This was the sequel to a cartoon series called _Tales of the Wizard of Oz,_ and the character design was simpler than in this movie, but everyone is still recognizable. I also love Dorothy's gumption and positive attitude.
@@MaskedMan66I’m pretty sure that was a prequel series comprised of 4 minute long shorts. It shows how Dorothy got to Oz, and it most notably shows how different Rusty and the other characters were. I especially noted Rusty because he went from angry and mean, to sweet and generous in the end.
@@IzzyGaming-ux1nn No, the series came first, then the movie. I once had the pleasure of interviewing (via e-mail) the late Susan Morse, who was the singing voice of Dorothy in _Return to Oz_ for a series of articles I used to write for a website that will remain nameless.
I was obsessed with this when I was a child. The local video (VHS) rental store had a copy of this in the mid 90s (roughly 1995) and I’d force my mother to rent it over and over. Finally we taped it because it was costing us too much money. I lost the VHS tape years ago and it’s surreal to see it again. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you for this. I've been trying to find this forgotten gem for ages. Thanks again. Looks like Christmas came early for me. Can't wait to show it to my younglings.
Honestly holding on to a tree is the worst thing to do in a tornado situation, but Dorothy wanted to return to Oz so she intentionally got herself swept away.
I mean, out of all the cyclones in Kansas, Dorothy couldn’t tell where the cyclone is from.. also, I think Dorothy held onto the tree to not get swept away (if you wanna be honest, maybe killed..) But yes. She is eager to go back to Oz.
This is such a wonderful cartoon. I remember this cartoon show when I was a child! Brings back marvelous memories. Thank you for posting this here on You Tube!!
I remember this! I was 8 years old. It made such an impression. From 1964 to 2022, I still remember some of the songs. I think i.only saw this once. I was so upset for the possibility that Socrates, Rusty and Dandy " turned to solid stone". I wanted to turn off the TV. go to my bedroom and cry. But I was brave and watched to the end. Thank you so much for posting this.❤
I watched a video from Quinton Reviews about the Rankin-Bass Cinematic Universe. I learned that Videocraft International, the production company behind such classics like Return To Oz (1964) would go on to make stop-motion Christmas/Holiday specials under the name "Rankin-Bass Productions" many years later. At 3:38, I can't help but be reminded of Rudolph when the group starts to sing. Not sure if I'm the only one, but it reminds me of, songs like "There's Always Tomorrow", or "The Island of Misfit Toys", or any other song in Rudolph.
18:39 Little did the Tin man know, there was meant to be an eleventh commandment that said "Thou shall not be made of tin", but Moses forgot to put it down.
R.I.P. Peggi Loder (1926-2005) (Glinda, the Good Witch of the North / Wicked Witch of the West), Larry D. Mann (1922-2014) (Rusty the Tin Man), Susan Morse (1951-2018) (Munchkins) and Alfie Scopp (1919-2021) (Socrates the Scarecrow).
@@ZakWolf Which is interesting, because Winters had played the scheming Lord Nikidik, intent on taking over Oz, in Shirley Temple's T.V. production of "The Land of Oz."
Manzur Rahman I was shown it when I was what 3 so I have tried to find it for a very long time so I could show it to my kids. It’s very hard to find as the one site I can find it on even now is the right cover but wrong film. I finally found this in America. I had to have it! I ripped it to the pc then converted it to a mp4 file then uploaded it for everyone.
TombRaiderEternity my grandad use to put this on for us when we was kids and I searched for it for years. I found it In America so imported it to the uk then converted it so I could upload it to TH-cam for everyone! My son loves it too. It’s very good for the children and us adults for the memory’s lol
I've seen it, too. It was made by Rankin/Bass Productions after "The Tales of the Wizard Oz" (1961) TV Series in 1964. I still have a DVD with an original broadcast in living color NBC and original sound recording with sound effects and music. Even I remembered some Canadian actors in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964): Larry D. Mann, voice Yukon Cornelius (1922-2014) (Rusty (Tin Man) / Wicked Witch of the West), Alfie Scopp, voice of Fireball and Charlie in the Box (1919-2021) (Sociates (Scarecrow)), Carl Banas, voice of Head of the Elves (1929) (The Wizard / Dandy (The Cowardly Lion)) replaced Paul Kligman, voice of Donner and Coach Comet. Only in Return to Oz (1964) Cast: Peggy Loder (Glinda, the Good Witch of the North) (1926-2005) (Glinda the Good Witch), Susan Morse (1951-2018) (Singing voice of Dorothy), introducing Susan Conway (1952) (Dorothy).
