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Off to See the Wizard
Season 1, Episode 6 (13 Oct. 1967): “Who’s Afraid of Mother Goose?”
by Frank Peppiatt, Peter Gennaro

Off to See the Wizard - Season 1, Episode 6

Title: “Who’s Afraid of Mother Goose?”

Medium: television series episode

Original airdate: 13 Oct. 1967

Publisher: MGM
Written by: Frank Peppiatt
Directed by: Peter Gennaro


20 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
William H. Berry
(lead character)
supporting character
  [tried to ban Mother Goose rhymes from schools] MGM 1
Mother Goose Mother Goose supporting character
  [imagined author of fairy tales, nursery rhymes] Dell 49
Dorothy Gale Dorothy Gale lead character
CBR Scale: I Protestant
[farmer; student] George M. Hill Company; Arrow, etc. 270
Toto Toto supporting character
CBR Scale: I anthropomorphic animal
dog
[Dorothy Gale's dog]
George M. Hill Company 36
The Tin Woodman The Tin Woodman hero
  [emperor; woodsman] George M. Hill Company 224
The Scarecrow The Scarecrow supporting character
  [farmer; ruler] George M. Hill Company 233
Jack Jack supporting character
  [w/Jill went up hill in famed nursery rhyme] John Newbery 23
Jill Jill supporting character
  [w/Jack went up hill in famed nursery rhyme] John Newbery 23
The Cowardly Lion The Cowardly Lion supporting character
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animal
lion George M. Hill Company 197
Little Boy Blue Little Boy Blue lead character
  [nursery rhyme: fell asleep, lost track of his sheep] Mary Cooper 30
Little Bo Peep Little Bo Peep (Bo Peep) lead character
  [lost her sheep] Walt Disney Pictures 77
Old King Cole Old King Cole (King Cole)
(details) 
supporting character lead character based on a real person
  [king] Bernard Lintott 30
the butcher the butcher supporting character
  three men in a tub John Ebers and Co.; William Blackwood 6
the baker the baker supporting character
  three men in a tub John Ebers and Co.; William Blackwood 6
the candlestick-maker the candlestick-maker supporting character
  three men in a tub John Ebers and Co.; William Blackwood 6
the pieman the pieman supporting character
  [in nursery rhyme, met Simple Simon, going to the fair] Celebrity Productions 5
Simple Simon Simple Simon (Simon) lead character
  [from nursery rhyme; met a pieman, going to fair] MGM 20
Old Mother Hubbard Old Mother Hubbard (Mrs. Hubbard)
(details) 
lead character
  [dog owner; very poor; her cupboard was bare] J. Harris 17
Jack Be Nimble Jack Be Nimble (Jack) non-feature lead character
  [1st app: Gammer Gurton's Garland (1815)] R. Christopher 3
The Wizard of Oz The Wizard of Oz (Oscar Diggs) supporting character
  [con artist; stage magician] George M. Hill Company 123