Daytime Nightmare: Box 13 (1948)

“Daytime Nightmare” is an episode of Box 13, the old-time radio show, first broadcast in 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Dan Holiday accepts a mysterious lunch invitation from attorney Mr. Waring, who offers him a dangerous proposition involving a ten-million-dollar estate. After lunch, Waring takes him for a ride, and Holiday awakens in a sanitarium, where he is told he is Edward Stokes, a patient who needs a year of rest—despite his insistence that he is Dan Holiday, a writer.

A city with the Golden Arrow restaurant and a private sanitarium

Characters: Dan Holiday, Mr. Waring, Susie, Mr. Cordell, Samuel, Hugo, Edward Stokes

Listen for: Holiday's attempts to convince his captors of his true identity and his discovery that Waring and Cordell have somehow imprisoned him under a false name

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.