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Journey Back To Oz is a 1972 American animated adventure musical fantasy film produced by Filmation . It is loosely based on L. Frank Baum 's second Oz novel The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), although Baum received no screen credit. [1]

The film was not a hit in theaters, but did well on television, premiering on ABC on December 5, 1976. [2] For television broadcast, Filmation produced live-action segments with a celebrity playing the Wizard , flying in his balloon with a parrot and two Munchkins , Sprig and Twig.

The first version featured Bill Cosby . Filmation only contracted with Cosby for two airings, so when the film aired in syndication later, the company reshot the live segments with Milton Berle . The Cosby-hosted version would eventually air in syndication. [3]

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Journey back to oz.

1972 Directed by Hal Sutherland

All the Fun and Splendour of the Magical Land of Oz in a Wonderful NEW full-length Musical Cartoon Adventure

Dorothy and Toto return to the Land of Oz to find the Scarecrow as ruler of the Emerald City. Unfortunately for the new mayor, the wicked Mombi is conspiring to take over the city for herself. With the help of the Tin Woodsman, the Cowardly Lion and other familiar friends, Dorothy sets out to save Oz.

Liza Minnelli Paul Lynde Ethel Merman Milton Berle Mickey Rooney Danny Thomas Herschel Bernardi Paul Ford Margaret Hamilton Jack E. Leonard Risë Stevens Mel Blanc Dal McKennon Larry Storch

Director Director

Hal Sutherland

Producers Producers

Fred Ladd Norm Prescott

Writers Writers

Original writer original writer.

L. Frank Baum

Art Direction Art Direction

Don Christensen

Songs Songs

Jimmy Van Heusen Sammy Cahn

Filmation Associates

Alternative Titles

Viagem de Regresso a Oz, Ritorno a Oz, Rückkehr nach Oz, בחזרה לארץ עוץ, 重返绿野仙踪, Regreso al maravilloso mundo de Oz, Mundo Maravilhoso de Oz - O Regresso, ジャーニー・バック・トゥ・オズ

Animation Family Fantasy

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14 dec 1972, 05 dec 1974, releases by country.

• Theatrical G

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Review by bruno ★★★

simplesmente a filha da judy garland dublando a dorothy

Review by 👽 Zara 👽

can’t lie did not pay attention at all but paul lynde as jack pumpkinhead is delightful casting

Review by vhs_vampire ★½ 1

Liza Minnelli lends her voice to resurrect her mother’s portrayal of Dorothy Gale of Kansas. It’s cool that they sound so similar. There’s a 1970’s all-star cast, such as Paul Lynde as Pumpkinhead and Ethel Merman as Mombi. It’s safe to say, this incarnation of an Oz story contains the most songs. It seems like every character has one, besides Toto, and it really drags you down. So formulaic you’ll already have your gun loaded. And it’s not just the number of songs, it’s the quality. They stink! Scarecrow is king of Emerald City, but he’s still fairly dumb. The Cowardly Lion is king of the forest and the Tin Man is king of Tin Land, where rust isn’t allowed.…

Review by Luke Thorne ★★★

Hal Sutherland’s animation in which Dorothy gets struck on the head and finds herself in the Land of Oz. She goes on an escapade and attempts to rescue her pals from the nasty Mombi and his military.

In the middle of another twister, Dorothy (voiced by Liza Minnelli) is hit on the head by a gate and yet again taken away to the Land of Oz. But this time, while on her way to the Emerald City, she finds out about the witch Mombi’s (Ethel Merman) awful strategy to dominate Oz with a military of monster green elephants that's she is getting prepared for.

She gets away with the help of Mombi's slave Pumpkinhead, and they attempt to warn King…

Review by Kelvin Cedeño ★★½

So on one hand, this has an amazing cast and solid animation. On the other, the songs are mediocre padding (surprising given that Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn were behind them), and the script is lame. The Tin Man and Cowardly Lion are shockingly out of character in a lazy effort to boost up Jack Pumpkinhead and Woodenhead the horse, and Glinda is even less helpful than she is in the MGM film. This film infamously ran out of money and took 10 years to complete once Filmation earned up from their television work. It's too bad that time wasn't spent rewriting the screenplay. I watched this several times as a kid, but unlike the 1982 anime, the nostalgia wasn't strong enough to overcome the flaws (and, honestly, that anime is genuinely better, anyway).

