Oz movies, radio, and television

• The Internet Movie Database — [A] [B]

• TV Guide's Movie Database

• A history of Oz movies

• Film versions of Oz before and after 1939

• Some not-so-great versions of Oz

• The Sad, Century-Long History of Terrible Oz Movies — [A] [B]

• A historical overview of Oz movies and television

• The Cause of the Wizard

• Clips from various Oz movies and shows

• A Culture Map of Oz movies and influences

• The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) — [A] [B] [C]
  • Cheapskate's Review of Free Media looks at the 1910 version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• Romola Remus, the first Dorothy in the movies — [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3 has yet to appear…]

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) — [A] [B]

• The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) — [A] [B]

• The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) — [A] [B] [C]
  • A rarely-seen clip

• His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) — [A] [B] [C] [D]

• The Wizard of Oz (1925) — [A] [B] [C] [D][E]

• Watch Oz movies on your home computer (those on Movieflix require registration):
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
  • The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914)
  • The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914)
  • His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) — [A] [B]
  • The Wizard of Oz (1925)
  • The Wonderful Teacher of Oz (???)

• Watch The Wizard of Oz cartoon (1933) on YouTube

• Restoration of the '33 Wizard of Oz cartoon with a Blu-Ray release coming

• The first Technicolor Wizard of Oz (Judy Garland wasn't in it!)

• Comparing the 1910 and 1925 silent film versions of The Wizard of Oz

• Box Office Mojo's Oz pages — [The Wizard of Oz (1939)] [The Wiz] [Under the Rainbow] [Return to Oz (1985)] [Oz the Great and Powerful] [Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return]

• Oz on the radio

• RUSC Old Time Radio, which has tracks devoted to The Wizard of Oz in 1939 and 1950, Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, and Bert Lahr

• Reviews of Oz radio and audio productions

• Lux Radio Theater, which broadcast The Wizard of Oz on Christmas 1950

• Emerald City Radio, all-Oz broadcasting around the clock

• Walt Disney's attempts to make an Oz movie

• Behind the scenes at the Disneyland Fourth Anniversary Show, notably the preview for the eventually abandoned movie The Rainbow Road to Oz

• What was actually made of The Rainbow Road to Oz

• Oz in the Disney archives

• Tales of the Wizard of Oz — [A] [B]

• Reviews of Shirley Temple's The Land of Oz, a 1961 episode of her television show — [A] [B] [C] [D (along with several other new shows from that season)

• Three different video adaptations of The Marvelous Land of Oz

• Off to See the Wizard, a 1967-68 Oz-themed anthology series from MGM
  • The open and close, along with some of the interstitial segments

• Susan Conway talks about being the voice of Dorothy in the 1964 animated Return to Oz — includes behind-the-scenes photos!

• Reviews of Return to Oz (1964 animated television special) — [A] [B] [C (with Journey Back to Oz)]

• Reviews of Journey Back to Oz — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F]

• Walt Disney and The Wizard of Oz (including Return to Oz and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz)

• The lyrics to the songs from The Rainbow Road to Oz, a never-completed Disney project

• More about The Rainbow Road to Oz

• Review of the 1982 anime adaptation of The Wizard of Oz

• The 1987 cartoon series The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — [A] [B] [C (in Hebrew)] [D (with illustrations from an unrelated picture book)] [E (the company that now owns it)] [E2 (the same information for Ozma of Oz)] [Episode Guide]

• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (the 1985 animated Rankin-Bass special) — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G (scroll down)] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P]

• The Enchanted World of Rankin-Bass — they made Tales of the Wizard of Oz, the 1964 television special Return to Oz, and the 1985 television special The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (the 2000 animated TV movie) — [A] [B] [C (scroll down)] [D]

• Reviews of both American animated versions of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (scroll down)

• The voice actors of both versions of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

• The Adventures of Young Santa (1996 anime series of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus ) [A] [B]

• The 1990 cartoon series The Wizard of Oz, based on The Movie

• The Oz Kids cartoon series

• Voice actors of different versions of The Wizard of Oz

• The Wizard of Oz on Ice, a 1996 CBS television special (in parts)

• Trailer for Oz (1976 Australian movie, released in North America as 20th Century Oz)

• Australian singer Ross Wilson performs "Living in the Land of Oz" from (20th Century) Oz

• The Brady Bunch in Oz (with bonus cereal commercial!)

