The Wizard of Oz was an entertainment franchise before franchises were a concept. The original 14-book series by Baum is a rich tapestry of dark fantasy with bizarre characters and settings.

It is the Oz Bowl game, CBS’s annual telecast of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s The Wizard of Oz. From the dance of the rusty robot to Ray Bolger’s tumbling scarecrow and Bert Lahr’s campy lion ...

And it applies, equally, to the "Oz ... the game away. The "Oz" books were simply too much in demand. They had to be replaced too often. Libraries didn't want to pay for them. " 'The Wizard ...

The backstory of Glinda the (Not-So) Good Witch and Elphaba the (Not-So) Wicked Witch of the West certainly makes us all look at our childhood classic fave The Wizard of Oz (1939) a little ...