Review by oscar 🐇 ★★★½

Now how come everyone including the LAMP POST gets a song but SECOND MAIN CHARACTER PUMPKINHEAD doesn’t??!?

Review by Bazinga ★ 1

I started this on December 31st so it’s technically my last movie of 2021 even tho I finished it after midnight, it’s really really bad. The first half is mostly just a repeat of the first movie and the second half just becomes ridiculously insane but not in a fun way, the scarecrow, tin man and lion all suck in this and are really out of character considering this is meant to be a direct sequel, the only thing I liked was Dorothy’s voice actress, she does a great job sounding like Judy Garland, but other than that this is garbage

Anyway happy new year!

Review by kmeaston ★★

Goddammit, why can't we just stay in Kansas?

Review by Captain Rowdy ★★½

The writing is extremely poor - not just with the mostly forgettable songs but the dialogue! The humor has aged very, very badly!

Funny how I saw the 80 year old The Wizard of Oz last week with a mostly filled theater and it still feels so timeless. I will never forget someone's grandma singing along to "Over the Rainbow." She was so involved.

Every likable aspect of that film is either played on or ripped off by this second-rate animated mess. The characters are definitely still magical, but their designs are not imaginative. The worst is definitely Mombi, who resembles a clone of the Wicked Witch of the West. That was the point, I believe. But with Return to…

Dorothy: *sings a song about how you should have a positive mind* Dorothy, right after: Sad stories are my favorite kind!!!

Review by Dan K ★★½

"It's spooky down here."

The official sequel to the 1939 The Wizard of Oz featuring Liza Minelli (who no surprise can do a great impression of her mother, and has a great singing voice of her own!) They got some good talent for the voices (like Ethel Merman and Mickey Rooney!), but unfortunately the songs really aren't all that memorable.

This was started in the 1960s, and delayed after financial troubles. The animation is pretty typical of '60s American television animation (think The Jetsons in or The Flintstones cartoons), so not actually that bad. The weird thing is is the designs don't really hook up with the movie, which I found a bit odd. All-in-all this is fine. More of an interesting novelty than something I'd recommend seeking out.

Review by kitty

once again. this is not a hack but a product you can buy

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After a tornado in Kansas causes a loose gate to knock Dorothy unconscious, she re-appears in the Land of Oz with Toto, and encounters a talking Signpost (voiced by Jack E. Leonard), whose three signs point in different directions, all marked “Emerald City”.

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Journey Back To Oz is a 1972 American animated adventure musical fantasy film produced by Filmation . It is loosely based on L. Frank Baum 's second Oz novel , The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), although Baum received no screen credit. [1]

The film was not a hit in theaters, but did well on television, premiering on ABC on December 5, 1976. [2]

For television broadcast, Filmation produced live-action segments with a celebrity playing the Wizard , flying in his balloon with a parrot and two Munchkins , Sprig and Twig. The first version featured Bill Cosby . Filmation only contracted with Cosby for two airings, so when the film aired in syndication later, the company reshot the live segments with Milton Berle . The Cosby-hosted version would eventually air in syndication. [3]

• 1 Production history
• 4 Songs and score
• 5 Television version
• 6 DVD release
• 8 References
• 9 External links

Production history [ ]

The movie began production in 1962, but ran out of money and was halted for nearly eight years. It was only after the Filmation studio had made profits on their numerous television series that it was able to finish the project, copyrighted 1971, released in 1972 in the UK and 1974 in the U.S. It features Liza Minnelli voicing Dorothy (played in the 1939 film by her mother Judy Garland , and in what would have been her first major role had the film been released as originally intended). Other voices were by Ethel Merman , Milton Berle , Mickey Rooney , Paul Lynde , Herschel Bernardi , Paul Ford , Danny Thomas , Margaret Hamilton (also from the 1939 film, but now playing Aunt Em rather than the Wicked Witch of the West , who died in the earlier film), and opera singer Risë Stevens as Glinda the Good Witch .

