the funny thing is, Legends of Oz: Dorothy's return is based off of a book by L Frank Baums great grandson, as terrible as the movie itself can be, its actually a decent condensation of the book Dorothy of Oz
@@jadebel7006 i mean, ironically return to oz not doing well commercially but basically having a cult following today mirrors the 39 film It wasnt a critical or commercial success either
The tragedy of living in another version's shadow...😞 (just ask all the fairytale princesses being compared their Disney counterparts. Or Frankenstein and his monster often being based on the 1931 movie. 👀)
There’s a reason why after book 6 the Oz books get boring it’s because book 6 was supposed to be the last book in the Oz franchise but fans wanted more Oz they were like the Harry Potter for there time so L Frank Baum Wrote more
One of my favorite pieces of Oz media is a short film called Heartless: the Story of the Tin Man. It's just a really phenomenal little film. The aesthetics and the pacing are both great. They opt to give the Tin Man an almost Steam Punk or Diesel Punk esque design, but it works; sets it apart from any other version. I remember sort of "discovering" it as I did deep dives on Wikipedia articles learning about Oz stuff, so I felt a special connection to it, especially because learning about the Tin Man's book backstory after only knowing the MGM film was pretty mind-blowing.
the Toto thing made me laugh so hard because when you said that I was like “maybe he just didn’t want to speak” and then you said “well, i didn’t have much to say” 😂😭
Fun fact i literally found out last week the witch just says “fly, fly” and not “fly my pretties” who made this correlation? And why’d I believe it for so long😂
The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road on the DS deserves a shout out, its a highly underrated little RPG with a banger soundtrack and the Oz characters look surprisingly good in the anime art style. I wish it could of gotten a sequel or a port on switch.
Yeah I saw a video on it, and art style the made me want a story driven OZ series similar to shows such as the Owl House or Amphibia. Heck, Dorothy’s design in the game just screams Witch Dorothy to me. Which I think would make for an interesting direction in the event that she gets stuck after the Wicked Witch gets defeated. Maybe needing to use and or braking one of the slippers while fighting the Witch.
OZ-cellent review! By the way, Baum's "first love" was the theater, so he was delighted when "The Wizard of Oz" quickly got a successful stage adaptation (although a number of things were changed). This led to him wanting to write a stage sequel, which informed the second Oz book "The Marvelous Land of Oz", and is why it doesn't have much in common with the first, except for the Scarecrow and Tin Woodsman (because Fred Stone and David C Montgomery who played them were the stand-out stars of the first play). Also it's the main reason for General Jinjur and her all-female army, who would have been a chorus line. And for the Tip/Ozma thing, because of the principal boy tradition (also seen in Peter Pan).
Very good review of oz adaptions. But you missed one - Journey back to oz, which was an animated musical sequel of the mgm 1939 film. It had Liza Minnelli voice Dorothy who is Judy garlands daughter. It’s a film that is quite hard to find but I enjoyed watching it when I was younger
YEP! The Rankin and Bass Oz tv Series From The Ealy 60's There was an Anthology show in the 60's when ABC Lost Disney To NBC! Called " Were Off To See The Wizard" That Show Serialized Fims MGM Had MAGIC SWORD And Capt Sinbad! the Show Had Animated bumpers Shirly temple Play House Adaptation of Marvelous Land Of Qz! PIRATE LAND Amusement Park IN Florida Produce A Faithful Of Marvelous Land Of Oz! Though It Was A Zero Budget In The Early 80's TOHO Produced A Faithful Adaption The American Dub featured Loren Green As The Wizard And Alieen Quin (ANNIE) As Dorthy In The 90's There Was A Movie Serise Featuring The Children Of The Original Characters! I Have The Film Where They Meet Son Goku/ Son Wukong The Trickster Monkey King From The Saiyuki ( JOURNY TO THE WEST) There Was A Amazon Cgi Tv Serise And A Boomerang Tv Series There Was Also A Dark No Budget Cgi Film Called The steam Engineers Of Oz! Featuring A Dystopian Steam Punk Oz Where The Woodsmen Has Become A Tyrant It Features William Shatner As The Wizard! There Is A Comic Book Serise " THE OZ SQUAD!" Dark But Lots Of Book Faithful Cannon ! The Frist issue had tik tok coming to our world Gose Nutz! Onto Going On A Killing Spree! It Is Reveled That tik Toks Morality Spring Was Overcome By Our Worlds Morality In Oz Morality Is Black And White! But In Our World Morality Is A Million Hue Techno Colored Mess! There Was Also The Lil Oz Squad! Which Is More Wholesome And Kid Friendly
At least the Muppet version has more scenes from the book. some of those scenes are ONLY in that version like the field mice, the green glasses, the different forms of the Wizard, the silver shoes and The Wicked Witch’s cap and “ MAGIC EYE “.
Yeah, they were so close with that movie, but it still had its shortcomings. I’d love to see more muppet book adaptations, but they gotta be set in their times,
If you really like stage plays there is a stageplay called "The Woodsman" which is based off of the tin man book in the wizard of Oz series. It is seriously SO good! There's no talking it's raw emotion through music, acting and there's brilliant puppeteer work I highly recommend giving it a watch!(The whole thing is on UA-cam the video to avoid copyright is The woodman Boardway)
The Tin Man was always meant to be just a TV movie, I think you got it confused with 2017's "Emerald City" which is missing on your list. It aired 10 episodes on NBC in the US before it was canceled. It was a dark drama, a little slow, but I enjoyed it. That being said, The Tin Man is definitely worth finishing. Nice re-imagining.
Both versions are pretty good, Emerald City was trying to adopt the darker tones Once took with its fairy tale adaptations which made it stand out to me but Tin Man had good casting specifically for Tin Man and DG (I mean, Damien Darhk(?) and Bones' sister? Good choices for the characters they were playing
Interesting fact: Though Tik-Tok is described as a "mechanical man," the word "robot" first came into use in the January 2, 1921 Czech play, "R.U.R." and stands for "Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti" (Rossum's Universal Robot in English).
Especially if you look at the wizard's arc and try to connect it to the classic movie, it doesn't really work, but taken on its own it's a decent maybe even pretty good movie.
