History Main / TheWizardOfOz

* A point and click game featuring Oz characters in 1940s film noir Emerald City at [[http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/ Wadjet Eye Games]] called ''[[http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/games/emerald-city-confidential/ Emerald City Confidental]]''.

* It got a surprisingly clever WholePlotReference as "The Motr of Doov" in ''Adventure'' comics 394 (June 1970) with {{Supergirl}} and her cat Streaky (making his final appearance). Reviewing this issue at ''[[https://maidofmight.wordpress.com/part-four-no-sex-no-drugs-some-rock-n-roll/ Maid of Might]]'', the anonymous critic says:

* ''Theatre/TheWiz'', an African-American culture-influenced pop musical retelling of the first book.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry and The Wizard of Oz'', a 2011 DirectToVideo animated feature, is a TwiceToldTale version of the 1939 film that adds the battling cat and mouse to the story. (The same company holds the rights to both the cartoon characters and the movie.)

* It got a surprisingly clever WholePlotReference as "The Motr of Doov" in ''Adventure'' comics 394 (June 1970) with {{Supergirl}} and her cat Streaky (making his final appearance). Reviewing this issue at ''Maid of Might'', the anonymous critic says:
--> This could so easily have been another throw-away gimmick story; just a transparent rip-off. But instead the readers are treated to an imaginative reinterpretation — transformative, even — that cleverly references its source and pays it due respect. A Supergirl makeover was in the offing, but this story is a clever, if somewhat quirky, way of leaving this section of Kara’s adventures on a high.

* It got a surprisingly clever WholePlotAdaptation as "The Motr of Doov" in ''Adventure'' comics 394 (June 1970) with {{Supergirl and her cat Streaky (making his final appearance). Reviewing this issue at ''Maid of Might'', the anonymous critic says:

* There's a comic book series based on the Oz books with main characters cast as 1990s-style superheroes called the ''[[http://sentient39.comicgenesis.com/ozsquad.html Oz Squad]]'', written by [[http://www.steveahlquist.com/ Steve Ahlquist]].

* There's a comic book series based on the Oz books with main characters cast as 1990s-style superheroes called the ''[[http://sentient39.comicgenesis.com/ozsquad.html Oz Squad,]]'' written by [[http://www.steveahlquist.com/ Steve Ahlquist.]]

* The 2007 Sci Fi Channel six hour, three-part miniseries ''Series/TinMan,'' a re-imagining and continuation of the classic story set years after the events of the original ''Wonderful Wizard of Oz.''

* A point and click game featuring Oz characters in 1940s film noir Emerald City at [[http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/ Wadjet Eye Games]] called ''[[http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/games/emerald-city-confidential/ Emerald City Confidental.]]''

* There's a CGI movie in pre-production from John Boorman, the director of ''{{Zardoz}}''.

* A point and click game featuring Oz characters in 1940s film noir Emerald City at [[http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/ Wadjet Eye Games]] called ''[[http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/games/emerald-city-confidential/ Emerald City Confidental]]''.

* There's a comic book series based on the Oz books with main characters cast as 1990s-style superheroes called the ''[[http://sentient39.comicgenesis.com/ozsquad.html Oz Squad]]'', written by [[http://www.steveahlquist.com/ Steve Ahlquist]].

* ''Theatre/TheWiz'', an African-influenced pop musical retelling of the first book.

* ''Theatre/TheWiz''
* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'', adapted from a [[Literature/{{Wicked}} book of the same name]].

* The 2015 TV special ''[[Theatre/TheWiz The Wiz Live!]]'', an all-African-American performance of the Broadway musical of the same name.

* The 2015 TV special ''[[Theatre/TheWiz The Wiz Live!]]'', a live AllStarCast performance of the Broadway musical of the same name.

* The 2015 CGI pilot ''WesternAnimation/LostInOz''.

* A 2014 fully computer-animated feature film called ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'' was made by Claris and Summertime Entertainment and animated by Prana Studios (the "Tinkerbell" series), as a sequel to both the 1939 film and a few of the books and based on a book written by L. Frank Baum's great-grandson.

** Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin-Man and Lion are all playable characters in the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS game ''VideoGame/CodeNameSteam'', among other literary characters.

* In 1961, Crawley Films, (later Creator/RankinBassProductions) produced a series of short cartoons, ''WesternAnimation/TalesOfTheWizardOfOz'', featuring Dorothy, the Wizard, the Witch, Socrates Scarecrow, Rusty Tinman, and Dandy Lion.

* There was a later anime called ''TheWonderfulGalaxyOfOz''.
* The 1999, Russian two-part animated television adaptation of L. Frank Baum, ''Adventures in the Emerald City: Silver Shoes''. It’s mostly based on Baum but includes several elements from the "Magic Land" books. A two part sequel, ''Adventures in the Emerald City: Princess Ozma'', adapted Baum’s ''Land of Oz''.

* ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'' was a 2005 MadeForTVMovie that cast Ashanti as a PresentDay Dorothy and various [[TheMuppets Muppets]] as her travelling companions and adversaries. Miss Piggy, for instance, plays all four witches.

* The 2011 miniseries ''Film/TheWitchesOfOz'' by Leigh Scott of TheAsylum fame, in which a modern-day Dorothy Gale discovers that her best-selling novels are in fact inspired by her own supressed memories of her adventures in Oz.

