Tales Of The Wizard Of Oz: One Big Headache [1961]

[rappy90]

Why are the three main characters named differently? Tinman = "Rusty" Lion = Dandy? etc?

[ferociousgumby]

Rankin/Bass must've been "on" something when they did this.

Love the music!

[LAVATORR]

So I take it no one else notices how surreal and frightening this premise is?

[vinniedisco7]

I was born in 1975 and I remember watching this when I was very little. I can't believe I am watching this again...awesome.

[1luiszepol]

very funny cartoon

[amcanmike]

great cartoon ,wow grew up with this

[LightTheWay2012]

Omg this brings back soooo many wonderful childhood memories..Thanks soo much! :)

[HaggisMcCrablice]

I wonder if this is where the Beetlejuice series got its idea for the episode where BJ's body was running around without a head--he'd lost it to a tribe of headhunters --and Lydia had to go on a seafaring adventure find it?

[RJRanke]

Actually,the Scarecrow,Tinman and Lion had personalities in this series which showed what they were lacking a lot more than the original Baum book or even in the MGM movie.

[Fmaack]

story always trumps animation. I remember watching this when I was really young, maybe 3-4. It was still airing in the early 1980s.

[mrgiosb123]

This Series Is Now On RTV.

[MegaCrowman]

wait a minute if "no one ever grows old" in the land of Oz why does the wizard have white hair and a beard just wondering..thanks for the memories though sweet!

[rocketdave]

@MegaCrowman The Wizard might be old, but now that he's in Oz, he won't grow any older, as people in Oz supposedly don't age. That's the way I remember it being explained in the books anyway. Once Oz became a magic country, everyone living there just became stuck at whatever age they were at the time. IMO, it's kind of a crummy arrangement if you're either elderly or an infant.

[teddyt1964]

"RUSTAAAAY!"

[ubersoul]

Global TV used to play this 1st thing in the morning before school in the 80's! I used to LOVE it!! This brings back soooo many happy memories!

[amcanmike]

@ubersoul ya i remember

[ubersoul]

@amcanmike For sure dude! What can I say, I loved being an 80's kid, lol.

[trinitymike]

They didn't show this in Bc, so I could only see it when I'd visit my sister in Toronto...good times and good memories.

[moebigsley1976]

Pure awesomeness.

[Julietwink]

We watched this as very young children in Niagara Falls,NY. (I can barely remember it.) As soon as the opening song began, I started singing and I knew all the words! We loved this.

[2dar1]

i watched this in the 1960s in Winnipeg

loved it

[makrokosmo]

This used to be on early mornings in the 80s in Canada. We would watch it before school every morning. Love it!

[azzorroww]

@makrokosmo are you from a parrell universe me too though in '67 before school down at my grand mothers with the  first rca color tv's good memories indeed not forgetting pinnochio too

[Sue71]

Great cartoon! Takes me back to the mornings before going to school (grade 9). Miss this show! Thanks for posting!

[imsinging4him]

Oh my God I loved watching this as a child on Channel 9 CKLW in Detroit!!! Thank you for sharing! Post more!

[alvask8z2000]

this was a fine show to watch while under the influence of chemicals long ago :)

[keefieboi]

I was singing this today!

[ronofontario]

I remember this cartoon when I was just a little boy. I thought it was the best and the funny thing about this video, I still remember the opening theme.

THANX FOR THE FOND MEMORIES.

[ShinbiBelldandy]

I'm 23 & the only time I saw this was when I was 17-19 when it was on demand in my area. After the channels reformed, I never saw it again. Sadness in my heart....

[tsjrlover]

I loved this cartoon so much as a kid, I still love it over 40 years later.

[zigzagbigbag]

watching this makes me want to eat cereal...and wait for the school bus

[QOHS622]

I was surprised that I actually remembered all the words of this song as soon as the music played. I loved this cartoon! My sister and I watched it everyday before we went to school. It makes sense that this was the "acid era" of creativity, but we were too young to know about any of that! Classic!

