Tales of Wizard of Oz

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

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 Scarecrow. 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 centring 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 hour-long 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. Coincidentally, both this series and Filmation's own animated project, Journey Back to Oz (which began production one year later and was ultimately finished in 1971), are now owned by the same company,Universal Studios.

In October 2010, the series went into rotation on the Retro Television Network.

Cast list

 * Mel Blanc – The Wizard
 * June Foray – Dorothy
 * Floyd Buckley – Munchkins, Various
 * Pinto Colvig – Various
 * Jack Mercer – Dandy Lion, Ham
 * Lucille Bliss– Various
 * Billy Bletcher – Rusty the Tin Man, the Wicked Witch, Topsy Turvy, Desmond the Dragon
 * Arnold Stang – Socrates the Scarecrow, Baker, Robby the Rubber Man

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. ?

52. ?

53. ?

54. ?

55. ?

56. ?

57. ?

58. ?

59. ?

60. Friends of a Feather

61. Monkey Air Lift

62. Guaranteed for Life

63. The Skills of Bravery

64. The Coat of Arms

65. Roar, Lion, Roar

66. Be a Card

67. The Inferior Decorator

68. The Salesman

69. The Cat's Meow

70. The Yellow Brick Road

71. Rusty Rusty

72. The Scarecrow

73. The Invisible Man

74. Free Trade

75. The Bull Fighter

76. The Golden Touch

77. The Long Hair

78. Roll the Presses

79. The Big Brother

80. The Cool Lion

81. Gabe the Gobbler

82. The Raffle

83. The Strawman Twist

84. The Dinner Party

85. The Fire Chief

86. The Green Tomato

87. The Poet

88. The Three Musketeers

89. One Big Headache

90. Get Out the Vote

91. ?

92. ?

93. ?

94. ?

95. The Wizard's Promise

96. Well Done

97. The Do-It-Yourself Heart

98. The Great Oz Auto Race

99. ?

100. The Jail Breakers

101. The Reunion

102. The Sucker

103. The Bubble Champ

104. Too Much Heart

105. The Witch's Boyfriend

106. The Clock Watchers

107. Double Trouble

108. The O.N.

109. Going to Pieces

110. Mail-Order Lover

111. Love Sick

112. It's a Dog's Life

113. The Fallen Star

114. Don't Pick the Daisies

115. The Munchkin Robin Hood

116. The Wizard's Tail-Fins

117. The Rubber Doll


 * 1) ?    The Magic World Of Oz


 * 1) ?    The Wisdom Teeth


 * 1) ?    The Brain


 * 1) ?    Bake Your Cake and Eat it Too


 * 1) ?    A Fish Tale


 * 1) ?    The Last Straw


 * 1) ?    Plug-In Courage


 * 1) ?    The Wizard's Magic Wand


 * 1) ?    The Mail Man


 * 1) ?    The Pony Express

Film: Return to Oz (Feb. 9, 1964)