Your welcome. As a child my grandad use to put it on for us. Spent a lot of years trying to find it. I own the dvd so was only right to put it on TH-cam as I could never find it anywhere. Enjoy 👍🏻
This is one of the Early Rankin/Bass Specials I think before their Rodolph Special make them household names in TV special animation mostly their Christmas ones. My other faves from them are Mad Monster Party, The Daydreamer, and rarely enough The Wacky world of Mother Goose. I do hope for a CD set of all of their soundtracks with a song from these specials and movies. They really do bring the childhood feeling of watching these timeless specials despite their cheap and bad quality in them sometimes. Also, Return to Oz movie from the 80s (1985) is a far better movie than the one from the 60s due to better writing and scary scenes. Still, Rankin Bass stuff is nice to see. Edit 2024: Return to Oz from Disney came out in 1985. This Special is a collab of sorts between Videocraft / Rakin/Bass and Crawley Films in (Canada) and it came out in 1964. The series, Tales of the Wizard of Oz was made in 62. I am sorry for the mistakes. Thanks for the likes.
This movie is by far one of my favorites! I own 2 copies on dvd but could not find it anywhere on a digital copy. I was so excited when I saw this on TH-cam! Now I can enjoy this gem wherever I go! Thank you! ❤️
Rhiannon Almeida yes I had the same problem. My son loved it and we had to keep putting the dvd on. I thought I’ll copy it to the pc and upload it to TH-cam as he watched children things on here anyway. Much easier and faster. Enjoy!
I remember watching this with my grandparents!!! They had an old VHS copy of it and I loved it! Recently I started writing a song that sounded so familiar to me... then I realized as I sang through the chorus of it how familiar it was..... 39:19
@@JohnSmith-kz8yo Scottish, you mean. And actually, Neither Baum nor any of the other Royal Historians of Oz ever specified Toto's breed. He was just "a small black dog."
@@SaucyBegger25 extremely grateful with you to upload this jewel.... May success be with you always... Kind regards... And forgive me for my non óptimum english...
cant believe this has been up for 6 months...longest any post of this has lasted over the last 3 years...i was born in 97 so this was long before my time, but i am an oz-iac
This seemed to be a slight reworking of the original story...but it did point out a fact Baum had shown in his book...that the Scarecrow,Tin Man and Cowardly Lion already had what they were looking for.
@@richardranke3158 This is a sequel to a T.V. show called _Tales of the Wizard of Oz,_ which had a very different setup to it. Socrates, Rusty, and Dandy had already teamed up to ask the Wizard for what they wanted, and then Dorothy and Toto turned up, falling through a dimensional doorway. The Wizard was not a huckster from Omaha, he was a native Ozite who had gone to magic school to become a Wizard; one of his classmates was none other than Wicked West!
I remember seeing it with my family on that very day. (That same day I remember we saw the Ed Sullivan show. He'd just brought in a group from England>):-)
Carl Banas's voice for Dandy Lion isn't as good as Paul Kligman from the original "Tales of the Wizard of Oz." Interesting how the Wizard doesn't sound like W.C. Fields as he did in the original series, though the Wicked Witch of the West still has that "Jonathan Winters as Maude Frickert" voice by Larry "Yukon Cornelius" Mann.
@@MaskedMan66 The similarities between the lines: “Oh Rusty, you just can’t be dead” “Oh Frosty, you just can’t melt” And besides, they both died in front of their friends and were revived by magic
@@IzzyGaming-ux1nn True, very true, but such scenes have happened elsewhere; in fact, I draw a strong parallel between RtO and the animated movie _Journey Back to Oz,_ in which the same kind of sequence is played out after Jack Pumpkinhead's apparent "death." 🙂
Some people (mainly one troll) in the comment section don't get this special. Personally, I love anything Rankin/Bass, especially their animated things. The music is lovely, the singers are pretty decent, and the visuals are so very 60s that to me it's hard not to like at least a little bit. But if you don't, that's fine, but please respect other peoples' opinions. Thank you, have a good day.
I was 11 when this first aired and wanted to like it since I was crazy about anything animated. And I was inspired to be an Animator by seeing a number of television productions like this. While there are some "nice" things about this Special, it was obviously cheaply produced with minimal animation. It was a nice improvement over the syndicated TALES OF THE WIZARD OF OZ series, but the writing is not a good as it was in the short cartoons.
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For those who don't know, why are Dorothy's slippers silver & not ruby? Well, they were silver in the book series. Yes the Wizard of Oz was a series of books. Why were they changed to ruby in the Judy Garland movie? The answer being to do with the transition from black & white to colour.
Except that it isn't; in the series from which this movie sprang, the Scarecrow was named Socrates, the Tin Woodman Rusty, and the Lion Dandy, and they had already teamed up to visit the Wizard and petition him for the things they wanted before Dorothy and Toto ever showed up. And when they did show up, they didn't come in a house, they fell through a dimensional doorway and landed on Dandy. Also, the Wizard was not from Omaha, but was in fact a native-born Ozite.
In this delightful show. I see the embryo of Blues Clues ( the Blue Skidoo), Charmed( calling for help, which comes in a floating ball) and Starlight Express( brave and sweet Rusty).
Silver slippers?? Rusty, Socrates, Dandelion? This must of been ratified if they don't mention ruby slippers and these characters names. Rankin of Rankin/Bass Fame, Clay animation Rudolph, Santa Claus is coming to town, etc. etc.... put this together. Funny Rudimentary version. Would liked to have seen the clay animation version. I guess this was before he got together with Bass.
