The Biter Bitten: Box 13

“The Biter Bitten” is an episode of Box 13, the old-time radio show. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Dan Holiday receives an urgent telegram from Dr. Theodore Miller at the Belvedere Hotel, who claims a dangerous king cobra has escaped from his room. When Holiday arrives, he finds Miller frantic but evasive. Soon after, a colleague of Miller's, Dr. Cunningham, is found dead at another hotel from a cobra bite, and Holiday begins to suspect Miller's story doesn't add up.

The Belvedere Hotel in the city, with a secondary location at the Molten Hotel two blocks away.

Characters: Dan Holiday, Dr. Theodore Miller, Mr. Larkin, the hotel manager, Dr. Roy Cunningham, Susie, Police detective, Medical examiner, House detective

Listen for: The tense scene where Holiday and Larkin search Miller's room and discover the cobra hidden in a leather bag, then the climactic confrontation where the snake is used against Miller himself.

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.