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Victor Jury plays a weirdo botanist who is world famous and living in the Amazon doing research. His assistant, however, has soon tired of the research station, as it's hot and lonely. In fact, the assistant is so lonely he offers to pay the botanist $10--just to have one of his letters that just arrived. On a lark, the botanist agrees--and this sets off a bizarre chain of events. Soon, he begins to obsess about what might have been in the letter and he damands it back from the assistrant--who says NO! What's next?

How this all plays out as well as the STUPID man-eating plant isn't particularly good. Now "Tales of Tomorrow" was a pretty good anthology show, but here the special effects and writing really fall short. It's one of the poorer episodes in the series. Lame, poorly acted and difficult to enjoy.

This is the story of a boring botanist (Is there any other kind?), and his unbalanced intern. They are in the Amazon, working with carnivorous plants. They have a seven foot Venus fly trap thing that they are growing. One of the keys is a question that is actually asked, "What good is creating this monster?" Victor Jory is the epitome of the absent minded professor. His protégé, who is going crazy with boredom, smiles and emotes. Jory ignores him as he slips over the edge. The guy then begins to bait the botanist. He talks the old guy (who has a bad heart) into selling him a letter from his pile of mail because the guy gets nothing himself. Jory soon gets it in his head that the letter he has given the guy is from his estranged wife. He becomes maudlin and pathetic, begging for its return. Well, without giving the plot away, the plants play their roles. Watch the ending and tell me if it doesn't stretch the bounds of idiocy.