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 (1939 film) it left the stage and an unsuccessful motion picture made in 1978, starring Diana Ross as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow. In 1985, Walt Disney Productions released the live-action fantasy film "Return to Oz", which starred (and introduced) Fairuza Balk as a young Dorothy Gale. Based loosely on "The Marvelous Land of Oz" (1904) and "Ozma of Oz" (1907), it fared rather poorly with critics who were unfamiliar with the "Oz" books and was not successful at the box office, although it has since become a popular cult film, with many considering it a more loyal and faithful