Walt Disney's Wizard Of Oz

This special aired on September 11th 1957.
Walt Disney had always wanted to make a film based on the Oz stories. In 1954, when the movie rights to various Oz books became available, Walt purchased them. Soon, scripts were written for a movie in "Widescreen, color, the works.." But for some reason it was never made. Pretty incredible how much they hyped it.

[@katiejean6493]

Such a shame that this never got made. It would have been nice to see the Mousekateers in a full length film. They certainly had the talent for it and the casting seemed spot on. Annette would have made a beautiful Ozma and Darleen had the perfect girl next door vibe for Dorothy. Bobby was a worthy successor to Ray Bolger's Scarcrow and while the patchwork girl's makeup was a little creepy, Doreen was adorable and her dancing was great. Yes this presentation was rather barebones, but you can tell it had potential and with a proper budget, it could have been something.

[@MaskedMan66]

Amen! Annette was perfect for the role of Ozma; beautiful, graceful, mild of manner, and confident of bearing. Still, she did get to wear that wig in a movie when she played Mary Contrary in Disney's _Babes in Toyland,_ which also starred Ray Bolger as the sinister Barnaby.

[@sspdirect02]

Walt knew it would've been difficult to top the 1939 classic.

[@h193013]

Sean Pultz I wonder what the film would have been like if it were made by Disney as a cartoon; I bet Dorothy would sing to the animals on her farm, the wolves and crows and bees the witch sent after Dorothy and her friends could have been her talking animal sidekicks along with her monkeys, I had this idea of the witch turning into a giant shadowy figure with flames around her and then Dorothy splashes her with water from a magical lake and the figure shrinks down in smoke leaving only a witch's hat on a bare branch, I also had the idea of the witch's monkeys being her subjects who she transformed into flying monkeys and the Emerald City gate talking and asking a riddle before allowing them in which the scarecrow answers and the poppies singing and putting Dorothy and the lion asleep, these were just ideas, I wonder if it would have been more or less similar to the book, the movie made the wicked witch more of an antagonist. The movie also cut one of the good witches so there would be one good witch and one bad witch. The movie also cut the trip to the Quaddling Country. Would Disney have made the same changes?

[@saskoilersfan]

Naw._. Disney and cs lewis and Huxley did it by creating a shooting script of oswald by mirroring perceptions to reality and calling it "marina in wonderland". 1963 . Has oswald rabbit bring a girl to president of hearts death.

[@MaskedMan66]

Interesting notions, although I don't go for the Winged Monkeys being transformed Winkies; it smacks too much of an idea they'd had at MGM of having the Cowardly Lion being the enchanted Prince Floriel (later Prince Kenelm), turned into a beast so that the WWW could marry her inept son to the Prince's lady love. Nifty ideas, though! :-)

[@Jonmouk71]

He knew it would be difficult to top the Garland film, so he made Babes In Toyland instead which didn't top the Laurel & Hardy film? Although he had Henry Calvin and Gene Shelton (from Zorro) to basically play the L&H roles.

[@MaskedMan66]

+Jonmouk71 The L&H "Babes" wasn't the first version of that story. Then again, nor was MGM's the first adaptation of "Wonderful Wizard."

[@MaskedMan66]

Rest in Peace, Annette Funicello, a perfect Ozma.

[@MrDarkmarius]

They all were REALLY TALENTED!!!!!

[@Jen534]

This is incredibly cute! I don't remember ever seeing before thanks.

[@johnnyfreeman9494]

I remember Walt Disney. Before his debut started on July 17, 1955 he asked me to be a dancer there. He knew I was a child perfomer and that I should perform there. I will never forget him.

[@rwottenirl]

really!!!!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@Terry Macneil Well, at least he had a chance to say something before he passed away.

[@katiehickey4539]

The Scarecrow and the Patch Work Girl sure would have made a very brainy couple.

