Episode #1: THE FIRST LETTER (27:00)Transcription # HD 7MM 10782
Dan Holiday's first client is Carla Williams, who has him framed for murder! The first broadcast in the series may have been on March 15, 1948.
Episode #2: INSURANCE FRAUD SCHEME (27:00)Transcription # HD 7MM 10936
Max Alexander disappeared seven years ago; now the insurance company has to pay off on his premium. Dan listens to Mrs. Alexander's story and then digs for the truth.
Episode #3: BLACKMAIL IS MURDER (26:00)Transcription # HD 7MM 11012
Dan is hired by a crazy old lady with a corpse in her hotel room.
Episode #4: ACTOR'S ALIBI (26:40)Transcription # HD 7MM 11082
The first episode in which "Suzy" works for Dan Holiday and not for the Star-Times. Murder in a radio studio, death by electrical transcription? Frank Hertosig (writer), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Ted Hedager (director). Note:This episode is also known as "'Time For Drama'Radio Show"
Episode #5: EXTRA! EXTRA!(27:20)Transcription # HD 7MM 11200
A young newsboy hires Dan to get his father out of jail.
Episode #6: SHANGHAIED (27:00)Transcription # HD 7MM 11216
Dan takes a blackjack on the head and finds himself on the high seas to adventure. Note: This episode is also known as "The Boat 'Ruthie J'"
Episode #7: SHORT ASSIGNMENT (27:50)Transcription # HD 7MM 11512
A meek little detective named George Flit hires Dan Holiday to help prevent a suicide. Note: This episode is also known as "George Flit, Detective"
Episode #8: DOUBLE MOTHERS (27:50)Transcription # HD 7MM 11593
Dan Holiday finds himself in possession of a little girl...with two mothers! A man with a gun and his henchman have some other ideas. Ted Hedager (writer, director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor).
Note: This episode is also known as "Rendezvous In The Park At Night"
Episode #9: BOOK OF POEMS (27:50)Transcription # HD 7MM 11763
Robert N. Chase sends Dan Holiday a book of poetry by Sir Walter Scott, but Chase has been dead for ten years. Or has he? Russell Hughes (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Frank Hertosig (writer).
Episode #10: THE GREAT TORINO (27:00)Transcription # HD 7MM 11843
An interesting story about a murdered magician's assistant, and an impossible trick. Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer)
Episode #11: SUICIDE OR MUDER? (27:00)Transcription # HD 7MM 11925
Dan answers Catherine Dailey's request to clear her son Arthur's name as a suicide. Russell Hughes (writer), Richard Sanville (director), Edmond MacDonald, Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor).
Episode #12: THE TRIPLE CROSS (27:00)Transcription # HD 7MM 14775
Dan Holiday wins $126,000 at a crooked roulette wheel and promptly loses it to a beautiful blonde.
Episode #13: DAMSEL IN DISTRESS (27:00)Transcription # HD 7MM 14849
Constance McLain, a wealthy girl at a private school, asks Dan to protect her from a blackmailer. She then disappears! A loud crash is heard in the studio during the program, which is ignored by the cast! Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #14: DIAMOND IN THE SKY (27:10)Transcription # HD 7MM 14961
Dan flies to Paris to retrieve the fabulous "Mirabulis Diamond" and is arrested for diamond theft! Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Sal Shore (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #15: DOUBLE RIGHT CROSS (27:10)Transcription # HD 7MM 15012
One of Dan's old army buddies is accused of throwing a fight. E. Jack Neuman (writer), John Beal, Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #16: LOOK PLEASANT, PLEASE (27:10)Transcription # HD 7MM 15115
Dan Holiday is asked to have his picture taken with a beautiful girl, and finds himself engaged to an heiress about to come into fifteen million dollars! John Beal, Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #17: THE HAUNTED ARTIST (27:10)Transcription # HD 8MM 4053
An artist's latest canvas seems to be haunted. A stone quarry keeps appearing on one side of the canvas. Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #18: SAD NIGHT Transcription # HD 8MM 4189
A child's copybook is the key to a fortune hidden for centuries, and of a story of death and destruction. Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #19: HOT BOX Transcription # HD 8MM 4179
Dan is paid to buy a wooden box at an auction. Several people want it very badly. Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #20: THE BETTER MAN Transcription # HD 8MM 4232
Millionaire Charles Winthrop craves excitement. He hides $100,000 in cash to get it. Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #21: THE PROFESSOR AND THE PUZZLE Transcription # HD 8MM 4267
Did Professor Gardner commit suicide by shooting himself in the heart? And who killed Ed Macklin, the new fiance of Professor Gardner's daughter? Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #22: THE DOWAGER AND DAN HOLIDAY Transcription # HD 8MM 4213
Mrs. Matilda Courtland, one of the wealthiest women in the world, announces her engagement to Dan Holiday! Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #23: THREE TO DIE (27:00)Transcription # HD 8MM 4272
Dan Holiday turns into a sandhog and solves a murder below the river. Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #24: THE PHILANTHROPIST (27:00)Transcription # HD 8MM 4315
Dan Holiday takes to the hobo jungles to break an unusual and cruel racket. Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #25: LAST WILL AND NURSERY RHYME (27:10)Transcription # HD 8MM 4426
Where is all the money hidden? A strange clue helps. Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #26: DELINQUENT'S DILEMMA (27:00) Transcription # HD 8MM 4317
A sixteen year old boy is determined to take a robbery rap and protect the gang.
