March 8, 2013 -- intro: As yet another spinoff of "The Wizard of Oz" arrives in theaters, it's almost hard to believe that the original film, which premiered 74 years ago, was, in many ways, a ...

The Wizard of Oz ’s 1903 Broadway musical debut was a hit, firing up demands for more stories, which prompted Baum to write a total of 13 sequels to his book.