This film is a follow up to a previous Rankin-Bass production, an Oz TV series, "Tales of the Wizard of Oz". It was produced shortly after the copyrights to L. Frank Baum's "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" expired, but I suppose they gave the characters names either to be on the safe side or to have their interpretations further stand out.
@@SaucyBegger25 If by the "original" film you mean the MGM one, it isn't; in fact it's the third feature film version of the story. But this movie is the sequel to the T.V. series "Tales of the Wizard of Oz," which is in a very different continuity indeed.
The Rankin-Bass stop motion specials did not utilize clay. The figures were in plasticene formed around steel frameworks and dressed in fabric costumes. And it's not "Dandelion," it's Dandy Lion. The silver shoes come straight from the original 1900 novel.
This version is pretty good not unlike the original movie 🎥 I've seen several different versions of this magnificent story from the Super Friends to Scooby Doo and everything in-between
I really like Dorothy's singing voice in this special! It's beautiful! :) My favorite songs in this are at 2:26, 37:40, 47:58, 49:28, 3:38 and 6:57 :) (I discovered it was a different voice actress who did Dorothy's singing than her speaking voice in this. :) )I also love the songs in this special in general!
Correct: Susan Conway did Dorothy's dialogue while Susan Morse did her singing. I had the pleasure of interviewing Ms. Morse (via e-mail) for a series of Oz articles I wrote for a website which shall remain nameless. She was very excited about the project and remains one of its biggest fans to this day.
@@MaskedMan66 I met he at a Forest Ranger convention near Toronto, Ontario.It was at a film studio in 2013. She was a cast member for the series. It ran early 60's.
@Dale Ferdinand Very cool! As it happens, my wife and I visited Toronto several years ago to visit a friend who had co-created a new stage musical of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." He was kind enough to let us see the show free as many times as we wished (which turned out to be three times)!
Unless a sudden cold wave happened after the Witch was melted, she couldn't have turned to ice. The water in her clothes would have evaporated especially since she was steaming as she melted. This plot element seems suspiciously similar to the resurrection of Frankenstein's monster, who supposedly died in the windmill fire, but was found in the sequel to have fallen into an underground well beneath the mill.
@@RayPointerChannel Wicked West went to school with "Frankie Draculov," a character who looked a bit like Universal's Frankenstein Monster, and even spoke kinda like Boris Karloff. He appeared in the episode "The Reunion."
I saw this on video 37 years ago at 5! It’s not too bad but I wish it included more oz characters like patchwork girl, hungry tiger, TikTok and Ozma and wish it wasn’t like a rehash of the original story and could had used mombi. Ever seen Disney’s 1985 live action Return to Oz? At least that has a fresh story and new characters and villains, and feels more faithful to the L Frank Baum books.
I thought Glinda explained that the witch turned into stone because she was (cruel and)heartless, brainless in that she felt evil was stronger than good,and cowardly because she used slaves and surpressed others.
Actually, two young performers gave Dorothy voice, and they were both named Susan. Susan Conway was the speaking voice, she is 70 years old now, and I can turn up little biographical data on her, except that she's done a lot of voice work. Susan Morse, whom I had the pleasure of interviewing (via e-mail) some years back, did the singing. Sadly, she passed away at the age of 67, and she and her husband never had any children.
@@juiuice Susan Conway? Yes, she did a bit of both voice acting and on-screen acting, including a couple of T.V. series, until 1981. I don't know what she's done in her life since then.
@@juiuice Susan Morse's work covered stage, screen, records, and dog shows. Yes, you read that last one right; later in life she went into breeding and showing Scottish Terriers. And when I asked her if that was because Toto was portrayed as a Scottie, she said that it honestly never crossed her mind, but she got a laugh out of the thought. In her stage work, she was in everything from _The Sound of Music_ to _The Rocky Horror Show,_ "between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects," to quote Dickens.
I have this, and I regret it, it says it’s from the creators of Frosty the Snowman, but that doesn’t look like the style that Frosty the Snowman had, honestly I really hate it, anyone else hate it, or is it just me?
It's just you. This was the follow-up to a hugely successful cartoon series, "Tales of the Wizard of Oz." And it was indeed produced by Rankin and Bass, but with a different production team than worked on most of their other specials. This was done in the U.S.A.; most of the others were made in Japan.
I remember watching this when I was a little boy. Now I’m 40 and just showed it to my 4 year old son who loves it. Thank you so much!
I was exactly the same and did the same lol. This is why I uploaded it. So others can do it. 👍🏻
@@SaucyBegger25”That…” That was just Beautiful! 😢
I just love the way how Dorthy is drawn in this special, and what a bright personality and heart of gold she’s got.
This was the sequel to a cartoon series called _Tales of the Wizard of Oz,_ and the character design was simpler than in this movie, but everyone is still recognizable. I also love Dorothy's gumption and positive attitude.
@@MaskedMan66I’m pretty sure that was a prequel series comprised of 4 minute long shorts. It shows how Dorothy got to Oz, and it most notably shows how different Rusty and the other characters were. I especially noted Rusty because he went from angry and mean, to sweet and generous in the end.
