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Box 13 | Old Time Radio

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Box 13 | Old Time Radio follows former newspaper reporter and mystery writer Dan Holiday as he searches for adventure—and finds danger, crime, and mystery instead. Through a newspaper ad inviting people to send unusual assignments to Box 13, Holiday is drawn into cases involving murder, deception, missing persons, criminals, and unexpected twists. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday, Box 13 combines detective fiction, mystery, suspense, and classic radio adventure. Rediscover classic old time radio detective stories, mystery, crime drama, private-eye adventures, suspense, and vintage radio.

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Yesterday · 27 min
Box 13 - "Hunt and Peck" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Hunt and Peck,” episode 29 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast on March 6, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday, with Russell Hughes credited as writer and Vern Carstensen as director. A condemned...
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Saturday · 27 min
Box 13 - "Tempest in a Casserole" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Tempest in a Casserole,” episode 33 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast on April 3, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as freelance writer and adventurer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzi. A simple errand for Suzi brings Dan...
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Friday · 27 min
Box 13 - "Death Is No Joke" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Death Is No Joke,” episode 40, originally broadcast May 22, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer and reluctant adventurer Dan Holiday in this late-series mystery, written by Oran Blackstone and directed by Richard Sanville. When...
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Thursday · 27 min
Box 13 - "The Clay Pigeon" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The Clay Pigeon,” episode 51 of the syndicated mystery series, originally broadcast August 7, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist and former newspaperman Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as his secretary, Suzy. An anonymous message sent...
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Wednesday · 27 min
Box 13 - "The Perfect Crime" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The Perfect Crime,” episode 49 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast July 24, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy. Holiday receives an unsettling invitation from Dr. John...
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Tuesday · 27 min
Box 13 - "The Sad Night" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The Sad Night,” episode 18 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast December 19, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy. The script is by Russell Hughes. A child’s...
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October 26 · 27 min
Box 13 - "The First Letter" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The First Letter,” the first episode of the Alan Ladd mystery series, originally broadcast on August 22, 1948. In this opening adventure, Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday. After placing a Star-Times classified ad seeking...
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October 24 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Blackmail Is Murder" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Blackmail Is Murder,” originally broadcast September 5, 1948. In episode 3, writer-adventurer Dan Holiday—played by Alan Ladd—answers a troubling letter that leads him to the Bradford Hotel. An eccentric guest in room 718 refuses to...
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October 23 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Three to Die" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Three to Die,” episode 23 of the classic radio mystery series, originally broadcast January 23, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as troubleshooter Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy. When contractor Douglas MacIntosh reports deadly...
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October 22 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Actor's Alibi" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
From Box 13: “Actor’s Alibi,” originally broadcast September 12, 1948. Episode 4 of the series stars Alan Ladd as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy. A ticket to a live radio drama leads Holiday to actress Jean Blake, who fears...
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October 21 · 27 min
Box 13 - "A Perfect Crime" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “A Perfect Crime,” episode 49. The supplied release metadata lists 2012, while surviving broadcast catalogs date the episode to 1948 or, in several later listings, July 24, 1949. Mystery writer Dan Holiday, played by Alan Ladd,...
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October 20 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Insurance Fraud" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Insurance Fraud,” originally broadcast August 29, 1948. In episode 2 of the series, Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday. A cryptic message sends Dan to Abner Blake, chief investigator for Northern Insurance, where a...
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October 19 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Look Pleasant, Please" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Look Pleasant, Please,” episode 16 of the Mutual Broadcasting System mystery series, originally broadcast December 5, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking mystery writer Dan Holiday. An unsigned request sends Dan to the...
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October 18 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Actor's Alibi" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Actor’s Alibi,” originally broadcast September 12, 1948. This is episode 4 of the series, starring Alan Ladd as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday. A mysterious note sends Dan to a live radio-drama broadcast, where an encounter with aging...
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October 17 · 28 min
Box 13 - "The Better Man" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The Better Man,” episode 20 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast January 2, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as his secretary, Suzy. When wealthy Charles Winthrop...
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October 16 · 27 min
Box 13 - "One of These Four" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “One of These Four,” episode 38 of the syndicated mystery series, originally broadcast May 8, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as adventure writer Dan Holiday in this episode written by Russell Hughes and directed by Vern Carstensen. An...
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October 14 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Killer at Large" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Killer at Large,” episode 44 of the syndicated mystery-adventure series starring Alan Ladd as novelist-adventurer Dan Holiday. Originally broadcast June 19, 1949, this episode is listed in supplied source metadata as a 2012 release....
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October 13 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Round Robin" (Old Time Radio, 2013)
Box 13 presents “Round Robin,” originally broadcast August 14, 1949. Identified as episode 52 and the series finale, this syndicated Mayfair Productions mystery stars Alan Ladd as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy....
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October 12 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Speed to Burn" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Speed to Burn,” episode 45 of the syndicated Mayfair Productions series, originally broadcast June 26, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer and adventurer Dan Holiday. An unsigned letter challenges Holiday to a precisely timed...
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October 11 · 27 min
Box 13 - "One One Three Point Five" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “One One Three Point Five,” episode 31 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast March 20, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist-adventurer Dan Holiday, whose unusual cases arrive through his newspaper box number....
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