Piano Lessons Can Be Murder/TV episode

Piano Lessons Can Be Murder is an episode of the Goosebumps TV series. The episode was based on the Goosebumps book Piano Lessons Can Be Murder. The episodes aired on Fox Network on December 8, 1995 as the eighth episode of Season 1. It was directed by William Fruet.

Cast

 * Ben Cook as Jerry Hawkins
 * Barclay Hope as Mr. Hawkins
 * Carolyn Scott as Mrs. Hawkins
 * Aron Tager as Dr. Shreek
 * Géza Kovács (a.k.a. Geza Kovacs) as Mr. Toggle
 * Brenda Devine as The Ghost
 * Erica Luttrell as Kim

Differences from the Book

 * At the end, it is just the ghost of Mr. Andrew Toggle's piano teacher instead of several ghosts. But instead of taking him away, she makes him play the piano. In the final scene, the piano teacher ghost says, "This is your punishment for terrorizing the boy! You will practice and practice!" Mr. Toggle asks in a sobbed voice "How much longer?!" The piano teacher ghost replies, "Till....eternity, you laaazy boy!"

Trivia

 * Aron Tager, who played the hand-obsessed Dr. Shreek, was noted for his recurring role as the mad scientist, Dr. Vink in Are You Afraid of the Dark? On the first occasion in "The Tale of the Phantom Cab," he had a severed, jarred hand on display as the first glimpse of his character's nature.
 * This is the second of three television episodes on the DVD, The Blob That Ate Everyone.
 * The background music and the music that the ghostly woman, Jerry and the disembodied hands play throughout the episode is none other than Ludwig Van Beethoven's classic, Moonlight Sonata.
 * Ben Cook (Jerry Hawkins) would go on to play Josh Benson in Welcome to Dead House, and Marty in A Shocker on Shock Street.
 * This was the first episode directed by William Fruet, who would direct many episodes throughout all four seasons of the series.
 * Kim's actress would return to play Drew in Attack of the Jack'o Lanterns.