A Fish Tale
- Studio
- Crawley Films (Rankin/Bass)
- Distributor
- Videocrafts Incorporated.
Synopsis
Socrates and Rusty go fishing at Oz Lake. The brainless Socrates thinks catching fish will give him brains when he eats them (fish is brain food, you know.) Dandy Lion catches a lot of fish, but Rusty boasts he catches bigger fish than Dandy did. So Rusty and Socrates row out to the middle of the lake and come across a whale! The whale capsizes their boat and they mistaken the whale's mouth for a cave and they go in. Once shut in, they tickle the whale's inside, coughing them out. They escape, and when Dandy returns, they tell him about the whale. Dandy doesn't believe in them, until the whale shows up.
Characters
Dorothy Gale, Toto, Socrates the Straw Man, Rusty the Tin Man, Dandy Lion, Wizard of Oz, Munchkins
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Harry Kerwin
Producing
- Producer
- Arthur Rankin Jr, Jules Bass, Larry Roemer, Antony Peters, Bernard Cowan
Writing
- Writer
- Arthur Rankin Jr
- Based on the Original Novel By
- L. Frank Baum
Voices
- Voice
- Carl Banas (Dandy Lion), James Doohan (The Wizard of Oz), Larry D. Mann (Rusty the Tin Woodman, Witch), Bernard Cowan (Munchkins), Alfie Scopp (Socrates the Scarecrow)
Crew
- Voice Director
- Bernard Cowan
Companies and other credits
- © 1961 Rankin Bass Productions
- Inc. All Rights Reserved
Production notes
Most of the same character designs were reused by Rankin/Bass for the 1964 TV special "Return To Oz."