Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 74 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A father reads his son a bedtime story about young Oblio, who is banished from the fantastical kingdom of pointed heads and things for having no point.
- narration
- musical
- outcast
- dog
The bill
Ringo Starr
Narrator / Father (home video release) (voice)
Paul Frees
Oblio's Father / Pointed Man's Right Head / King / Leaf Man
Lennie Weinrib
Count (voice)
Bill Martin
Rock Man (voice)
- Buddy Foster — Count's Son (voice)
- Joan Gerber — Oblio's Mother (voice)
- Mike Lookinland — Oblio (voice)
- Alan Barzman — Narrator / Father (second telecast)
- Dustin Hoffman — Narrator / Father (first telecast)
- Alan Thicke — Narrator / Father (third telecast)
- Directed
- Fred Wolf
- Written
- Carole Beers, Norm Lenzer, Harry Nilsson
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 66 ratings
- Studio
- Nilsson House Music Inc., Murakami-Wolf Productions
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