Anyone here old enough to remember when the Wizard of Oz

[skygazer]

was televised every year? I was off work today and not feeling too good so I curled up on the sofa with a blanket and watched it. Man, I remember when I was a kid, we were so psyched when it came on - in the fall it seems to me. We'd be playing Wizard of Oz and marching around the playground singing "We're off to see the Wizard" for days after that.

Fond memories....

[yvr girl]

1. I think it's still on every year

I watched it all the time too.

[Clintmax]

2. You bet I do!

I ALWAYS looked forward to it coming on! It WAS in the fall I think.

[evlbstrd]

3. Yep.

It was an annual event.

[SW FL Dem]

4. It usually came on some time near Thanksgiving

It is one of my favorite movies of all time. No wonder I am now the proud mom of 3 "Toto" dogs (cairn terriers)

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. I remember watching it for years on a B&W TV

It wasn't until I was in 3rd grade, in 1966, that we went over to my aunt's house and watched it on COLOR TV!

[jmm]

6. I'm 25 and I still remember when it was played every year

Up until I was 8 I was only allowed to watch PBS unless my parents or another adult family member were in the same room.One year my mom tried to get us to watch The Wizard of OZ but my brother started to cry because This Old House was coming on at the same time. So he sat in our room with the little black and white tv while I was in the living room watching the movie. And yes, I still remind him of that }( often.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. Oh yeah!

[miss_kitty]

8. Yes. My Mom was a couple years younger than Judy Garland

1939 was a big year for Hollywood, and the Wizard of Oz was the most spectacular film kids had seen to that point.
My mom and dad made cocoa and buttered toast and we watched it for the first time when it came on. We had a black and white telly so they described the colour change. we watched it for years. I never realised how cool it really was until I rented a DVD and played it on my flat screen...

[skygazer]

9. It really was a family event, wasn't it?

Just not the same when you can pop in a DVD anytime and watch - part of the fun was the anticipation.

[miss_kitty]

10. Every year

we got all excited that it was coming on. Every one was really good so we wouldn't be banned from watching it. My brother was an infant the first time it was run. He literally grew up watching it.

[ET Awful]

11. Yup, every year right around Thanksgiving.

It was an annual ritual :)

[Left Is Write]

12. Yes. It was on CBS, as was GWTW.

[WCGreen]

13. On CBS.....Sunday ..... Right before the Ed Sullivan Show...

Sometime in the early Spring or late summer....

[chknltl]

14. yep

Got me the boxed collectors set, (opened, well used, not for sale).
I also remember having the first color tv set within a three block radius. My memory of an early color TV show is as follows:
We lived at Ft.Lewis Washington at the time, Greenwood area, which was set up as large family housing units. We had 7 kids in ours, that would not have been unusual for Greenwood. Every Sunday night our living room filled to capacity and then some with the local kids, my mom kept the popcorn and kool-aid a'happenin. I believe it was at 7:00 that the magic started: The final black and white commercial ended and then the NBC peacock came on, IN COLOR(!!!) and our home became as quiet as a church. This was followed by the "Magical World Of Disney" IN COLOR as well with a pastel violet Tinkerbell, a yellow spotted leopard climbing a tree right at us, and vignettes from all those wonderful movies we were going to see. ALL IN COLOR I remember the Moon-spinners and Scarecrow from Romney Marsh and of course the all time best: Davey Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. We were a very popular home Sundays, those were some damn fine Sundays.

[Bullwinkle925]

15. Me me me me me! Also, "Peter Pan" with Mary Martin seemed to make

the rounds yearly as well.