[unkledunk1]

Wow. I watched this as a kid. Now as an adult. I see acid was a big part of the writing teams breakfast. What a trip.

[amcanmike]

@unkledunk1 i think some drugs were involved

[BrittRomz5743]

@unkledunk1 Hahahaha love it! ;)

[unkledunk1]

@BrittRomz5743 Ya. I remember some really far out episodes. That Russty the Tin mans laugh cracks me up.

[Tazzman]

@unkledunk1 Even in the movie, he was my favorite charactor as well as this cartoon!

[newfie2keith]

This used to run on CFTO in Toronto in the early mornings on Saturday as part of their "Cartoon Funhouse" along with the New Adventures of Pinocchio. Watched it on a small B&W TV with the volume low so that I didn't wake my parents up tho ;)

[peekaboo6902]

i loved this when i was a kid... along with pinocchio, there was also another one called "pick a letter" does anyone remember that? id love to find that one again, but i cant find it on here, or even when i google it..

[XXXHuntixXXX]

Lol ^^ So this is what you people watched in the 60-70s? :)

[1975tooto]

You can only relate to this if you were born or from this era. Cartoons were still going thru the phase of being created then. We had Hanna- Barbera,Warner Bros ,Disney,Paramount ,Harvey and many others! Please look this up x.

[hutjir]

Good stuff, They don't make them like they used to.

[plantnut65]

I loved this cartoon. I was so little when I watched it. Early 70's in winnipeg. Good memories and yes, I do remember this episode. Good memories. Children really are sponges.

[Tazzman]

@plantnut65 They carried on Canadian TV (CKLW) which we received in Detroit! I remember this being on Jerry Booth's Fun House!

[davidswick]

Wow this brings back memories! Saturday mornings at like 5:30, sitting on the floor in front of the 25" cabinet tv. I think this was on channel 25, picked up snowy out of Canada. I would sit on the floor with the big box of Ritz crackers pigging out! I watched this, friendly Giant, Mr Rogers, Mr Dressup...

[ThemeParkSushi]

If you have Time Warner Cable, some episodes of Wizard of Oz are on the "Kids on Demand" channels. Now if we could just get them to release these on DVD...

[boardskins]

I remember watching this when I was home sick from school. I always thought it was odd and creepy, but I liked it. Thanks for the memories!

[ftenzer]

I remember seeing this cartoon when it was brand new on New York City's Channel 5 (then an independent tv station but now part of the Fox Network) as part of Romper Room when I was a little boy.

[BazzerkerArcadeMan31]

Omg its been so long since i have seen this show i always liked these shows cause it brings me back memories from the time i was watching at my Grandma's house i use to wake up every morning to watch this show thanks for the memories : TheVenerableDrBraino

[micr0cosm]

OMG what a flashback.

[perkybabiesmom]

OMG....I cannot believe I'm seeing this cartoon again. I haven't seen this or heard the sounds in a kajillion years...but it's all deeply entrenched somewhere in my brain because it all came flooding back instantly. THANKS for posting this....

[SOLIDRW]

People who did LSD are not all insane or dead. That is twenty first century psycobabble. I did tons of acid in the 60s and 70s, and now make 200k/yr and am a respected member of society. Don't believe everything the government tells you. If you're mentally stable to start, LSD will not grow lips on your forehead.

[chuggachuggawoowoo]

In late 1979 I worked the overnight shift at a gas station on Rochester, Michigan. One morning at around 6 o'clock, I was watching television and this cartoon series came on. I hadn't seen it since I was a kid in the 1960s. It brought back a lot of memories of MUCH better times. It almost felt like I was dreaming. The theme song brought it all back. This is one of those cartoons you think you just imagined. Until now, I hadn't seen this since that morning in Michigan. Thanks for posting this.

[kelsynielson]

I can't believe someone had this. It just made my day. I can actually remember this exact episode from my childhood....such a strange feeling to watch it 20 years later.

