Category: Box 13

EP3291: Box 13: Round Robin

Dan is told to go to a hotel and register as John Johnson and finds himself drawn into a web of blackmail and lies.

Original Air Date: 1948

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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

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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


A dying criminology professor tells Dan he’s going to commit a perfect murder.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3267: Box 13: The Biter Bitten


Dan is called in by a snake expert to find a snake that escaped in a large hotel.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3261: Box 13: Double Trouble

Dan is told to visit a town 3 hours away to prevent a murder and finds himself framed for one.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3255: Box 13: House of Darkness

A blind man after he finds a message from someone requesting help written in brail in a library book.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3249: Box Thirteen: Speed to Burn

A young woman asks Dan to help rescue her ex-con brother from a car theft ring.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3243: Box 13: Killer at Large

A man pays someone to find a hitman to kill him. He changes his mind but the go-between he paid is dead, and he doesn’t know who’s gunning for him. He turns to Dan Holiday for help.

Original Air Date: 1948

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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

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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

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EP3225: Box 13: The Dead Man Walks

A woman asks Dan to find her missing ex-con Father.
Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3219: Box 13: Death is No Joke

Dan is called by a friend as nasty practical jokes have been plaguing his family after a missing heir suddenly appeared and claimed a large inheritance that was to be split among several family members.

Original Air Date: 1948

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EP3213: Box 13: Daytime Nightmare

Dan is invited to lunch by someone in response to his Box 13 ad. He’s drugged and awakes in a sanatorium with his haired dyed and with him being called by another man’s name.

Original Air Date: 1948

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