The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1986 TV series) City to find the Wizard not only invisible but still unwilling to grant their wishes, asking them to return later. However Dorothy and her friends refuse to be turned away again and start to argue with the Wizard as Toto reveals the Wizard is actually a normal man. The Wizard reveals he is actually a traveling magician from Nebraska who was accidentally swept away to Oz in his hot air balloon, and decided to pretend to be a Wizard as it was only the fear of a powerful magician that stopped the two Wicked Witches from taking over the whole
The Wizard of Oz on television television. After the film went to cable that year, TV showings of the movie became increasingly more frequent, and the tradition of televising it only once a year ended, at least in the U.S. "The Wizard of Oz" has become perhaps the most famous film to be shown regularly on U.S. television, and one of the most cherished. Of the many family-oriented musical fantasies broadcast after the successful 1955 version of the Mary Martin "Peter Pan", "The Wizard of Oz" is the only one which is still shown regularly. Following the 1956 premiere, there were no rebroadcasts of the film