[TorontoJon]

I wish I could find these cartoons on DVD.

I really love the simplified graphic style found in cartoons from the 50's and 60's. A lot of cartoons nowadays lack the simple fun and humour found in those vintage cartoons and instead just seem to be 22 minute long toy commercials.

[TorontoJon]

Wow! I used to watch these cartoons when it was re-released on TV during the early 1980's, even though the series is originally from the 1960's.

These cartoons were created by Crawley's studios in Ottawa, Canada and I knew a girl who, like me, was enrolled in the Sheridan College animation program in Oakville, Canada, and she had an original animation cel from the series.

[albalonybalony]

I havn't seen this cartoon since I was a kid!

Thanks for U-tubeing it.

[mac100100]

Brilliant!

[revelation1965]

this brings back so many memories

[dougat]

I remember when this use to be on and another thing called Pick A Letter With George Phair.

[cne08]

I seem to remember so sort of cartoon or puppet show from a long time ago about Pinochio does anyone know about this?

[cne08]

I was born in 1972 and I used to watch the reruns of this when I was little.

[patybear]

Omg,I can't believe you found these cartoons!

I can still remember and fairly accurately sing the theme song.Thanks for the chuckle! patybear

[teezecrost]

Wow! Awesome! Old cartoons are SO much funnier than the diluted ones out today! I love how the wiz just socks him in the head to prove it's made out of straw!

[byromania]

I remember watching this as a 6 year old kid in 1970. I lived in Detroit at the time and watched this on the CBC. I just can't believe I'm seeing it again. Does anyone remember a Dare Cookie commercial from 1970. It told the story of a boy looking for buried treasure with a pirate. When they found the treasure chest, it was filled with Dare Cookies. Thanks for posting this clip.

[lisamarieee80]

wow i used to watch this cartoon wheni was about 5 sitting eating my cereal before my parents got up looking at the floor model tv on the ground and i had to get up and turn the knob on the tv but the song omg i sang the whole thing and remembered the words i havnt seen this show in so long ty for posting i am 40 now and this was nice to see again

[coralprincess25]

Thank you so much for posting. I can't believe someone else remembers this besides me and my sister. Wow! It's like time has stood still singing along to the theme song!

[ramslgordon]

I haven't seen this in 38 or so years, and I was able to sing along to the opening theme song as it was playing the first time. Next I must check for the Pinnochio cartoons from about the same time. Love that theme song too!

[debibulated]

Actually, these were made at Crawley Films in Ottawa, a street over from my apartment, and sold to Rankin/Bass in the states. That's why they got so much airplay in Canada - they are Canadian made cartoons!

[7mmartini]

these mind expanding cartoons are proof that experiments with lsd were not at this early point confined only to university campuses and the military.

dig the way that walls and floors in the backgrounds just sort of dissolve into one another

[debibulated]

It's called style,man, and you don't need LSD to have it, just a low budget. These cartoons are far from mind-expanding.

[wiley207]

Rankin-Bass was a rather low-budget production company back in the early 1960s. Even "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" looked crude compared to its sequel "Rudolph's Shiny New Year!"

[chuggachuggawoowoo]

This is not "proof" of people doing LSD. This is called making a cartoon on a low-budget and having creative people with imaginations doing it. The people experimenting back then with LSD are mostly dead now, or they lived a life a complete uselessness.

[7mmartini]

I apologize for upsetting people. You're both absolutely right - there is nothing mind-expanding or lysergic in the least about the overall effect created by these benign little low-budget cartoons.

Shame on anyone who experimented back in the sixties. They are dead now, or, at the very least, wasted their lives. I promise to never forget.

[canada647]

Hard to believe this was done over 40 years ago.

[lalalei2001]

That was totally random. I love it! :)

[Montork]

chanses are danday thinks hes just on a bad trip

[pzzzzz]

hehehe,time+control=where's my headache vsnares?

[vsnares]

i love hajni!!!!