For the film's U.S. release, Filmation partnered with a company called Seymour Borde and distributed it through a process called four wall distribution , whereupon the studio rented venues to show it and kept all of the box-office revenue. [4] Outside the United States and Canada, Warner Bros. distributed the film. [3]

After a tornado in Kansas causes a loose gate to knock Dorothy unconscious, she re-appears in the Land of Oz with Toto , and encounters a talking Signpost (voiced by Jack E. Leonard ), whose three signs point in different directions, all marked " Emerald City ". They later meet Pumpkinhead (voiced by Paul Lynde ), the unwilling servant of antagonist Mombi – cousin of the deceased Wicked Witches of the East and West . Toto chases a cat to a small cottage where Dorothy is captured by Mombi's pet crow (voiced by Mel Blanc ) and Mombi (voiced by Ethel Merman ) herself. Pumpkinhead sneaks into the house in Mombi's absence, and discovers her creation of green elephants , to use as her army to conquer the Emerald City. Pumpkinhead frees Dorothy, and they flee. After finding Dorothy gone, Mombi threatens that their warning the Scarecrow will not help when her green elephants "come crashing through the gate".

Dorothy and Pumpkinhead acquire Woodenhead Stallion III (voiced by Herschel Bernardi ), a former merry-go-round horse (a combination of the Sawhorse from The Marvelous Land of Oz and the title character of the last Oz book of all, Merry Go Round in Oz ), who takes them to the Emerald City, where Dorothy warns the Scarecrow (voiced by Mickey Rooney ) about Mombi's green elephants. Mombi arrives moments later, and Toto and the Scarecrow are captured. Dorothy, Pumpkinhead, and Woodenhead flee to Tinland to convince the Tin Man (voiced by Danny Thomas , who spoke, and Larry Storch , who sang) to help them. He declines upon being afraid of the green elephants and suggests that they ask the Cowardly Lion (voiced by Milton Berle ), who promises to slay the elephants, but suggests consulting Glinda the Good Witch (voiced by Rise Stevens ), who appears to them with a "Glinda Bird" that uses its Tattle Tail to show what is occurring at the palace. She then gives Dorothy a little silver box, to open only in the Emerald City, and only in a dire emergency.

Mombi, having seen their progress in her crystal ball , brings the nearby trees to life; whereupon Glinda sends a golden hatchet to Pumpkinhead. One of the trees snatches it from him, but changes its fellows and itself into gold and turns them from bad to good. Woodenhead carries Dorothy and Pumpkinhead back to the Emerald City, where Mombi's elephants surprise them. When Dorothy opens Glinda's box, mice emerge, scaring the elephants. Mombi brews a potion to shrink Toto to mouse-size so she can feed him to her cat; but when startled, miniaturizes her crow and cat instead. Thereafter Mombi disguises herself as a rose with poisonous thorns, which the elephants trample over and themselves disappear, prompting the Scarecrow to explain that Mombi's magic has died with her. Unfortunately, Pumpkinhead, another product of Mombi, also dies; however, he is revived by one of Dorothy's tears.

The Scarecrow makes Woodenhead the head of the Oz cavalry and knights Pumpkinhead; and Dorothy and Toto leave Oz by another tornado (created by Pumpkinhead and Glinda), promising to return.

