The Royal Podcast of Oz

Jared talks with International Wizard of Oz Club charter member Doug Greene.

Sam and Jared talk about something very, very important. EDIT: This episode was released for April Fool's Day. It is not that important.

Jared and Sam discuss abandoned Oz film and television projects over the years, especially Disney's The Rainbow Road to Oz. More about The Rainbow Road to Oz: Original Mickey Mouse Club website Jim Hill Media: Disney's Long, Long Road to Oz Mouse Planet: Walt's Journey to Oz On the Disneyland Records Oz releases: The Scarecrow of Oz The Wizard of Oz The Cowardly Lion of Oz The Tin Woodman of Oz

Jared talks to Megan Lavey-Heaton and Isabelle Melançon of the webcomic Namesake.

Jared and Sam conclude their discussion of this classic Oz film and we hear opinions from other Oz fans.

Jared and Sam discuss MGM's technicolor classic The Wizard of Oz! Due to being a super-long talk, it has been split in two parts. Part 2 will be released soon.

Jared chats with web cartoonist and Royal Explorers of Oz illustrator John Troutman.

Sam and Jared interview cartoonist Eric Shanower!

Jared reports Oz news, including the first Oz book of 2012, and talks to Cindy Ragni about her new site wonderfulbooksofoz.com and to Peter Hanff about the origins of the Winkie Convention.

Jared and Sam painfully discuss the 1925 silent comedy film based on The Wizard of Oz then get back into Ozzy spirit by discussing the very first Oz cartoon. And they get ready for the next movie...

Jared and Sam discuss the adaptations of L. Frank Baum's The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus from 19856 and 2000.

Jared talks with legendary Oz fan and International Wizard of Oz Club charter member Ruth Berman.

Marcus Mebes, editor of Oziana, reads Jack Snow's "The Penhale Broadcast" from Dark Music and Other Spectral Tales. An experimental supernatural broadcast is carried out in the Penhale graveyard. Will the ghost of famed opera singer Sonya Parrish sing again? The text of the story may be read here.

Jared and Sam discuss the third and final Oz film from the Oz Film Manufacturing Company.

Jared talks with Tommy Kovac, writer of the comic series Royal Historian of Oz. Note: This podcast was accidentally recorded at 64kbps.

Here we have two episodes of the Old Time Radio show "The Story Lady." This nutty storyteller would tell a quick version of a classic fairytale and add a few strange spins. Well, she did The Wizard of Oz... twice. Enjoy!

Continuing the series of podcasts about the Movies of Oz, Jared and Sam look at The Magic Cloak of Oz, the second film from L. Frank Baum's The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, but it was actually based on Baum's Queen Zixi of Ix, a non-Oz book! Buy the book Buy the movie: (shorter version) (Warner Brothers Oz 2005 set) (2009 longer version on DVD) (2009 longer version on Blu-Ray)

In this episode, Jared talks to Jerry Robbins, writer and director of Colonial Radio Theater's adaptations of L. Frank Baum's first five Oz books, a series that will be continued very soon!

In this episode, Jared chats with Leigh Scott, writer and director of The Witches of Oz, a new movie (or TV mini-series) based on the Oz books.

Jared and Sam meet up LIVE to give you the run down of the 2011 Winkie Convention in Pacific Grove, California. And, without clearance from anyone else, they are unable to have any guests... The Winkie Convention on Facebook The Winkie Newsletter The Winkie Convention Website

In this episode, Jared talks to Michael Gershowitz, Casey Wood, and Lindsey Cunningham of Page2Stage Entertainment about their stage musical adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. DISCLAIMER: This episode was created to inform, not endorse. Following the discovery of this news report, we ask listeners to be judicious in donating to any project.

In this episode, Sam and Jared look at the 1914 film The Patchwork Girl of Oz by the Oz Film Manufacturing Company.

Jared Davis and Sam Milazzo discuss the earliest surviving Oz movie, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from 1910.

In this episode, Jared Davis interviews Clayton Spinney and Sean Gates, the director and writer of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, an independent production set for completion in 2012.

This episode finds Jared Davis speaking with Susan Morse, who sang Dorothy's songs in the 1964 cartoon "Return to Oz." Susan was only 12 when she recorded her four songs and had no idea the film was available on DVD. And surprisingly, it was Jared's own fan trailer that alerted her to its availability. Susan not only recounts her work on "Return to Oz," but also of her career, which should prove o...