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 ra...
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Nov 13, 2026 · 27:36
Box 13 presents “Mexican Maze,” episode 34 of the syndicated mystery series, originally broadcast April 10, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer and adventurer Dan Holiday. An…
Nov 12, 2026 · 27:34
Box 13 presents “Speed to Burn,” episode 45 of the classic radio mystery series, originally broadcast June 26, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist-adventurer Dan Holiday. An…
Nov 11, 2026 · 27:37
Box 13 presents “The Treasure of Hang Li,” episode 41 of the syndicated radio adventure series, originally broadcast May 29, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan…
Nov 10, 2026 · 27:28
Box 13 presents “Design for Danger,” originally broadcast June 5, 1949. Commonly cataloged as episode 42 of the syndicated Mayfair Productions series, it stars Alan Ladd as…
Nov 9, 2026 · 27:43
Box 13 presents “Book of Poems,” episode 9 of the syndicated mystery series Box 13, originally broadcast October 17, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as newspaper…
Nov 7, 2026 · 27:43
Box 13 presents “Hot Box,” episode 19 of the syndicated mystery series, originally broadcast December 26, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer and adventurer Dan Holiday, with…
Nov 7, 2026 · 27:49
Box 13 presents “The Hot Box,” episode 19 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast December 26, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday, with Russell…
Nov 5, 2026 · 27:34
Box 13 presents “Flash of Light,” episode 27 of the syndicated mystery-adventure series starring Alan Ladd as writer-investigator Dan Holiday. Supplied source metadata dates this…
Nov 4, 2026 · 27:44
Box 13 presents “Insurance Fraud,” episode 2 of the series, originally broadcast August 29, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday in this early installment of…
Nov 3, 2026 · 27:34
Box 13 presents “Sealed Instructions,” episode 35 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast April 17, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday,…
Nov 2, 2026 · 27:39
Box 13 presents “The Philanthropist,” episode 24, originally broadcast on January 30, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday in this syndicated radio drama, written…
Nov 1, 2026 · 27:27
Box 13 presents “Hunt and Peck,” episode 29 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast on March 6, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday, with Russell…
Oct 31, 2026 · 27:31
Box 13 presents “Tempest in a Casserole,” episode 33 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast on April 3, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as freelance writer and adventurer Dan…
Oct 30, 2026 · 27:29
Box 13 presents “Death Is No Joke,” episode 40, originally broadcast May 22, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer and reluctant adventurer Dan Holiday in this late-series…
Oct 29, 2026 · 27:27
Box 13 presents “The Clay Pigeon,” episode 51 of the syndicated mystery series, originally broadcast August 7, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist and former newspaperman Dan…
Oct 28, 2026 · 27:25
Box 13 presents “The Perfect Crime,” episode 49 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast July 24, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia…
Oct 27, 2026 · 27:21
Box 13 presents “The Sad Night,” episode 18 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast December 19, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday, with…
Oct 26, 2026 · 27:24
Box 13 presents “The First Letter,” the first episode of the Alan Ladd mystery series, originally broadcast on August 22, 1948. In this opening adventure, Ladd stars as mystery…
Oct 24, 2026 · 27:51
Box 13 presents “Blackmail Is Murder,” originally broadcast September 5, 1948. In episode 3, writer-adventurer Dan Holiday—played by Alan Ladd—answers a troubling letter that…
Oct 23, 2026 · 27:16
Box 13 presents “Three to Die,” episode 23 of the classic radio mystery series, originally broadcast January 23, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as troubleshooter Dan Holiday, with Sylvia…
Oct 22, 2026 · 27:13
From Box 13: “Actor’s Alibi,” originally broadcast September 12, 1948. Episode 4 of the series stars Alan Ladd as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy. A…
Oct 21, 2026 · 27:41
Box 13 presents “A Perfect Crime,” episode 49. The supplied release metadata lists 2012, while surviving broadcast catalogs date the episode to 1948 or, in several later…
Oct 20, 2026 · 27:39
Box 13 presents “Insurance Fraud,” originally broadcast August 29, 1948. In episode 2 of the series, Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday. A cryptic message sends Dan…
Oct 19, 2026 · 27:39
Box 13 presents “Look Pleasant, Please,” episode 16 of the Mutual Broadcasting System mystery series, originally broadcast December 5, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking…
Oct 18, 2026 · 27:07
Box 13 presents “Actor’s Alibi,” originally broadcast September 12, 1948. This is episode 4 of the series, starring Alan Ladd as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday. A mysterious note…