[@Kristy_Blats]

YESSSS

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Well, they (The Scarecrow X Scraps the Patchwork Girl) are CANON in the OG OZ literary lore (contrast this with Judy Garland's 16-year-old version of Dorothy Gale having a discarded side plot romance with Ray Bolger's Hunk aka the Scarecrow's Kansas ftarmhand counterpart from the 1939 MGM film [this explains the "I think I'll miss you most of all" line weirdly left in the final product despite the Dorothy X Hunk romance getting cut OR the _Wicked_ 2003 stage musical/2025's _Wicked: For Good_ aka _Wicked part 2_ in which Elphaba, the so-called Wicked Witch of the West, transforms her strung-up lover Prince Fiyero into the brainless Scarecrow, which was foreshadowed by Fiyero's Scarecrow pose in the library, along with the "Life is painless for the brainless" & "Life's froughtless when you're thoughtless" lines uttered by him during the _Dancing Through Life_ song sequence), just as Dorothy Gale X Princess OZma essentially became CANON after "Dorothy of OZ" was written to permanently relocate Dorothy back to OZ (meanwhile Aunt Em & Uncle Henry live on a farming homestead outside of The Emerald City gates, Dorothy moves into the palace, where it's later revealed that Dorothy become incredibly close to Princess OZma, to the point that she's the ONLY ONE with a MASTER KEY to Princess OZma's PRIVATE BEDCHAMBERS. Make of that what you wish, "Friends of Dorothy" (and also off the back of _Wicked's_ continued success, "Friends of Elphaba").

[@wesnaw722]

i love the way Darlene talks :)

[@disneyinuyamon]

When I met Darlene & some other Mousketeers on 10/4 at Walt Disney Family Museum, Darlene said she definitely wore ruby slippers when wearing Dorothy costume in this segment. Doreen also said it took on hour to get that paint makeup on as Patches. Jimmie Dodd was definitely Cowardly Lion in scene as well.

[@PaulMcElveen]

Darlene sued the Disney Studios to no avail! Darelene was talented! Darlene was convicted three times of being a fraudulent t felon scamming and stealing money from people with two of her three husbands! Shame on Darlene!

[@MaskedMan66]

Her shoes look downright black in the film. They certainly aren't shiny in any way. Besides, the "ruby slippers" were owned by MGM.

[@disneyinuyamon]

@@MaskedMan66 Darlene could've meant she was wearing red shoes, but it's truth that's color she wore. "ruby" could mean simple "red" but ruby slippers is ruby slippers

[@petefrenzel7296]

Extremely talented kids! High production quality. This should have been made for sure!

[@arenjtumastens]

This whole thing really should have been made. Would've been really cool to have these roles as the characters, especially Annette as Ozma and Darlene as Dorothy. Looks easily to be the perfect way to do a Disney take on Oz, including at that time.

[@whitelion44]

Walt's great unfinished work. I have done alot of research on this film and the best guess as why he didn't make it was A. He had difficulty deciding how to film it,Live-action or animated. B. remember He was spending more time working on Disneyland then anything else at that time. So I guess he figured that it would take more time and effort he wished to spend on Oz to make it a reality as opposed to Disneyland which caught his creative spark. and also Disneyland was very expensive to build.

[@jaytaylor7740]

This print looks fantastic. Darlene, Bobby and Cubby were my favorites. I saw Don Grady (Agrati) in amongst the crowd and Tommy Kirk, as well. He wasn't a mousketeer, though, was he? Annette looked like a fine dancer, from the little we saw of her. Thanks for posting.

[@MaskedMan66]

I think he was a sort of honorary Mouseketeer, because he was in a lot of the serials that they ran on "The Mickey Mouse Club," including playing Joe Hardy in "The Hardy Boys."

[@JohnnyGNV]

You can tell that DISNEY STUDIOS felt that Darlene would go the farthest, career-wise, but the Fans of the MMC all loved ANNETTE, so the studio switched it's area of concentration.

[@PaulMcElveen]

Darlne was convicted as felon of fraud three times with two of her three husbands! Darlene sued the Disney Studio in the early 1970's to no avail! Shame on Darlene! Darlene is NO JUDY Garland! NOT AT ALL!

[@MaskedMan66]

@@PaulMcElveen Oh, give over! Nobody's perfect-- and that includes the tobacco- and aclohol-addicted, tall-tale-telling, bed-hopping and temper-tantrum-throwing Judy Garland.

[@vaelhan1932]

I would love to see this animated

[@MaskedMan66]

I loved those character designs; it's a pity Disney never did do an animated Oz feature.

[@TheImaginator972]

Ohhh now that would have been awesome and WHAT IF Walt Disney actually did made The Wizard Of Oz animated feature very similar like Alice In Wonderland.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@TheImaginator972 I doubt we'll ever know. While there are many musical versions of _Wizard,_ the only one most people know is the MGM movie from 1939. But it might still happen one day, preferably after wokeness has died the death. A friend of mine in Canada co-created a fantastic stage version using musical styles which were around when the book was published in 1900.

