Box 13 - "Hot Box" (1948) | Alan Ladd Radio Mystery - Day After Christmas Special

Box 13 - "Hot Box" (1948) | Alan Ladd Radio Mystery - Day After Christmas Special

YOUTUBE DESCRIPTION:
Welcome to Old Time Radio Classics! Tonight on Box 13, "Hot Box" – when you advertise yourself as willing to do anything, go anywhere, you attract attention. Not all of it friendly.

📻 THE PREMISE:
Dan Holiday rented Box 13 at his former employer, the Star-Times newspaper, and placed an ad: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything." Some respondents were genuine victims seeking help. Others were killers looking for cover. Tonight's "Hot Box" suggests danger surrounding that very mailbox.

🎬 SERIES LEGACY:
Box 13 ran for exactly 52 episodes before ending in August 1949. Alan Ladd tried multiple times to bring it to television, even planning a feature film version before his death in 1964. He wanted 13 cameos from stars he'd worked with – William Bendix, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, and Macdonald Carey.

📺 1948 YEAR IN REVIEW:
What a year it was: War criminals tried in Tokyo, Truman's upset election, the long-playing record, the transistor, and television beginning its slow conquest of American living rooms.

⭐ CAST:
• Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday
• Sylvia Picker as Suzy
• Edmund MacDonald as Lt. Kling

📅 Original Air Date: December 26, 1948

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YOUTUBE TAGS:
old time radio, box 13, alan ladd, radio drama, mystery radio, golden age of radio, classic radio, vintage radio, 1940s radio, hot box, detective radio, otr, day after christmas, alan ladd radio show, mayfair productions, vintage mystery