@@IzzyGaming-ux1nn No, the series came first, then the movie. I once had the pleasure of interviewing (via e-mail) the late Susan Morse, who was the singing voice of Dorothy in _Return to Oz_ for a series of articles I used to write for a website that will remain nameless.
@@MaskedMan66Yup.
This was well before my time. So nice to see kids entertainment that is not crude, rude, vulgar and has a sincere innocence.
And where males are males and females are females!
@@MaskedMan66Amen! 🙏🏽😇
@@ansumanahargett6227 That's leaving out the fact that Wicked West was voiced by a man. lol
Let’s not forget Ozma was cursed to be a boy in the books but returned to her proper gender
@@Johnlindsey289 True, but that has zilch to do with this show.
I was obsessed with this when I was a child. The local video (VHS) rental store had a copy of this in the mid 90s (roughly 1995) and I’d force my mother to rent it over and over. Finally we taped it because it was costing us too much money. I lost the VHS tape years ago and it’s surreal to see it again. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This beautiful menories makes me cry of pure joy.
Thank you for this. I've been trying to find this forgotten gem for ages. Thanks again. Looks like Christmas came early for me. Can't wait to show it to my younglings.
Baron Tamago me to been ages since I seen it
@@jeremyaugst1399Yup.
Honestly holding on to a tree is the worst thing to do in a tornado situation, but Dorothy wanted to return to Oz so she intentionally got herself swept away.
She didn't know that the tornado would take her back to Oz
She didn't have a lot of options.
@@MaskedMan66 Understandable
@@MaskedMan66Nope.
I mean, out of all the cyclones in Kansas, Dorothy couldn’t tell where the cyclone is from.. also, I think Dorothy held onto the tree to not get swept away (if you wanna be honest, maybe killed..) But yes. She is eager to go back to Oz.
The animation of this movie reminds me of the adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends!❤
The original animated series was a product of the same era. 🙂
This is such a wonderful cartoon. I remember this cartoon show when I was a child! Brings back marvelous memories. Thank you for posting this here on You Tube!!
No problem. Was a childhood cartoon for me. Took years to find. Enjoy
@@SaucyBegger25 I was wondering where did you find this gem? Anyway I downloaded this to my computer so I have a copy now as well.
@@VicMartino I actually found it on Amazon. It was from America so cost quite a bit to buy but I had to have it
@@SaucyBegger25 There is another posting "RETURN TO OZ Full Cartoon with Retro Commercials" here on You Tube!!
I remember this! I was 8 years old. It made such an impression. From 1964 to 2022, I still remember some of the songs. I think i.only saw this once. I was so upset for the possibility that Socrates, Rusty and Dandy " turned to solid stone". I wanted to turn off the TV. go to my bedroom and cry. But I was brave and watched to the end. Thank you so much for posting this.❤
I saw this at 8 years old...and have thought about it ever since. Thanks for posting! Brought back a lot of memories!
My grandparents use to put this on for us when we were little. My kids love it too. I bet they will remember it as we do
I watched a video from Quinton Reviews about the Rankin-Bass Cinematic Universe. I learned that Videocraft International, the production company behind such classics like Return To Oz (1964) would go on to make stop-motion Christmas/Holiday specials under the name "Rankin-Bass Productions" many years later.
At 3:38, I can't help but be reminded of Rudolph when the group starts to sing. Not sure if I'm the only one, but it reminds me of, songs like "There's Always Tomorrow", or "The Island of Misfit Toys", or any other song in Rudolph.
I didn’t know Rankin & Bass had other specials shout out to this channel for uploading
Oh yeah, tons of 'em! Including animated versions of _The Hobbit_ and _The Return of the King._
@@MaskedMan66 oh, I love those two!
@@ansumanahargett6227 Much better than that bloated mess of a Hobbit movie trilogy that Peter Jackson made.
18:39 Little did the Tin man know, there was meant to be an eleventh commandment that said "Thou shall not be made of tin", but Moses forgot to put it down.
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@thanomyloans2585 I don't get it.
This is way better than I expected it to be. So much style in the artwork
Thanks for the details! How did the witch come back to life? @thanomyloans2585
R.I.P. Peggi Loder (1926-2005) (Glinda, the Good Witch of the North / Wicked Witch of the West), Larry D. Mann (1922-2014) (Rusty the Tin Man), Susan Morse (1951-2018) (Munchkins) and Alfie Scopp (1919-2021) (Socrates the Scarecrow).
Mann also played Wicked West.
@@MaskedMan66 Yep, doing an imitation of Jonathan Winters as Maude Frickert, no less!
@@ZakWolf Which is interesting, because Winters had played the scheming Lord Nikidik, intent on taking over Oz, in Shirley Temple's T.V. production of "The Land of Oz."
Susan E. Morse didn't die
@@elizabethramirezsierra3700 She did.
I have been searching for this for the last 10 years! Last saw it 32 years ago! What a trip down memory lane! Thank you so much for uploading!
