Box 13 - "The Professor and the Puzzle" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Published: October 8, 2026
Duration: 27:24
Box 13 presents “The Professor and the Puzzle,” episode 21 of the classic mystery series, originally broadcast January 9, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist-adventurer Dan Holiday in this Mutual Broadcasting System production from Mayfair Productions.
Dan answers a plea from an old college friend after a professor’s apparent suicide throws a broken engagement and a campus romance into doubt. At Dell College, troubling clues lead Holiday toward Professor Martin A. Gardner’s laboratory and a dangerous academic circle. Written by Russell Hughes and directed by Vern Carstensen.
Box 13 presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short...
Dan answers a plea from an old college friend after a professor’s apparent suicide throws a broken engagement and a campus romance into doubt. At Dell College, troubling clues lead Holiday toward Professor Martin A. Gardner’s laboratory and a dangerous academic circle. Written by Russell Hughes and directed by Vern Carstensen.
Box 13 presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short...