Box 13 | Old Time Radio
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. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/box-13-old-time-radio--7222653/support.
Episodes
After an older visitor takes an out-of-town letter from Dan’s Box 13 mail, Dan follows a second appeal from its sender to another city. His search draws him into a dangerous murder case and a race to understand wh...
Dan responds to a plea from his friend Bob Lannan, a college professor whose engagement was shattered by the apparent suicide of his fiancée’s uncle. At Dell College, Holiday...
When a vagrant named Red asks Dan to help find his missing friend, Suki, the search takes him from a city park into the hobo jungles and an organization that promises work to homeless men. Going undercover, Dan discovers t...
Holiday answers contractor Douglas MacIntosh’s plea for help after fatal accidents and suspected sabotage threaten a tunnel being built beneath a river. Going undercover as a sandhog, Holiday enters the confined, dangerous world of un...
When young Marty Kennedy fears something has happened to his astronomer friend at a remote mountaintop observatory near Collinwood, Dan Holid...
Artist Michael Davis fears that his locked studio—or perhaps he himself—is haunted when unexplained brushwork begins appearing on a canvas meant for an upcoming gallery showing. The mysterious image of a stone quarry draws Holiday into...
An urgent letter summons Holiday to Room 507 at the Hotel Belvedere, where Dr. Theodore Miller warns that a deadly king cobra is loose in the building. As the danger closes in, Holiday finds that tracking down the snake is only the beginni...
A mysterious letter sends Holiday to a Chinatown curio shop to ask for the Hang Li piece, an enigmatic jade object the proprietor insists he take for free. What begins as an unusual errand soon draws Dan i...
After an older stranger takes an out-of-town letter from the Box 13 mail, Dan follows the trail it leaves behind—only to find himself caught in a dangerous case and wanted by the police. Russell Hughes wrote the original story, with Richard Sanville ...
Dorothy Simmons asks Holiday to locate her missing brother, Dave, who is hiding somewhere in the city. But a watchful private d...
With a condemned man facing execution in 48 hours, Dan reviews a murder case built around a crucial typed note. The investigation hinges on an overloo...
A desperate message from Maria, a magician’s assistant afraid to involve the police, sends Dan to the Tivoli Theatre and a ticket waiting at the box office. Behind the scenes of The Great Torino’s ...
After placing a classified ad seeking real-life adventures to inspire his fiction, Holiday receives a troubling letter from Carla Williams, who asks for help with what she hopes wil...
An anonymous letter arrives at Dan’s Box 13 mail drop with a chilling warning: he will be killed within four days unless he can identify the person behind the threat. ...
When an old Army friend is accused of throwing a boxing match, Holiday steps into the prizefighting world to uncover what really happened and protect the fighter’s reputation. The episode was written by Russell ...
A mysterious lunch invitation sends Dan to the Golden Arrow, only for him to wake in a sanitarium where everyone insists he is a man named Edward Stokes. Written by Russell Hughes and directed by Richard Sanville, this tense mistaken-identity drama also features Sylvia Pi...
Holiday answers a plea from Bert Hendricks, an off-track betting operator plagued by a customer whose last-minute horse-race wagers keep winning. As losses mount and the streak defies explanation, Holiday investigates the world of race broadca...
An urgent letter and an airline ticket send Holiday to Mexico City, where he is told to wait at the Hotel Maricosa. The request for help soon draws him into a dangerous south-of-the-border mystery involving a frightene...
A hand-delivered anonymous letter warns Dan that he will be found and killed within four days—unless he can identify the person behind the threat first. With...
A young woman fears that her recently paroled boyfriend, Johnny Tide, is returning to Watertown for revenge. Following a lead to the waterfront after dark, Dan races to find him before an old score becomes new violence. Richard Sanville directed...
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