Manzur Rahman I was shown it when I was what 3 so I have tried to find it for a very long time so I could show it to my kids. It’s very hard to find as the one site I can find it on even now is the right cover but wrong film. I finally found this in America. I had to have it! I ripped it to the pc then converted it to a mp4 file then uploaded it for everyone.
@@SaucyBegger25 Much appreciated!! Oz just can't continue without me!!! oh the memories!
"That way you nincompoopidoopies!" Wonderful animation. Clever script. Thanks for posting! ❤
Return To Oz was the 1964 Rankin Bass special that was probably aired ten months before Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
OMG!!!I am searching for this from a while.Thank you so MUCH!!!
TombRaiderEternity my grandad use to put this on for us when we was kids and I searched for it for years. I found it In America so imported it to the uk then converted it so I could upload it to TH-cam for everyone! My son loves it too. It’s very good for the children and us adults for the memory’s lol
return to Oz dvd television special target
I've been looking for this for ages.
I've seen it, too. It was made by Rankin/Bass Productions after "The Tales of the Wizard Oz" (1961) TV Series in 1964. I still have a DVD with an original broadcast in living color NBC and original sound recording with sound effects and music. Even I remembered some Canadian actors in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964): Larry D. Mann, voice Yukon Cornelius (1922-2014) (Rusty (Tin Man) / Wicked Witch of the West), Alfie Scopp, voice of Fireball and Charlie in the Box (1919-2021) (Sociates (Scarecrow)), Carl Banas, voice of Head of the Elves (1929) (The Wizard / Dandy (The Cowardly Lion)) replaced Paul Kligman, voice of Donner and Coach Comet. Only in Return to Oz (1964) Cast: Peggy Loder (Glinda, the Good Witch of the North) (1926-2005) (Glinda the Good Witch), Susan Morse (1951-2018) (Singing voice of Dorothy), introducing Susan Conway (1952) (Dorothy).
Voice actors not necessarily Canadian, recorded in Canada because it was cheaper. None of R&B products were made in the US. 😂
I've been looking for this for nearly 20 years. Thank you! I remember having the VHS but for some reason thought it was made by Disney.
Your welcome. As a child my grandad use to put it on for us. Spent a lot of years trying to find it. I own the dvd so was only right to put it on TH-cam as I could never find it anywhere. Enjoy 👍🏻
Actually Disney made a Return to Oz in the 80s.
@@FredJensen4745 yep they made the 1985 return to oz. I think this one fits a lot better with the original movie though.
@@SaucyBegger25 That's not to say that Disney's 80s "Return to Oz" film is nothing short of an absolute golden masterpiece of course. 👠👠🌈💕
@@SaucyBegger25 The original movie was made in 1910.
I love all these old childhood memories.
I loved the film when I was young. The Film was 20 + years old but who care. Thanks for sharing 😁
No problem. My grandad use to play it for us as kids. Took years to find it so thought I would share
It aired on NBC on February 9, 1964. Most American televisions were tuned to CBS that night.
On February 9th, 1964, Return To Oz on NBC was beaten by The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS because it featured The Beatles.
@@samoyed81966 Strange how that little fact is not even mentioned on the Wiki page about this special...
@@JohnSmith-kz8yo This is probably one little fact that Wiki may not know.
This is one of the Early Rankin/Bass Specials I think before their Rodolph Special make them household names in TV special animation mostly their Christmas ones. My other faves from them are Mad Monster Party, The Daydreamer, and rarely enough The Wacky world of Mother Goose.
I do hope for a CD set of all of their soundtracks with a song from these specials and movies. They really do bring the childhood feeling of watching these timeless specials despite their cheap and bad quality in them sometimes.
Also, Return to Oz movie from the 80s (1985) is a far better movie than the one from the 60s due to better writing and scary scenes. Still, Rankin Bass stuff is nice to see.
Edit 2024: Return to Oz from Disney came out in 1985. This Special is a collab of sorts between Videocraft / Rakin/Bass and Crawley Films in (Canada) and it came out in 1964. The series, Tales of the Wizard of Oz was made in 62.
I am sorry for the mistakes. Thanks for the likes.
Teddy this is not 80
This is terrible. I ha e seen so many remakes, sequels and this is by far the worst.
@@litgal783 What don't you like about it? It came from a very popular T.V. series.
@@MaskedMan66 Idk. I just didn't. I liked the return to Oz with Liza Minelli and the one with Faruza Balk.
@@litgal783 Liza's was called _Journey Back to Oz._
This movie is by far one of my favorites! I own 2 copies on dvd but could not find it anywhere on a digital copy. I was so excited when I saw this on TH-cam! Now I can enjoy this gem wherever I go! Thank you! ❤️
Rhiannon Almeida yes I had the same problem. My son loved it and we had to keep putting the dvd on. I thought I’ll copy it to the pc and upload it to TH-cam as he watched children things on here anyway. Much easier and faster. Enjoy!
I remember watching this with my grandparents!!! They had an old VHS copy of it and I loved it! Recently I started writing a song that sounded so familiar to me... then I realized as I sang through the chorus of it how familiar it was..... 39:19
7:11- so yeah, Munchkins in this version are small fruit like beings that grow from trees and talk incomprehensibly except when singing.
