Box 13 | Mystery | Find Me, Find Death | 04-24-1949 Alan Ladd 🎙️

Episode Description:
Dan receives an anonymous death threat. The note says he will be murdered within four days. Dan must find the writer's identity before he finds Dan.
🎙️✔️**Box 13** is a syndicated radio drama centered around Dan Holiday, a newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist played by film star Alan Ladd. Produced by Ladd's own company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 aired at various dates and times across different cities. It first debuted in several U.S. radio markets in October 1947.
🎙️✔️To inspire new ideas for his novels, Holiday placed a classified ad in the Star-Times newspaper, where he once worked: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything - write Box 13, Star-Times." The series follows Holiday as he embarks on thrilling adventures prompted by letters from people like a psychotic killer and various distressed individuals.
🎙️✔️Cast and Crew
*Main Cast:*
- Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday
- Sylvia Picker as Suzy, Holiday's scatterbrained secretary
- Edmund MacDonald as Lt. Kling, Holiday's police foil
🎙️Guest stars included Betty Lou Gerson, Frank Lovejoy, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Reed, Luis Van Rooten, and John Beal. Vern Carstensen directed the series for producer Richard Sanville and also served as the show's announcer.
🎙️The series featured music by Rudy Schrager. Russell Hughes, who had previously hired Ladd as a radio actor in 1935 at a $19 weekly salary, wrote most of the scripts, sometimes collaborating with Ladd. The partners in Mayfair Productions were Ladd and Bernie Joslin, who had formerly managed the Mayfair Restaurants chain.
🎙️Raymond Burr also appeared in some episodes.
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