Surfside 6
Surfside 6
TV ShowEnded

Surfside 6

5.0 / 10
1960
2 seasons
74 episodes
Drama

Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.

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Classic TV Theme: Surfside Six

Cast

Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Country Gentleman

    03-10-196060m

    An ex-con moves to Miami from New York with his muscle man. No one believes he's gone straight, especially when a yacht club commodore turns up dead after denying him access to th...

  • Ep 2

    2.High Tide

    10-10-196060m

    A woman, who identifies herself as a ""boring stenographer on vacation"", shows up at the houseboat with three thugs after her. After Sandy and Ken fend off the men, Sandy takes t...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Clown

    17-10-196060m

    A hated dictator, living in exile in Miami, is murdered during a birthday party for his son. Lt. Snedigar thinks he has an open-and-shut case against Pepe the Clown, who performed...

  • Ep 4

    4.According to Our Files

    24-10-196060m

    Bearer bonds have been missing for seven years while the man convicted of their theft has been in prison. An insurance agent asks Sandy to try to recover the bonds before his comp...

  • Ep 5

    5.Local Girl

    31-10-196060m

    A woman is on the run with $20,000 that was intended as a bribe. She hires Ken as a bodyguard to accompany her back to her hometown, unaware that the brother of the man the bribe...

  • Ep 6

    6.Par-a-kee

    07-11-196060m

    Daphne goes to visit her horse, Par-a-kee, at the stable the night before a race. She interrupts a man trying to inject the horse with a fatal virus. Daphne's father hires Dave t...

  • Ep 7

    7.Deadly Male

    14-11-196060m

    A woman, having an affair, turns up dead after her lover attempts to blackmail her. The woman's husband, who suspected the affair, is the prime suspect, and asks Dave to find the...

  • Ep 8

    8.Power of Suggestion

    21-11-196060m

    The girl in a mind-reading act hires Dave to look after her because she feels that the star of the show has given her a post-hypnotic suggestion to kill someone.

  • Ep 9

    9.Odd Job

    28-11-196060m

    Ken is paid $2000 to meet a business executive in Fort Lauderdale. En route he is kidnapped by men posing as police officers. He escapes and arrives at the hotel to meet the busi...

  • Ep 10

    10.The International Net

    05-12-196060m

    A theatrical producer's wife receives a note implicating her husband as a killer. He intercepts a second note and asks Ken and Sandy to find who sent the message. A man the produ...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Frightened Canary

    12-12-196060m

    An obnoxious comedian makes advances toward a nightclub singer friend of Sandy's. She publicly embarrasses him after he beats her boyfriend up, so he seeks his revenge with threat...

  • Ep 12

    12.Girl in the Galleon

    19-12-196060m

    A diver discovers five boxes of gold coins in a shipwreck while on a dive for a museum. He goes to ask for a percentage of the find. The next day he turns up dead, an apparant dr...

  • Ep 13

    13.Bride and Seek

    26-12-196060m

    Dave is asked by a woman to find her missing husband. While investigating he discovers he's not the only one looking for the missing man -- and the woman who hired him isn't reall...

  • Ep 14

    14.Little Star Lost

    02-01-196160m

    When a beautiful starlet finds out she is adopted, her old friend Sandy tries to keep her from being duped by someone claiming to be her real mother.

  • Ep 15

    15.Heels Over Head

    09-01-196160m

    Dave and Ken are dropped into a criminal's hunt for $70,000 after Dave refuses the job of protecting a closed-mouth man who leaves behind a letter with a fake address and blank pap...

  • Ep 16

    16.Facts on the Fire

    16-01-196160m

    A woman has an unusual request of Ken: she wants him to prove that she's guilty of murdering her husband, although she was cleared of wrongdoing by an inquest. Before he begins i...

  • Ep 17

    17.Yesterday's Hero

    23-01-196160m

    Dave has wounds from the past opened up over his best friend from the Korean War. The man was reported to have been executed by a dictator for aiding revolutionaries, but his wido...

  • Ep 18

    18.Thieves Among Honor

    30-01-196160m
  • Ep 19

    19.License to Steal

    06-02-196160m

    A former USO singer who knew Dave in Korea is trying to make a name for herself. To help, she gets a ""gimmick"" - $130,000 worth of jewelry to attract publicity. The ""gimmick""...

  • Ep 20

    20.Race Against Time

    13-02-196160m

    Dave is poisoned while flying back to Miami. Ken and Sandy have five hours to find what poison was used in order to save Dave's life. That task is complicated by uncooperative pa...

  • Ep 21

    21.Black Orange Blossoms

    20-02-196160m

    Barbara Page, a friend of Sandy's, invites him to Jamaica to celebrate a carnival. While there, a friend of Barbara's father dies from a snake bite. Since there are no poisonous...

  • Ep 22

    22.The Chase

    27-02-196160m

    Dave Thorne aids a murder witness.

  • Ep 23

    23.Ghost of a Chance

    06-03-196160m

    A Treasury Department engraver retiree disappears from Bass Creek on his honeymoon. A federal agent thinks he's being forced to work with conterfeiters so she hires Ken, who vacat...

  • Ep 24

    24.The Impractical Joker

    13-03-196160m
  • Ep 25

    25.Inside Job

    20-03-196160m

    A man suspects that his bank is going to be robbed because he has seen the pattern before. The police cannot act on hunches, so the man hires Dave to gather information and to pos...

  • Ep 26

    26.Invitation to a Party

    27-03-196160m

    A young woman feels she is being blackmailed to keep an accident from making headlines and ruining her father's chance at political office. To prove her case Sandy poses as the wi...

  • Ep 27

    27.Spring Training

    03-04-196160m

    The manager of a baseball team hires Ken, a one-time aspiring pitcher, to keep tabs on a rookie pitching sensation who may be involved with a bookie.

  • Ep 28

    28.Double Image

    10-04-196160m

    Sandy meets a beautiful tourist, a woman who has a strange obsessive interest in a local mobster.

  • Ep 29

    29.Circumstantial Evidence

    17-04-196160m

    A performer in a water ski show is blackmailing her former boyfriend. He will lose a multi-million dollar inheritance if he gets married before the age of 30, but she discovers he...

  • Ep 30

    30.Vengeance Is Bitter

    24-04-196160m
  • Ep 31

    31.Little Mister Kelly

    01-05-196160m
  • Ep 32

    32.Spinout at Sebring

    08-05-196160m
  • Ep 33

    33.The Bhoyo and the Blonde

    15-05-196160m

    Kevin Flanagan is a famous, profane novelist vacationing in Miami. He has a love of women and drink, which causes his wife to hire Dave as a bodyguard ""to protect him from himsel...

  • Ep 34

    34.An Overdose of Justice

    22-05-196160m

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