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Off The See The Wizard is a part-animated but mostly live action television anthology series produced by MGM Television and telecast on ABC-TV between 1967 and 1968.

Contents

1 History
- 1.1 Featured Films
2 Cast
3 See also
4 External links

History

The series derived its name from the well-known song We're Off To See The Wizard, featured in MGM's classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Such was the popularity of the film among TV audiences by then that ABC decided to build an anthology series around it, a series which primarily showcased the first network telecasts of some of MGM's most popular recent live-action family films, much as Walt Disney had often showcased the first telecasts of his films on the Disney anthology television series. Animated versions of Dorothy Gale, Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Wizard of Oz book-ended each episode of the series, often providing humorous introductions to the films. Chuck Jones served as executive producer.

The series also used music from the famous MGM film. The opening credits featured an offscreen chorus singing a stanza of "Over the Rainbow" and segued into Dorothy and her three friends singing "We're Off to See the Wizard."

Featured Films

The series ran only an hour, so full-length films had to be split into two parts, much as Disney used to do on its television anthology series. Film shown on the series in order of appearance include:

Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)
Flipper (1963)
Hell Cats
Island of the Lost
Lili (1953)
Mike and the Mermaid
Rhino
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
Gypsy Colt (1953)
Untamed World
Who's Afraid of Mother Goose?
Wild World
Zebra in the Kitchen (1965)
The Glass Slipper (1955)
Captain Sindbad (1963)

Cast

Mel Blanc - Cowardly Lion, Toto
Daws Butler - Scarecrow, Tin Man, Wizard of Oz
June Foray - Dorothy Gale, Wicked Witch of the West

External links

Off to See the Wizard at the Internet Movie Database

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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Adaptations

Films	The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910) The Land of Oz (1910) John Dough and the Cherub (1910) The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) Wizard of Oz (1925) The Wizard of Oz (1933) The Wizard of Oz (1939) The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969) Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde (1971) Journey Back to Oz (1974) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1975) The Wiz (1978) The Wizard of Oz (1982) Return to Oz (1985) Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz (1987) The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story (1990) The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011) The Witches of Oz (2011) Dorothy of Oz (2012) Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013)

Stage	The Wizard of Oz (1902) The Woggle-Bug (1905) The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (1913) The Wizard of Oz (1942) The Wiz (1974) The Marvelous Land of Oz (1981) The Wizard of Oz (1987) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2000) The Wizard of Oz (2011)

Television	Tales of the Wizard of Oz Return to Oz (1964) Off to See the Wizard (1967) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986) The Wizard of Oz (1990) The Oz Kids (1996) Adventures in the Emerald City Lost in Oz (2002)

Comics	Dorothy of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Adventures in Oz Oz Oz Squad The Enchanted Apples of Oz

Video games	The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road (2008) Emerald City Confidential (2009)

Parodies	The Wozard of Iz Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oróz The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's Wizard of Odd

Reimagining	The Wizard of Mars (1965) Hunter (1973) Zardoz (1974) Oz (1976) A Barnstormer in Oz (1982) The Wizard of A.I.D.S. (1987) The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz (1990) Twister (1994) Tin Man (2007)

The Wicked Years

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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