@BlairBart-gu7fn many people seem to think otherwise from comments I've seen and heard. Not saying they're right just saying the comments compare the movies and seem to think Oz the great and powerful was intended as a prequel not it's own stand alone thing with plans for it's own sequels.
I'd love a reimagining of Neverending Story, at least with adult Bastion (although Free Willy 2 and 3 as well as Neverending are some of my top movies from my childhood, can never remember the guys actual name) as a cameo or legacy actor to voice like Falkor or something lol. It's never really been asked for, but I'm pretty sure I keep hearing rumors whispered about such a remake coming sometime in the future. And as closed-ended as it was Dark Crystal always felt like it needed more and the Netflix prequel series didn't do it as much as aid have hoped for me.
You may want to seek out the Disneyland Fourth Anniversary Show, if you haven’t already. It features the Mouseketeers pitching a film to Walt called the Rainbow Road to Oz, to star the Mouseketeers plus Moochie. The show has three production numbers from the planned movie, which was abandoned shortly thereafter.
If I’m remembering correctly Tin Man was only ever meant to be a limited series. So the story gets wrapped up by the end. I haven’t seen it since it came out though so might be misremembering
You're right, it was never advertised as anything more than a miniseries, like Dinotopia, Rose Red (or anything made for TV audiences based from Stephen King) or Wrinkle in Time (although no one really cared for that one apparently lol)
You completely skipped over the first sequel attempt to The Wizard Of Oz. Journey Back to Oz. It was a box office bomb but did have a good second life on tv.
Former Disney Cast Member here. After Snow White Disney bought the film rights to the Oz books (MGM had already bought the rights to the first book). In 1959 on the Disneyland TV show The Mouseketeers convinced Walt to do The Rainbow Road To Oz. They act out the scenes. The episode is available on UA-cam. It’s called Disneyland The Fourth Anniversary Show.
Sorry if it's been mentioned already - your quote about "you can show a child the most horrible thing" is from Don Bluth, who made The Land Before Time and The Secret of NIMH!
the funny thing is, Legends of Oz: Dorothy's return is based off of a book by L Frank Baums great grandson, as terrible as the movie itself can be, its actually a decent condensation of the book Dorothy of Oz and i will always love return to oz
Warner Brothers owns MGM’s catalog which includes both Tom and Jerry and the 1938 film, and is one of the few adaptations that includes the ruby slippers since they own the rights.
When I was a kid I remember watching The Marvelous Land of Oz. It was a musical adaptation of the second Oz book. It came out in 1981 when I was 10. I recently looked it up and it's on UA-cam. Pretty faithful adaptation featuring Tip.
I Think Your Thinking Of The 60's Pirate Land Flim From Crown Pictures That Did Santa Clause And The Ice cream Bunny! They Were Distbuted To Kid Matinees And Public Schools!
In San Antonio, Texas, circa 1975, the local theatre troupe did an English-language, Mexican version called " El Magico de Mexico," complete with the Wicked Witch (la Bruja) and the Piñata Man! And, "Yes. It was a musical!" 😂
A few missed: Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (cartoon on Boomerang with a bunch of seasons), Lost in Oz (Amazon Prime series), VeggieTales: The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's, and the Dorothy Must Die book series.
Loved this video. I've been wanting a proper Oz adaptation of the oz books similar to how lord of the rings, but it won't be 3 movies. I appreciate you giving Return to Oz the love it deserves I always preferred Return to Oz over the wonderful wizard of oz but that's just the love of slightly dark movies there. Keep up the great work
As someone who grew up reading the books, and always loved Polychrome, I feel horribly sad that I never realized she was in Return to OZ. Now I'm going to have to give it another watch.
Return to Oz was very underrated. When I first watched it, I wasn't sure what to expect. It was literally cheap on Apple's website, and almost forgotten. But I genuinely loved it. The darker approach to Oz was so great. Gave it a distinctly different feel to the original Judy Garland film. Very enjoyable characters across the board too. 👍
You neglected a few, such as JOURNEY BACK TO OZ (with Liza Minnelli doing Dorothy and sounding very much like her mom) or the odd bargain basement 1969 kiddie flick THE WONDERFUL LAND OF OZ (with so many thrills, you’ll be ozified! ). There was even an OZ TV shoe on the 60s. And there was/is a short animated film called RETURN TO OZ (from the 60s or early 70s), where a wind blows the melted witch back together! Not too long back there was a series called EMERALD CITY--very different, but interesting. I wish it had lasted longer.
@@jeroenamador7001It was a 1964 TV movie (51 minutes) according to IMDB. Animated. It was released on DVD (or maybe it was VHS? But could swear it was DVD) YEARS ago.
You should hunt down an episode of The Shirley Temple Storybook 1960. There's a pretty decent version of The Land of Oz sequel with the legendary Agnes Moorehead (Endora from Bewitched) as Mombi.
Oz Great and Powerful was amazing, its problem was stepping all over existing lore (specifically the Wicked side of things). The cast was great, no one deny they had the star power for a good movie
I have to agree. I don't think that Oz the Great and Powerful was as bad as people say it was, and I actually could see it as a prequel to the 1939 film. I can't say the same for Wicked. In order to enjoy Wicked, I have to consider it as occurring in a universe different from the original books or the 1939 movie.
I haven't seen the movies in years, but I've been going through reading the books. I think I'm on The Patchwork Girl of Oz. I had no idea that there were characters from more of the books showing up in Return to Oz. Now I have to go back and watch it again. And WOW, I went and saw Oz the Great and Powerful on my birthday as well, because my birthday is also March 8th.
Have you seen Lost in Oz? It was Prime tv show that I never finished but from what i remember it follows dorothy's daughter trying to get back home form a really futuristic oz and it has time travel or something idk. There was also one i can not remember the name of but there was like a little flying monkey and a princess or something
It’s dated but there’s also the cartoon “Journey Back to Oz” with the voice of Liza Minnelli (Judy Garland’s daughter) as Dorothy. It’s basically the plot of “the Marvelous Land of Oz” with Dorothy substituted for Tip.
I remember the TV series Off to See the Wizard from MGM Television. It was an anthology series similar to The Wonderful World of Disney but only ran one season.
