As Willow gives a book report in front of her high school class, she discovers herself wearing the same mousy outfit she wore in the first episode of the show (" Welcome to the Hellmouth ") as her friends and classmates shout derisively at her, and Oz and Tara whisper intimately to each other in the audience.

With Oz, she has some that gives her the confidence she sorely lacks, but his departure leaves her unsure of herself.

The biggest exception is in Rachel Cosgrove's The Hidden Valley of Oz, in which the Tin Woodman leads the forces in the defeat of Terp the Terrible and cuts down the Magic Muffin Tree that gives Terp his great size.

His proposed ability to immerse oneself fully in a simulation gives him a great deal of artistic freedom, and the story winds through alternate interpretations of many classical literary works such as Through the Looking-Glass, The Odyssey and The Iliad, The War of the Worlds, and The Wizard of Oz, which are available as entertainment simulations within the series.

Unlike the book, Elphaba never turns purely wicked, but does accept that this is how the rest of Oz sees her, and eventually gives in to the title of ' The Wicked Witch of the West.

Oz meets up with Debbie and gives her his study notes as promised.

Riley sneaks in, gives Oz some clothes and tries to help him escape.

Spike had previously appeared in the season 1 episode of Angel " In the Dark ", Spike goes to Los Angeles at the same time as Oz arrives to give Angel the Gem of Amarra, Spike's objective was to get the ring and kill Angel.

Taking precautions however, they then throw the ring away and just as Spike was about to retrieve it, Oz bursts through the wall in his van and rescues Angel.

Oz makes one appearance on Angel to deliver the Ring of Amarra, and plays a crucial role in the plot of that episode.

Xander kills Angel ; Buffy kills Xander ; Oz kills Willow ; the Master breaks Buffy's neck.

As Angel City, they performed four songs for the 1985 Oz for Africa concert ( part of the global Live Aid program )-" Small Price ", " Eat City ", " Underground ", " Take a Long Line ".

* Unlike the werewolf in the Angel season 5 episode " Unleashed ", Veruca remains in her wolf state after Oz kills her.

Buffy has also battled Willow (" Two to Go "), Angel (" Becoming ") and Spike ( often ), and mistakenly attacked Cordelia (" Welcome to the Hellmouth "), Oz (" What's My Line, Part 1 "), Riley (" The Initiative "), and Giles (" A New Man ").

In the library, Oz and Angel ( who Buffy has not informed the gang of ) are cleared.

Meanwhile, Angel breaks free from his shackles, and Pete finds Oz in the library.

Xander and Cordelia are firmly against the idea of Angel being back, still scared by the recent memory of Angelus ' actions, while Willow ( and by association, Oz ) are less sure.

While Xander and Oz follow Willow's directions to create the necessary potion, Willow performs the spell at City Hall so Angel can lower Buffy through the skylight to grab the box.

Oz brings Angel ( David Boreanaz ) a magical ring that renders a vampire invincible, which Angel hides.

At the office, Oz holds a ring out to Angel: the Gem of Amarra.

" Oz tells Angel, " Buffy wanted you to have it.

Oz holds Spike at bay with crossbows until Cordy and Doyle get Angel into the back of the van and they drive away.

Knowing Marcus ' predilection for children, Angel tells Oz to head to the boardwalk.

* Oz, portrayed by Seth Green, makes his appearance to help Angel ; as mentioned / depicted on several occasions, Sunnydale is only a two-hour drive from Los Angeles, so Oz's visit is easily accomplished.

Buffy goes off on him when he negatively comments on Willow dating a werewolf ( he says that Willow seems smarter than to date a dangerous guy, unknowingly drawing a parallel between Willow and Oz and Buffy and Angel ), accusing him of being a bigot and being unable to see past the ' humans versus demons ' ideal he's been living.

* Oz, ring name of Kevin Nash, an American professional wrestler

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

* Hickory, portrayed by Jack Haley, the farm worker who became the Tin Woodsman in Dorothy's dream in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz

After little success probing the unrealized children's film market, Baum came clean about who wrote The Last Egyptian and made a film of it ( portions of which are included in Decasia ), but the Oz name had, for the time being, become box office poison and even a name change to Dramatic Feature Films and transfer of ownership to Frank Joslyn Baum did not help.

The Oz series was continued long after his death by other authors, notably Ruth Plumly Thompson, who wrote an additional nineteen Oz books.

Although the first books contained a fair amount of violence, it decreased with the series ; in The Emerald City of Oz, Ozma objected to doing violence even to the Nomes who threaten Oz with invasion.

Seth Green joined the cast during the second season as Oz, a high school senior who becomes a werewolf, and Willow's primary romantic interest.

A hallmark of these sketches was the improvisation between Jim Henson, who performed the Chef's head and voice, and Frank Oz, who was his hands.

Glinda, using her book that records everything that happens, is able to know that someone is using a telegraph to contact Oz, so she erects a telegraph tower and has the Shaggy Man, who knows how to make a telegraph reply, tell the story contained in this book to Baum.

The story is also a growth process for Ojo ; he learns that luck is not a matter of who you are or what you have, but what you do ; he is renamed " Ojo the Lucky ," and so he appears in the following Oz books.

Max Steiner, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for both this and Gone with the Wind, lost to Herbert Stothart for The Wizard of Oz.

The Wizard of Oz parallels continue inside, where the Wizard is revealed to be Marten Broadcloak, also known as Randall Flagg, who flees when Roland attempts to kill him with Jake's Ruger and narrowly misses ( Flagg has bewitched Roland's own guns, saying, " Only misfires against me, Roland, old fellow ").

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was a popular fictional British comedy-drama series about a group of seven British migrant construction workers: Wayne, Dennis, Oz, Bomber, Barry, Neville and Moxey, who, in Series 1, are living and working on a German building site.

Jack Kevan, who worked on The Wizard of Oz and made prosthetics for amputees during World War II, created the bodysuit, while Chris Mueller, Jr. sculpted the head.

Frank Oz ( born Frank Richard Oznowicz ; born May 25, 1944 ) is a film director, actor, voice actor and puppeteer who is known for creating and performing the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show, as well as Cookie Monster, Bert and Grover in Sesame Street.

The Kensico Cemetery is the final resting place of the actress Billie Burke, who played Glinda, the " Good Witch of the North ", in the classic film The Wizard of Oz.

A pivotal meeting, at the home of Frank Morgan ( Ralph's brother, who played the title role in The Wizard of Oz ), is what gave SAG its critical mass.

Mert from the La Choy commercials and Fred from the Kern's Bakery commercials appear as Amanda's friends where they were performed by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl ( who also voices the narrator ) while Frank Oz does the puppeteering.

He was widely known to have had a drinking problem, according to several who worked with him, including actress Margaret Hamilton ( the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, 1939 ) and " Oz " historian Aljean Harmetz.