[@h193013]

@@MaskedMan66 I may have read about that production. Is that the one written by Joe Cascone?

[@MaskedMan66]

@@h193013 And James Doyle, yes indeed! 🙂 My wife and I saw the show in 2002, when Joe played Baum/The Wizard for the first time. We have a DVD of the show in a prominent place in our house.

[@h193013]

@@MaskedMan66 I’d like to see it

[@congratsyouarethemoonmaster]

"What about money" -Walt Disney.

[@LuisRivera-vf9pk]

You need money to make a film.

[@liamlivingdummy9854]

ScrimZoola in loving memory-Walt Disney

[@MaskedMan66]

+SMD sth91 Why don't you try making a movie without money and let us know how it goes?

[@themysteriouscatperson9483]

SMD sth91 Actors, sets, cameras, equipment, computers and the list goes on

[@brandonspain12345]

No no no. That's todays Disney. This guy is harmless than what trolls on the internet to make him out.

[@LMvonLebkuchen]

That was very...of it's time. Glad to finally see it, though. About 20 years ago, the local library had a huge book all about Oz. There was a screencap and description of this one. For some reason, I remember it as being in color, though...

[@MaskedMan66]

There are color photos of it.

[@Themaddprof]

Okay, to fully "get" this, one has to be well versed in Frank Baum lore aside from the MGM/Judy Garland classic. Ozma and the Patchwork Girl were characters in the later post "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" books by Frank Baum. However, this "Rainbow Road to Oz" sounds as if it would have been a fascinating film. I suppose we can be thankful that this, as well as Frank Baum's books, still remain.

[@MaskedMan66]

That's L. Frank Baum.

[@azmax64]

Wow, i have some photo stills (real ones, not digital scans)from this, but never saw this episode! Many thanks for posting!

[@VinnieRattolle]

DRfiguremaina, a lot of things from abandoned Disney projects made it into later films. That film's "Beautiful Briny Sea" was originally written for "Mary Poppins."

[@fromthesidelines]

This was presented on "DISNEYLAND"'s "Fourth Anniversary Show". Walt HAD intended to produce "The Rainbow Road To Oz", but, like most of his other "dream projects", it was ultimately abandoned (the fact that "THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB" ceased production after the 1957-'58 season in favor of repeats for season four, and the studio allowed the contracts of every "Mouseketeer"- except Annette- to expire, those were certainly factors in the decision to quietly end the project).

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

"Btw, I think disney & tim burton should team up and do a version that's accurate to Baum's original book...that would be freaking awesome" Warner Bros. OWNS the original book and the movie that it inspired. Disney OWNS all the rest, from The Marvelous Land of Oz onward (Return to Oz was a dark merger of The Marvelous Land of Oz & Ozma of Oz).

[@MaskedMan66]

Tim Burton would ruin it like he ruined "Alice."

[@jonathanmarkoff4469]

All the Baum books are in the public domain.

[@hectormanuel8360]

Yea those exclusive rights to the literary works expired long ago. Film adaptations from the 20s are PD and the 1936 is still copyrighted but not for long.

[@kj21]

No all the books are now in the public domain

[@hectormanuel8360]

@@kj21 yes

[@conner623]

the patch-work girl freacks me out A LOT -_-

[@Kristy_Blats]

Why? She's cute And I love patchwork × scarecrow 🥰

[@MaskedMan66]

"Freacks?"

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@Kristy_Blats Scraps the Patchwork Girl, much like Jack Pumpkinhead, lead to the respective creations of corpse ragdoll Sally & Jack Skellington, respectively.

[@katiehickey4539]

What a pity, I'd so have loved to own Disney's Rainbow Road to Oz in Beta-Max, Disney's Return to Oz in VHS, Disney's Muppets' Wizard of Oz in DVD, and the Great and Powerful of Oz in Blu-Ray.

[@batlovescatDC]

I really wish that Walt would've been able to make an Oz movie. Every movie that Disney did when Walt was actually around and involved is amazing and IMO still the best of Disney films to this day so I could only imagine where he could've went with his imagination for Oz.

