Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.

Ted Thomas, son of Disney Animator, Frank Thomas, decides to go visit the offspring of the rest of Disney's Nine Old Men and narrate a documentary about what it was like growing up with them.