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Surfside 6

★6.3 1960 – 1962 2 Seasons TV-MA

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.

Seasons & episodes

2 seasons · 74 episodes

Country Gentleman

Episode 01

Country Gentleman

Oct 3, 1960 · 60 min

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 the yacht club.

High Tide

Episode 02

High Tide

Oct 10, 1960 · 60 min

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 the woman for a drink -- and she promptly disappears on him. He's out to find out where the ""boring stenographer"" went and why men were tailing her.

The Clown

Episode 03

The Clown

Oct 17, 1960 · 60 min

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 at the birthday party, but Pepe insists he was not at the party. Dave has to prove to the skeptical policeman someone else went to the party in Pepe's costume.

According to Our Files

Episode 04

According to Our Files

Oct 24, 1960 · 60 min

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 company has to pay on the insurance policy. One problem: every lead in the case turns out to be bad.

Local Girl

Episode 05

Local Girl

Oct 31, 1960 · 60 min

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 is intended to free is on their tail.

Par-a-kee

Episode 06

Par-a-kee

Nov 7, 1960 · 60 min

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 to investigate, while a bookie begins spreading rumors about the Dutton stable to have Par-a-kee disqualified.

Deadly Male

Episode 07

Deadly Male

Nov 14, 1960 · 60 min

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 truth.

Power of Suggestion

Episode 08

Power of Suggestion

Nov 21, 1960 · 60 min

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.

Odd Job

Episode 09

Odd Job

Nov 28, 1960 · 60 min

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 businessman, discovering someone else posing as Ken Madison has already contacted the businessman.

The International Net

Episode 10

The International Net

Dec 5, 1960 · 60 min

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 producer hated, a former love rival, turns up dead, and there are no shortage of suspects.

The Frightened Canary

Episode 11

The Frightened Canary

Dec 12, 1960 · 60 min

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 threats and harassment.

Girl in the Galleon

Episode 12

Girl in the Galleon

Dec 19, 1960 · 60 min

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 drowning victim. Sandy thinks it was murder, so he enlists Ken to find out what happened and if it is related to a woman the diver reported seeing in the sunken ship the day before his death.

Bride and Seek

Episode 13

Bride and Seek

Dec 26, 1960 · 60 min

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 really the bride she claims to be.

Little Star Lost

Episode 14

Little Star Lost

Jan 2, 1961 · 60 min

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.

Heels Over Head

Episode 15

Heels Over Head

Jan 9, 1961 · 60 min

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 paper inside.

Facts on the Fire

Episode 16

Facts on the Fire

Jan 16, 1961 · 60 min

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 investigating in earnest Ken is beaten up by some ""admirers"" of the dead man and ordered to make certain his investigation does prove her guilty. The more Ken digs, the more he uncovers that makes it appear that the woman did murder her husband.

Yesterday's Hero

Episode 17

Yesterday's Hero

Jan 23, 1961 · 60 min

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 widow shows up and claims she wired him money long after the alleged execution. Dave tries to find his old buddy while controlling his feelings for his friend's wife and dealing with the suspicious exiles.

Thieves Among Honor

Episode 18

Thieves Among Honor

Jan 30, 1961 · 60 min

No description available.

License to Steal

Episode 19

License to Steal

Feb 6, 1961 · 60 min

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"" indeed attracts publicity -- thieves, who rob the nightclub during the show.

Race Against Time

Episode 20

Race Against Time

Feb 13, 1961 · 60 min

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 passengers from Dave's flight and the accidental death of the prime suspect, a man Dave once prosecuted.

Black Orange Blossoms

Episode 21

Black Orange Blossoms

Feb 20, 1961 · 60 min

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 snakes on Jamaica, one of the plantation workers, often accused of importing poisonous snakes for voodoo rituals, is the prime suspect. Both Barbara's father and the plantation worker ask Sandy to investigate.

The Chase

Episode 22

The Chase

Feb 27, 1961 · 60 min

Dave Thorne aids a murder witness.

Ghost of a Chance

Episode 23

Ghost of a Chance

Mar 6, 1961 · 60 min

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 vacations frequently at Bass Creek. When they arrive, posing as newlyweds, Ken discovers that his old friends have been replaced by new, unfriendly owners.

The Impractical Joker

Episode 24

The Impractical Joker

Mar 13, 1961 · 60 min

No description available.

Inside Job

Episode 25

Inside Job

Mar 20, 1961 · 60 min

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 possibly infiltrate the group planning the robbery.

Invitation to a Party

Episode 26

Invitation to a Party

Mar 27, 1961 · 60 min

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 wild son of a millionaire who is in danger of having his inheritance cut off if he gets into trouble.

Spring Training

Episode 27

Spring Training

Apr 3, 1961 · 60 min

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.

Double Image

Episode 28

Double Image

Apr 10, 1961 · 60 min

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

Circumstantial Evidence

Episode 29

Circumstantial Evidence

Apr 17, 1961 · 60 min

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 secretly got married to a rival in the water ski show. When the woman turns up dead, Cha Cha's nephew, who had an almost obsessive crush on her, is implicated in the murder.

Vengeance Is Bitter

Episode 30

Vengeance Is Bitter

Apr 24, 1961 · 60 min

No description available.

Little Mister Kelly

Episode 31

Little Mister Kelly

May 1, 1961 · 60 min

No description available.

Spinout at Sebring

Episode 32

Spinout at Sebring

May 8, 1961 · 60 min

No description available.

The Bhoyo and the Blonde

Episode 33

The Bhoyo and the Blonde

May 15, 1961 · 60 min

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 himself"". Dave has much more to protect Kevin from: while on a drinking binge he witnessed a murder. The criminals are not sure whether Kevin's alcohol fog will allow him to remember what he saw, so they make arrangements to kill him.

An Overdose of Justice

Episode 34

An Overdose of Justice

May 22, 1961 · 60 min

No description available.

About the series

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Audience score
★ 6.3 /10

based on 3 votes

Synopsis

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.

Drama

Cast

5 principal cast

Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue

Sandy Winfield II

Van Williams

Van Williams

Ken Madison

Lee Patterson

Lee Patterson

Dave Thorne

Diane McBain

Diane McBain

Daphne Dutton

Margarita Sierra

Cha Cha O'Brien

Where to watch Surfside 6

Surfside 6 is available to stream on Flicksy via 6 verified sources, aggregated from publicly available embed providers. The drama has 2 seasons and 74 total episodes, rated 6.3/10 by 3 viewers.

Frequently asked

How many seasons does Surfside 6 have?

Surfside 6 has 2 seasons with 74 episodes in total.

Is Surfside 6 still on the air?

Surfside 6 has ended and is no longer in production.

What network airs Surfside 6?

Surfside 6 airs on ABC.

When did Surfside 6 first air?

Surfside 6 first aired on October 6, 1960.

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