[@PrinceMarc22]

Wow, I have NEVER seen this! :) I knew Uncle Walt had the rights to the Wizard of Oz but this is a gem to find. :) Thank you so much for posting! :)

[@MaskedMan66]

Not just the first book.

[@jwrocks]

wow kinda interesting that it aired on september 11th. nice to know back then there were nice things and didnt have to wory about much.

[@MaskedMan66]

Why? There was nothing significant about that sate until decades later.

[@MaskedMan66]

@TheProudAmerican777 "Return to Oz" was made in 1985 when CG was barely out of its cradle, and it didn't use any CGI at all. The music was brilliant and had a great "turn of the century" feel to it. It was certainly no more overdone than the MGM film or "The Wiz."

[@brianbradt3766]

return to oz.... def the best of the Oz movies

[@freedogshampoo]

This is the entire "Rainbow Road To Oz" segment. If you want to see the original episode that includes uh, other 'stuff', you can get the Walt Disney Treasures "Your Host, Walt Disney" DVD. : )

[@constantupgrader]

wow. (probably commented before) It's mooch and wilby from shaggy dog ^_^ what a great surprise from mentalfloss today :D

[@lukegrifpa]

Man those kids were good.

[@ickysan]

I saw this on the WD Treasures disc and found it to be simultaneously sweet and creepy. So glad to hear I'm not alone on this.

[@josephmlong]

Dorothy sounds more Texan than Kansas XD

[@alvarovasquez5999]

Wouldn’t be neat if instead of song of the south they could have made a wizard of oz cartoon movie!!!

[@rcruz4510]

Disney really seemed to be giving Darlene a lot of focus, having her play Dorothy while Annette was relegated to 2nd female lead Ozma. Everything went south after that I guess, when Disney did not renew Darlene's contract(or any of the other Mouseketeers' contracts) but kept Annette on.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Well, in OZ lore, OZma is ruler of OZ. Dorothy does return to OZ ~snerk~ but is basically OZma's live-in girlfriend after "Dorothy of OZ" was written.

[@magicamadeye]

am i the only person that thinks this episode and other episodes of the mickey mouse club should be restored in color and put on DVD like the shirley temple stuff

[@MaskedMan66]

@JohnnyGNV But Annette was still the perfect choice to play Ozma; she had the beauty, grace, and serenity to fit the role exactly.

[@SebGarth]

Oddly disturbing reel. What a strange era that was...

[@Phantomwise2]

I love both films, but I do like Return to Oz with its faithfulness a little better. Don't get me wrong. I do love the MGM film too.

[@MaskedMan66]

Baum would have loved it too. I mean, he enjoyed (and was in on the planning for) the 1902 stage version, which was an enormous success, but went several parsecs away from the book.

[@Gnostic2030]

its a mix of the road to oz and baum's the patchwork girl film mixed together

[@fromthesidelines]

For the record, this originally appeared on "DISNEYLAND" as a segment of its "Fourth Anniversary Show" on September 11, 1957. This WAS intended to be a "preview" of the film Disney wanted to produce...but never did. The Mouseketeers rarely appeared on the prime-time show (even with Kevin "Moochie" Corcoran as a "ringer"; he only appeared in the "MICKEY MOUSE CLUB" serials).

[@dreamscometrue30989]

That patchwork girl frightened me a little :-O

[@MaskedMan66]

Why?

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Lol😂 poor thing. Hell snow ride at Disneyland scared me 4 yrs n that was as adult lol. Bug i am glad they changed it. Lol..n i still get scard of stuff lol..😮😂

[@elrota]

You can't compare the two...the 1939 version is a musical and VASTLY different from the books...the 1985 one was well done and true to the books. BOTH are very good in their own ways.

[@MaskedMan66]

Of course you can compare them in terms of production design and character portrayals and things like that. As for VASTLY different from the book, have you ever heard of the first-ever adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz?" It was a musical stage extravaganza which went very far afield of its source-- even though Baum himself was in on the ground floor of it.

[@gentlerat]

Walt: sorry kids, but I would much rather make something creepier called "Return to Oz" and release it several decades later after my death.

[@brandonspain12345]

I'd rather watch a Oz movie that doesn't copy the original movie over and over again and stick closer to the books.

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@brandonspain12345 And that's not even the original movie!

[@MaskedMan66]

A very stupid comment. What he chose over this was _Babes in Toyland._

[@MaskedMan66]

@@brandonspain12345 I've never seen anything copy the 1910 movie.