6:28 slight correction. The first technical robot in fiction (iirc) was the Steam Man of the Prairies by author Edward S.Ellis. From what I remember, Baum was strongly influenced by that book when making the character TickTock. Great video all the same 👍
On the books, Baum wanted to finish with the 6th book Emerald City of Oz & it is apparent from the ending that he had cut Oz off from the rest of the world. However due to popular, and publisher, demand he was forced to write more, a bit like Conan Doyle was forced to bring Sherlock Holmes back, a comparison I never thought I'd make. After he died having written a total of 14 Oz books, many other authors have continued to write Oz books, both authorised & unauthorised, the latter including the Wicked series. You missed out what was, I think, the last Big budget TV show Emerald City. Not the greatest adaptation but it has its moments. Apart from that Excellent video & it has mentioned some shows I wasn't aware of.
The O-Z naming story came from Baum himself. so take it with a grain of salt since if memory serves, baum was not afraid to make things up if it sold the idea better.
The one that you might not know of is a quite new show called Lost in Oz. It came out in 2015 I believe. It’s on Prime Video. It follows Dorothy, but not the original Dorothy, her granddaughter with the same name and she gets lost in Oz basically it. Imo it is very good so I suggest that you watch it!
So The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for the 80's adaptation is a anime series done by the Japanese studio Panmedia and aired on TV Tokyo back in the day, hope that helps.
Great video. I too used to watch Return of Oz all the time. The animation of the Nome King and HORRIFYING Wheelers traumatised me in the best way. I wonder if that's why I find Daleks less scary? I would love to know more about this world. Do like a miniseries where every book is covered. But there is alot going on so I expect an episode per book would be too constricted
Out of curiosity and since you didn't include it in your tier list, what's would you have ranked "Journey Back to Oz"? (It was an animated version of "Return to Oz" that I first saw on Cartoon Network in the early 2000's.)
Every single person who's ever seen the stage show knew that they were going to split the movie because you can't condense that into a two or even three hour movie and as you said you cannot go on beyond Defying Gravity...
The Tin Man series has its flaws but it kinda does tie into the original Wizard of Oz. They say in the show that this isn't a remake of the original film it's a continuation of the story. There is one scene where DG meets the spirit of the original Dorothy Gale. This whole series follows Dorothy's descendants don't know how that works but yeah this show was basically its own thing that takes place many years after Dorothy visited Oz
Oz has had prequels, sequels, reimaginings, parodies, but never a straight remake. I liked Wicked, Return to Oz and Oz the Great and Powerful, and I haven't seen the animated versions, but why hasn't Disney nor Warner, in this age of nostalgia, ever made a high-budget live-action remake to cash in? The original is sacred, but so were the first King Kong movie, the LOTR books and lots of other pieces of media that now have a worthy adaptation/remake. Some have tried, but they had no budget or no vision. Let's give it a try with modern directing techniques, modern effects, a tighter pacing, climatic battles, wide landscapes and new renditions of the classic songs. EDIT: I just found out about a russian version coming next year.
It was not included on the list, but my favorite adaptation is ABC's Once Upon A Time. It is more a Wicked Witch, played by Rebecca Madar, adaptation, but Oz, Dorothy, the Wizard, Glinda, and the other witches do get their fair share of screen time in the Oz season of the show (season 3?). Highly recommended!
Using the icon for The Wiz Live (the NBC TV Musical) and then talking about The Wiz 2024 without talking about The Wiz Live (which was brilliant) saddens me. The Wiz Live would be A tier for me, with some great casting choices.
“We all know the Wizard of Oz, right?” My dad used to dress up as the Scarecrow for Halloween to hand out candy when I was little and he’d get a little more sad every year that a good chunk of the parents wouldn’t know what the Wizard of Oz was.
As a fellow Oz Enthusiast and collector of Badfilm, you need to watch Steam Engines of Oz produced by Arcane Films. It is the WEIRDEST Oz Spinoff I have ever seen. Not often you get a Locasta drop in an Oz spinoff after all, and I find it worth it for that and the "sexy" Ron Perlman lion. And if you are into Oz-adjacent work, I highly recommend the Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
So, this adaptation doesn't take place in oz but, it's a play called "Dorothy in Wonderland". My school is doing it as a fundraiser. It's s crossover of the wizard of oz and Alice in wonderland. It's a really cool concept. I recommend watching it
I saw the MGM movie on its second re-release in 1955, when I was 5. I only remember the cyclone. Literally the very first book I read was my mother's copy of Ozma of Oz, which had the original John Neill illustrations. I went on to read the first book and a number of the sequels, and went on to also love the MGM movie, but like you, I find Return to Oz so great because it is so faithful to the Baum's concept. Also love how creatively they skirt the issue of blending the MGM's concept of it being a dream with the books' concept of it being real, with the Oz characters having a presence of sorts in Kansas, rather than the Kansas people having an Oz presence (it this makes any sense). One of the things about the Baum's concept was most if not all of the time, there is a child protagonist, one ~ 10 or so, not even Judy Garland's portrayal of Dorothy as a 14 yo. Many versions seem to miss this point. The Wiz is also faithful to the book but with Diana Carroll as a c. 25ish yo. Oz, the Great & Powerful makes it an adult story, with some adult subplots. ---- I think it was book 6 where Dorothy takes her aunt and uncle to Oz to live, to avoid the financial problems they are having in Kansas and I understand that Baum had gotten tired of writing these, so this was to be the final book. The idea was that Dorothy could no longer relay her adventures to Baum, who had set himself up as the Royal Historian of Oz. But children besieged him with letters begging for more. Then one girl questioned why Dorothy couldn't communicate with the outside world via the new technology of the wireless telegraph, so Baum gritted his teeth and picked up his pen again.
Yes, I think Oz, the Great & Powerful fails by having James Franco as the Wizard - he is 100% the opposite of the bumbling fraudulent Frank Morgan type. Also, I can't accept that Oz is up to date, and in fact apparently imported, treadle-type sewing machines c. mid-1800's, but they don't know of gunpowder, which has been around in the real world for over 1,000 years. (Disney should have shown people hand-sewing.) And I also agree you, too CGI. It seems like they often showed hordes of cookie-cutter characters, under the premise that more is better. And the cyclone scene really tepid.
