Box 13 - "Delinquent's Dilemma" (02-13-49)

Delinquent's Dilemma (Aired February 13, 1949)

Dan Holiday was purportedly a successful fiction writer for the Star-Times news magazine who becomes disenchanted with the utter, mind-numbing routine of it. Dan Holiday opts out. He posts an ad reading "Go anywhere, Do anything, Write Box 13". This had become a pretty well-worked theme by 1948. Perhaps a bit too reminiscent of George Valentine's "Personal notice: Danger's my stock in trade. If the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me. George Valentine," from 1946's Let George Do It. The gimmick certainly made for an open-ended range of potential adventures for Box 13's protagonist.

THIS EPISODE:

February 13, 1949. Program #26. Mayfair syndication. "Delinquent's Dilemma". Commercials added locally. A sixteen year old boy is determined to take a robbery rap and protect the gang. Alan Ladd, Sylvia Picker. 26:51. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.