Off to See the Wizard

Season

1967

USA

6.7

Family-oriented TV series, produced by MGM, in which guest hosts and animated versions of the "Wizard of Oz" characters were used as wrap-arounds to introduce various family-oriented films from the MGM film library ("Lili," "The Glass Slipper," among others), usually shown in two parts, nature documentaries, and original programming, most notably the Emmy-nominated "Whatever Happened to Mother Goose?," featuring an all-star cast as various Mother Goose characters.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion: Part 1

A hour long version of the recent MGM movie, Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion.

S1 • E2

Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion: Part 2

S1 • E3

Rhino

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 1

S1 • E4

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 2

S1 • E5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 2

S1 • E6

Who's Afraid of Mother Goose?

Mother Goose, leads the gaggle in a musical gander at the pedagogical values of old nursery rhymes. When a school administrator tries to ban Mother Goose books from classrooms because he feels the characters set poor examples. Mother Goose herself appears and turns him into a child. She then takes him through her stories to meet the characters, proving they are not so bad. The musical score is by the composers of the Broadway play, 1776. This was nominated for an Emmy Award.

S1 • E7

Lili: Part 1

S1 • E8

Lili: Part 2

S1 • E9

Untamed World

Andrew Duggan narrates "Untamed World," a documentary on the primitive peoples who still exist in far-off corners of the globe. Among them: the Eskimos in Northern Canada, the Pygmies in the Congo, natives of Melanesia and New Guinea, and the Indians of the Xingú River in Brazil.