The MOST bizarre adaptation has to be the 1971 Turkish Wizard of Oz "Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde" (ua-cam.com/video/BnApKUztuyo/v-deo.html) with the opening featuring an animated tornado and then leaping straight into a full Turkish live-action musical! Also omitted was the Shirley Temple, Oz, TV show from the 1950s in which Miss Temple played Ozma. But the biggest omission is the 1972 "Journey Back to Oz" animated film in which Dorothy is voiced by Liza Minnelli (the daughter of Judy Garland) AND Margaret Hamilton reprising her iconic role as the Witch.
BTW, I'm sure you're aware of this, but LFB also created his own expanded universe with Oz, though with characters from other books that didn't do so well. Trixie and Captain Trout crossed over to Oz and there was a big celebration with cameos from his other books.
What about "Journey back to the Land of OZ" the Animated film starring Liza Minelli? Or was it covered and I didn't recognize the animation. I don't recall you mentioning her name but considering her lineage, it is significant.
I would love to see a live action TV series where they faithfully adapt each one of the original OZ books without leaving anything out or changjng things. I've been waiting for this sort of thing for YEARS.
So damn happy to see some love for The Wiz. Personally it's my favorite one even with its shortcomings, to me it's almost like an arthouse version of Wizard of Oz, it's not fast-paced or colorful like you'd expect an Oz project (or better, an Oz project that is just aping the 1939 film instead of trying to be its own thing) and I have to be in the right mood to watch it, but when I do, it's always kind of an emotional roller coaster. If I were to do an Oz project, I'd try to hit a mood more akin to _The Wiz_ than the 1939 film, while of course trying to do my own thing. Also, I don't get scared by horror films... and those freaky red dancing doll things in the subway from _The Wiz_ are one of the scariest things I've ever seen in a movie. That liminal space subway, the way those bloody things become huge, growl and shake, it's seriously a "Who hurt you?" level of nightmarish imagery, forget monkeys with wings or men with wheeled feet and hands. I'd try to fight them no matter how strange they are, but if I was stuck in that subway with those gates trapping me and those two hellish puppets were coming up to get me, I would just be overtaken by the dread, collapse and just cry waiting for the end as I hear those things get closer and closer. Well done, The Wiz. Well done.
The Wizard of Oz (1939) may have been my first foray into the world and characters and still holds a place in my heart but Return to Oz will always be my personal favourite. 😁😊 Brilliant video as always, Confused Adipose. 😉👍🏻
I had no idea so many spin-offs and sequels/prequels existed. Though I remember watching one that you didn't mention here and after a quick search based on the one vivid memory I had of it, it is 1972's animated "Journey Back to Oz". The "Oz Wiki" says it was last aired in 1984, though this is impossible as I was born in 1993 and I saw it on TV, not on video. If you haven't seen it, then that's another for you to enjoy or hate haha!
The fact that Dorothy’s return made more money at the box office than return to Oz genuinely makes me mad.
the funny thing is, Legends of Oz: Dorothy's return is based off of a book by L Frank Baums great grandson, as terrible as the movie itself can be, its actually a decent condensation of the book Dorothy of Oz
It was like 50 yrs later, ticket prices had more than tripled since the mgm classic so like yh, obvs
@@jadebel7006 i mean, ironically return to oz not doing well commercially but basically having a cult following today mirrors the 39 film
It wasnt a critical or commercial success either
Look into the production of this movie. It was part of a financial scam.
@@KasumiKenshirou i am more than aware of that XD
Return to Oz is criminally underrated imo
Lion of oz is 100% the second best adaption behind the mgm classic we all know
It gave me nightmares
The tragedy of living in another version's shadow...😞
(just ask all the fairytale princesses being compared their Disney counterparts. Or Frankenstein and his monster often being based on the 1931 movie. 👀)
Doesn’t this have a strong cult following? I feel like its popularity has grown over time. The Wiz is probably more underrated.
@@sauronbagginsd8032 it’s my new favorite movie
as an OZ fan, I am loving the increase of media surrounding its massive history. Couldn't be happier...
Me too! It’s refreshing for sure.
Same but it's a pity the buzz is bcoz of a movie that will suck
@ It was actually very good imo and the ratings are great as well!
Thank goodness
There’s a reason why after book 6 the Oz books get boring it’s because book 6 was supposed to be the last book in the Oz franchise but fans wanted more Oz they were like the Harry Potter for there time so L Frank Baum Wrote more
Apparently Frank Baum got sick of writing them but people keeps asking him to write more.
@ did you also learn that from the Oz Vlog?
@@MaxxManzi there was a video on the Later books I watched Once
@@timelordvictorious oh I learn about it from the Oz vlog
Awesome vid
One of my favorite pieces of Oz media is a short film called Heartless: the Story of the Tin Man. It's just a really phenomenal little film. The aesthetics and the pacing are both great. They opt to give the Tin Man an almost Steam Punk or Diesel Punk esque design, but it works; sets it apart from any other version. I remember sort of "discovering" it as I did deep dives on Wikipedia articles learning about Oz stuff, so I felt a special connection to it, especially because learning about the Tin Man's book backstory after only knowing the MGM film was pretty mind-blowing.
the Toto thing made me laugh so hard because when you said that I was like “maybe he just didn’t want to speak” and then you said “well, i didn’t have much to say” 😂😭
Fun fact i literally found out last week the witch just says “fly, fly” and not “fly my pretties” who made this correlation? And why’d I believe it for so long😂
The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road on the DS deserves a shout out, its a highly underrated little RPG with a banger soundtrack and the Oz characters look surprisingly good in the anime art style. I wish it could of gotten a sequel or a port on switch.
Yeah I saw a video on it, and art style the made me want a story driven OZ series similar to shows such as the Owl House or Amphibia.
Heck, Dorothy’s design in the game just screams Witch Dorothy to me. Which I think would make for an interesting direction in the event that she gets stuck after the Wicked Witch gets defeated. Maybe needing to use and or braking one of the slippers while fighting the Witch.
OZ-cellent review!
