Journey Back to Oz

Journey Back To Oz is a 1972 American animated fantasy-adventure film and an official sequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz produced by Filmation. It is loosely based on L. Frank Baum's second Oz novel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, although Baum received no screen credit. However, the Wizard was nowhere to be found, at least in the theatrical version of the film. A television version shown in 1976 on ABC featured live-action segments starring Bill Cosby as the Wizard. Unlike the 1939 film, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry only have one farmhand. His name is Amos (in a nod to the real name of Danny Thomas - the actor originally contracted to voice the part subsequently performed by Larry Storch), but he does not have an alter ego in Oz—unless it was the Tin Woodman, for whom Storch provided the singing voice, imitating Thomas, who did the character's speaking voice, and was credited as playing him.