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Lost in Oz

American animated television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ59575446 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lost in Oz is an American animated television series that premiered on June 26, 2015, on Amazon Prime Video. Originally part of a pilot program, the pilot episode was later re-released as Lost in Oz: Extended Adventure on November 2, 2016, combining the first three episodes. The full series was released later.

Synopsis

In episodes 1–13, Dorothy Gale is a precocious child who, with her dog Toto, is swept up to the Land of Oz without a clear way home. To travel back, Dorothy must collect all the different types of magical elements with her newfound friends, the streetwise witch West and friendly Munchkin Ojo, while a sinister plot unfolds around them.

In episodes 14–26, Dorothy and Toto, working together with their friends, must find their way out of the Deadly Desert and save Emerald City from the Nome Kingdom to have any chance of getting back to Kansas.

Cast

Ashley Boettcher as Dorothy Gale

Nika Futterman as West

Jorge Diaz as Ojo

Chris Cox as Toto, Pugmill, Patchwork Doll

Alexander Polinsky as Fitz

Keith Ferguson as Reigh the Cowardly Lion

Stephen Stanton as Scarecrow, Xandort

Gina Gershon as Langwidere

Jennifer Hale as Glinda, the Good Witch

Allison Mack (originally season 1), Grey DeLisle (season 1 redub-ROS) as Evelyn, Dorothy’s mother. As of June 2018, Allison Mack was dubbed out of her role for future airings due to her arrest in connection with controversial organization NXIVM.

Garrett McQuaid as Nome King

Eric Bauza as Kaliko, Axel

Bumper Robinson as Smith and Tinker

Kath Soucie as Cyra

Fred Tatasciore as General Guph, Jo

Debra Wilson as Brenda

Episodes

Season 1 (2015–17)

Season 2 (2018)

Awards

At the 44th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the series won Outstanding Children's Animated Program, Outstanding Sound Editing - Animation, Outstanding Sound Mixing - Animation, and was nominated for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program, and Outstanding Casting for an Animated Series or Special.

Editorial summary

“Lost in Oz” enters the record as american animated television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lost, American and animated can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lost, American and animated.
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“Lost in Oz” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lost, American and animated provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q59575446. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2016 and 2018.

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Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lost in Oz” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.