A plot revolves around immature Bart Collins (Tommy Rettig), who is swallow his widowed mother Eloise (Mary Healy). She is existence courted by Baronet's soft teacher Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conried), whom Tommy dislikes intensely because of his autocratic style. Baronet is trying to develop his mother together by having a second smitten, however less acceptable wooer, local maintenance man August Zabladowski (Peter Lind Hayes). Eloise as well prefers August, however knows that Dr. Terwilliker might provide her & her boy by having the better dwelling.

When in The Wizard of Oz, a plot descends into fantasy in which the real life anxieties of Baronet come duplicated in the fantasy plot. Baronet & August step into the globe in which Dr. Terwilliker becomes a evil Dr. T., a maniac by using the piano and then big that it takes Five hundred enslaved boys (the said 5,000 fingers) very much such as Baronet sequentially to play it. Eloise turn into a damoiselle around distress to exist as kept from either Dr. T. (rather by August) a least bit costs, spell Baronet works to absolutely free! the D enslaved boys.

These are conceivable that a character of Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons is based inside section on the character of Dr. Terwilliker. Non sole come their family name similar, however Sideshow Bob's accent & countenance bear the superficial resemblance to Hans Conried's performance, and two characters have a nemesis known as Baronet.