Oct 17, 2026 · 28:03
Box 13 presents “The Better Man,” episode 20 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast January 2, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday, with…
Oct 16, 2026 · 27:14
Box 13 presents “One of These Four,” episode 38 of the syndicated mystery series, originally broadcast May 8, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as adventure writer Dan Holiday in this…
Oct 14, 2026 · 27:30
Box 13 presents “Killer at Large,” episode 44 of the syndicated mystery-adventure series starring Alan Ladd as novelist-adventurer Dan Holiday. Originally broadcast June 19,…
Oct 13, 2026 · 27:30
Box 13 presents “Round Robin,” originally broadcast August 14, 1949. Identified as episode 52 and the series finale, this syndicated Mayfair Productions mystery stars Alan Ladd…
Oct 12, 2026 · 27:34
Box 13 presents “Speed to Burn,” episode 45 of the syndicated Mayfair Productions series, originally broadcast June 26, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer and adventurer Dan…
Oct 11, 2026 · 27:23
Box 13 presents “One One Three Point Five,” episode 31 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast March 20, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist-adventurer Dan…
Oct 10, 2026 · 27:26
Box 13 presents “Tempest in a Casserole,” episode 33 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast April 3, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as freelance writer and investigator Dan…
Oct 9, 2026 · 27:36
Box 13 presents “The Dowager and Dan Holiday,” episode 22 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast January 16, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holiday, the…
Oct 8, 2026 · 27:24
Box 13 presents “The Professor and the Puzzle,” episode 21 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast January 9, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist-adventurer Dan Holiday…
Oct 7, 2026 · 27:46
Box 13 presents “Damsel in Distress,” episode 13 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast November 14, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer and former…
Oct 6, 2026 · 27:23
Box 13 presents “Death Is a Doll,” episode 30 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast on March 13, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer and adventurer Dan Holiday.…
Oct 5, 2026 · 27:34
From Box 13, “Flash of Light” is episode 27, originally broadcast February 20, 1949. The mystery serial stars Alan Ladd as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as…
Oct 4, 2026 · 27:28
Box 13 presents “One of These Four,” originally broadcast May 8, 1949. In episode 38 of Alan Ladd’s mystery-adventure series, Ladd stars as adventure writer Dan Holiday. The…
Oct 3, 2026 · 27:24
Box 13 presents “Short Assignment,” originally broadcast October 3, 1948. This is episode 7 of the series’ 52-episode run, starring Alan Ladd as mystery writer and adventurer Dan…
Oct 2, 2026 · 27:35
Box 13 presents “Short Assignment,” listed as episode 7. This archival presentation is dated 2012; the original Box 13 radio drama is generally cataloged as having aired on…
Oct 1, 2026 · 27:30
Box 13 presents “Sealed Instructions,” episode 35 of the syndicated mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast April 17, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan…
Sep 30, 2026 · 27:40
Box 13 presents “Extra Extra,” originally broadcast September 19, 1948. In the fifth episode of the series, Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday. A postcard…
Sep 29, 2026 · 27:31
Box 13 presents “Killer at Large,” episode 44 of the syndicated mystery series, originally broadcast June 19, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist-adventurer Dan Holiday. A…
Sep 28, 2026 · 27:43
Box 13 presents “Diamond in the Sky,” episode 14 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast November 21, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer and former…
Sep 27, 2026 · 27:27
Box 13 presents “The Sad Night,” episode 18 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast December 19, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday in this…
Sep 26, 2026 · 27:38
Box 13 presents “The Great Torino,” episode 10 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast October 24, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday in this…
Sep 25, 2026 · 27:24
Box 13 presents “Archimedes and the Roman,” originally broadcast July 31, 1949. The 50th of the series’ 52 known programs stars Alan Ladd as mystery writer Dan Holiday. A worried…
Sep 24, 2026 · 27:17
Box 13 presents “House of Darkness,” episode 46 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast July 3, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery novelist Dan Holiday, with Sylvia…
Sep 23, 2026 · 27:20
Box 13 presents “Death Is No Joke,” episode 40 of the syndicated mystery series, originally broadcast May 22, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking mystery writer Dan…
Sep 22, 2026 · 27:37
Box 13 presents “The Dowager and Dan Holiday,” episode 22 of the syndicated mystery series, originally broadcast January 16, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as former newspaperman and…
