Tales Of The Wizard Of Oz: The Cool Lion [1961]

[ferociousgumby]

Oh mee oh myyy.

[JackMcQuack]

@Tazzman Good, clean family entertainment is *everywhere*. Perhaps you never see this on Cartoon Network because Copyright law has become too complex and overbearing?

[saml760]

i've seen these shorts along with "The New Adventures of Pinocchio" saturday mornings on RTV Network.

[funkydrummer14]

Bernard Cowan also did voices on the SpiderMan cartoon series from 1967-1970

[HaggisMcCrablice]

@funkydrummer14 -- Plus one episode also involved Spidey being trapped in a freezer. Madness and hallucinations do in fact result from extreme hypothermia, though often within the first 20-30 minutes. Spidey preumably was exposed to subzero temps for 24 hours.

2:26--I've heard of courage being referred to as "having balls", but this is ridiculous.

[lisaDH73]

I remember watching this in black and white many, many years ago. I miss those low-tech, poorly animated shows.

[AshleeACAmusic]

3:03 lol looks like a butt

poor lion

[Maginel73]

Anyone know who voiced the Tin Man? I think Paul Kligman voiced the lion. Not sure who did the Wizard.

[2DD]

You wouldn't be allowed to show someone getting into a fridge/freezer to get courage on kids tv these days, kids play and copy what they see, you can't get out of a fridge/freezer easily from the inside, if at all.

[Lava1964]

I haven't seen these in 35 years! Great stuff!

[ehcowan]

Memories....The voices and dialogue direction was just so good. Bernard Cowan sure had the touch.

[wiley207]

I wonder what it'd be like if "Tales of the Wizard of Oz" had the same animation style as "The Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad Show," which was also made by Rankin-Bass nine years later.

[gumrnbythetruth]

Geez, this is the best flashback to pre-Kindergarten ever! Pinnochio, Bullwinkle and The Wizard of Oz, 3 crudely drawn classics!

[wiley207]

Don't forget anything by Hanna-Barbera and Total TV.

[ramslgordon]

Not sure who or what Total TV gave us. Details? I did love the HB ones, and still do.

Interesting point on HB, Speedy Gonzales was eliminated from the air for years because politically correct dimwits thought it was defaming Hispanics, especially with secondary characters like Slow Polk Rodriguez. Then Hispanic leaders started bitching about how Speedy was never shown and blamed it on racism. Ha, fucking HAH!

Political correctness is shit; always has been; always will be.

[wiley207]

Total TV did "Underdog," "Tennessee Tuxedo" and "King Leonardo." The animation was very Jay Ward-like

[ramslgordon]

Loved Underdog, indifferent to T Tux, and never heard of King Leonardo, or if I have, I am vaguely recalling it as a lion. All the kids in my neighborhood loved Underdog, although we had no idea that 'underdog' was a real word with a meaning.

[1975tooto]

YeS  he was a lion! His counter part was a skunk named Ode Cologne! The villians were Biggie Rat and Itchie Brother ,who was a rat and mountain lion!

[citizenterryk]

that's because the animation for Total TV and Jay Ward was done by Gamma Productions, an animation house that was located in Mexico...

[wiley207]

Right. Gamma Productions used to be called Val-Mar

[citizenterryk]

i didn't know that!!.....thank you!!

[73gnikxela]

fab!

[canada647]

WOW! nothing like seeing these old childhood cartoons again, after 30+ years.

[Tazzman]

I do not even see these on the Cartoon Network or any other channel for that matter. Maybe because it is good clean family entertainment?

[wiley207]

Boomerang would be a likely choice to air these shorts. After all, Boomerang often airs cartoons owned by Classic Media (like Bullwinkle and Underdog) in addition to the cartoons owned by Turner and WB.