After creating the New Adventures of Pinocchio cartoons, the Rankin-Bass company—best known for stop-motion specials such as Santa Claus is Coming to Town—followed up with Tales of the Wizard of Oz in the early sixties.
130 five-minute episodes (and a 1964 special, Return To Oz) told the adventures of tough-minded Dorothy, dimwitted Socrates, heartless Rusty and timid Dandy (Scarecrow, Tin Woodman and Lion, respectively) as they thwarted the Wicked Witch with the help of the goofball Wizard.
Like Pinocchio, the syndicated series was created to fit a standard kid-show format of the day in which a local host and some children would watch cartoons along with the at-home audience, then push the sponsor’s products during breaks.
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