The Count
- Studio
- Crawley Films (Rankin/Bass)
- Distributor
- Videocrafts Incorporated.
Synopsis
After placing tacks on the Yellow Brick Road, the Wicked Witch of the West flies back to her lair and makes herself look beautiful. She is preparing for a date with someone she calls the Count, whom is a vampire. The witch chats with the Count via crystal ball and they kiss, but then the Count leaves, never to return. The witch is distressed for a moment, but then decided to create her own count! When she brings it to life, it is absentminded and idiotic. This Count needs a brain! So she goes over to Dandy Lion, whose bike just hit the tacks on the road, and hypnotizes him asleep. She performs the brain transfer, but now the Count is a coward and afraid of the Witch, and Dandy Lion speaks in a Slavic accent, wooing the Witch.
Characters
Dorothy Gale, Toto, Socrates the Straw Man, Rusty the Tin Man, Dandy Lion, Wizard of Oz, Munchkins, Count
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."