From the golden age of television, this creaky episode of Sci-Fi Theatre features Hank Patterson ('Mr. Ziffel' on Green Acres) as an old prospector who decides the-hell-with-dogs, he wants a pet tree, so he confiscates a patch of land that harbors a supposedly man-eating tree to keep as his very own 'pet rock', so to speak.
Enter the government where investigators are sent to take back the tree, followed by the state geological survey in which a team of men begin uprooting the soil so they can search for natural gases, various roots, and maybe some lost change with their medical detectors. Okay episode, the fourth from the last ever aired during this program's 2-year run.
We must remember: killer trees are a menace and they must be stopped-- wait a minute, that's killer bees.... never mind.