Journey Back to Oz

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	6.1

Journey Back to Oz is an animated sequel to the MGM film The Wizard of Oz and was released in 1974 by Filmation. It serves as an alternate Oz film, with elements taken from The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Unlike the MGM film, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry have one farmhand who does not have an alter ego in Oz. 

Plot

Dorothy and Toto return to the Magical Land of Oz. The Scarecrow is now king of the Emerald City and an old Witch named Mombi is trying to take over Oz and overthrow the Scarecrow with her army of angry green elephants.

Cast

It featured a distinguished vocal cast:

• Liza Minnelli as Dorothy Gale
• Mickey Rooney as the Scarecrow
• Danny Thomas as the Tin Woodman (speaking) 
• Milton Berle as the Cowardly Lion (speaking) 
• Rise Stevens as Glinda
• Ethel Merman as the Mombi
• Margaret Hamilton as Aunt Em
• Paul Ford as Uncle Henry
• Larry Storch as Amos (Aunt Em and Uncle Henry's farmhand) / Tin Woodman (singing) 
• Jack E. Leonard as the Signpost
• Paul Lynde as Pumpkinhead
• Herschel Bernardi as Woodenhead Stallion III / Cowardly Lion (singing) 
• Mel Blanc as Mombi's crow 

Songs

The soundtrack was released six years later in 1980. The songs were:

1. A Faraway Land: Dorothy
2. Signpost Song: The Signpost
3. Keep A Happy Thought: Dorothy
4. The Horse on the Carousel: Woodenhead Stallion III
5. B-R-A-N-E: Scarecrow
6. An Elephant Never Forgets: Mombi
7. H-E-A-R-T: Tin Man
8. N-E-R-V-E: Cowardly Lion
9. You Have Only You: Glinda
10. If You're Gonna be a Witch - Be a Witch: Mombi
11. Return to the Land of Oz March: Dorothy
12. That Feeling for Home: Dorothy

Trivia

• Princess Snow-White from the 1993 film Happily Ever After from the same Filmation Studios bears a strinking resemblance in her design to Dorothy's animated counterpart in that film. 

Gallery

Films and Television
Live-action adaptations	Silent films Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908) • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) • His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) • The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) • The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) • The Wizard of Oz (1925) Modern films The Wizard of Oz (1939) • The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969) • 20th Century Oz (1976) • The Wiz (1978) • Return to Oz (1985) • The Wizard of Oz (1994) • The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) • After the Wizard (2011) • Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) • The Wiz Live! (2015) Spin-off films: Flying Monkeys (2013) • Guest Appearances: Inkheart (2008) TV Series Adventures in Oz with Cheryl (1999) • Lost in Oz (2002) • Tin Man (2007) • La Maga (2008) • Dorothy and the Witches of Oz (2011) • Emerald City (2017) Guest Appearances: Shirley Temple's Storybook (1960) • Once Upon a Time (2011-2018) • Supernatural (2013-) •
Animated adaptations	Films Return to Oz (1964) • The Wizard of Oz (1973) • Journey Back to Oz (1974) • Dorothy in the Land of Oz (1980) • The Wizard of Oz (1982) • The Wizard of Oz (1983) • Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz (1987) • Lion of Oz (2000) • Tom and Jerry & the Wizard of Oz (2011) • Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014) • Save Oz! (2015) • Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz (2016) • Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers (2017) • The Steam Engines of Oz (2018) Series Tales of the Wizard of Oz (1961) • In the Magical Land of Oz (1983) • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986) • The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz (1990) • The Wizard of Oz (1990) • The Oz Kids (1996) • Adventures in the Emerald City (1999) • Marchen Awakens Romance (2007) • Lost in Oz (2015) • Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (2017-) Guest Appearances: Superfriends (1980)
Upcoming adaptations	Return to Emerald City (?) • How the Wizard Came to Oz (?) • Oz (2020) • The Land of Oz (2020) • Wicked (2021)
Pastiches, parodies, etc	Rugrats (1999) • That's So Raven (2003-2006) • Victorious (2012) • Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2013) • Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn (2017)
Reality TV	Project Runway (2004) • Face Off (2011)
Shorts and others	Beef Ravioli commercials (2006) • After Oz (2007) • OzLand (2015) • The Land of Oz (short film) (2015) • Dorothy in the Land of Stars (2017) •Unknown (TBA)