Sep 21, 2026 · 27:23
Box 13 presents “Much Too Lucky,” episode 37 of the series, originally broadcast on May 1, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as adventure writer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy. When…
Sep 20, 2026 · 27:19
Box 13 presents “The Dead Man Walks,” episode 43 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast on June 12, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist-adventurer Dan…
Sep 19, 2026 · 27:39
Box 13 presents “Diamond in the Sky,” episode 14 of the syndicated mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast November 21, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer and former…
Sep 18, 2026 · 27:28
Box 13 presents “House of Darkness,” episode 46 of the syndicated radio mystery series, originally broadcast July 3, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery novelist Dan Holiday. When a…
Sep 17, 2026 · 27:25
Box 13 presents “Death Is a Doll,” episode 30, originally broadcast March 13, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday in this Mayfair Productions mystery, distributed…
Sep 16, 2026 · 27:56
Box 13 presents “Blackmail Is Murder,” episode 3 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast September 5, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as novelist-adventurer Dan Holiday in this…
Sep 15, 2026 · 27:37
Box 13 presents “Damsel in Distress,” episode 13 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast November 14, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holiday, the former newspaperman…
Sep 14, 2026 · 27:37
Box 13 presents “Double Mothers,” episode 8 of the series, originally broadcast October 10, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as newspaperman and mystery writer Dan Holiday in this Mayfair…
Sep 13, 2026 · 27:31
Box 13 presents “The Biter Bitten,” episode 48 of the mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast July 17, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday. An urgent…
Sep 12, 2026 · 27:28
Box 13 presents “Daytime Nightmare,” episode 39 of the classic radio mystery series, originally broadcast on May 15, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday…
Sep 11, 2026 · 27:35
Box 13 presents “Round Robin,” episode 52 of the series, originally broadcast August 14, 1949. This final episode stars Alan Ladd as mystery writer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia…
Sep 10, 2026 · 27:47
Box 13 presents “The Haunted Artist,” episode 17 of Box 13, originally broadcast in 2012. The mystery series stars Alan Ladd as adventure-seeking novelist Dan Holiday. Holiday…
Sep 9, 2026 · 27:58
Box 13 presents “The Better Man,” episode 20 of the classic radio mystery series Box 13, originally broadcast January 2, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday, with…
Sep 8, 2026 · 27:40
Box 13 presents “Look Pleasant, Please,” episode 16, originally broadcast December 5, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday in this Mutual Broadcasting System…
Sep 7, 2026 · 27:21
Box 13 presents “Delinquent’s Dilemma,” episode 26 of the series, originally broadcast February 13, 1949. This archival presentation carries supplied source metadata dated 2012.…
Sep 6, 2026 · 27:42
Box 13 presents “Double Trouble,” episode 47 of the classic radio mystery series, originally broadcast July 10, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking mystery novelist Dan…
Sep 5, 2026 · 27:55
Box 13 presents “Shanghaied,” episode 6 of the mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast September 26, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia…
Sep 4, 2026 · 27:25
Box 13 presents “Dan and the Wonderful Lamp,” episode 32, originally broadcast March 27, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday, with Sylvia Picker as Suzy. A Box…
Sep 3, 2026 · 27:26
Box 13 presents “Hare and Hounds,” episode 28 of the mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast February 27, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday, with…
Sep 2, 2026 · 27:36
Box 13 presents “The Professor and the Puzzle,” originally broadcast on Mutual on January 9, 1949. Commonly cataloged as episode 21, this 26-minute mystery stars Alan Ladd as…
Sep 1, 2026 · 27:30
Box 13 presents “The Philanthropist,” episode 24 of the series, originally broadcast January 30, 1949. The drama stars Alan Ladd as mystery writer Dan Holiday and was written by…
Aug 31, 2026 · 27:09
Box 13 presents “Three to Die,” episode 23 of the series, listed with an original broadcast year of 2012. Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holiday in this hazardous tunnel-side mystery.…
Aug 30, 2026 · 27:36
Box 13 presents “Archimedes and the Roman,” originally broadcast July 31, 1949. Identified as episode 50 of the 52-program series, this late-series mystery stars Alan Ladd as…
Aug 29, 2026 · 27:50
Box 13 presents “The Haunted Artist,” episode 17 of the mystery series, originally broadcast December 12, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday. Artist…
Aug 28, 2026 · 27:22
Box 13 presents “The Biter Bitten,” episode 48 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast on July 17, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday.…
