BONUS - Five Favorites: Box 13

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus show, I'm opening the mail and picking out my five favorite episodes of Box 13. Alan Ladd stars as mystery writer and amateur detective Dan Holiday who finds his clients - and his story ideas - through a clever classified ad offering his services as an adventurer for hire. First, Holiday is hired to pose as a fiance in "Look Pleasant, Please" and he's pressed into a citywide scavenger hunt alongside a killer in "The Better Man." He works to save an innocent man from execution in "Hunt and Peck" and expose a cadre of crooked gamblers in "Much Too Lucky." Finally, a weekend getaway lands Holiday in the middle of a bitter family reunion and a series of dangerous practical jokes in "Death is No Joke."

Transcript

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.0	Crime is a sucker's road,
0:04.0	and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:07.0	The story you're about to hear is true. The
0:12.5	The story you were about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.5	The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
0:21.5	The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize.
0:25.0	Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.0	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
0:33.2	yours truly Johnny Deller The Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of Down These mean streets.
1:03.0	This time around I'm sharing my five favorite episodes of Box 13.
1:10.0	Alan Ladd starred in this syndicated series as Dan Holliday, a reporter turned mystery writer, who came up with a clever way to fight off writer's block.
1:25.3	He hired himself out as a freelance troubleshooter and used the jobs as fodder for his stories. Holiday offered
1:31.9	his services to clients with a classified ad reading
1:35.2	Adventure Wanted will go any place do anything right box 13 Each week Holiday opened another letter and embarked on a new adventure,
1:47.0	sometimes coming to the aid of a person in trouble,
1:50.0	sometimes as a patsy for a criminal, but always in an exciting half hour of radio.
1:58.2	Alan Ladd not only starred in the show, he also produced it through his Mayfair Productions company.
2:05.3	And while Ladd may not have been the smoothest performer at the microphone, he was wise
2:11.2	to surround himself with supporting casts consisting of the best Hollywood radio players. Frank Lovejoy, Joseph Kearns, Betty Lou Gerson, and Gerald Moore were just a few of the actors who popped up week to week on the program,
2:26.5	along with regular cast members Sylvia Picker, who played Susie, the most scatterbrained
2:32.0	secretary a radio detective ever had, and Edmund
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