Box 13 — 1948
19 episodes broadcast in 1948.
Answering the ad, one Carla Williams becomes Holiday's very first client -- and sets him up to take a murder rap.
A summons into a silent black limousine after dark points Holiday toward a doctor supposedly seven years in his grave.
A frail, charming old lady hires Holiday after a man turns up shot dead in her hotel room.
A ticket to a live radio drama draws Holiday into a killing staged inside the studio.
A newsboy spends his last postcard begging Holiday to clear his father of a grand-theft charge.
A dare in the mail lures Holiday aboard the boat Ruthie J, where a blackjack sends him to sea.
A nervous little man who calls himself a detective enlists Holiday to head off a suicide.
A note in a dark park leaves Holiday holding a five-year-old girl -- and facing gunmen who want her.
A book of Sir Walter Scott's poems arrives from a man dead ten years, marked open at a single poem.
A frightened woman's theater ticket draws Holiday into a stage conjuror's world -- and the killing of the magician's assistant.
A grieving mother insists her son wasn't killed in a drunken brawl, but murdered.
A stranger's airmailed plane ticket sends Holiday to a rigged roulette wheel and a $126,000 double-cross.
A schoolgirl begs Holiday's protection from a blackmailer, then vanishes.
A job to fetch a fabled diamond from Paris ends with Holiday arrested for the theft.
One of Holiday's old army buddies stands accused of throwing a fight.
A stranger asks Holiday to pose for a photo, and he wakes up engaged to a fifteen-million-dollar heiress.
An artist swears his newest canvas is haunted -- a stone quarry keeps painting itself in.
A child's old copybook proves the key to a centuries-hidden fortune and a trail of death.
Paid to buy a Chinese teakwood box at auction, Holiday finds several people will kill to own it.
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Other seasons: 1949