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June 20, 2022 06:48 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/06/20/watch-lost-sesame-street-footage-from-1976-of-wizard-of-ozs-wicked-witch-that-was-deemed-too-scary-for-reruns.html
Watch: "Lost" Sesame Street footage from 1976 of Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch that was deemed too scary for reruns
In 1976, Margaret Hamiltonthe Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz (1939)donned the green makeup one more time for an episode of Sesame Street. The show's theme was fear and how to overcome it, with a plotline about witch searching for her lost flying broomstick, but apparently the episode was so scary to children that Sesame Street bowed to parents' complaints and never aired it again. — Read the rest
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/06/20/watch-lost-sesame-street-footage-from-1976-of-wizard-of-ozs-wicked-witch-that-was-deemed-too-scary-for-reruns.html
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