Wicked: For Good wraps up the massively popular musical franchise this weekend, but a very different take on The Wizard of Oz debuted on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2007 with Tin Man. Starring Zooey Deschanel as “DG”, a small-town waitress from Kansas, she has visions of an emerald-eyed woman who turns out to be the sorceress Azkadellia, who rules the Outer Zone, aka “O.Z”, with an iron fist. Sending her soldiers in a “Travel Storm” to kill DG, DG escapes through the storm into O.Z. and befriends a trio of allies, Glitch (Alan Cumming), who had half his brain removed by Azkadellia, Wyatt Cain (Neal McDonough), a former “Tin Man” lawman and Raw (Raoul Trujillo), a half-man, half-lion “Viewer” who can is telepathic. The series cost $20 million to produce but became the highest-rated miniseries of 2007, drawing in 6.4 million viewers with its first episode. It was also nominated for four Emmy awards and won one, in addition to being nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award. You can watch the first part of three below via YouTube.
