The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is a 1964 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney Productions.

The film stars Tommy Kirk as a college student who experiments with mindreading and hypnotism, leading to incidents with a local judge.

The film was originally intended as a two-part production for the NBC television show Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color but received a theatrical release.

[5] Midvale College student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk), who is always involved with mind experiments, designs a helmet that connects to an electroencephalographic tape that records mental activity.

Working on the premise that no honest person can be made to do anything they would not do otherwise – especially commit a crime – Merlin hypnotizes Holmsby, and instructs him to kidnap Stanley.

[6] Originally titled simply Merlin Jones, the film was intended as a two-part production for the 1963-64 season of the NBC television show Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.

It is a pastiche of two separate stories with the same set of characters, each running less than an hour (leaving time for commercials), abruptly and pointlessly stitched together in the middle ...

[9]Eugene Archer of The New York Times panned the film as "cheap situation comedy" and "the kind of picture usually dismissed by shrugging, 'Well, at least the kids will like it'.