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Liza Minnelli plays the role of Dorothy, who was played by her mother Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
According to the book "Creating the Filmation Generation," Danny Thomas voice recording sessions were of such bad quality that they were almost completely unusable, except for his musical number. Larry Storch was brought in to rerecord the Tin Man's dialog, imitating Thomas, who never knew his voice had been replaced.
Some of the animation and voice and partial music recording for "Journey Back to Oz" was actually done almost a decade earlier than the film's release, in 1962. The producers had to wait until 1970 when sufficient funding (from profits made from its numerous TV series) was obtained to finish what was begun eight years earlier. The movie wasn't actually released until 1972. That means ad revenue generated by Filmation's The Brady Kids (1972) and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972) funded this movie's release. Fat Albert's Bill Cosby also did wraparound segments for this movie when it was shown on TV, playing the wizard, flying along in a balloon, looking down at Dorothy on the ground below through a telescope, and commenting on the action.
Peter Lawford was the original voice of the Scarecrow, but his lines were rerecorded by Mickey Rooney. There were two soundtrack records released, one of which was a Japanese bootleg that still featured Lawford's singing voice instead of Rooney's, as well as two songs that were changed or cut from the picture.
The ABC television version (reformatted and expanded as a Christmas television special) featured new wraparound segments featuring Bill Cosby as the Wizard of Oz, standing in a hot air balloon with two children playing munchkins named Sprig and Twig. Cosby was originally contracted only for two uses, and so when SFM Distribution got the syndication rights, his segments were replaced with new material featuring Milton Berle for certain airings outside of the Christmas season. SFM would ultimately air the Cosby-hosted version on occasion at the appropriate time (Christmas). Its last known airing was in 1984.
"The Signpost: Listen, any ordinary signpost can stand at a crossroads, pointing in one direction day in day out, never changing, growing old and dull. Not I, I carry a large assortment of directions. I give people three choices. This way, that way and anyway."
"Woodenhead Stallion III: Well you see, the trouble with me is, I can't hold a job. I had fancy ideas for a wooden horse, but nothin' worked out. I wasn't fast enough to be a race horse, too lazy to be a farm horse, tried to get a job as a clothes horse but just didn't have the figure. Dorothy: Poor Woodenhead. Woodenhead Stallion III: Oh, say that again, I love sympathy. Dorothy: Oh, eh... poor Woodenhead. Woodenhead Stallion III: Thank you."
