Bill Russo's video: Science Fiction Theater: The Killer Tree S 2 E 35 1956

Bill Williams (TV’s Kit Carson) and Bonita Granville head the cast in an episode of SFT which tells the legend of a mysterious tree. It is a giant arbor, under which great treasure is buried. The caveat is, that anyone who goes near the tree in search of the treasure will be put to death by the tree – THE KILLER TREE! Gunsmoke fans will recognize good old Hank Patterson in this episode. Hank was most famous for his portrayal of Hank Miller who took over Moss Grimmick's stable in Dodge City and ran it from 1962 to 1973. This is one of the season two black and white episodes. The producers were an early adopter of ‘color’ TV. All of the season one episodes were produced in color, which was an expensive extra in the early days of TV. In season two, they apparently decided the extra expense was not warranted, so all of the second season episodes are in black and white. Before the Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, and the Outer Limits, there was Science Fiction Theater, which ran from 1955 to 1957. Hosted by Truman Bradley, a radio/TV announcer and 1940s film actor, each episode of Science Fiction Theater introduced stories based on scientific or pseudo scientific Principles. The tales usually related to the life or work of scientists, engineers, inventors, and explorers. The program concentrated on such concepts as space flight, robots, telepathy, flying saucers, time travel, and the intervention of extraterrestrials in human affairs. Broadcasting a total of 78 episodes, I t was also known as Beyond The Limits for repeat syndication during the 1960s, and alternatively as Science Fiction Theater.