Box 13
In BOX 13, Dan Holiday, newspaper reporter turned fiction writer, puts an ad in his old paper in search of story ideas. His ad states he's looking for adventure. The replies come to the newspaper's Box 13 and always brings trouble for Dan Holiday. BOX 13 was a syndicated series, heard Sunday evenings on the Mutual network. Episode titles were not announced at the beginning of the shows until a few weeks into the series. The part of Dan Holiday was played by Alan Ladd. Sylvia Picker played Suzzy, and a host of guest stars rotated through the program. There were many writers who co-wrote Box 13, but Ladd was the main writer. BOX 13 was the product of Alan Ladd and Richard Sandville, two owners of the famous Mayfare Restaurant in Los Angeles during World War II. Mr. Ladd's ambition to get on radio in his own series was thwarted in part because he was under contract to Paramount. Paramount did not
allow him to appear on radio, except occasionally for guest shots such
as Lucky Jordan on the Screen Guild Program.
At the end of the war, Ladd and Sandville sold the Mayfare Restaurant
and formed Mayfare Productions. The two mainstay shows of Mayfare
were BOX 13 and THE UNEXPECTED starring Hollywood stars such as
Lurene Tuttle and Marsha Hunt. Sandville and Ladd parted company but
shows like THE UNEXPECTED, BOX 13, and THE DAMON RUNYON THEATRE
remain as Mayfare's legacy.
48/08/22 1 The First Letter (An Allen Ladd series) 48/08/29 2 Insurance Fraud Scheme 48/09/05 3 Blackmail Is Murder 48/09/12 4 Actor's Alibi 48/09/19 5 Extra! Extra!
48/09/26 6 Shanghaied
48/10/03 7 Short Assignment
48/10/10 8 Double Mothers
48/10/17 9 Book of Poems
48/10/24 10 The Great Torino
48/10/31 11 Suicide or Murder
48/11/07 12 Triple Cross
48/11/14 13 Damsel in Distress
48/11/21 14 Diamond in the Sky
48/11/28 15 Double Right Cross
48/12/05 16 Look Pleasant, Please
48/12/12 17 The Haunted Artist
48/12/19 18 The Sad Night
48/12/26 19 Hot Box
49/01/02 20 The Better Man
49/01/09 21 The Professor and the Puzzle
49/01/16 22 The Dowager and Dan Holiday
49/01/23 23 Three to Die
49/01/30 24 The Philanthropist
49/02/06 25 Last Will and Nursery Rhyme
49/02/13 26 Delinquent's Dilemma
49/02/20 27 Flash of Light
49/02/27 28 Hare and Hounds
49/03/06 29 Hunt and Peck
49/03/13 30 Death Is a Doll
49/03/20 31 113 5
49/03/27 32 Dan and the Wonderful Lamp
49/04/03 33 Tempest in a Casserole
49/04/10 34 Mexican Maze
49/04/17 35 Sealed Instructions
49/04/24 36 Find Me, Find Death
49/05/01 37 Much Too Lucky
49/05/08 38 One of These Four
49/05/15 39 Daytime Nightmare
49/05/22 40 Death Is No Joke
49/05/29 41 The Treasure of Hang Lee
49/06/05 42 Design for Danger
49/06/12 43 The Dead Man Walks
49/06/19 44 Killer at Large
49/06/26 45 Speed to Burn
49/07/03 46 House of Darkness
49/07/10 47 Double Trouble
49/07/17 48 The Bitter Bitten
49/07/24 49 The Perfect Crime
49/07/31 50 Archemedes and the Roman
49/08/07 51 The Clay Pigeon
49/08/14 52 Round Robin