The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города) is a 10-part stop-motion adaptation of the first book of the same name in the Magic Land series by Alexander Volkov. It is believed to have aired from around December 1973 to September 1974 and if records are correct, each episode was only released once a month on the 10th.
Episodes[]
Rough translation from Russian:
- Ellie in Magic Land
- Yellow Brick Road
- Emerald City
- Kingdom of Bastinda
- Exposing the Great and Terrible
- The Secret of the Witch Gingema
- Old Sailor’s Ship
- Garden Soldiers
- Mysterious Cave
- Ellie Meets Friends
Cast[]
Translated from the Russian Wikipedia page:
- Klara Rumyanova as Ellie (episodes 1 to 4 & 6 to 10)
- Olga Gromova as Ellie (episode 5)
- Agar Vlasova as Totoshka
- Roman Tkachuk as Scarecrow
- Garri Bardin as The Tin Woodman (episodes 1 to 3 & 5 to 10; credited as V. Bardin (В. Бардин) in episode 3)
- Spartak Mishulin as The Tin Woodman (episode 5)
- Vladimir Ferapontov as Lion (episodes 2 to 4)
- Leonid Kanevskiy as Lion (episode 5)
- Rogvold Sukhoverko as Lion (episodes 8 to 10)
- Rogvold Sukhoverko as Saber-Toothed Tiger / Guard
- Zinoviy Gerdt as Goodwin (episode 3)
- Valeriy Zolotukhin as Goodwin (episode 5)
- Emilija Milton as Gingema
- Veniamin Smekhov as Bastinda
- Sergey Tseyts as Urfin Jus (episodes 6 & 8 to 10)
- Anatoli Baranzew as Urfin Jus (episode 7)
- Anatoli Baranzew as Owl Guamoco