• Reviews of the Turkish Wizard of Oz (no, really, there is such a thing!) — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I]
  • Watch it on YouTube (in parts) — [A] [B]
  • It's been remastered!
    • The remastered version

• Os Trapalhões e o Mágico de Oroz, the Brazilian verison of The Wizard of Oz (in Portuguese)
  • Review (in English)
  • The complete soundtrack

• The Galaxy Adventures of Oz, an Oz-themed Japanese sci-fi cartoon

• Highlights of Hello Kitty in the Magical Land of Oz (in Japanese)

• Trollkarlen från Oz, the Danish dub of a Japanese anime version of The Wizard of Oz

• The Box of Robbers, a student film based on a short story by L. Frank Baum
  • Behind the scenes
  • The Box of Robbers with commentary

• "The Impending Wizard of Oz Renaissance"

• Oz movies that may be coming soon!

• More about forthcoming movies

• Legends of Oz: Dorothy Returns, the 2014 movie — [A] [B] [page] [C] [UK site] [On Facebook] [D] [E] [F]
  • Lea Michelle as Dorothy — [A] [B]
  • Megan Hilty as the China Princess — [A] [B]
  • Dorothy of Oz at San Diego Comic Con 2011 — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F]
  • Virtual World
  • Interview with the Producer
  • Trailer — [A] [B] [C] [British]
  • Bringing it to the screen — [Part 1]
  • Ryan Jay at the premiere
  • The Tour
  • Author Roger S. Baum, who is also the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum
  • Reviews — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K]
  • What went wrong? — [A] [B] [C] [D]

• L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, coming soon to a theater near you (?)
  • You can help fund this movie!
  • The behind-the-scenes blog
  • Trailers — [A] [B]
  • A celebration of L. Frank Baum's birthday

• Dark Oz, coming soon to a theater near you (?)

• Test for a French animated version of The Wizard of Oz, directed by John Boorman, coming soon to a theater near you (?)

• OzLand, coming soon to a theater near you (?)

• Save Oz, coming soon to a theater near you (?)

• Trailer for The Witches of Oz, a 2011 television miniseries
  • The Witches of Oz YouTube channel
  • Review of the Blu-Ray release

• Dorothy and the Lost Girls, the sequel to Dorothy and the Witches of Oz

• After the Wizard, a small indie film where the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman come to Kansas looking for Dorothy
  • After the Wizard is coming to DVD
  • Trailers for After the Wizard — [A] [B]

• Legend of Oz — Dorothy's friends have come to Kansas to find her

• La Maga y el Camino Dorado, a telenovela version of The Wizard of Oz made for Nickelodeon Latin America

• Rediscovering Dorothy, a documentary (in production)
  • The woman behind the project

• The Wonderful World of Oz, a new documentary celebrating the Oz community and the fans that make it up

• Hash, Inc.'s computer animated version of The Tin Woodman of Oz

• Reviews of The Wizard of Oz (1925) and His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914)

• Larry Semon, the director and Scarecrow of the 1925 Wizard of Oz

• Reviews of the 1969 film The Wonderful Land of Oz — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] (in French) [J]
  • The career of Wonderful Land of Oz producer Barry Mahon

• The Film Connoisseur examines The Wizard of Oz (1939) and The Wiz, and Return to Oz (1985)

• Reviews of Zardoz, one of the trippiest movies ever made, and there's an Oz connection! — [A] [B] [C]
  • One of the 50 Worse Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movies That Had No Excuse
  • One nerd's passion for the novelization
  • Preview of the FilmRoasters/RiffTrax comedy commentary track (WARNING: Naughty words, in both the movie and comments)

• Reviews of Oz: A Rock and Road Musical (released in North America as 20th Century Oz), an odd 1976 Australian movie — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E]

• Reviews of The Wiz movie — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T]

• The Wiz has one of the fifty greatest matte paintings of all time (this is the second page of the list)

• The evolution of Oz movie fashion, including The Wiz

• If it worked for The Movie, why not The Wiz? — The Wiz with a Pink Floyd soundtrack

• Trailer for Under the Rainbow

• Review of Under the Rainbow

• Reviews of The Wizard of Mars — [A] [B] [C]

• Reviews (in Spanish) of the Spanish film Fantasía…3 (which has an "Oz" segment) - [A] [B] [C (in Spanish)] [D (in Spanish)]

• The opening of Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz (a 1980s straight-to-video cartoon based on Ozma of Oz)

• Reviews of Jim Henson's Mother Goose on DVD (the series was based, at least in part, on Baum's book Mother Goose in Prose)

• Jim Henson's Mother Goose on YouTube

• Being Dorothy, a Canadian documentary on small-town America filmed in Liberal, Kansas

• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz — [A] [B] [C] [D] [the CD] [the DVD]

• The many connections between Oz and the Muppets

• How The Muppets' Wizard of Oz doesn't suck

• Puppet's for Burr Tillstrom's proposed television adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz

• A song from an animated version of The Marvelous Land of Oz

• A look at Lost in Oz, a pilot for the WB that never became a series

• The Oz Movies That Could Have Been

• Tin Man, a Sci-Fi Channel miniseries

• The Origins of Oz, documentary on the Smithsonian Channel (first shown in Great Britain as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The True Story)
  • Watch it online
  • Download it from iTunes!