By the way, Baum's "first love" was the theater, so he was delighted when "The Wizard of Oz" quickly got a successful stage adaptation (although a number of things were changed). This led to him wanting to write a stage sequel, which informed the second Oz book "The Marvelous Land of Oz", and is why it doesn't have much in common with the first, except for the Scarecrow and Tin Woodsman (because Fred Stone and David C Montgomery who played them were the stand-out stars of the first play). Also it's the main reason for General Jinjur and her all-female army, who would have been a chorus line. And for the Tip/Ozma thing, because of the principal boy tradition (also seen in Peter Pan).
Very good review of oz adaptions. But you missed one - Journey back to oz, which was an animated musical sequel of the mgm 1939 film. It had Liza Minnelli voice Dorothy who is Judy garlands daughter. It’s a film that is quite hard to find but I enjoyed watching it when I was younger
It's free on public domain internet database
YEP! The Rankin and Bass Oz tv Series From The Ealy 60's
There was an Anthology show in the 60's when ABC Lost Disney To NBC! Called " Were Off To See The Wizard" That Show Serialized Fims MGM Had MAGIC SWORD And Capt Sinbad! the Show Had Animated bumpers
Shirly temple Play House Adaptation of Marvelous Land Of Qz!
PIRATE LAND Amusement Park IN Florida Produce A Faithful Of Marvelous Land Of Oz! Though It Was A Zero Budget
In The Early 80's TOHO Produced A Faithful Adaption The American Dub featured Loren Green As The Wizard And Alieen Quin (ANNIE) As Dorthy
In The 90's There Was A Movie Serise Featuring The Children Of The Original Characters! I Have The Film Where They Meet Son Goku/ Son Wukong The Trickster Monkey King From The Saiyuki ( JOURNY TO THE WEST)
There Was A Amazon Cgi Tv Serise And A Boomerang Tv Series
There Was Also A Dark No Budget Cgi Film Called The steam Engineers Of Oz! Featuring A Dystopian Steam Punk Oz Where The Woodsmen Has Become A Tyrant It Features William Shatner As The Wizard!
There Is A Comic Book Serise " THE OZ SQUAD!" Dark But Lots Of Book Faithful Cannon ! The Frist issue had tik tok coming to our world Gose Nutz! Onto Going On A Killing Spree! It Is Reveled That tik Toks Morality Spring Was Overcome By Our Worlds Morality In Oz Morality Is Black And White! But In Our World Morality Is A Million Hue Techno Colored Mess!
There Was Also The Lil Oz Squad! Which Is More Wholesome And Kid Friendly
There Was Also An Anime Called " SPACE OZ!" I Saw It In The Anime Magazine ANIMAGE! I Think It Came Out In The Early 2000's!
@@horrorstew3577 and also on a website called UA-cam
At least the Muppet version has more scenes from the book. some of those scenes are ONLY in that version like the field mice, the green glasses, the different forms of the Wizard, the silver shoes and The Wicked Witch’s cap and “ MAGIC EYE “.
Yeah, they were so close with that movie, but it still had its shortcomings. I’d love to see more muppet book adaptations, but they gotta be set in their times,
If you really like stage plays there is a stageplay called "The Woodsman" which is based off of the tin man book in the wizard of Oz series. It is seriously SO good! There's no talking it's raw emotion through music, acting and there's brilliant puppeteer work I highly recommend giving it a watch!(The whole thing is on UA-cam the video to avoid copyright is The woodman Boardway)
i was looking for someone to mention the woodsman! we watched it in my theater class and i loved it. criminally underrated imo
The Tin Man was always meant to be just a TV movie, I think you got it confused with 2017's "Emerald City" which is missing on your list.
It aired 10 episodes on NBC in the US before it was canceled. It was a dark drama, a little slow, but I enjoyed it.
That being said, The Tin Man is definitely worth finishing. Nice re-imagining.
Loved emerald City. Have it on DVD. Watched it 3 or 4 times
Tin man was just okay
Both versions are pretty good, Emerald City was trying to adopt the darker tones Once took with its fairy tale adaptations which made it stand out to me but Tin Man had good casting specifically for Tin Man and DG (I mean, Damien Darhk(?) and Bones' sister? Good choices for the characters they were playing
Interesting fact: Though Tik-Tok is described as a "mechanical man," the word "robot" first came into use in the January 2, 1921 Czech play, "R.U.R." and stands for "Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti" (Rossum's Universal Robot in English).
Tinman is worth a rewatch. Very short. Only intended as a miniseries. Never cancelled. Meant to be only a few episodes.
Guys, get over it. Oz the Great and Powerful was NOT that bad.
Especially if you look at the wizard's arc and try to connect it to the classic movie, it doesn't really work, but taken on its own it's a decent maybe even pretty good movie.
@GrimmShadowsII no. Because Oz the Great and Powerful doesn't follow the classic film. It's associated with the book.
@BlairBart-gu7fn many people seem to think otherwise from comments I've seen and heard. Not saying they're right just saying the comments compare the movies and seem to think Oz the great and powerful was intended as a prequel not it's own stand alone thing with plans for it's own sequels.
@GrimmShadowsII well, it WAS a prequel. But it wasnt a CANON prequel. Like Wicked the musical is Canon to the MGM film.
It’s flawed but I enjoyed it.
You forgot JOURNEY BACK TO OZ with Liza Minnelli, Margaret Hamilton, Ethel Merman and Paul Lynde
Tin Man was a miniseries, it was never intended to go for longer.
Still the best tho
Thank you for existing pal. That was a nice video. Btw I met Margaret Hamilton in New York when I was a kid.
So agree about Return to Oz - It's a childhood classic! You are so right about it in the same basket as Neverending Story, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal etc
I'd love a reimagining of Neverending Story, at least with adult Bastion (although Free Willy 2 and 3 as well as Neverending are some of my top movies from my childhood, can never remember the guys actual name) as a cameo or legacy actor to voice like Falkor or something lol. It's never really been asked for, but I'm pretty sure I keep hearing rumors whispered about such a remake coming sometime in the future. And as closed-ended as it was Dark Crystal always felt like it needed more and the Netflix prequel series didn't do it as much as aid have hoped for me.
