Box 13| Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Alan Ladd Mystery Dramas
Join host Adam Graham on two seperate journeys through Box 13, the series starring Alan Ladd as reprorter turned Mystery Writer Dan Holiday. Holiday's adventures begin as a result of a newspaper ad that reads, "Adventure wanted. Will go anywhere, will do anything." This podcast features every episode of Box 13 twice. First, originally podcast from 2009-2010 and then ten years later. Find out how our knowledge of some episodes have grown and how reactions to them have changed over the years.
Episodes
Dan goes undercover as a sandhog to find out who's been sabotaging the construction of a tunnel.
Original Air Date: June 2, 1948
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A society matron asks Dan Holiday to masquerade as her intended in order to flesh out whether the woman her grandson is going to marry is a gold digger.
Original Air Date: May 26, 1948
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Dan Holiday goes to help an old college professor friend whose fiance unexpectedly leaved him when her uncle died. The professor ends up facing a murder charge and Holiday has to clear him.
Original Air Date: May 19, 1948
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Dan Holiday can get $200,000 to charity if he's willing to play a twisted rich man's game and go head to head with a killer.
Original Air Date: May 19, 1948
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Dan Holiday is asked to bid on an item at an auction. He loses the item and the winner hit by a car and the item is stolen.
Original Air Date: May 12, 1948
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Dan Holiday receives a child's copy book in the mail. When a couple who claim it's their's lies to him, he becomes suspicious.
Original Air Date: May 5, 1948
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Dan helps an artist whose painting is being mysteriously vandalized.
Original Air Date: April 28, 1948
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Dan Holiday answers a letter to Box 13 and finds himself engaged to a wealthy heiress whose first two intendeds met untimely deaths.
Original Air Date: April 21, 1948
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Dan Holiday goes to a friend’s boxing match. When his friend goes down for the count before Holiday even gets to the fight and people start claiming Holiday’s friend took a dive, Dan’s got to find out the truth.
Original Air Date: April 14, 1948
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Dan Holiday heads to Paris to pick up an ultra-expensive diamond.
Original Air Date: April 7, 1948
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A teenager writes Box 13 and tells Dan she's received letters threatening a kidnapping.
Original Air Date: March 31, 1948
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A letter in Box 13 leads Dan Holiday to a Nevada casino where he wins $100,000 at a rigged roulette wheel. Trouble comes when the $100,000 is stolen and the man who rigged the game wants the money from Holiday.
Original Air Date: March 24, 1948
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A grieving mother sends a letter to Box 13 asking Dan Holiday to find the truth behind her son's death.
Original Air Date: March 17, 1948
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Dan is asked to help a magician's assistant who's afraid that a jealous magician will create an accident during a dangerous trick.
Original Air Date: March 10, 1948
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Dan receives a book of poems in Box 13 that takes him back to a fire he covered ten years ago when working for the Star-Times.
Original Air Date: March 3, 1948
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Dan Holiday goes to a park and find himself taking care of a young child who seems to be confused about who her mother is.
Original Air Date: February 25, 1948
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Dan Holiday fills in for a vertically challenged Private Detective to guard the son of a dead man who relatives fear might commit suicide.
Original Air Date: February 18, 1948
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Dan Holiday answers a letter in Box 13 and finds himself kidnapped and fishing at sea.
Original Air Date: February 11, 1948
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A newspaper boy asks Dan Holiday to help him free his father, who has been charged as an accessory in a Jewelry Story Robbery.
Original Air Date: February 4, 1948
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Dan Holiday receives an impossible call from a woman as she's being murdered.
Original Air Date: January 28, 1948
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