• Liza Minnelli as Dorothy Gale
• Don Messick as Toto
• Paul Lynde as Pumpkinhead
• Herschel Bernardi as Charelsworth Pinto "Woodenhead" Stallion III
• Ethel Merman as Mombi
• Mickey Rooney as the Scarecrow
• Danny Thomas as the Tin Man
• Milton Berle as the Cowardly Lion
• Risë Stevens as Glinda
• Jack E. Leonard as the Signpost
• Margaret Hamilton as Aunt Em
• Paul Ford as Uncle Henry
• Larry Storch as Amos, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry's farmworker
• Dallas McKennon as Omby Amby
• Mel Blanc as Mombi's crow

Songs and score [ ]

The film contains twelve original songs by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen . The arrangements and some of the film's score was by Walter Scharf . The original songs (which were featured on a soundtrack album released around the time of the film's television release) include the following:

• "A Faraway Land" - Dorothy
• "Signpost Song" - The Signpost
• "Keep a Happy Thought" - Dorothy
• "The Horse on the Carousel" - Woodenhead
• "B-R-A-N-E" (sic) - Scarecrow
• "An Elephant Never Forgets" - Mombi
• "H-E-A-R-T" - Tin Man
• "N-E-R-V-E" - Cowardly Lion
• "You Have Only You" - Glinda
• "If You're Gonna Be a Witch - Be a Witch" - Mombi
• "Return to the Land of Oz March" - Dorothy
• "That Feeling for Home" - Dorothy

However, a majority of the film contains library music from other sources. One particular piece of music, heard in the opening titles, is The Awakening , a Johnny Pearson composition that was recorded in 1967 (three years after production on this film began). While largely familiar to U.S. audiences for its use in this film, it is otherwise known to British viewers as the theme for ITN 's News at Ten . Coincidentally, another well-known Pearson composition, " Heavy Action " (also known as the theme of Monday Night Football ), served as the theme to the syndicated SFM Holiday Network , which ran this film for many years.

Television version [ ]

While the film was a failure in its theatrical release, it would find its audience in its television showings. Filmation sold the broadcast rights to ABC in 1976. By this time, Bill Cosby was in the midst of his success with Filmation's TV series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids , as well as starring in a new, but short-lived TV series for ABC. Filmation decided to expand and reformat the film to a Christmas television special . The film's theatrical running time was extended to include new live-action connecting segments with Cosby as the Wizard, a character otherwise not seen in the original theatrical release. The live-action subplot was to get two lost children home to spend Christmas with Dorothy, while helping to move the plot along. This extended TV version would later air in a successful syndication run via the aforementioned SFM Holiday Network. The last known airing of this version was in 1984 and it has not been available since then. SFM also made available another television version for airing during the year (when it obviously was not Christmas) with cast member Milton Berle filming new linking interstitials in place of the Cosby segments. (citation needed)

DVD release [ ]

A special edition DVD was released on October 24, 2006. This DVD features a feature-length audio commentary, interviews with creators Lou Scheimer , Hal Sutherland and Fred Ladd , behind the scenes photo gallery, image galleries featuring poster art and animation cels, a sing-a-long feature, most of the Bill Cosby interstitials used in the TV version (presented separately from the original theatrical version contained on the disc and sourced from an incomplete PAL transfer of the TV version, as a complete version of the latter cut was unavailable), the first draft script and storyboards, and a photo gallery (mostly containing behind-the-scenes photos of the Cosby and Berle live-action interstitials used in syndicated broadcasts).

The theatrical version is known only to exist as a PAL digital transfer (sped up 4% from its original film speed) as the original NTSC film elements were apparently discarded and purposely destroyed by the previous owner of the film, Hallmark Entertainment . (citation needed)

See also [ ]

• List of American films of 1972

References [ ]

• ↑ (1999) The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons . Checkmark Books. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7 .  
• ↑ (1989) Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987 . Scarecrow Press, 228–230. ISBN 0-8108-2198-2 .  
• ↑ 3.0 3.1 (2012-01-01) Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation (in en). TwoMorrows Publishing, 107–108. ISBN 9781605490441 .  
• ↑ Beck, Jerry (2005). "Journey Back to Oz", The Animated Movie Guide . Chicago Reader Press. ISBN 1-55652-591-5 .  

External links [ ]

• Journey Back to Oz at the TCM Movie Database

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