This family-oriented TV series, produced by MGM, used guest hosts and animated versions of characters from The Wizard of Oz as wraparounds to introduce films from the MGM film library – including Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion, Flipper and Cinderella and the Glass Slipper, among others.
The series also featured unsuccessful TV pilots – such as Alexander the Great starring William Shatner, Mike and the Mermaid with Kevin Brodie and Jeri Lynne Fraser) and The Hellcats with George Hamilton.
Original programming included the Emmy-nominated Who’s Afraid of Mother Goose? (pictured) with an all-star cast including Maureen O’Hara, Frankie Avalon, Nancy Sinatra, Jim Nabors, Rowan and Martin, The Three Stooges and Steve Martin.
Most of the full-length features were presented in two parts.
The series aired on Friday nights on ABC between September 1967 and September 1968. Guest hosts included Robert Goulet, Jack Lemmon, and Milton Berle.
Scarecrow/The WIzard of Oz
Daws Butler (voice) Cowardly Lion
Mel Blanc (voice) Tin Man/Toto
Don Messick (voice) Dorothy/The Wicked Witch
June Foray (voice) Narrator
Hal Holbrook
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The series also featured unsuccessful TV pilots – such as Alexander the Great starring William Shatner, Mike and the Mermaid with Kevin Brodie and Jeri Lynne Fraser) and The Hellcats with George Hamilton.