** ''TheWiz''
** ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'', adapted from a [[Literature/{{Wicked}} book of the same name.]]
* The Land of Oz has been the subject of several comic books.
** The first [[MarvelComics Marvel]][=/=][[DCComics DC]] collaborative publication was an adaptation of the 1939 film.
** Followed by Marvel's adaptation of ''The Marvelous Land of Oz''
** ''Oz: the Manga'' from Antarctic Press.
** The [[http://www.calibercomics.com/TITLES/oz.htm Oz comics]] from Caliber Comics.
** ''Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew! In The Oz-Wonderland War Trilogy'' from DC Comics.
** There's a comic book series based on the Oz books with main characters cast as 1990s-style superheroes called the ''[[http://sentient39.comicgenesis.com/ozsquad.html Oz Squad]]'', written by [[http://www.steveahlquist.com/ Steve Ahlquist]].
** There's also a {{manhwa}} called ''Manhwa/DorothyOfOz''.
** Ozma and the Nome King are featured prominently in the Vertigo series ''{{Fables}}''.

* Several video games have been released based on the series
** A NintendoDS RPG called ''[[http://www.rpgamer.com/games/other/nds/rizzoawd/rizzoawd.html RIZ-ZOAWD]]'' (an anagram of "Wizard Oz"), released in Japan by Media.Vision, which is highly stylized and re-imagined. It was localized abroad as ''The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road''.
** A point and click game featuring Oz characters in 1940s film noir Emerald City at [[http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/ Wadjet Eye Games]] called ''[[http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/PF.htm Emerald City Confidental]]''.
** Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin-Man and Lion are all playable characters in the Nintendo3DS game ''VideoGame/CodeNameSteam'', among other literary characters.
* A made-for-television biopic, ''The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story'', was made in 1990 and told the story of how the Oz books came to be. The cast included John Ritter as Baum and Rue [=McClanahan=] as his suffragette mother-in-law Matilda Gage. This movie is included as a bonus feature on the 2009 [=DVD=] and Blu-Ray releases of the 1939 adaptation.
* A TabletopGame (''[[http://newwwoz.blogspot.com/2010/06/adventures-in-oz-rpg.html Adventures in Oz: Fantasy Roleplaying Beyond the Yellow Brick Road]]'') based on the Baum books was released in 2010.
* Another TabletopGame released in November 2010, ''[[http://paizo.com/products/btpy8dsn?Oz-Dark-Terrible Oz: Dark and Terrible]]'', takes a DarkerAndEdgier look at the source material, yet is still oddly faithful to the original books.

* ''Literature/TalesOfTheMagicLand'', a (very free) Russian translation of the first book made by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov in 1939 that spun off into its own book series.
* An audio adaptation of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by the Children's Museum of Los Angeles for the book's centennial, with Harry Anderson, Rene Auberjonois, Annette Bening, Phyllis Diller, Joanna Gleason, John Goodman, Robert Guillaume, Mark Hamill, Maurice La Marche, Michael Learned, Mako, Phil Proctor, Nestor Serrano and Michelle Trachtenberg, with an afterword by Ray Bradbury.

** An RPG called ''[[http://www.rpgamer.com/games/other/nds/rizzoawd/rizzoawd.html RIZ-ZOAWD]]'' (an anagram of "Wizard Oz"), released in Japan by Media.Vision, which is highly stylized and re-imagined.

* In 1961, Crawley Films, (later RankinBassProductions) produced a series of short cartoons, ''WesternAnimation/TalesOfTheWizardOfOz'', featuring Dorothy, the Wizard, the Witch, Socrates Scarecrow, Rusty Tinman, and Dandy Lion.

* A 2014 fully computer-animated feature film called ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn'' was made by Claris and Summit Entertainment and animated by Prana Studios (the "Tinkerbelle" series), as a sequel to both the 1939 film and a few of the books and based on a book written by L. Frank Baum's great-grandson.

* A 2014 fully computer-animated feature film called ''[[WesternAnimation/LegendsOfOzDorothysReturn]]'' was made by Claris and Summit Entertainment and animated by Prana Studios (the "Tinkerbelle" series), as a sequel to both the 1939 film and a few of the books and based on a book written by L. Frank Baum's great-grandson.

* An audio adaptation of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by the Children's Museum of Los Angeles for the book's centennial, with Harry Anderson, Rene Auberjonois, Annette Bening, Phyllis Diller, Joanna Gleason, John Goodman, Robert Guillaume, Mark Hamill, Maurice La Marche, Michael Learned, Mako, Phil Proctor, Nestor Serrano and Michelle Trachtenberg, with an afterword by Ray Bradbury.

* Another TabletopGame released in November 2010 ''[[http://www.emeraldcityexpeditions.com/ecehome.html Oz: Dark and Terrible]]'' takes a DarkerAndEdgier look at the source material, yet is still oddly faithful to the original books.

* ''Literature/TalesOfTheMagicLand'', a (very free) russian translation of the first book made by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov in 1939 that spun off into it's own book series.

* ''TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'' was a 2005 MadeForTVMovie that cast Ashanti as a PresentDay Dorothy and various [[TheMuppets Muppets]] as her travelling companions and adversaries. Miss Piggy, for instance, plays all four witches.

* A OneEpisodeWonder TV show pilot was made in 2002, ''Series/LostInOz''. This is not to be confused with a trilogy of books written by Joshua Dudley, also entitled ''Literature/LostInOz''.