The Living Planet (1984)
S2E11 The Sweetest Sting
Episode Overview
In a twisted plot, the deranged beekeeper McCabe employs a haunted antique beehive to execute his sinister plan. He releases the bees, leading to a fatal attack that produces a gruesome blood-honey. McCabe then peddles this honey to ailing businessmen in exchange for a fortune. To survive, these businessmen must eliminate their "replacements" and take over their victims' bodies, leaving their former lives behind. However, they must continuously consume the blood-honey and pay McCabe to sustain their new forms, or they risk returning to their original sickly states. A trio uncovers the scheme and, with the assistance of one businessman who realizes the emptiness of his new life without his devoted wife, they confront and kill McCabe.