On how her husband came to create The Wonderful Wizard of Oz while undergoing and eventually overcoming professional and personal failures.

It is shown that he was originally telling this to a group of children, who asked him the name of this location, to which he looks at a file cabinet with the bottom drawer marked O-Z and decided upon "Oz".

To console his wife on the loss of her beloved niece, Baum created an older girl, in the care of her Aunt Em, as the central character in the fantasy universe that became the Oz stories.

In his TV Preview, Tom Shales of The Washington Post proclaimed the film "cheerfully satisfying", and praised the production values, but wasn't impressed with Ritter's performance.

[5] Howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times dubbed it "long on mush and short on magic", but praised the recreations from the original stories.