The Wizard of Oz (TV series) The Wizard of Oz (TV series) The Wizard of Oz is an animated television series produced by DIC Entertainment in 1990 to capitalize on the popularity of the 1939 film version, to which DiC had acquired the rights from Turner Entertainment, Co.. The series featured thirteen episodes and premiered on ABC, starting on September 8, 1990. It also aired on YTV from 1990 to 1995 in Canada. Reruns aired on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2002. Dorothy has decided to return to Oz with Toto using the ruby slippers that showed up on her doorstep. Upon arriving there she reunites
The Tik-Tok Man of Oz and Polychrome, the Rainbow's daughter (which created some continuity inconsistencies when it was adapted to the novel), both of which were influenced by "Prince Silverwings". Betsy Bobbin was intended to be Dorothy Gale, but the characters in "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Woggle-Bug" were contractually unavailable to him—although "Ozma" remained from "The Woggle-Bug", she was a wholly different character renamed Ozga for the books. It also adapted the Rose Kingdom from the Kingdom of Mangaboos in "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz", and Queen Ann was derived from General Jinjur in spite of the failure of "The Woggle-Bug". The