[@enigmawing]

Odd how they went for Babes in Toyland instead.

[@moonstoneuniverse8516]

Walt Disney’s biggest regret was never making The Wizard of Oz and you can definitely tell.

[@disneyinuyamon]

When I met Darlene in 2015, she told me when I asked her if she wore Ruby, or Silver slippers as Dorothy in this version-SHE SAID RUBY SLIPPERS!!!!!:)

[@MaskedMan66]

Which is daft, because Dorothy LOST the shoes on her trip back to Kansas.

[@saskoilersfan]

Dorothy was killed in 65._. The only " Os/Oz shooting script" known is called the warren report._.

[@lonnieburr]

One of the best by Doreen and their Ray Bolger like choreography was swell. I did object to the dubbed voices; neither Dor, nor Bob were known for their singing but would have sounded more true to their pixilated characters if heard. There is also more of us on this show. I recall Bonnie [our second Bonnie on the series, the late Lynn Fields] and I doing a soft show number in front of a carriage with other Mice looking on. It was 1957, our third season, about 64 years ago, and I have not seen this part of the "Fourth Anniversary Show" from the DISNEYLAND TV show that premiered in 1954 before THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB in 1955 for decades. It is not, nor was meant be, Fred Astaire et. al. as teenagers in a "slick" Hollywood Musical but it was entertaining then and enjoyable now. Not everything is a literal cartoon, nor a car chase, nor violence incarnate. Their is still, for some of us, things that are fanciful and not asswiftaspossible u no! Mouseketeer Lonnie Burr [the blond guy with the suspenders].

[@freedogshampoo]

curiouser and curiouser lol. This was part of the Disneyland (TV) 10th anniversary show. I don't know wether the scripts are available or not.

[@Phantomwise2]

I like the Mickey Mouse Club, Walt Disney, and the Wizard of Oz, but that was just strange. I really do wish they made a Wizard of Oz animated feature. They would do really well, but I wonder Walt didn't do it in the end.

[@MaskedMan66]

Um.... OZ IS STRANGE!!!! That's its appeal. And do you mean specifically "Wizard of Oz" or "Oz" in general? Because there's tons more to Oz than old Oscar Diggs. 🙂

[@lmddrs]

which disney treasure disc was it? I can't get enough of the patchwork girl

[@micshork]

Instead of this we got Babes in Toyland.

[@frackstonwilson685]

Mickey was there all along and nobody noticed

[@Hewylewis]

I am so glad this Oz movie was never made. Thank god for Return to Oz.

[@MaskedMan66]

This would have been great fun.

[@JayRaphaelJiaoInot]

The mouseketers and Walt's set up on their story run through is quite similar on their mouseketer picture with Walt, the colored picture.

[@arenjtumastens]

This special aired on September 11 (which happens to be the birthday of Goofy's voice role, Pinto Colvig)? Why that day when we all know what happened on that one years later in 2001? Plus, nine years before that at least (there are some positive stuff that happened on that day, such as the birthday I just mentioned), on that day in 1992, 35 years after this special aired, came the debut of the "The Little Mermaid" Disney TV series. Then exactly one year later came when the WTC was bombed. Though that didn't take both towers down as the bombers had intended (though it did cause some killing and injuries), just that ended up happening anyway on that same exact fateful day when IT happened eight years later. And it was just that day yesterday, at the time I'm saying all this.

[@magicemperor2420]

The Patch-Work Girl is scarier than Jigsaw.

[@burgersoft777]

Not as scary as the 1918 version.

[@MaskedMan66]

She's adorable, what are you talking about?

[@MaskedMan66]

@@burgersoft777 There isn't a 1918 version.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@MaskedMan66 They're probably referring to when _The Patchwork Girl of OZ_ (her name, as indicative of her creation, is Scraps, because she's sapient & sentient patchwork girl made from...well...scraps from quilts stitched together & the Scarecrow is clearly enamored with her, viewing her as the most beautiful thing he's ever seen) was written.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@TherealRNOwwfpooh I'm not clear on what you're saying. I know who Scraps is; I've known for many decades.

[@zackmayhew6448]

I love this film I think Walt Disney did a good job on this

[@saskoilersfan]

I too love the 1963 shooting script for Os/Oz ._. The Kennedy assassination ._. To solve the Kennedy assassination, look for all the Disney associated clues._.