Aug 27, 2026 · 27:20
Box 13 presents “The Treasure of Hang Li,” originally broadcast May 29, 1949. Also listed as episode 41, this installment stars Alan Ladd as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday in the…
Aug 26, 2026 · 27:28
Box 13 presents “Hare and Hounds,” originally broadcast February 27, 1949. This is episode 28 of the classic mystery series, starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. After an older…
Aug 25, 2026 · 27:28
Box 13 presents “One One Three Point Five,” originally broadcast in 2012. Identified in established episode listings as episode 31, this mystery-adventure installment stars Alan…
Aug 24, 2026 · 27:31
Box 13 presents “Hunt and Peck,” episode 29 of the Alan Ladd mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast on March 6, 1949. Ladd stars as writer-investigator Dan Holiday in…
Aug 23, 2026 · 27:44
Box 13 presents “The Great Torino,” originally broadcast October 24, 1948. This is episode 10 of the Mutual Broadcasting System adventure series, starring Alan Ladd as writer and…
Aug 22, 2026 · 27:29
Box 13 presents “The First Letter,” episode 1 of the series, originally broadcast August 22, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer Dan Holiday in the program that established…
Aug 21, 2026 · 27:34
Box 13 presents “Find Me, Find Death,” episode 36, originally broadcast April 24, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist and former newspaperman Dan Holiday in this Mutual network…
Aug 20, 2026 · 27:41
Box 13 presents “Double Right Cross,” episode 15 of the series, originally broadcast on November 28, 1948. Alan Ladd stars as adventuring writer Dan Holiday in this Mutual…
Aug 19, 2026 · 27:29
Box 13 presents “Daytime Nightmare,” originally broadcast May 15, 1949. In episode 39, Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday. A mysterious lunch invitation…
Aug 18, 2026 · 27:37
Box 13 presents “Much Too Lucky,” episode 37 of the classic radio mystery series, originally broadcast May 1, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as adventure-seeking writer Dan Holiday.…
Aug 17, 2026 · 27:20
Box 13 presents “Mexican Maze,” episode 34 of the classic mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast April 10, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery novelist Dan Holiday, with…
Aug 16, 2026 · 27:16
Box 13 presents “Find Me, Find Death,” episode 36 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast April 24, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as mystery novelist and adventurer Dan…
Aug 15, 2026 · 27:29
Box 13 presents “Design for Danger,” originally broadcast June 5, 1949. Commonly cataloged as episode 42, this noir adventure stars Alan Ladd as newspaperman Dan Holiday. A young…
Aug 14, 2026 · 27:51
Box 13 presents “Shanghaied,” originally broadcast September 26, 1948. In this sixth episode of the mystery-adventure series, Alan Ladd stars as adventurer Dan Holiday.…
Aug 14, 2026 · 27:27
Box 13 presents “Triple Cross,” episode 12, originally broadcast November 7, 1948. The syndicated Mayfair Productions series stars Alan Ladd as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday. An…
Aug 13, 2026 · 26:39
Insurance Fraud [episode 2] Insurance Fraud [episode 2] A classic mystery and adventure radio broadcast from Box 13. Sourced from verified old-time radio archives, including…
Aug 12, 2026 · 26:36
The First Letter [episode 1] The First Letter [episode 1] A classic mystery and adventure radio broadcast from Box 13. Sourced from verified old-time radio archives, including…
Aug 11, 2026 · 26:32
Round Robin [episode 52] Round Robin [episode 52] A classic mystery and adventure radio broadcast from Box 13. Sourced from verified old-time radio archives, including OTRR.org.…
Aug 10, 2026 · 26:35
The Clay Pigeon [episode 51] The Clay Pigeon [episode 51] A classic mystery and adventure radio broadcast from Box 13. Sourced from verified old-time radio archives, including…
Aug 9, 2026 · 26:31
Archimedes and the Roman [episode 50] Archimedes and the Roman [episode 50] A classic mystery and adventure radio broadcast from Box 13. Sourced from verified old-time radio…
Aug 8, 2026 · 26:34
A Perfect Crime [episode 49] A Perfect Crime [episode 49] A classic mystery and adventure radio broadcast from Box 13. Sourced from verified old-time radio archives, including…
Aug 7, 2026 · 26:31
The Biter Bitten [episode 48] The Biter Bitten [episode 48] A classic mystery and adventure radio broadcast from Box 13. Sourced from verified old-time radio archives, including…
Aug 6, 2026 · 26:36
Double Trouble [episode 47] Double Trouble [episode 47] A classic mystery and adventure radio broadcast from Box 13. Sourced from verified old-time radio archives, including…
Aug 5, 2026 · 26:32
House of Darkness [episode 46] House of Darkness [episode 46] A classic mystery and adventure radio broadcast from Box 13. Sourced from verified old-time radio archives,…
Aug 4, 2026 · 26:34
Speed to Burn [episode 45] Speed to Burn [episode 45] A classic mystery and adventure radio broadcast from Box 13. Sourced from verified old-time radio archives, including…
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