And Toto is a Scotch terrier instead of a Cairn terrier...
@@JohnSmith-kz8yo Scottish, you mean. And actually, Neither Baum nor any of the other Royal Historians of Oz ever specified Toto's breed. He was just "a small black dog."
Yup, that's about the size of it.
Wow, thanks for posting this. It brings back many good memories for me.
Didn't even know about this. Thank you for sharing! :)
Wow... I saw it every 25 of december.. Here in my country... Dubbed to spanish... More than 50years ago.... Many memories....
Carlos Araujo glad your memory’s are flooding back 👍🏻 I also use to watch this as a child. Now my own children watch it too
@@SaucyBegger25 extremely grateful with you to upload this jewel.... May success be with you always... Kind regards... And forgive me for my non óptimum english...
I remember first seeing animated musical/fantasy tv special on"The G.E.Fantasy Hour"on WNBC TV Ch.4 in NYC..60 years ago.
i keep expecting the wizard to start yelling about elf practice
cant believe this has been up for 6 months...longest any post of this has lasted over the last 3 years...i was born in 97 so this was long before my time, but i am an oz-iac
magicamadeye I had to agree to giving any credit for this being on here to the owner! 👍🏻
I just found myself laughing like that witch today. Shore is catchy.....
Return to Oz is a Rankin Bass Cartoon for the Tv Movie Special
This seemed to be a slight reworking of the original story...but it did point out a fact Baum had shown in his book...that the Scarecrow,Tin Man and Cowardly Lion already had what they were looking for.
@@richardranke3158 This is a sequel to a T.V. show called _Tales of the Wizard of Oz,_ which had a very different setup to it. Socrates, Rusty, and Dandy had already teamed up to ask the Wizard for what they wanted, and then Dorothy and Toto turned up, falling through a dimensional doorway. The Wizard was not a huckster from Omaha, he was a native Ozite who had gone to magic school to become a Wizard; one of his classmates was none other than Wicked West!
Originally telecast as an NBC "GENERAL ELECTRIC FANTASY SPECIAL" on February 9, 1964.
I remember seeing it with my family on that very day. (That same day I remember we saw the Ed Sullivan show. He'd just brought in a group from England>):-)
Later it was shown on _Family Classics_ in Chicago a few times.
6:48- Toto: thank golly this is Munchkin chocolate or else I’d be dead.
@Jesus Negron magic? I mean its oz
I saw this when I was watching the evolution of glinda and decided to watch this for myself and I love it the designs everything
“Thank you, L. Frank Baum.” you’re books had delighted children so, young-or-old for so long they turn into animated or live action, motion pictures.
Carl Banas's voice for Dandy Lion isn't as good as Paul Kligman from the original "Tales of the Wizard of Oz." Interesting how the Wizard doesn't sound like W.C. Fields as he did in the original series, though the Wicked Witch of the West still has that "Jonathan Winters as Maude Frickert" voice by Larry "Yukon Cornelius" Mann.
@Elijah Hechtman Well yeah, Larry Mann also voiced Rusty, along with Alfie Scopp (Charlie-in-the-Box, Fireball the Reindeer) as Socrates.
@@ZakWolf Mann was also Wicked West.
@@MaskedMan66 Yep, doing an imitation of Jonathan Winters as Maude Frickert, no less!
@Zak Wolf Which is funny, since Jonathan Winters played an Oz character in a 1960 T.V. version of "The Land of Oz," starring Shirley Temple as Ozma!
it was this and the 1961 cartoons that introduced me to the story.i did'nt see the 1939 film until 1966!
Have you ever read the books?
37:16 ok I KNOW I can’t be the only one who’s thinking about how similar this is to Frosty and Karen
Erm..... how?
@@MaskedMan66
The similarities between the lines:
“Oh Rusty, you just can’t be dead”
“Oh Frosty, you just can’t melt”
And besides, they both died in front of their friends and were revived by magic
@@IzzyGaming-ux1nn True, very true, but such scenes have happened elsewhere; in fact, I draw a strong parallel between RtO and the animated movie _Journey Back to Oz,_ in which the same kind of sequence is played out after Jack Pumpkinhead's apparent "death." 🙂
@@MaskedMan66Yeesh! Brutual.
I wasn't born until the year after this aired I remember the one journey back to oz it came out in 1974
I remember watching this cartoon on TV years ago.
I think Dorothy's voice was Susan Conway.
I LOVE Return To Oz! It brings back wonderful memories
2:27 This song kinda reminds me of "Mele Kalikimaka".
Me and my sister had this on VHS in the 80’s/90’s ❤
The wicked witch sounds like Harvey Fierstein. 🤣
I don't hear it. She sounds to me like Maudie Frickert, one of Jonathan Winters's characters.
the music for this should really get sampled out or something
3:37-5:03 and 49:29-50:51 especially. hard to locate if there ARE any samples.
Original Release on February 28, 1964
Return to Oz was made in 1985 what are you talking about?