@nickynegron3515 i totally agree! Neverending Story is crying out for a sequel, but in the tone of the first movie
@@mystemo1980they did make a neverending story part 2 and 3. At least part 2 was actually adapted from the book, but it could’ve been done way better
You may want to seek out the Disneyland Fourth Anniversary Show, if you haven’t already. It features the Mouseketeers pitching a film to Walt called the Rainbow Road to Oz, to star the Mouseketeers plus Moochie. The show has three production numbers from the planned movie, which was abandoned shortly thereafter.
If I’m remembering correctly Tin Man was only ever meant to be a limited series. So the story gets wrapped up by the end. I haven’t seen it since it came out though so might be misremembering
You're right, it was never advertised as anything more than a miniseries, like Dinotopia, Rose Red (or anything made for TV audiences based from Stephen King) or Wrinkle in Time (although no one really cared for that one apparently lol)
as for why toto it was finally told by baum "because toto doesn't have always a lot to say"
IMO the ending spoiled the Judy Garland movie by making it all a dream. Oz. Is. A. Real. Place.
I wouldn't say it spoiled the movie but they definitely shouldn't have done it
Cannot wait for Wicked the movie this weekend! 🍿
You completely skipped over the first sequel attempt to The Wizard Of Oz. Journey Back to Oz. It was a box office bomb but did have a good second life on tv.
Judy Garlands daughter, Liza Minnelli, played Dorothy in that movie. She did a great job.
IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS YAYYYY THANK YOU
Former Disney Cast Member here. After Snow White Disney bought the film rights to the Oz books (MGM had already bought the rights to the first book). In 1959 on the Disneyland TV show The Mouseketeers convinced Walt to do The Rainbow Road To Oz. They act out the scenes. The episode is available on UA-cam. It’s called Disneyland The Fourth Anniversary Show.
Sorry if it's been mentioned already - your quote about "you can show a child the most horrible thing" is from Don Bluth, who made The Land Before Time and The Secret of NIMH!
the funny thing is, Legends of Oz: Dorothy's return is based off of a book by L Frank Baums great grandson, as terrible as the movie itself can be, its actually a decent condensation of the book Dorothy of Oz
and i will always love return to oz
There's actually one more adaptation - an animated series called Lost in Oz. It is a little sci-fi and odd but my son loves it!
Oh, that one’s fun. I like how they make the magic a science without diminishing it.
Warner Brothers owns MGM’s catalog which includes both Tom and Jerry and the 1938 film, and is one of the few adaptations that includes the ruby slippers since they own the rights.
New to channel and what fun Bro!! Love it!
I would definitely recommend finishing Tin Man. It was only ever supposed to be a three episode miniseries. It is one of my favorites!😊
This is absolutely amazing keep up the great work can’t wait to see more 🔥!
This was exactly the kind of vid I was looking for
When I was a kid I remember watching The Marvelous Land of Oz. It was a musical adaptation of the second Oz book. It came out in 1981 when I was 10. I recently looked it up and it's on UA-cam. Pretty faithful adaptation featuring Tip.
I Think Your Thinking Of The 60's Pirate Land Flim From Crown Pictures That Did Santa Clause And The Ice cream Bunny! They Were Distbuted To Kid Matinees And Public Schools!
it can Be Found on Amazon Tubi And UA-cam And There is A RiffTrax Version
In San Antonio, Texas, circa 1975, the local theatre troupe did an English-language, Mexican version called " El Magico de Mexico," complete with the Wicked Witch (la Bruja) and the Piñata Man! And, "Yes. It was a musical!" 😂
A few missed: Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (cartoon on Boomerang with a bunch of seasons), Lost in Oz (Amazon Prime series), VeggieTales: The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's, and the Dorothy Must Die book series.
Loved this video. I've been wanting a proper Oz adaptation of the oz books similar to how lord of the rings, but it won't be 3 movies. I appreciate you giving Return to Oz the love it deserves I always preferred Return to Oz over the wonderful wizard of oz but that's just the love of slightly dark movies there. Keep up the great work
As someone who grew up reading the books, and always loved Polychrome, I feel horribly sad that I never realized she was in Return to OZ. Now I'm going to have to give it another watch.
Return to Oz was very underrated. When I first watched it, I wasn't sure what to expect. It was literally cheap on Apple's website, and almost forgotten.
But I genuinely loved it. The darker approach to Oz was so great. Gave it a distinctly different feel to the original Judy Garland film. Very enjoyable characters across the board too. 👍
You neglected a few, such as JOURNEY BACK TO OZ (with Liza Minnelli doing Dorothy and sounding very much like her mom) or the odd bargain basement 1969 kiddie flick THE WONDERFUL LAND OF OZ (with so many thrills, you’ll be ozified! ). There was even an OZ TV shoe on the 60s. And there was/is a short animated film called RETURN TO OZ (from the 60s or early 70s), where a wind blows the melted witch back together! Not too long back there was a series called EMERALD CITY--very different, but interesting. I wish it had lasted longer.
Came here to mention the 60s series! It reran in the 80s and I adored it as a wee lad
@@robbrowatzke2852the 60s TV show reran in the 80s? I wish I had seen it. I’ve been trying to track it down for ages.
"RETURN TO OZ" from the 60's of 70's sounds fantastic! I searched the web and I couldn't find anything. 🙁
@@jeroenamador7001It was a 1964 TV movie (51 minutes) according to IMDB. Animated. It was released on DVD (or maybe it was VHS? But could swear it was DVD) YEARS ago.
Tinman ! Richard Dreyfus as the Wizard was BRILLIANT!
If you still haven't seen Wicked the movie yet... You have to! It's incredible!!!
You should hunt down an episode of The Shirley Temple Storybook 1960. There's a pretty decent version of The Land of Oz sequel with the legendary Agnes Moorehead (Endora from Bewitched) as Mombi.
Oz Great and Powerful was amazing, its problem was stepping all over existing lore (specifically the Wicked side of things). The cast was great, no one deny they had the star power for a good movie
I have to agree. I don't think that Oz the Great and Powerful was as bad as people say it was, and I actually could see it as a prequel to the 1939 film. I can't say the same for Wicked. In order to enjoy Wicked, I have to consider it as occurring in a universe different from the original books or the 1939 movie.
I haven't seen the movies in years, but I've been going through reading the books. I think I'm on The Patchwork Girl of Oz. I had no idea that there were characters from more of the books showing up in Return to Oz. Now I have to go back and watch it again.
