Here she finally makes it to Oz, playing the leads of Ozma and Tip. The format resonates several of Temple’s films of the ’30s had been adapted from children’s books, and she had even been considered for the role of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Almost all of the episodes were adaptations of literature, usually children’s books, with all star casts. I’ve loved every episode of this show I have watched, a fully worthy continuance of the star’s childhood career that ought to be better remembered, some truly innovative and well produced television. Frank Baum’s The Marvelous Land of of Oz produced for The Shirley Temple Show (formerly known as Shirley Temple’s Storybook). I remember strongly disliking Disney’s Return to Oz in 1985, and was more than unimpressed with the Rankin-Bass animated adaptations of the ’60s, which are roughly at the level of the 3 Stooges, Abbott and Costello, and Beatles cartoons of the era: strictly assembly line fodder.īut there have been some Oz sequels which, while not at the level of perfection of the 1939 original, at least didn’t strike me as a complete waste of time, and even managed to recapture some of the old magic. We recently crowed here about how The Wizard of Oz is our favorite movie. And in 2013 we went into a tizzy about the dreadful and unworthy Oz the Great and Powerful.There have been other horrible sequels, too.
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