.

Artistic renditions of the Oz characters created for this series were later featured in the hourlong television special Return to Oz . The series was also adapted to a comic book for a one-shot issue in Dell's Four Color #1308 (March–May 1962).

As of 2018, this series has yet to be released on DVD.

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Episode list

  1. Pilot: Part 1
  2. Pilot: Part Two - The Witch Switch
  3. Leapin' Lion
  4. The Magic Hat
  5. The Balloon Buzz
  6. Machine-Gun Morris
  7. Movie Maid
  8. Shadow Shakes
  9. The Big Cake Bake
  10. Desmond's Dilemma
  11. Misfire Miss
  12. Gung-Ho Gang
  13. Heart Burn
  14. Stuffed
  15. The Fountain of Youth
  16. The Rubber Man
  17. The Happy Forest
  18. Dandy's Dilemma
  19. The Search
  20. The Bag of Wind
  21. The Music Men
  22. To Bee or Not to Bee
  23. Have Your Pie and Eat It Too
  24. The Sound of Munchkins
  25. The Count
  26. Places, Please
  27. The Green Golfer
  28. The Flying Carpet
  29. The Monkey Convention
  30. The Big Shot
  31. On the Wing
  32. To Stretch A Point
  33. The Flipped Lid
  34. Down in the Mouth
  35. The Gusher
  36. The Family Tree
  37. Boomer Rang
  38. The Great Laurso
  39. The Pudgy Lion
  40. Beauty and the Beach
  41. The Hillies and the Billies
  42. The School Marm
  43. An Optical Delusion
  44. Watch the Bouncing Bull
  45. All in a Lather
  46. The Green Thumb
  47. Leap Frog
  48. The Cultured Lion
  49. Chowy Mein
  50. The Super-Duper Market
  51. Friends of a Feather
  52. Monkey Air Lift
  53. Guaranteed for Life
  54. The Skills of Bravery
  55. The Coat of Arms
  56. Roar, Lion, Roar
  57. Be a Card
  58. The Inferior Decorator
  59. The Salesman
  60. The Cat's Meow
  61. The Yellow Brick Road
  62. Rusty Rusty
  63. The Scarecrow
  64. The Invisible Man
  65. Free Trade
  66. The Bull Fighter
  67. The Golden Touch
  68. The Long Hair
  69. Roll the Presses
  70. The Big Brother
  71. The Cool Lion
  72. Gabe the Gobbler
  73. The Raffle
  74. The Strawman Twist
  75. The Dinner Party
  76. The Fire Chief
  77. The Green Tomato
  78. The Poet
  79. The Three Musketeers
  80. One Big Headache
  81. Get Out the Vote
  82. The Wizard's Promise
  83. Well Done
  84. The Do-It-Yourself Heart
  85. The Great Oz Auto Race
  86. The Jail Breakers
  87. The Reunion
  88. The Sucker
  89. The Bubble Champ
  90. Too Much Heart
  91. The Witch's Boyfriend
  92. The Clock Watchers
  93. Double Trouble
  94. The O.N.
  95. Going to Pieces
  96. Mail-Order Lover
  97. Love Sick
  98. It's a Dog's Life
  99. The Fallen Star
  100. Don't Pick the Daisies
  101. The Munchkin Robin Hood
  102. The Wizard's Tail-Fins
  103. The Rubber Doll
  104. The Magic World Of Oz
  105.  The Wisdom Teeth
  106.  The Brain
  107. Bake Your Cake and Eat it Too
  108. A Fish Tale
  109.  The Last Straw
  110. Plug-In Courage
  111. The Wizard's Magic Wand
  112.  The Mail Man
  113. The Pony Express
  114. TV Romance

Film: Return to Oz (Feb 9, 1964)

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