@@chuckecheesemodesto8964 THIS SPECIAL, entitled, _Return to Oz_ (3:44) came out in 1964.
Some people (mainly one troll) in the comment section don't get this special. Personally, I love anything Rankin/Bass, especially their animated things. The music is lovely, the singers are pretty decent, and the visuals are so very 60s that to me it's hard not to like at least a little bit. But if you don't, that's fine, but please respect other peoples' opinions. Thank you, have a good day.
I was 11 when this first aired and wanted to like it since I was crazy about anything animated. And I was inspired to be an Animator by seeing a number of television productions like this. While there are some "nice" things about this Special, it was obviously cheaply produced with minimal animation. It was a nice improvement over the syndicated TALES OF THE WIZARD OF OZ series, but the writing is not a good as it was in the short cartoons.
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For those who don't know, why are Dorothy's slippers silver & not ruby? Well, they were silver in the book series. Yes the Wizard of Oz was a series of books. Why were they changed to ruby in the Judy Garland movie? The answer being to do with the transition from black & white to colour.
It's funny how this was more true to the 1st book than the live-action 1939 film was
Except that it isn't; in the series from which this movie sprang, the Scarecrow was named Socrates, the Tin Woodman Rusty, and the Lion Dandy, and they had already teamed up to visit the Wizard and petition him for the things they wanted before Dorothy and Toto ever showed up. And when they did show up, they didn't come in a house, they fell through a dimensional doorway and landed on Dandy. Also, the Wizard was not from Omaha, but was in fact a native-born Ozite.
In this delightful show. I see the embryo of Blues Clues ( the Blue Skidoo), Charmed( calling for help, which comes in a floating ball) and Starlight Express( brave and sweet Rusty).
Incredible!
This is Ozsome. I have it on VHS, but who uses a VCR this day in age. Can't find it on DVD.
john currier it is available on dvd. I own the dvd but I had to get it from America to the uk and it cost quite a lot.
Silver slippers?? Rusty, Socrates, Dandelion? This must of been ratified if they don't mention ruby slippers and these characters names. Rankin of Rankin/Bass Fame, Clay animation Rudolph, Santa Claus is coming to town, etc. etc.... put this together. Funny Rudimentary version. Would liked to have seen the clay animation version. I guess this was before he got together with Bass.
Jim Kindheart yeah. Some copyright complications must of been a problem. To me it’s a perfect follow on from the original film.
This film is a follow up to a previous Rankin-Bass production, an Oz TV series, "Tales of the Wizard of Oz". It was produced shortly after the copyrights to L. Frank Baum's "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" expired, but I suppose they gave the characters names either to be on the safe side or to have their interpretations further stand out.
The shoes are silver in the books ^^
@@SaucyBegger25 If by the "original" film you mean the MGM one, it isn't; in fact it's the third feature film version of the story. But this movie is the sequel to the T.V. series "Tales of the Wizard of Oz," which is in a very different continuity indeed.
The Rankin-Bass stop motion specials did not utilize clay. The figures were in plasticene formed around steel frameworks and dressed in fabric costumes. And it's not "Dandelion," it's Dandy Lion. The silver shoes come straight from the original 1900 novel.
Reminds me of Fractured, Fairy Tails must of bendone by the same Artist co.
31:24 I’m not even gonna lie, this is kind of a bop tho
This version is pretty good not unlike the original movie 🎥 I've seen several different versions of this magnificent story from the Super Friends to Scooby Doo and everything in-between
Ah, so you've seen the 1910 version, then?
@@MaskedMan66 NO I'm not a silent movie fan
@@garycarpenter6433 But you said "the original."
Nice Job!
I was wondering how the song goes 'Oz just can't continue without me'. I try to find the lyrics but no luck.
Rocky and Bullwinkle
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wow this is awesome
15:58 The face you make when you stub your toe.
i like it a lot.
I really like Dorothy's singing voice in this special! It's beautiful! :) My favorite songs in this are at 2:26, 37:40, 47:58, 49:28, 3:38 and 6:57 :) (I discovered it was a different voice actress who did Dorothy's singing than her speaking voice in this. :) )I also love the songs in this special in general!
Correct: Susan Conway did Dorothy's dialogue while Susan Morse did her singing. I had the pleasure of interviewing Ms. Morse (via e-mail) for a series of Oz articles I wrote for a website which shall remain nameless. She was very excited about the project and remains one of its biggest fans to this day.
@@MaskedMan66 I have met Susan Conway. She is a real sweetheart.
@Dale Ferdinand Cool! Where did you meet her?
@@MaskedMan66 I met he at a Forest Ranger convention near Toronto, Ontario.It was at a film studio in 2013. She was a cast member for the series. It ran early 60's.
@Dale Ferdinand Very cool! As it happens, my wife and I visited Toronto several years ago to visit a friend who had co-created a new stage musical of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." He was kind enough to let us see the show free as many times as we wished (which turned out to be three times)!
17:24 Poor Rusty…..
Silver Slippers Check
But they Forgot Glinda is The Witch of the South
This isn't the books.