And WOW, I went and saw Oz the Great and Powerful on my birthday as well, because my birthday is also March 8th.
Have you seen Lost in Oz? It was Prime tv show that I never finished but from what i remember it follows dorothy's daughter trying to get back home form a really futuristic oz and it has time travel or something idk. There was also one i can not remember the name of but there was like a little flying monkey and a princess or something
It’s dated but there’s also the cartoon “Journey Back to Oz” with the voice of Liza Minnelli (Judy Garland’s daughter) as Dorothy. It’s basically the plot of “the Marvelous Land of Oz” with Dorothy substituted for Tip.
The most interesting thing about Legends of Oz is its production, which was a huge financial scam.
When you said Return to Oz was your fav adaptation, I knew I could trust the rest of your ratings.
I'm shocked you missed Journey Back to Oz with Liza.
I remember the TV series Off to See the Wizard from MGM Television. It was an anthology series similar to The Wonderful World of Disney but only ran one season.
Return to Oz scared the feck out of me as a kid. I bet it'd do the same if I rewatched it 😂
Thank you so much for this i never expected non doctor who content!!!!
sitting here saying return to oz is a masterpiece but saying the muppets adaptation was boring / bad is INSANEEEEE
Return to Oz is the most terrifying film I’ve ever seen up to and including The Exorcist.
6:28 slight correction. The first technical robot in fiction (iirc) was the Steam Man of the Prairies by author Edward S.Ellis.
From what I remember, Baum was strongly influenced by that book when making the character TickTock. Great video all the same 👍
On the books, Baum wanted to finish with the 6th book Emerald City of Oz & it is apparent from the ending that he had cut Oz off from the rest of the world. However due to popular, and publisher, demand he was forced to write more, a bit like Conan Doyle was forced to bring Sherlock Holmes back, a comparison I never thought I'd make. After he died having written a total of 14 Oz books, many other authors have continued to write Oz books, both authorised & unauthorised, the latter including the Wicked series.
You missed out what was, I think, the last Big budget TV show Emerald City. Not the greatest adaptation but it has its moments. Apart from that Excellent video & it has mentioned some shows I wasn't aware of.
I love Return to Oz, I love the darker side of Oz
1:45 "so Ga'linda ear as I rank the Wizard of Oz peripheral material"
The O-Z naming story came from Baum himself. so take it with a grain of salt since if memory serves, baum was not afraid to make things up if it sold the idea better.
The one that you might not know of is a quite new show called Lost in Oz. It came out in 2015 I believe. It’s on Prime Video. It follows Dorothy, but not the original Dorothy, her granddaughter with the same name and she gets lost in Oz basically it. Imo it is very good so I suggest that you watch it!
I may be in the minority here, but I love the Witches of Oz. I actually own a copy that I still watch from time to time. ❤
So The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for the 80's adaptation is a anime series done by the Japanese studio Panmedia and aired on TV Tokyo back in the day, hope that helps.
There’s a film called Ozland (I think it’s an Aussie indie). You might get a kick out of it
Great video. I too used to watch Return of Oz all the time. The animation of the Nome King and HORRIFYING Wheelers traumatised me in the best way. I wonder if that's why I find Daleks less scary?
I would love to know more about this world. Do like a miniseries where every book is covered. But there is alot going on so I expect an episode per book would be too constricted
Out of curiosity and since you didn't include it in your tier list, what's would you have ranked "Journey Back to Oz"? (It was an animated version of "Return to Oz" that I first saw on Cartoon Network in the early 2000's.)
I still find it crazy that the original author, L. Frank Baum, made 14 Oz books before his death
The story of how Dorothy's Return was made is way more interesting than the film itself.
Would you count the Wicked Witch storyline from Once Upon a Time? Lots of scenes in Oz.
Every single person who's ever seen the stage show knew that they were going to split the movie because you can't condense that into a two or even three hour movie and as you said you cannot go on beyond Defying Gravity...
The Tin Man series has its flaws but it kinda does tie into the original Wizard of Oz. They say in the show that this isn't a remake of the original film it's a continuation of the story. There is one scene where DG meets the spirit of the original Dorothy Gale. This whole series follows Dorothy's descendants don't know how that works but yeah this show was basically its own thing that takes place many years after Dorothy visited Oz
When I was younger legends of Oz Dorothy's return scared me, i think it was because of the puppets 🥺😣😞
Oz has had prequels, sequels, reimaginings, parodies, but never a straight remake.
I liked Wicked, Return to Oz and Oz the Great and Powerful, and I haven't seen the animated versions, but why hasn't Disney nor Warner, in this age of nostalgia, ever made a high-budget live-action remake to cash in?
The original is sacred, but so were the first King Kong movie, the LOTR books and lots of other pieces of media that now have a worthy adaptation/remake.
Some have tried, but they had no budget or no vision.
Let's give it a try with modern directing techniques, modern effects, a tighter pacing, climatic battles, wide landscapes and new renditions of the classic songs.
EDIT: I just found out about a russian version coming next year.
You missed Emerald City
There was gonna be second Great And Powerful Wizard Of Oz but it got canceled
Oz related pun here>>> Sit back, and lets begin our journey down the yellow brick road..its so simple it hurts
It was not included on the list, but my favorite adaptation is ABC's Once Upon A Time. It is more a Wicked Witch, played by Rebecca Madar, adaptation, but Oz, Dorothy, the Wizard, Glinda, and the other witches do get their fair share of screen time in the Oz season of the show (season 3?). Highly recommended!
It is season 3 of Once Upon A Time, called "Not Easy Being Green".
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Not_Easy_Being_Green_(Once_Upon_a_Time)
@@LovesDisneyBeast84 She is in the entire show past that point, besides most of season 4.
Using the icon for The Wiz Live (the NBC TV Musical) and then talking about The Wiz 2024 without talking about The Wiz Live (which was brilliant) saddens me. The Wiz Live would be A tier for me, with some great casting choices.
Tin Man was always just a miniseries. It was not canceled. It was intended to be a complete story on its own.
