The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise (Mary Healy). The bane of Bart's existence is piano lessons he endures under the tutelage of the bossy and egotistical pianist, Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conried). Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's influence, and gripes to their plumber, August Zabladowski (Peter Lind Hayes), without result. While hammering at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a musical dream where he is trapped at the Terwilliker Institute.