BoomerZoo Almanac for October 28-November 3, 2007: Staying in to see the Wizard
I doubt I saw the Wizard of Oz when it first hit the small screen, which was on November 3, 1956. I was a too young to be watching something that scary, and I’m not sure how much TV watching we did back in those days, anyway.
I do remember my surprise when I realized that the Land of Oz was so danged colorful! I believe that was in the 70s. I’d seen the movie a bunch of times as a youngster, but I’m guessing I just didn’t watch it after we got our first color television sometime in the latter half of the 1960s. It really seemed like a whole new movie to me after that.
I still love that movie. Don’t you?
Check out this Dorothy/Scarecrow/Tin Man mashup I found on YouTube:
