Box 13| Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Alan Ladd Mystery Dramas
Episodes
Box 13: Mexican Maze (EP0166)
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 14, 2010Dan Holiday goes to Mexico to help a man who says his life is in danger. Original Air Date: August 18, 1948Suppor...
Box 13: Tempest in a Casserole (EP0161)
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 7, 2010*A restaurant owner turns to Dan Holiday to help him find out why he's being pressured to sublet his restaurant. Or...
Box 13: Dan and the Wonderful Lamp (EP0156)
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 31, 2010Dan gets a mysterious invitation to a dinner party and wins a bean counting contest and an ugly lamp that somebody...
Box 13: One One Three Point Five (113.5) (EP0151)
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 24, 2010A woman says she needs Dan to find her missing brother, but a private detective following them says she's lying. O...
Box 13: Death's a Doll (EP0146)
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 17, 2010Dan Holiday heads to the Bayous of Louisiana to investigate the case of a healthy man wasting away and expecting t...
Box 13: Hunt and Peck (EP0141)
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 10, 2010Dan Holiday thinks a man on death row may be innocent, so he tries to bluff the real killer out of hiding. Origina...
Box 13: Hare and Hounds (EP0136)
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 3, 2010A man steals a letter from Box 13 and when Dan travels to another city to speak to the man who sent it, he finds hi...
Box 13: Flash of Light (EP0131)
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 26, 2010Dan Holiday needs to help a man visiting the city from a small town find out why he was kidnapped and drugged. O...
Box 13: Delinquent Dilemma (EP0126)
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 19, 2010*A mother whose son is accused of robbery believes him innocent and wants Dan to help him. The son, however want...
Box 13: Last Will and Nursery Rhyme (EP0121)
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 12, 2010Dan thinks he’s going on vacation when an old friend invites him to a white elephant of a house that he’s be...
Box 13: The Philanthropist (EP0116)
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 5, 2010A homeless man contacts Box 13 when his friends disappears. When the homeless man dies, Dan suspects foul play, a...
Box 13: Three to Die (EP0111)
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 29, 2010Dan goes undercover as a sandhog to find out who's been sabotaging the construction of a tunnel. Original Air Dat...
Box 13: The Dowager and Dan Holiday (EP0106)
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 22, 2010A society matron asks Dan Holiday to masquerade as her intended in order to flesh out whether the woman her gra...
Box 13: Professor and the Puzzle (EP0101)
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 15, 2010Dan Holiday goes to help an old college professor friend whose fiance unexpectedly leaved him when her uncle die...
Box 13: The Better Man (EP0096)
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 8, 2010Dan Holiday can get $200,000 to charity if he's willing to play a twisted rich man's game and go head to head wit...
Box 13: Hot Box (EP0091)
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 1, 2010Dan Holiday is asked to bid on an item at an auction. He loses the item and the winner hit by a car and the item ...
Box 13: The Sad Night (EP0086)
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 22, 2010Dan Holiday receives a child's copy book in the mail. When a couple who claim it's their's lies to him, he be...
Box 13: The Haunted Artist (EP0081)
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 15, 2010Dan helps an artist whose painting is being mysteriously vandalized. Original Air Date: April 28, 1948Support...
Box 13: Look Pleasant, Please (EP0076)
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 8, 2010Dan Holiday answers a letter to Box 13 and finds himself engaged to a wealthy heiress whose first two intended...
Box 13: Double Right Cross (EP0071)
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
February 1, 2010Dan Holiday goes to a friend’s boxing match. When his friend goes down for the count before Holiday even gets to the fight and peopl...
Box 13: Diamond in the Sky (EP0066)
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 25, 2010Dan Holiday heads to Paris to pick up an ultra-expensive diamond. Original Air Date: April 7, 1948Support the ...
Box 13: Damsel in Distress (EP0061)
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 18, 2010A teenager writes Box 13 and tells Dan she's received letters threatening a kidnapping. Original Air Date: Mar...
Box 13: Triple Cross (EP0056)
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 11, 2010A letter in Box 13 leads Dan Holiday to a Nevada casino where he wins $100,000 at a rigged roulette wheel. Tro...
Box 13: Foreign Correspondent (EP0051)
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 4, 2010A grieving mother sends a letter to Box 13 asking Dan Holiday to find the truth behind her son's death. Origina...
Box 13: The Great Torino (EP0046)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 28, 2009Dan is asked to help a magician's assistant who's afraid that a jealous magician will create an accident duri...
Box 13: Book of Poems (EP0041)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 21, 2009Dan receives a book of poems in Box 13 that takes him back to a fire he covered ten years ago when working for...
Box 13: Double Mothers (EP0036)
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 14, 2009Dan Holiday goes to a park and find himself taking care of a young child who seems to be confused about who h...
Box 13: Short Assignment (EP0031)
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 7, 2009Dan Holiday fills in for a vertically challenged Private Detective to guard the son of a dead man who relative...
Box 13: Shanghied (EP0026)
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 30, 2009Dan Holiday answers a letter in Box 13 and finds himself kidnapped and fishing at sea. Original Air Date: Febr...
Box 13: Extra Extra (EP0021)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 23, 2009A newspaper boy asks Dan Holiday to help him free his father, who has been charged as an accessory in a Jewelr...
Box 13: Actor's Alibi (EP0016)
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 16, 2009Dan Holiday receives an impossible call from a woman as she's being murdered. Original Air Date: January 28, ...
Box 13: Suzi Quits the Paper to Work for Dan (EP0011)
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 9, 2009An elderly woman sends an urgent message to Box 13. The reason…there's a dead body in her room.Original Air ...
Box 13: Insurance Fraud Scheme (EP0006)
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 2, 2009A life insurance company sends a letter to Box 13 in hopes of getting Dan Holiday to locate a missing man who ...
Box 13: The First Letter (EP0001)
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: October 26, 2009Dan Holiday answers a letter in Box 13 in response to an ad he placed seeking adventure. Holiday gets more tha...
Box 13: Round Robin (EP3291)
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 9, 2020Dan is told to go to a hotel and register as John Johnson and finds himself drawn into a web of blackmail and l...
Box 13: The Clay Pigeon (EP3285)
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 2, 2020Dan gets a letter offering him adventure if he goes to a Doctor's office and follows instructions. Original Air...
Box 13: Archimedes and The Roman (EP3279)
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: October 26, 2020A letter from a young boy leads 250 miles from home where he’s held hostage in an observatory by a jewelry ro...
Box 13: The Perfect Crime (EP3273)
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: October 19, 2020A dying criminology professor tells Dan he's going to commit a perfect murder. Original Air Date: 1948Support t...
Box 13: The Biter Bitten (EP3267)
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: October 12, 2020Dan is called in by a snake expert to find a snake that escaped in a large hotel. Original Air Date: 1948 Supp...
Box 13: Double Trouble (EP3261)
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: October 5, 2020Dan is told to visit a town 3 hours away to prevent a murder and finds himself framed for one. Original Air Date...
Box 13: House of Darkness (EP3255)
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 28, 2020A blind man after he finds a message from someone requesting help written in brail in a library book. Origina...
Box 13: Speed to Burn (EP3249)
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 21, 2020A young woman asks Dan to help rescue her ex-con brother from a car theft ring. Original Air Date: 1948Suppor...
Box 13: Killer at Large (EP3243)
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 14, 2020A man pays someone to find a hitman to kill him. He changes his mind but the go-between he paid is dead, and ...
Box 13: Design for Danger (EP3237)
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 7, 2020A woman asks Dan to help her stop a man just released from prison from committing murder or being murdered. Or...
Box 13: The Treasure of Hang Li (EP3231)
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 31, 2020A letter to Box13 instructs Dan to purchase something called the “Hang Li” piece. The shop owner insists he...
Box 13: The Dead Man Walks (EP3225)
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 24, 2020 A woman asks Dan to find her missing ex-con Father. Original Air Date: 1948Support the show monthly at patreo...
Box 13: Death is No Joke (EP3219)
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 17, 2020Dan is called by a friend as nasty practical jokes have been plaguing his family after a missing heir suddenly a...
Box 13: Daytime Nightmare (EP3213)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 10, 2020Dan is invited to lunch by someone in response to his Box 13 ad. He's drugged and awakes in a sanatorium with h...
Box 13: One of These Four (EP3207)
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 3, 2020Dan is trapped and kidnapped on a boat with three other people, one of whom is a killer. Original Air Date: 1948S...
Box 13: Much Too Lucky (EP3195)
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: July 20, 2020Dan investigates why several gamblers have won an improbable number of race track bets. Original Air Date: 1948Sup...
Box 13: Find Me, Find Death (EP3189)
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: July 13, 2020Dan receives a letter to Box 13 where the writer announces he'll kill Dan in four days. Original Air Date: Sometim...
Box 13: Sealed Instructions (EP3183)
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: July 6, 2020A scared man asks Dan to go to the Philippines with sealed instructions to obtain something that means life and de...
Box 13: Mexican Maze (EP3177)
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 29, 2020Dan takes a plane to Mexico to help a man who fears for his life. Original Air Date: 1948Support the show monthly ...
Box 13: Tempest in a Casserole (EP3171)
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 22, 2020A restaurant owner turns to Dan when his business is being wrecked after he refused to sublet it. Original Air Dat...
Box 13: Dan and the Wonderful Lamp (EP3165)
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 15, 2020Dan gets a mysterious invitation to a dinner party and wins a bean counting contest and an ugly lamp that somebody...
Box 13: One One Three Point Five (113.5) (EP3159)
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 8, 2020A woman says she needs Dan to find her missing brother, but a private detective following them says she’s lying. ...
Box 13: Death is a Doll (EP3153)
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: June 1, 2020Dan goes to Louisiana when a young woman asks him to help a young man who's dying as a result of witchcraft. Origi...
Box 13: Hunt and Peck (EP3147)
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 25, 2020A man on death row asks Dan to clear him less than 48 hours before he's due to die. Original Air Date: Sometime in...
Box 13: Hare and Hounds (EP3141)
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 18, 2020A man steals a letter from Box 13 and when Dan travels to another city to speak to the man who sent it, he finds h...
Box 13: Flash of Light (EP3135)
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 11, 2020A man visiting from a small town asks Dan for help to find out what happened during two days he can't remember. Ori...
Box 13: Delinquent Dilemma (EP3129)
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: May 4, 2020The mother of a young man who confessed to a burglary asks Dan to help him…even though he confessed. Original Air ...
Box 13: Last Will and Nursery Rhyme (EP3123)
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 27, 2020Dan visits the home of a friend who's about to sell an inherited home, but Dan believes there may be more to his ...
Box 13: The Philanthropist (EP3117)
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 20, 2020Dan investigates the disappearance of a homeless man after the man's befriended him. Original Air Date: March 26,...
Box 13: Three to Die (EP3111)
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 13, 2020Dan is called in to investigate a series of accidents that have plagued sandhogs in an underground construction p...
Box 13: The Dowager and Dan Holiday (EP3105)
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: April 6, 2020A wealthy elderly woman asks Dan to pretend to be her fiancee so she can protect her grandson from marrying a gold...
Box 13: The Professor and the Puzzle (EP3093)
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 23, 2020An old friend of Dan's ask him to find out why his fiancée left him and became engaged to a much older man after...
Box 13: The Better Man (EP3087)
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 16, 2020A cynical wealthy man invites Dan into a competition for $100,000 and one of his competitors is a killer. Origina...
Box 13: Hot Box (EP3081)
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 9, 2020Dan is given money to bid on a box at an auction. He loses the auction, but when the winner gets hit by a car and ...
Box 13: The Sad Night (EP3075)
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: March 2, 2020Dan receives a child's penmanship book at Box 13. A couple claims it, but when Dan discovers they're lying, he bec...
Box 13: The Haunted Artist (EP3069)
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 24, 2020An artist comes to Dan for help because he believes a ghost is breaking into his apartment at night and alteri...
Box 13: Look Pleasant, Please (EP3063)
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 17, 2020Dan agrees to pose for a picture with a beautiful woman and then the next day finds out she's a wealthy heires...
Box 13: Double Right Cross (EP3057)
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 10, 2020An old war buddy of Dan's invites him to watch a fight. When Dan arrives, he finds the fight is over and his f...
Box 13: Diamond in the Sky (EP3051)
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: February 3, 2020Dan is recruited to go to Paris to help bring a million dollar diamond to the United States. Original Air Date:...
Box 13: Damsel in Distress (EP3045)
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 27, 2020A teenage girl has received extortion notes threatening to kidnap her if she doesn't provide a $1,000 ransom. O...
Box 13: Triple Cross (EP3039)
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 20, 2020Dan is summoned to a casino in Nevada for an adventure, but when he wins more than $100,000 at the casino and i...
Box 13: Suicide or Murder (EP3033)
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 13, 2020A grieving mother asks Dan to prove her reporter son didn't commit suicide. Original Air Date: December 26, 194...
Box 13: The Great Torino (EP3027)
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: January 6, 2020A magician's assistant asks Dan to protect her from being murdered in a trick involving a gun. Original Air Date...
Box 13: A Book of Poems by Sir Walter Scott (EP3015)
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 23, 2019Dan receives a book of poems by Sir Walter Scott that leads him to investigate a deadly arson. Original Air Da...
Box 13: Double Mothers (EP3009)
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 16, 2019Dan is directed to a park where he finds a precocious young girl with a confusing story and a note from her mo...
Box 13: Short Assignment (EP3003)
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 9, 2019A diminutive private detective asks Dan to fill in for him in playing bodyguard to a suicidal young heir. Origi...
Box 13: Shanghied (EP2997)
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: December 2, 2019Dan receives a letter inviting him to a port and he's knocked out, kidnapped, and made to spend days fishing at...
Box 13: Extra! Extra! (EP2991)
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 25, 2019A newspaper boy asks Dan to clear his father of a jewel theft. Original Air Date: November 14, 1947Support th...
Box 13: The Radio Actress Murder Case (EP2985)
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 18, 2019Dan Holiday receives an impossible call from a woman as she’s being murdered. Original Air Date: November 7,...
Box 13: Blackmail is Murder (EP2979)
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 11, 2019 An older single woman from Indiana sends a letter to Box 13 because she found a dead man in her room. Origin...
Box 13: The Insurance Swindle Adventure (EP2973)
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: November 4, 2019An insurance company asks Dan to locate a missing insured man who's about to be declared dead and have his insu...
Box 13: The First Letter (EP2967)
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: October 28, 2019 Dan Holiday tries to jumpstart his writing career through an ad in a newspaper. His first letter is from a w...
Box 13: Round Robin (EP0256)
18 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: October 18, 2010A letter to Box 13 puts Dan Holiday in the middle of a complicated blackmail scheme. Original Air Date: Decemb...
Box 13: Clay Pigeon (EP0251)
11 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: October 11, 2010Dan Holiday is told to go to a doctor's office under an assumed name, and finds himself in the crossfire. Origi...
Box 13: Archimedes and the Roman (EP0246)
04 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: October 4, 2010A letter from a young boy leads 250 miles from home where he's held hostage in an observatory by a jewelry robbe...
Box 13: The Perfect Crime (EP0241)
26 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 26, 2010A professor tells Dan Holiday that he can commit the perfect crime. Original Air Date: December 1, 1948Suppo...
Box 13: The Biter Bitten (EP0236)
20 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 20, 2010Dan Holiday is called to a hotel to find an escaped venomous snake.Original Air Date: November 24, 1948Suppor...
Box 13: Double Trouble (EP0231)
13 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 13, 2010Dan Holiday is told he has to be in a small town by 3:30. He arrives early, but the murder still happens and...
Box 13: House of Darkness (EP0226)
06 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: September 6, 2010*A blind man contacts Holiday when he finds a mysterious message in braile in a library book.Original Air Date...
Box 13: Speed to Burn (EP0221)
30 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 30, 2010Dan Holiday goes undercover at a chop shop to find the brother of a woman who asked for his help. Original Air ...
Box 13: Killer at Large (EP0216)
23 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 23, 2010A man pays someone $50,000 to find someone to kill him. He changes his mind about wanting to be killed, but the...
Box 13: The Dead Man Walks (EP0211)
16 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 16, 2010Dan Holiday sees a man dead in a pawn shop. He reports it to Lt. Kling, only to find out the dead man reported f...
Box 13: Design for Danger (EP0206)
09 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 9, 2010A woman asks Dan to help her stop a man just released from prison from committing murder or being murdered.Origin...
Box 13: The Treasure of Hang Li (EP0201)
02 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: August 2, 2010A letter to Box13 instructs Dan to purchase something called the "Hang Li" piece. The shop owner insists he take...
Box 13: Death is No Joke (EP0196)
26 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: July 26, 2010A friend calls Dan in for help when someone is playing a lot of practical jokes on his horrid family, many of whi...
Box 13: Daytime Nightmare (EP0191)
19 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Original Release Date: July 19, 2010In answer to a letter to Box 13, Dan goes to lunch with a businessman. He wakes up to find himself strapped down ...