Box Thirteen, Collection 1

Movie star Alan Ladd played Dan Holiday, retired newspaperman turned fiction writer and adventurer extraordinaire. To gain ideas for his books, Holiday placed an ad in the Star-Times newspaper “Adventure wanted – will go anywhere, do anything – Box 13.” It wasn’t long before Box 13 became jammed with adventures galore. Holiday always had more adventure than he’d originally sought, because those who responded to his ad never revealed all of their glorious, unusual, and sometimes sinister details until they met in person and the adventure had already begun. Silvia Picker played Holiday’s scatter-brained secretary, Suzy. Suzy added touches of humor to the mystery-adventure and nail-biting storylines.

“Box 13” was produced by Mayfair Productions, a company run by Alan Ladd and Richard Sandville. The name came from Mayfair Restaurant, which Ladd and Sandville owned during WWII. In addition to producing “Box 13”, Ladd also wrote some of the scripts.

11/28/48 Double Right-Cross
12/5/48 Look Pleasant, Please
12/12/48 The Haunted Artist
12/19/48 The Sad Night
2/20/49 Flash of Light
2/27/49 Hare and Hounds
3/6/49 Hunt and Peck
3/13/49 Death is a Doll
4/17/49 Sealed Instructions
4/24/49 Find Me, Find Death
5/1/49 Much Too Lucky
5/8/49 One of these Four