Episode 407 - Please Mr. Postman (Box 13)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2020
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Alan Ladd is back as Dan Holiday, writer and solver of mysteries in Box 13. Holiday hires himself out as an adventurer - all to get story ideas - with a tantalizing classified ad offering to "go anyplace, do anything." We'll hear the big screen star in a trio of syndicated old time radio adventures: "Actor's Alibi," "The Dowager and Dan Holiday," and "Last Will and Nursery Rhyme,"
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.0 | The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. |
| 0:22.0 | The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize |
| 0:25.4 | Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account |
| 0:30.4 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 0:33.0 | Yours truly, Johnny Deller. the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets with more crime solvers from the |
| 1:00.1 | Golden Age of radio. This week we'll hear Alan Ladd, Shane himself in the syndicated |
| 1:07.5 | detective drama Box 13. Ladd starred as Dan Holliday, a newspaper reporter turned mystery writer who hired himself out as a freelance adventurer. |
| 1:20.0 | Holiday hoped his real life daring do would give him ideas for his stories. |
| 1:26.0 | So he solicited clients with a tantalizing classified ad that read, |
| 1:31.0 | Adventure Wanted, will go anyplace, do anything, right box 13. |
| 1:39.1 | It's one of my favorite radio detective shows, one that's frequently in rotation in the car or on walks around my neighborhood. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm a sucker for amateur detectives. I love to see how they operate without the benefit of a badge and Dan Holiday has no shortage of tricks up his sleeve as he tries to stay a step ahead of the bad guys. |
| 2:01.0 | Box 13 ran for only 52 episodes, a relatively short run, but Ladd, who produced the show, |
| 2:09.0 | as well as starring in it, tried several times to bring it to the big and small screens. He starred in a TV |
| 2:16.8 | adaptation of one of the radio episodes on the General Electric Theater. You can |
| 2:21.7 | find that show online. He was discussing a feature film |
| 2:26.0 | version of the series before his death in 1964. Most recently, Dan Holliday was back in action in comics form and a reimagining of the series from friend of the podcast David Gallagher. |
| 2:40.0 | By the way you can get that box 13 comic over at comixology.com and I highly recommend it. |
| 2:48.7 | In this age of reboots and remakes that we're living in, it's nice when some of these old-time radio |
| 2:54.8 | characters get dusted off and put into some new adventures. This week we'll |
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