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Box 13 was a syndicated radio series about the escapades of
newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holliday, who was played by film
star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13
premiered August 22, 1948, on Mutual's New York flagship, WOR, and aired in
syndication on the East Coast from August 22, 1948, to August 14. 1949. On
the West Coast, Box 13 was heard from March 15, 1948 to March 7, 1949.
To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holliday ran a classified ad in the
Star-Times newspaper where he formerly worked. "Adventure wanted, will go
anywhere, do anything -- Box 13." The stories followed Holliday's adventures
when he responded to the letters sent to him by such people as a psycho
killer and various victims.
Sylvia Picker appeared as Holliday's scatterbrained secretary, Suzy. Edmund
MacDonald played police Lt. Kling. Supporting cast members included Betty
Lou Gerson, Frank Lovejoy, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Reed, Luis Van Rooten and
John Beal. Vern Carstensen, who directed Box 13 for producer Richard
Sanville, was also the show's announcer.
The dramas featured music by Rudy Schrager. Russell Hughes, who had
previously hired Ladd as a radio actor in 1935 at a $19 weekly salary, wrote
the scripts, sometimes in collaboration with Ladd. The partners in Mayfair
Productions were Ladd and Bernie Joslin, who had previously run the chain of
Mayfair Restaurants.
With over 23 hours and 50+ episodes you can imagine
yourself joining Dan Holliday in his escapades and adventures.
The following are the episodes contained on the CD.
48-08-22 ep01 First Letter
48-08-29 ep02 Insurance Fraud Scheme
48-09-05 ep03 Suzi Quits Paper To Work For Dan
48-09-12 ep04 Actors Alibi
48-09-19 ep05 Extra Extra
48-09-26 ep06 Shanghied
48-10-03 ep07 Short Assignment
48-10-10 ep08 Double Mothers
48-10-17 ep09 A Book of Poems
48-10-24 ep10 The Great Torino
48-10-31 ep11 Suicide or Murder
48-11-07 ep12 Triple Cross
48-11-14 ep13 Damsel In Distress
48-11-21 ep14 Diamond in the Sky
48-11-28 ep15 Double Right Cross
48-12-05 ep16 Look Pleasent Please
48-12-12 ep17 The Haunted Artist
48-12-19 ep18 The Sad Night
48-12-26 ep19 Hot Box
49-01-02 ep20 The Better Man
49-01-09 ep21 The Professor and the Puzzle
49-01-16 ep22 The Dowager and Dan Holiday
49-01-23 ep23 Three to Die
49-01-30 ep24 The Philanthropist
49-02-06 ep25 Last Will And Nursery Rhyme
49-02-13 ep26 Delinquents Dilemm
49-02-20 ep27 Flash of Light
49-02-27 ep28 Hare and Hound
49-03-06 ep29 Hunt And Peck
49-03-13 ep30 Death Is A Doll
49-03-20 ep31 113-5
49-03-27 ep32 Dan And The Wonderful Lamp
49-04-03 ep33 Tempest In A Casserole
49-04-10 ep34 Mexican Maize
49-04-17 ep35 Sealed Instructions
49-04-24 ep36 Find Me Find Death
49-05-01 ep37 Much Too Lucky
49-05-08 ep38 One Of These Four
49-05-15 ep39 Daytime Nightmares
49-05-22 ep40 Death Is No Joke
49-05-29 ep41 Treasure Of Hang Lee
49-06-05 ep42 Design for Danger
49-06-12 ep43 The Dead Man Walks
49-06-19 ep44 Killer At Large
49-06-26 ep45 Speed to Burn
49-07-03 ep46 House of Darkness
49-07-10 ep47 Double Trouble
49-07-17 ep48 Biter Bitten
49-07-24 ep49 The Perfect Crime
49-07-31 ep50 Archimedes and The Roman
49-08-07 ep51 The Clay Pigeon
49-08-14 ep52 Round Robin
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