@@MaskedMan66 Nope. It most certainly is not.
47:57 🌠
The alligators scream creepy
9:34- wouldn’t being resurrected by being frozen by ice mean that she’d melt from the water that melted her anyway once temperatures rose?
Obviously not.
Unless a sudden cold wave happened after the Witch was melted, she couldn't have turned to ice. The water in her clothes would have evaporated especially since she was steaming as she melted. This plot element seems suspiciously similar to the resurrection of Frankenstein's monster, who supposedly died in the windmill fire, but was found in the sequel to have fallen into an underground well beneath the mill.
@@RayPointerChannel Wicked West went to school with "Frankie Draculov," a character who looked a bit like Universal's Frankenstein Monster, and even spoke kinda like Boris Karloff. He appeared in the episode "The Reunion."
9:15 YEAH WHAT GIVES😕🤨?"
43:33
Made On February 9, 2017
I saw this on video 37 years ago at 5! It’s not too bad but I wish it included more oz characters like patchwork girl, hungry tiger, TikTok and Ozma and wish it wasn’t like a rehash of the original story and could had used mombi.
Ever seen Disney’s 1985 live action Return to Oz? At least that has a fresh story and new characters and villains, and feels more faithful to the L Frank Baum books.
So can someone plz explain to me how the witch turned to stone at the end. It doesn’t make any sense
Does any of it 🤷🏻♂️
Because the plot demanded it.
I thought Glinda explained that the witch turned into stone because she was (cruel and)heartless, brainless in that she felt evil was stronger than good,and cowardly because she used slaves and surpressed others.
@@richardranke3158 Oppressed. And you got it precisely!
Watch the movie again, this time with the sound on. ;-)
16:21
Nightmare Fuel 😓
Explain how. Are you afraid of "Sesame Street" as well?
@MaskedMan66 the frame of the baggy bloodshot devil red eyes and the rapey hands.
@@MaskedMan66those are the eyes of Satan Spawn, like the old witch legends say
Magico de. Oz. E. Legal
Where can I find the soundtracks to the songs in this?
Virginia Dowdy and Red Rose I’m not sure you could find the soundtrack for this sorry
That's why I'm making it myself
i would doubt if you could, but i'd guess you'd need to look for a vynal record considering the publishing date is 1964
@@magicamadeye I have the movie on DVD. So I recorded the audio, edited the songs together, and burned them on CD.
@@codydombrowsky660 Will you ever upload the songs to YT?
This cartoon version of oz was really weird by anyone's standards
Ever read the books? "Weird" is the order of the day in Oz!
the girl that voices that girl is like a grandma now
Actually, two young performers gave Dorothy voice, and they were both named Susan. Susan Conway was the speaking voice, she is 70 years old now, and I can turn up little biographical data on her, except that she's done a lot of voice work. Susan Morse, whom I had the pleasure of interviewing (via e-mail) some years back, did the singing. Sadly, she passed away at the age of 67, and she and her husband never had any children.
@@MaskedMan66 dang. Did this other Susan do any similar work since this film?
@@juiuice Susan Conway? Yes, she did a bit of both voice acting and on-screen acting, including a couple of T.V. series, until 1981. I don't know what she's done in her life since then.
@@MaskedMan66 oh no i meant Susan Morse lol
@@juiuice Susan Morse's work covered stage, screen, records, and dog shows. Yes, you read that last one right; later in life she went into breeding and showing Scottish Terriers. And when I asked her if that was because Toto was portrayed as a Scottie, she said that it honestly never crossed her mind, but she got a laugh out of the thought. In her stage work, she was in everything from _The Sound of Music_ to _The Rocky Horror Show,_ "between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects," to quote Dickens.
mom i frew up
👉👉👉👉 Look my shoe leg 😯😯😯😯 43:29
cool is tornado
Best cartoon
I don't know whether to enjoy this ironically or unironically.
How do you figure "ironically?"
@@MaskedMan66 Watching it just to make fun of it.
@@jamesaustin1988 Why lean forward and make fun when you can just sit back and have fun?
@@MaskedMan66 Good advice.
Amazing 🤩 utube smile by john bavas
Doesn't seem to have any wheelers or headless mombi.
So?
18.04-18.06 ?
What?
Interesting..
3:35
The ending
3:34 codes
2:28 narcissist
I have this, and I regret it, it says it’s from the creators of Frosty the Snowman, but that doesn’t look like the style that Frosty the Snowman had, honestly I really hate it, anyone else hate it, or is it just me?
It's just you. This was the follow-up to a hugely successful cartoon series, "Tales of the Wizard of Oz." And it was indeed produced by Rankin and Bass, but with a different production team than worked on most of their other specials. This was done in the U.S.A.; most of the others were made in Japan.
@MaskedMan66 The animation was from Canada same studio that did the Rankin Bass Oz series.
@@stephenholloway6893 Thanks!
I wonder if the producers of this film payed royalties to Warner Brothers for stealing their witch?
Probably as any money being made by me putting this video up on here goes to the owner
Sorry, what?