[@tipetaria]

The best adaptation of Oz books is the anime series "Oz no Mahou Tsukai", Its fantastic!

[@LMvonLebkuchen]

Sara Rico The one where the dub is narrated by Margot Kidder? Live that one. Used to watch it s a kid. I wish it had had more seasons.

[@MaskedMan66]

@josephmlong It's the "Frankenstein" effect, I expect. And Scraps is definitely a gal who can at least surprise you at the most random moments.

[@Galaxo]

Great homework, Barry. It was always about the money, contrary to what Uncle Walt promised.

[@majkus]

Ended up doing "Babes in Toyland" instead.

[@MaskedMan66]

Still with Annette and that wig she wore.

[@Firebrdsuite]

@MaskedMan66 No it follows The original plot, and the early draft of The Judy Garland one!

[@SuperWolsey]

*Bart Simpson impersonation* Can't sleep. Scraps will eat me. Can't sleep. Scraps will eat me.

[@MaskedMan66]

???

[@johanlouisdejong8550]

Just found out Disney had made parts of this adaptation. Loved it. However, now I have to search for rickety vinyl. Because the music was never put on a decent CD, let alone on a download... Half a dozen Oz records from Disney exist plus one cassette tape.

[@MtnDewFan]

Let's one wondering why they never got around to making it.

[@liamlivingdummy9854]

I so sad to bad this thing was cancelled

[@katiehickey4539]

I'd so have loved to see Dorothy fall head over heels with her eventual boyfriend and his younger brother fall head over heels with Ozma's younger sister.

[@gabrielvidrio3210]

Actually if Cubby got 2 play her cousin Zeb Hugson, he probably would've had a crush on Polychrome (Karen) 👨‍🌾💕👱‍♀️🌈

[@MaskedMan66]

Dorothy never had a boyfriend. The boy she's dancing with is her cousin.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@gabrielvidrio3210 Cubby played Button-Bright in this.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@MaskedMan66 Plus, Dorothy X OZma is CANON (both in the "Famous/Fabulous 40" [both by L. Frank Baum himself as well as his successors] & in the later books in the _WICKED_ saga written by Gregory Mcguire ["Out of OZ", most notably]).

[@SamanthaPortUkulele]

I'm really sad this never got made. Such catchy songs. What's with Mickey's voice, though?

[@elizabethramirezsierra3700]

Walt just smoked cigarettes which had damaged his vocal cords

[@MaskedMan66]

Mickey isn't in this.

[@IDLERACER]

Conspicuous in their absence from this segment are Tommy Cole and Sharon Baird, who for obvious reasons, would probably have made a great munchkin.

[@BrokenTourniquet]

"Well, we figure that in an artistic production such as this, money is of secondary importance, right?" And all the economists in the world sigh with disdain.

[@MaskedMan66]

Nobody said that.

[@BlackMoonLilith]

The Patchwork Girl has come to cinch the deal...

[@alexdavis5578]

During the song Patches,the scare says cotton brains and points to the patchwork girl's head.Why cotton, her brains are not cotton.They are liquid brains.For those who do not know about patches the patchwork girl,Google her and click on the Oz wiki link.

[@MaskedMan66]

They always change things in movies, you know that. I mean the Wizard is described in the book as having a bald head, but MGM's Wizard has a full head of hair.

[@shanemckenna9416]

Doreen is creepy as hell as the Patchwork girl!

[@SuperWolsey]

No shit. I had to minimize my browser when I first saw this

[@MaskedMan66]

"Creepy" how? She's adorable.

[@MaskedMan66]

+kory stephens You're more cowardly than the Lion.

[@bobbythecanvas8804]

@@SuperWolsey LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@michaelmorgan9824]

See it in color then Doreen is not creepy at all!!

[@JayRaphaelJiaoInot]

The mouseketers really introduced Walt Disney the stories of Oz

[@MaskedMan66]

No, he was quite familiar with the books before any of those kids were even born. In fact, he had bid on the film rights in the 1930's, but was outbid by MGM.

[@IDLERACER]

You know, two of these songs are quite good. I like Doreen Tracey's "Patches" number (she's such a scene stealer), and the "Rainbow Road To Oz" finalé is also catchy. However, I can't say the same for that "Oz Kan Hop" number. It's obviously just a reworking of the old Warren & Mercer tune "On The Atchison Topeka & The Santa Fe," and probably would've wound up edited out of the final product...Much the same way that "Jitterbug" number was excised from MGM's "Wizard."