“We all know the Wizard of Oz, right?” My dad used to dress up as the Scarecrow for Halloween to hand out candy when I was little and he’d get a little more sad every year that a good chunk of the parents wouldn’t know what the Wizard of Oz was.
As a fellow Oz Enthusiast and collector of Badfilm, you need to watch Steam Engines of Oz produced by Arcane Films. It is the WEIRDEST Oz Spinoff I have ever seen. Not often you get a Locasta drop in an Oz spinoff after all, and I find it worth it for that and the "sexy" Ron Perlman lion.
And if you are into Oz-adjacent work, I highly recommend the Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
So, this adaptation doesn't take place in oz but, it's a play called "Dorothy in Wonderland". My school is doing it as a fundraiser. It's s crossover of the wizard of oz and Alice in wonderland. It's a really cool concept. I recommend watching it
I saw the MGM movie on its second re-release in 1955, when I was 5. I only remember the cyclone. Literally the very first book I read was my mother's copy of Ozma of Oz, which had the original John Neill illustrations. I went on to read the first book and a number of the sequels, and went on to also love the MGM movie, but like you, I find Return to Oz so great because it is so faithful to the Baum's concept. Also love how creatively they skirt the issue of blending the MGM's concept of it being a dream with the books' concept of it being real, with the Oz characters having a presence of sorts in Kansas, rather than the Kansas people having an Oz presence (it this makes any sense).
One of the things about the Baum's concept was most if not all of the time, there is a child protagonist, one ~ 10 or so, not even Judy Garland's portrayal of Dorothy as a 14 yo. Many versions seem to miss this point. The Wiz is also faithful to the book but with Diana Carroll as a c. 25ish yo. Oz, the Great & Powerful makes it an adult story, with some adult subplots.
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I think it was book 6 where Dorothy takes her aunt and uncle to Oz to live, to avoid the financial problems they are having in Kansas and I understand that Baum had gotten tired of writing these, so this was to be the final book. The idea was that Dorothy could no longer relay her adventures to Baum, who had set himself up as the Royal Historian of Oz.
But children besieged him with letters begging for more. Then one girl questioned why Dorothy couldn't communicate with the outside world via the new technology of the wireless telegraph, so Baum gritted his teeth and picked up his pen again.
Never had heard of The Witches of Oz. Found it for free on UA-cam. Only got part way thru it but may not go any further.
Yes, I think Oz, the Great & Powerful fails by having James Franco as the Wizard - he is 100% the opposite of the bumbling fraudulent Frank Morgan type. Also, I can't accept that Oz is up to date, and in fact apparently imported, treadle-type sewing machines c. mid-1800's, but they don't know of gunpowder, which has been around in the real world for over 1,000 years. (Disney should have shown people hand-sewing.)
And I also agree you, too CGI. It seems like they often showed hordes of cookie-cutter characters, under the premise that more is better. And the cyclone scene really tepid.
The MOST bizarre adaptation has to be the 1971 Turkish Wizard of Oz "Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde" (ua-cam.com/video/BnApKUztuyo/v-deo.html) with the opening featuring an animated tornado and then leaping straight into a full Turkish live-action musical! Also omitted was the Shirley Temple, Oz, TV show from the 1950s in which Miss Temple played Ozma. But the biggest omission is the 1972 "Journey Back to Oz" animated film in which Dorothy is voiced by Liza Minnelli (the daughter of Judy Garland) AND Margaret Hamilton reprising her iconic role as the Witch.
Ya know, with all the hard work they put into RtO, it's a damn shame it's not regarded higher...😞
Did you cover the silent Oz films as well?
BTW, I'm sure you're aware of this, but LFB also created his own expanded universe with Oz, though with characters from other books that didn't do so well. Trixie and Captain Trout crossed over to Oz and there was a big celebration with cameos from his other books.
What about "Journey back to the Land of OZ" the Animated film starring Liza Minelli? Or was it covered and I didn't recognize the animation. I don't recall you mentioning her name but considering her lineage, it is significant.
I would love to see a live action TV series where they faithfully adapt each one of the original OZ books without leaving anything out or changjng things. I've been waiting for this sort of thing for YEARS.
So damn happy to see some love for The Wiz.
Personally it's my favorite one even with its shortcomings, to me it's almost like an arthouse version of Wizard of Oz, it's not fast-paced or colorful like you'd expect an Oz project (or better, an Oz project that is just aping the 1939 film instead of trying to be its own thing) and I have to be in the right mood to watch it, but when I do, it's always kind of an emotional roller coaster. If I were to do an Oz project, I'd try to hit a mood more akin to _The Wiz_ than the 1939 film, while of course trying to do my own thing.
Also, I don't get scared by horror films... and those freaky red dancing doll things in the subway from _The Wiz_ are one of the scariest things I've ever seen in a movie. That liminal space subway, the way those bloody things become huge, growl and shake, it's seriously a "Who hurt you?" level of nightmarish imagery, forget monkeys with wings or men with wheeled feet and hands. I'd try to fight them no matter how strange they are, but if I was stuck in that subway with those gates trapping me and those two hellish puppets were coming up to get me, I would just be overtaken by the dread, collapse and just cry waiting for the end as I hear those things get closer and closer.
Well done, The Wiz. Well done.
The Wizard of Oz (1939) may have been my first foray into the world and characters and still holds a place in my heart but Return to Oz will always be my personal favourite. 😁😊 Brilliant video as always, Confused Adipose. 😉👍🏻
I had no idea so many spin-offs and sequels/prequels existed. Though I remember watching one that you didn't mention here and after a quick search based on the one vivid memory I had of it, it is 1972's animated "Journey Back to Oz". The "Oz Wiki" says it was last aired in 1984, though this is impossible as I was born in 1993 and I saw it on TV, not on video. If you haven't seen it, then that's another for you to enjoy or hate haha!
Back to the future the musical is breathtaking
All the versions of oz have their charm so it sucks people keep referring to the mgm film
love that you literally called the intro to the wicked movie.
2:18 REALL EVEN THE HEATHERS MUSICAL!! it says "a house dropped on her head and now shes dead"
This maid a nice change are you going to do the occasional dive dive into your passion’s on the channel?
There was a 1964 made for tv cartoon called "Return to Oz"
Have you seen the 1 season show 'Emerald City'?