Original Airdate: June 18, 1948 Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holiday in this exciting episode of Box 13.
A "funny" hand-delivered letter arrives at the newsroom in answer to Holiday's ad. It reads: "I've been watching your ad appear in the Star-Times day after day. You want adventure? Very well, I think I can offer that. I'm gong to find out who you are, and when I do I'm going to kill you within four days!"
Box 13 was a syndicated radio drama about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 aired in different cities over different dates and times. It was first aired in some United States radio markets in October 1947.
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 various victims and criminals.
Sylvia Picker appeared as Holiday's dimwitted assistant, Suzy, while Edmund MacDonald played police Lt. Kling. Vern Carstensen, who directed Box 13 for producer Richard Sanville, was also the show's announcer.
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. Ladd has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1601 Vine Street. His handprint appears in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in Hollywood. In 1995, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.