[@MaskedMan66]

@oldblackhat The "mirror-image" thing was strictly MGM. In the original story there were no farmhands, no Professor Marvel, and no Miss Gulch. Oz was something vastly different from Kansas, and after five trips to Oz, Dorothy Gale left Kansas behind and settled in Oz with her aunt, uncle, dog, and cat.

[@Sterncoo54]

The *Magic of *Walt

[@RudieObias]

It's amazing how long Disney has been trying to take away Oz from MGM/Warner Bros. 🤣🤣

[@ZoraCatone]

They haven't been trying to take it away, dummy. 🙄

[@cheesypoofs1703]

Because the others were actually based on Baum's books, the 1939 movie was only very loosely so.

[@MaskedMan66]

Not as loosely as the 1902 stage version that Baum himself co-created.

[@Hewylewis]

Walt's voice was affected by years of smoking.

[@MaskedMan66]

Your point being?

[@Hewylewis]

@@MaskedMan66 Why Mickey's voice seems off.

[@kylecunns]

I can't even tell if that's a Rainbow Road when everything is in Black and White

[@Kristy_Blats]

HAHAHA

[@MaskedMan66]

You can't figure it out from the title or the song lyrics?

[@MaskedMan66]

@hd1987 No, this was a story concocted for the screen, while "Return to Oz" seamlessly blended elements from "The Marvelous Land of Oz" and "Ozma of Oz," the second and third books in the Oz series.

[@MaskedMan66]

@TherealRNO The books are in the public domain.

[@wickedfeylady]

It'd be interesting if this project actually got off the ground. I really love this story in all its forms, and although I don't think Disney's would be perfect, there was potential.

[@oldblackhat]

I don't get why poeple are always fighting over whether the Wicked Witch of the West is good or bad. IThere to different stories and truly, I don't think they should be compared. Personnally, I love Wicked, and the classic Oz stories by Baum. When I think about baum's stories I consider the WW of the W, a hiorrible, crual, b***hy old hag, when I think about Wicked I consider her a sweet, somewhat naive, fiery-tempered girl.

[@tzkelley]

I'd love to see what Tim Burton would do to the patchwork girl!

[@Kristy_Blats]

Nightmare before Christmas Sally

[@MaskedMan66]

Ruin her, like he ruins everything that he didn't create himself.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@MaskedMan66 _Wednesday_ seems to be popular & he didn't create _The Addams Family_ franchise at all.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@TherealRNOwwfpooh Popular doesn't always mean good.

[@wickedfeylady]

I like that Scraps is in the story but it's not very faithful to the first few books... and for some reason her eyes look scary whenever she's depicted visually. They need to change her face just a little from the original illustration.

[@dogcrazyinpv]

I was born 2 days after this show aired, on September 13

[@fromthesidelines]

By the way, Kevin "Moochie" Corcoran was NOT an official "Mouseketeer"- why the studio insisted he wear the outfit and "Mousekaears", and pass himself off as one for this segment, I have no idea; he was primarily a supporting player in the "CLUB" serials {"Adventure in Dairyland", "The Further Adventures of Spin & Marty", et. al.}.

[@RETROGEMS]

@princerei I can't wait to read your book! I am a HUGE "Oz" fan!

[@tarquinnff3]

This is really cute. :D

[@superjackster0165]

It's too bad this OZ movie never came to fruition

[@michaela.mccracken4461]

Taken from the "DISNEYLAND" Show's Fourth Anniversary episode.

[@billdurham7455]

Uncle Walt was likely getting anxious for a cigarette while filming this special.

[@MaskedMan66]

Why do you say that?

[@KekoaOnorati]

Okay now wait. I'm as hardcore an Oz fan as the next person, but for all of its fan-fictiousness as you say, Wicked was a good book. Obviously, if it hadn't been, it wouldn't have earned the priviledge of being turned into a musical (even if the musical does stray horrifically from the book's plot).

[@MaskedMan66]

@DuchessAliana The stuff the Mousketeers did was the direct forerunner to HSM and "Camp Rock" and so forth.

[@DanielleNewmanIzumiSensei]

Patchwork girl was craaaazzzyyy, lol.

[@LMvonLebkuchen]

Danielle Newman Crazy as a quilt.