The Great Detectives Present Box 13
By Adam Graham
This podcast features every episode of Box 13 twice. First, originally podcast from 2009-2010 and then ten years later. Find out how our knowledge of some episodes have grown and how reactions to them have changed over the years.
The Great Detectives Present Box 13Mar 16, 2020
EP3291: Box 13: Round Robin
EP3285: Box 13: The Clay Pigeon
Dan gets a letter offering him adventure if he goes to a Doctor’s office and follows instructions.
Original Air Date: 1948
EP3279: Box 13: Archimedes and The Roman
A letter from a young boy leads 250 miles from home where he’s held hostage in an observatory by a jewelry robbery.
Original Air Date: 1948
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EP3273: Box 13: The Perfect Crime
EP3267: Box 13: The Biter Bitten
EP3261: Box 13: Double Trouble
EP3255: Box 13: House of Darkness
EP3249: Box Thirteen: Speed to Burn
EP3243: Box 13: Killer at Large
Video Theater 187: General Electric Theater: Committed
Writer Dan Holiday (Alan Ladd) answers a letter to Box 13 and meets a man for lunch and then finds himself in a Sanitarium where everyone calls him “Stokes.”
Original Air Date: December 5, 1954
Season 3, Episode 11
EP3237: Box 13: Design for Danger
A woman asks Dan to help her stop a man just released from prison from committing murder or being murdered.
Original Air Date: 1948
EP3231: Box 13: The Treasure of Hang Li
A letter to Box13 instructs Dan to purchase something called the “Hang Li” piece. The shop owner insists he take it without paying.
Original Air Date: 1948
EP3225: Box 13: The Dead Man Walks
A woman asks Dan to find her missing ex-con Father.
Original Air Date: 1948
EP3219: Box 13: Death is No Joke
EP3213: Box 13: Daytime Nightmare
EP3207: Box 13: One of These Four
Dan is trapped and kidnapped on a boat with three other people, one of whom is a killer.
Original Air Date: 1948
EP3195: Box 13: Much Too Lucky
EP3189: Box 13: Find Me, Find Death
EP3183: Box 13: Sealed Instructions
EP3177: Box 13: Mexican Maze
Dan takes a plane to Mexico to help a man who fears for his life.
Original Air Date: 1948
EP3171: Box 13: Tempest in a Casserole
EP3165: Box 13: Dan and the Wonderful Lamp
EP3159: Box 13: One One Three Point Five (113.5)
EP3153: Box 13: Death is a Doll
Dan goes to Louisiana when a young woman asks him to help a young man who’s dying as a result of witchcraft.
Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948
EP3147: Box 13: Hunt and Peck
EP3141: Box 13: Hare and Hounds
A man steals a letter from Box 13 and when Dan travels to another city to speak to the man who sent it, he finds himself being hunted for murder.
Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948
EP3135: Box 13: Flash of Light
EP3129: Box 13: Delinquent Dilemma
The mother of a young man who confessed to a burglary asks Dan to help him…even though he confessed.
Original Air Date: 1948
EP3123: Box 13: Last Will and Nursery Rhyme
EP3117: Box 13: The Philanthropist
Dan investigates the disappearance of a homeless man after the man’s befriended him.
Original Air Date: March 26, 1948
EP3111: Box 13: Three to Die
EP3105: Box 13: The Dowager and Dan Holiday
EP3093: Box 13: The Professor and the Puzzle
EP3087: Box 13: The Better Man
EP3081: Box 13: Hot Box
Dan is given money to bid on a box at an auction. He loses the auction, but when the winner gets hit by a car and a woman steals the box, Dan finds himself on the hunt for it.
Original Air Date: February 20, 1948
EP3075: Box 13: The Sad Night
Dan receives a child’s penmanship book at Box 13. A couple claims it, but when Dan discovers they’re lying, he becomes suspicious.
Original Air Date: February 13, 1948
EP3069: Box 13: The Haunted Artist
An artist comes to Dan for help because he believes a ghost is breaking into his apartment at night and altering his painting.
Original Air Date: February 6, 1948
EP3063: Box 13: Look Pleasant, Please
EP3057: Box 13: Double RIght Cross
An old war buddy of Dan’s invites him to watch a fight. When Dan arrives, he finds the fight is over and his friend is accused of throwing the fight.
Original Air Date: January 23, 1948
EP3051: Box 13: Diamond In the Sky
Dan is recruited to go to Paris to help bring a million dollar diamond to the United States.
Original Air Date: January 16, 1948
EP3045: Box 13: Damsel in Distress
EP3039: Box 13: Triple Cross
EP3033: Box 13: Suicide or Murder
A grieving mother asks Dan to prove her reporter son didn’t commit suicide.
Original Air Date: December 26, 1947
EP3027: Box 13: The Great Torino
A magician’s assistant asks Dan to protect her from being murdered in a trick involving a gun.
Original Air Date: December 19, 1947
EP3015: Box 13: A Book of Poems by Sir Walter Scott
Dan receives a book of poems by Sir Walter Scott that leads him to investigate a deadly arson.
Original Air Date: December 12, 1947
EP3009: Box 13: Double Mothers
Dan is directed to a park where he finds a precocious young girl with a confusing story and a note from her mother asking Dan to take care of her.
Original Air Date: December 5, 1947
EP3003: Box 13: Short Assignment
EP2997: Box 13: Shanghied
EP2991: Box 13: Extra! Extra!
A newspaper boy asks Dan to clear his father of a jewel theft.
Original Air Date: November 14, 1947