We’ve lost our minds. Where? Somewhere over the rainbow, I think. We were gone for months, but never mind that, it’s us again on this April Foolsy day to bring you an episode that no one asked for, but everyone will enjoy (hopefully anyway)! Today, we’re joined by fellow friend and cat-enthusiast, Andrew Roebuck, to talk about an obscure Filmation animated feature film sequel to The Wizard of Oz starring Liza Minnelli as Dorothy. Why? Because Don Bluth was, in fact, a layout artist on this movie back in 1972. Yup, that’s it! That’s all the justification we need to make an entire Oz-themed episode for our unsuspecting listeners. So grab your favorite Cairn Terrier, click your heels together, and watch out for that Tornado, because we’re all on a wonderfully unexpected “Journey Back to Oz!”
Links:
Watch Journey Back to Oz on YouTube:
https://bit.ly/2QYWs5p
Check out Andrew’s podcast, Milkshakes and Mimosas!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/milkshakes-and-mimosas/id1457861122
Listen to the Milkshakes and Mimosas episode we guested on about Don Bluth’s Filmation Years.
https://apple.co/3mbhmcY
We’re not about to put a link to every Oz-related production we mention, but here’s a fun list for you to Google in your spare time:
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (the original book from 1900)
The Wizard of Oz (1939 MGM classic film)
Return to Oz (1985 Disney sequel film)
The Wiz (1978 musical film by Motown Productions)
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013 Disney prequel film)
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005 film starring Ashanti)
Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011 animated film)
Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz (2016 animated sequel film)
“Wizzin’” (from the Futurama episode: "Anthology of Interest II," aired January 6, 2002)
The Wizard of Oz | オズの魔法使い (1982 anime film)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | オズの魔法使い (1986 anime series)
“My Way Home” (the Wizard of Oz themed 100th episode of Scrubs, aired January 24, 2006)
Andrew Lloyd Webber's New Production of The Wizard Of Oz (2011, yup, this exists)
Wicked (the 2003 musical… it’s also a book or something)
“Under the Rainbow” (song by the Jane Austen Argument)
“Tin man” (song by America)
“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” (song by Elton John)
“Existential Blues” (song by Tom "T-Bone" Stankus)
Tik-Tok of Oz (1914, 8th book in the original Oz series)
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Music from Journey Back to Oz by Walter Scharf (score and song arrangements), Jimmy Van Heusen (songs), and Sammy Cahn (lyrics), with some library music by Johnny Pearson and possibly other authors that we have no way of looking up, lol.
Audio clips are (almost mostly) from Journey Back to Oz by Filmation. Most of the rest are from many, many, MANY different Oz-related productions.
