Box 13 was a syndicated radio show which ran for fifty-two episodes in 1948-49. It followed the adventures of reporter turned mystery novelist Dan Holiday (Alan Ladd) who explored new ideas for his soties by placing an advertisement in the Star-Times: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything -- write Box 13, Star-Times.
Sylvia Picker played Holiday's scatterbrained secretary, Suzy; Edmund MacDonald was his police foil, Lt. Kling. The show was created by Ladd's own company, Mayfair Productions. Produced by Richard Sanville, the show was both announced and directed by Vern Carstensen. It was written by Russell Hughes (who had hired Ladd as a radio actor for $19 a Week back in 1935); Ladd would sometimes collaborate on scripts. Despite four different attempts, the show never made the transition to television. At the time of his death, Ladd was attempting to make a never-realized feature film based on the series. Box 13 did briefly make it into comic book form in 2010, although highly reimagined.
"The Biter Bitten" posed a unique challenge for Holiday, who received a letter sending him to a hotel where a deadly King Cobra was on the loose. As one one viewer commented: "Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVomSUaU-94
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