Tales of the Wizard of Oz is a 1961 animated television series produced by Crawley Films for Videocraft (later known as Rankin/Bass Productions).

[1] The series features stories derived from characters created in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Several characters are given additional names, including Dandy the Cowardly Lion, Rusty the Tin Man, and Socrates the Strawman.

In this adaptation, rather than being dropped by a tornado, Dorothy and Toto are blown in from Kansas through a hole cut out of the landscape.

The series was also adapted to a comic book for a one-shot issue in Dell's Four Color #1308 (March–May 1962).