• "Not in Kansas Anymore", an episode of the Fame television series

• The Kids from Fame perform "Ease On Down the Road"

• FanAddicts profiles an Oz fan
  • Bonus webisode

• Is Peter Jackson producing a remake of The Wizard of Oz with a billion dollar budget?

• The Tin Woodman of Oz, a new computer animated version of the L. Frank Baum story
  • Behind the scenes

• A student animated version of The Wizard of Oz

• Unauthorized Magic in Oz, an original Oz puppet show written and directed by Edward Einhorn — [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

• Death of the Tinman, a movie loosely based on the Tin Woodman's origin

• Short movie: Heartless: The story of the Tin Man — [A] [B]

• Short movie: The Wheeler of Oz (you may have to poke around a little to find it)

• Short movie: Cowardly

• Short movie: The Green Ruby Pumpkin (with a behind-the-scenes video)

• The Wonderful World of Oz, an in-production documentary on the Oz community

• 1968 Russian hand puppet Волшебник Изумрудного города

• The 1974 Russian stop-motion animated series Волшебник Изумрудного города

• The 1999 Russian animated series Adventures in Emerald City (with English subtitles if you hit the cc button)

• More Russian adaptations — [А] [Б]

• Хроники Изумрудного города (Chronicle of the Emerald City), a documentary about Aleksandr Volkov and his "Magic Land" books (in Russian)
  • More about the film (still in Russian)

• A Russian documentary about Baum and Oz and Volkov and Magic Land

• A new English-language adaptation of the Russian sequel Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers

• Geltonų Plytų Kelias, a Lithuanian adaptation of The Wizard of Oz — [A] [B]

• Oz musicals in Japan (would you believe Hello Kitty going to Oz?)

• The Magic of Oz cartoon — nobody quite seems to know where this came from or when it was made…

• Way Off Broadway — in this Canadian cable series, a group of amateur theater buffs in Montreal have only eight weeks to put on a production of The Wizard of Oz!

• Ozsessed, a documentary about Oz fans

• The Secrets of Oz, a socio-political documentary about Oz

• The Wizard of Oz and Zombies, a series of three short films made by the students at the Vancouver Film School in Canada

• Trailer for Nick Chopper and the Forty Wolves, an adaptation of part of the original novel

• The Green Ruby Pumpkin, an Oz-inspired short film
  • The Making of The Green Ruby Pumpkin

• Apocalypse Oz, a mash-up of The Wizard of Oz and Apocalypse Now (WARNING: adult language and situations) — [Part 1] [Part 2]

• Red Brick Road, a proposed Oz television series — [A] [B] [C]

• Is CBS developing an Oz-themed medical drama???

• Minnie's The Wizard of Dizz, a Disney parody

• Positively Ozitively, a project at Amazon Studios — [Promo] [Pilot]

• Warriors of Oz, coming soon (?) to Syfy — [A] [B] [C]

• The Little Tin Man — a little person actor wants to be in the remake of The Wizard of Oz — but not as a Munchkin!

• Mentions of Oz in other movies (as well as clips from The Movie and The Wiz)

• Ryan Jay's Oz reviews

• "Oz Don't Look Like That!"

• The Music of Oz

• Is Oz coming to the television series Once Upon a Time?
  • Yes it is!
  • Which characters will appear?
  • Rebecca Mader talks about playing the Wicked Witch of the West
  • Mari Ness reviews OUAT's Oz episodes — [A] [B] [C] [D]
  • Plans for the season finale

• Dorothy and the Wicked Witch on a 2013 episode of Supernatural
  • Review
  • Behind the Scenes

• Trailer for the 2015 Russian movie Возвращение в Изумрудный город, or Return to the Emerald City

• The Wizard of Oz: the action film trailer

• An Oz episode of the Korean drama Running Man

• Emerald City, a new Oz series in development at NBC — [Official Website] [A] [B] [C]
  • Whoops, not any more!
  • Then again… [A] [B]

• Dorothy, a new Oz-themed medical series in development at CBS

• Yellow Brick Road, a new screenplay

• Robert Reece, Disney writer (scroll down to the section "The broken Yellow Brick Road to Oz" for information about a proposed Oz series from Disney]

• The Tin Man in a public service announcement for the American Heart Association

• A bizarre turn on Wheel of Fortune

• An Oz find on Storage Wars

• Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner in The Whizzard of Ow

• Oz-themed television commercials — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N]
  • One from Great Britain
  • And from Japan: [あ (including a making of video)] [い] [う]

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