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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 - "Hare and Hounds" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Hare and Hounds,” episode 28 of the mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast February 27, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy. After an older visitor takes an out-of-town letter...
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Wednesday · 27 min
Box 13 - "The Professor and the Puzzle" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The Professor and the Puzzle,” originally broadcast on Mutual on January 9, 1949. Commonly cataloged as episode 21, this 26-minute mystery stars Alan Ladd as novelist-adventurer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy. Dan responds...
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Tuesday · 27 min
Box 13 - "The Philanthropist" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The Philanthropist,” episode 24 of the series, originally broadcast January 30, 1949. The drama stars Alan Ladd as mystery writer Dan Holiday and was written by Russell Hughes. When a vagrant named Red asks Dan to help find his...
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Monday · 27 min
Box 13 - "Three to Die" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Three to Die,” episode 23 of the series, listed with an original broadcast year of 2012. Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holiday in this hazardous tunnel-side mystery. Holiday answers contractor Douglas MacIntosh’s plea for help after fatal...
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Sunday · 27 min
Box 13 - "Archimedes and the Roman" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Archimedes and the Roman,” originally broadcast July 31, 1949. Identified as episode 50 of the 52-program series, this late-series mystery stars Alan Ladd as novelist-adventurer Dan Holiday and was written by Russell Hughes and...
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Saturday · 27 min
Box 13 - "The Haunted Artist" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The Haunted Artist,” episode 17 of the mystery series, originally broadcast December 12, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday. Artist Michael Davis fears that his locked studio—or perhaps he himself—is...
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August 28 · 27 min
Box 13 - "The Biter Bitten" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The Biter Bitten,” episode 48 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast on July 17, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday. An urgent letter summons Holiday to Room 507 at the Hotel Belvedere,...
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August 27 · 27 min
Box 13 - "The Treasure of Hang Li" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The Treasure of Hang Li,” originally broadcast May 29, 1949. Also listed as episode 41, this installment stars Alan Ladd as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday in the syndicated 1948–49 series. A mysterious letter sends Holiday to a...
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August 26 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Hare and Hounds" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Hare and Hounds,” originally broadcast February 27, 1949. This is episode 28 of the classic mystery series, starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. After an older stranger takes an out-of-town letter from the Box 13 mail, Dan follows the...
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August 25 · 27 min
Box 13 - "One One Three Point Five" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “One One Three Point Five,” originally broadcast in 2012. Identified in established episode listings as episode 31, this mystery-adventure installment stars Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday, the former newspaperman who answers unusual appeals...
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August 24 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Hunt and Peck" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Hunt and Peck,” episode 29 of the Alan Ladd mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast on March 6, 1949. Ladd stars as writer-investigator Dan Holiday in this Mutual network production, written by Russell Hughes and directed by...
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August 23 · 27 min
Box 13 - "The Great Torino" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The Great Torino,” originally broadcast October 24, 1948. This is episode 10 of the Mutual Broadcasting System adventure series, starring Alan Ladd as writer and trouble-seeker Dan Holiday. A desperate message from Maria, a...
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August 22 · 27 min
Box 13 - "The First Letter" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The First Letter,” episode 1 of the series, originally broadcast August 22, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday in the program that established the series’ “Adventure wanted” premise. After placing a classified ad...
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August 21 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Find Me, Find Death" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Find Me, Find Death,” episode 36, originally broadcast April 24, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist and former newspaperman Dan Holiday in this Mutual network mystery, written by Russell Hughes and directed by Vern Carstensen. An...
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August 20 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Double Right Cross" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Double Right Cross,” episode 15 of the series, originally broadcast on November 28, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as adventuring writer Dan Holiday in this Mutual Broadcasting System drama. When an old Army friend is accused of throwing a...
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August 19 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Daytime Nightmare" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Daytime Nightmare,” originally broadcast May 15, 1949. In episode 39, Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday. A mysterious lunch invitation sends Dan to the Golden Arrow, only for him to wake in a sanitarium where...
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August 18 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Much Too Lucky" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Much Too Lucky,” episode 37 of the classic radio mystery series, originally broadcast May 1, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday. Holiday answers a plea from Bert Hendricks, an off-track betting operator...
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August 17 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Mexican Maze" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Mexican Maze,” episode 34 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast April 10, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery novelist Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy. An urgent letter and an airline ticket send Holiday...
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August 16 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Find Me, Find Death" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Find Me, Find Death,” episode 36 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast April 24, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery novelist and adventurer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy; the episode was written by Russell...
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August 15 · 27 min
Box 13 - "Design for Danger" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “Design for Danger,” originally broadcast June 5, 1949. Commonly cataloged as episode 42, this noir adventure stars Alan Ladd as newspaperman Dan Holiday. A young woman fears that her recently paroled boyfriend, Johnny Tide, is...
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