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Box 13, the radio show, around the clock: Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday, the newspaperman turned mystery writer who answers a classified ad, 1948 to 1949. A Stupid Potato channel.
Box 13 is an old time radio adventure and mystery show starring Alan Ladd, syndicated to stations across the country from late 1947 into 1949, and here you can listen to it free online, around the clock, or as a free podcast. Ladd plays Dan Holiday, a newspaperman who quit the paper to write mystery novels. Looking for material, he runs a classified ad in his old paper, the Star-Times, offering to go anywhere and do anything for adventure. The replies go to Box 13, and nearly every episode begins with a letter.
The letters come from every kind of person, from a racketeer's victim to a killer looking for fun, and Holiday answers them all. Strictly speaking he isn't a private eye: he has no license and charges no fee, because he wants the story. Sylvia Picker plays Suzy, his scatterbrained but surprisingly efficient secretary, and Edmund MacDonald plays police Lieutenant Kling. Rudy Schrager wrote and conducted original music for every show, instead of the organ stings heard on many radio mysteries.
Ladd didn't just star. His own company, Mayfair Productions, made the show, and Russell Hughes, who had hired the young Ladd as a radio actor back in 1935 for $19 a week, wrote most of the scripts. Ladd recorded a single run of half-hour shows, and every one survives. Hollywood radio regulars fill the casts, including Betty Lou Gerson, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Reed, Frank Lovejoy, Gerald Mohr and a young Raymond Burr. If you know Ladd from Shane or This Gun for Hire, this is the same star in a radio series he made himself.
Syndicated (Mayfair Transcriptions), 1947-1949. With Alan Ladd, Edmund MacDonald, Betty Lou Gerson, Frank Lovejoy.
The Box 13 recordings here come from the Old Time Radio Researchers' Box 13 Singles set (84 episodes), hosted by the Internet Archive. Our thanks to the Old Time Radio Researchers, the volunteers who found, dated and assembled the set, and to the Archive and the collectors whose uploads it rests on. The sound is our remaster of those files (rumble, hiss and hum cleaned out, levelled to steady broadcast loudness); the recordings themselves are theirs. About our sources.
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Yes. Alan Ladd starred as Dan Holiday in Box 13, a syndicated mystery series his own company produced, heard from late 1947 into 1949. He had started out as a radio actor in the 1930s.
Dan Holiday, a newspaperman turned mystery writer, runs an ad offering to go anywhere and do anything for adventure. The replies go to Box 13, and each letter leads to a new case.
On the Stupid Potato Box 13 channel, which streams the original radio episodes 24 hours a day, free and with no account. There is also a free podcast.
Not as a series. Ladd played Holiday in "Committed," a 1954 General Electric Theater episode adapted from the radio show's "Daytime Nightmare," but later TV attempts never sold.
Yes. Box 13 is free to listen to, live around the clock and as a podcast: no sign-up, no app and no subscription. Potato Plus is optional and never required.
No. It is an internet radio channel, live 24 hours a day: press Listen live, no sign-up and no app needed.
No modern ads, and we promise none until Valentine's Day 2027 (February 14). Nothing breaks into the show to sell you something you never asked for. Any commercials you hear are the original sponsor spots that aired with the broadcast.
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