BOX 13 "Extra extra"

 

Released in syndication September 19, 1948. Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. The premise of the program was that Dan Holiday was an author who wrote mystery novels. To get ideas for his novels he placed an advertisement in a newspaper saying "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything, Box 13." The ads always brought fun adventures of all kinds: from racketeer's victim to psychotic killer looking for fun. Most of the episodes were based on Dan Holiday replying to a letter he received at Box 13. In total there were 52 episodes of this radio program created. It was heard over the Mutual Broadcasting System as well as being syndicated. The series was produced by Mayfair Productions.

BOX 13 - "Better Man"

 

Episode 20 of Box 13 in syndication from Mayfair Productions owned by Alan Ladd who stars as Dan Holiday in the series. Dan Holiday's "client" is a cynical old millionaire bent on playing games with people for his own sick amusement. This time he goads Holiday into playing along by laying a guilt trip on him if he doesn't join a city wide treasure hunt for hidden cash.

Box 13 "Hot Box"

 

Episode 19 in syndication. Released December 26, 1948. "Hot Box". A letter arrives at Box 13 instructing Dan Holiday (Actor Alan Ladd) to bid on a small Chinese box at an antiques auction. Luckily for Dan, he arrives late at the auction because, minutes later something happens you will want to hear.

BOX 13 "Sad Night"

 

December 1948 Episode 18 in syndication stars Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holiday. When a child's copybook turns up at Box 13, followed by a letter asking for its return, Dan thinks nothing of it. But upon meeting the book's alleged owners, Dan finds there's something off about the whole business. Could the bizarre and grotesque drawing inside the book captioned "The Sad Night" be something more than just a child's scrawl?

BOX 13 "Haunted Artist"

 

Episode 17 with Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holiday. Dan helps an artist whose painting is being mysteriously vandalized. Original syndication Date: April 28, 1948.

BOX 13 "Look Pleasant Please"

 

Box 13 was a syndicated radio drama about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 aired in different cities over different dates and times. It first aired in several United States radio markets in October 1947. Episode 16.

BOX 13 "Double Right Cross"

 

In syndication by Mayfair Productions. Alan Ladd portrays writer Dan Holiday who goes to see an old army buddy who is now a professional boxer, but someone is drugging him to sabotage his fight.

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BOX 13 "Diamond In The Sky"

 

Syndicated by Mayfair Productions thgis program aired on week of November 21, 1948 as the 14th of its 52 episodes. Alan Ladd in Box 13 found adventures that did not depend on a new corpse every week. Dan Holiday, retired newspaper man turned fiction writer and adventurer extraordinaire. To gain ideas for his books, he places an ad in the paper "Adventure wanted – will go anywhere, do anything – Box 13."

BOX 13 "Damsel In Distress"

 

Box 13 is a syndicated radio drama about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 aired in different cities over different dates and times. It first aired in several United States radio markets in October 1947.

BOX 13 "Triple Cross"

 

Dan Holiday wins $126,000 at a crooked roulette wheel and promptly loses it to a beautiful blonde. A syndicated series about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 aired in different cities over different dates and times. It first aired in several United States radio markets in October 1947.

BOX 13 "Suicide Or Murder"

 

A distraught mother asks Holiday to investigate the death of her son. The authorities say that he was killed in a drunken fight, but she thinks he was murdered. Box 13 was a syndicated radio drama about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions.

BOX 13 "Great Torino"

 

Episode 10 in syndication starring Alan Ladd. A murdered magician's assistant. Death from an impossible trick? Dan Holiday is a fiction writer who receives his material for his books through his provocative ads in the Star Times which read “adventure wanted – will go anywhere –do anything-Box 13”.

BOX 13 "Book of Poems"

 

Episode 9. Robert N. Chase sends Dan Holiday a book of poetry by Sir Walter Scott, but Chase has been dead for ten years.

BOX 13 "Double Mothers"

 

Episode 8, in syndication. Alan Ladd stars as writer Dan Holiday. What is this? Seems a little girl...has two mothers. A man with a gun and his henchman have some questionable motives.

BOX 13 "Short Assignment"

 

Box 13 is a syndicated radio drama about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 aired in different cities over different dates and times. It first aired in several United States radio markets in October 1947.

BOX 13 "Shanghaied"

 

Episode 6 c.1948. Alan Ladd as writer Dan Holliday takes a blackjack on the head and finds himself on the high seas to adventure. Box 13 was a syndicated radio series from Ladd's company Mayfair Productions and sold to radio stations. The series also was heard on Mutual Radio Network. 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: write Box 13, Star-Times." The stories followed Holliday's adventures when he responded to the letters sent to him by various victims. NOTE: Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as crimps.  

BOX 13 "Extra Extra"

 

Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holiday, writer, in Episode 5. Mayfair syndication. A newspaper boy hires Dan to get his father out of jail. All that was in Box 13 was one postcard from a kid and Dan suspects it’s probably a prank.

BOX 13 "Actors Alibi"

 

Box Thirteen was one of the best things Alan Ladd ever did. It was a high quality show which relied on his charisma and talent rather than a large budget. Box 13 actually began running on KNX in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 16, 1948 at 7pm replacing "Escape". A clueless acquaintance wants Dan Holiday (Alan Ladd) to fly to Mars with him in his home made rocket and has a ticket to a radio broadcast. Sylvia Picker makes her first appearance as Holiday's scatterbrained secretary, Suzy. Sylvia Picker was born on April 11, 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Lucky Devils (1933), The Devil Bear (1929) and Sterling's Rival Romeo (1934). She was married to Grant Garett. She died on September 25, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

BOX 13 "Blackmail is Murder"

 

Episode 13 Writer Dan Holiday (Alan Ladd) is hired by a senile old lady with a dead body in her hotel room.

BOX 13 "Insurance Fraud"

Episode 2 A life insurance company sends a letter to Box 13 in hopes of getting Dan Holiday (Alan Ladd) to locate a missing man who the insurance adjuster believes is alive. Original Air Date: Week of January 14, 1948 in syndication.