Original Airdate: April 2, 1948. Special Guest: Paul Frees.
Where is all the money hidden? A strange clue helps. “Dear Dan, I’m inviting you up to Fair Oaks to spend a last weekend with me. Forget your Box 13 gag for a while, and grab yourself a little vacation. There’s not much I can offer in the way of excitement or adventure, but if you’ll really go anyplace, or do anything you might like to see the crumbling grandeur of the last of the… signed Ted.” Ted - an old college buddy of Dan’s.
What could all this mean?
To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holiday ran a classified ad in the Star-Times newspaper where he formerly worked: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything -- write Box 13, Star-Times." The stories followed Holiday's adventures when he responded to the letters sent to him by such people as a psycho killer and various victims. Sylvia Picker played Holiday’s scatterbrained assistant, Suzy. Also instrumental in this show were Richard Sanville (director), Vern Carstensen (producer), Russell Hughes (writer), and Rudy Schrager (music)
Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 - January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film and television producer. Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in Westerns such as Shane (1953) and in films noir. He was often paired with Veronica Lake, in noir genre films, such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942) and The Blue Dahlia (1946).
His other notable credits include Two Years Before the Mast (1946), Whispering Smith, his first Western and color film, (1948) and The Great Gatsby (1949). His popularity diminished in the late 1950s, though he continued to appear in popular films until his accidental death in Palm Springs due to a lethal combination of alcohol, a barbiturate, and two tranquilizers.