Episode #27: FLASH OF LIGHT (27:00)
A hick gets into serious trouble before returning to the farm. The date is approximate. Alan Ladd, Edmond MacDonald, Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Sylvia Picker, Vern Carstensen (production supervisor). PETER LEEDS guests in this episode.
Episode #28: HARE AND HOUNDS (27:00)
Dan is framed for murder and uses an original method to call the cops. JOSPEH KEARNS guests in this episode.
Episode #29:
HUNT AND PECK (27:10)
Dan saves a man from the "chair" just a few hours before the end, but at the cost of an arm.
Episode #30: DEATH IS A DOLL (27:10)
A man is slowly dying of what appears to be witchcraft.
Episode #31: 113.5 (27:30)
Murder and a wealthy recluse with a clue on a book.
Episode #32: DAN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP (27:00)
Dan "wins" a hideous lamp at a carnival with something hidden inside it, that someone is willing to kill for.
Episode #33: TEMPEST IN A CASSEROLE (26:50)
A good story about a very original idea for some easy money.
Episode #34: MEXICAN MAZE (27:20)
A frame for murder, south of the border style. Richard Sanville (director), Robert Mitchell (writer), Gene Levin (writer), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor.
Episode #35: SEALED INSTRUCTIONS (27:20)
A trip to Manila to (believe it or not) deliver an envelope. Richard Sanville (director), Charles Gannett (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor).
Episode #36: FIND ME, FIND DEATH (27:00)
A homicidal maniac gives Holiday four days to live. A good show. Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor), Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor). BARRY KROEGER guests in this episode.
Episode #37: MUCH TOO LUCKY (27:00)
How to find out the winner of a horse race before it starts. Richard Sanville (director), Robert Light (writer), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #38: ONE OF THESE FOUR (27:00)
Afloat with a murderer, but who? Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #39: DAYTIME NIGHTMARE (27:00)
Dan is railroaded into an asylum, framed for murder and winds up a hunted man. A good story. Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #40: DEATH IS NO JOKE (26:50)
A series of practical jokes threatens the life of an heir. Oran Blackstone (writer), Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #41: THE TREASURE OF HANG LEE (26:50)
A trip to Chinatown gets Dan a priceless piece of jade, and the quest for a treasure. Vern Carstensen (production supervisor), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Richard Sanville (director), Mark Hofling (? writer).
Episode #42: DESIGN FOR DANGER (27:00)
Ex-convict Johnny Tide is returning to Watertown seeking revenge. Vern Carstensen (production supervisor), Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Frank Lovejoy, Gene Levitt (writer), Bob Mitchell (writer).
Episode #43: THE DEAD MAN WALKS (27:00)
A man Dan sees dead at 2:15 is alive at 4:20! Who is S. Thomas? Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor). WILLIAM CONRADguests in this episode.
Episode #44: KILLER AT LARGE (27:00)
A man offers Holiday $50,000 to kill him, then changes his mind. Ed Begley, Frank Lovejoy, Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #45: SPEED TO BURN (27:00)
Why shouldn't a 1938 jalopy with a British tank engine go one hundred miles per hour? Albert Wagner (adaptor), Bernard Feins (writer), Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor). GERALD MOHR guests in this episode.
Episode #46: HOUSE OF DARKNESS (27:00)
A shot in the dark helps Dan Holiday and a blind man find adventure. Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Sam Walders (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #47: DOUBLE TROUBLE (27:10)
A typed letter from a "Pat Kennedy" puts Dan Holiday in a frame for murder. This is one case where Dan has to call the cops! Vern Carstensen (production supervisor), Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer). PETER LEEDS guests in this episode.
Episode #48: THE BITTER BITTEN (27:00)
A deadly snake checks into a hotel. Richard Sanville (director), Robert Light (writer), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor). JAY NOVELLO guests in this episode.
Episode #49: THE PERFECT CRIME (27:00)
Professor John Dobbs tells Dan Holiday that he only has a short time to live. He therefore plans to commit the perfect murder. The Professor takes Dan to Chicago where he confesses to killing Carolyn Standish, and is promptly freed! A good story. Vern Carstensen (production supervisor), Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer). JOSEPH KEARNS guests in this episode.
Episode #50: ARCHIMEDES AND THE ROMAN (27:00)
A kid named Marty Kennedy asks Dan Holiday to help him find his friend Ted Whitman, an astronomer. A killer on the lam has never heard of the famous Greek scientist named Archimedes. Vern Carstensen (production supervisor), Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Frank Lovejoy, Russell Hughes (writer).
Episode #51: THE CLAY PIGEON (27:10)
A mysterious man has Dan Holiday mention a name to an occult doctor, which nearly scares him to death. Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Russell Hughes (writer), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor).
Episode #52: ROUND ROBIN (27:00)
Dan Holiday foils a blackmail plot involving a valuable necklace and a lady's gambling losses. Arthur Boland (writer), Richard Sanville (director), Rudy Schrager (composer, conductor), Vern Carstensen (production supervisor). The final letter, and the final episode of a darn good adventure series.
Scan of Box 13 trade promo ad from the Sperdvac site. BOX 13 Transcription labels for the first 26 shows from the First Generation Radio Archives site.
Information on many of the episodes of BOX 13 came from the RADIOGOLDINDEX website.
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