Episode
number: 101
Network broadcast date: Monday,
December 21, 1964
Six
Foot Flower Box
Genre: Mystery drama
Author: Marjorie Truitt
Production number: 101
Production date: Wednesday,
December 2, 1964
Director: Warren Somerville
Producer: Warren Somerville
Plotline: What’s with all the strange
noises coming from the Wright’s apartment next door? Everyone in the building
has a different theory, but suspicion grows with Mrs. Wright’s sudden interest
in gardening and Mr. Wright’s mysterious disappearance.
Listen: https://archive.org/details/T5project/Theater+Five+641221+101+Six-Foot+Flower+Box.flac
Cast: Augusta Dabney, Alan Hewitt,
Connie Lembcke, Mary Jane Higby, Robert Dryden
Notes:
No definitive information can be found
about this author, but is one of the "new" writers that T5 was seeking to emphasize the fresh and contemporary approach of the series.
It is likely it is Marjorie Snowden Truitt, a local writer in Snowden, NC who was a regular submitter of anecdotes and other items to newspapers, especially in the 1940s.
Other details have been found about her that continue to point to her as the author.
The story is entertaining because the listeners are fairly certain it is the husband's body in the box but all of the neighbors can't bring themselves to fully and franky express it. There likely a subtle joke in the husband's name, "Mr. Wright," in the common cultural phrase related to seeking a marriage partner as they are "looking for Mr. Right."