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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.
Cast
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01Country GentlemanOctober 3, 1960—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 turn
- S01E02High TideOctober 10, 1960—A woman, who identifies herself as a ""boring stenographer on vacation"", shows up at the houseboat with three thugs after her. After Sandy
- S01E03The ClownOctober 17, 1960—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 ca
- S01E04According to Our FilesOctober 24, 1960—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
- S01E05Local GirlOctober 31, 1960—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, unawar
- S01E06Par-a-keeNovember 7, 1960—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 fa
- S01E07Deadly MaleNovember 14, 1960—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 p
- S01E08Power of SuggestionNovember 21, 1960—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 sugges
- S01E09Odd JobNovember 28, 1960—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 a
- S01E10The International NetDecember 5, 1960—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 fin
- S01E11The Frightened CanaryDecember 12, 1960—An obnoxious comedian makes advances toward a nightclub singer friend of Sandy's. She publicly embarrasses him after he beats her boyfriend
- S01E12Girl in the GalleonDecember 19, 1960—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 n
- S01E13Bride and SeekDecember 26, 1960—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 --
- S01E14Little Star LostJanuary 2, 1961—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 rea
- S01E15Heels Over HeadJanuary 9, 1961—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
- S01E16Facts on the FireJanuary 16, 1961—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 wrong
- S01E17Yesterday's HeroJanuary 23, 1961—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
- S01E18Thieves Among HonorJanuary 30, 1961—
- S01E19License to StealFebruary 6, 1961—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 jewelr
- S01E20Race Against TimeFebruary 13, 1961—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
- S01E21Black Orange BlossomsFebruary 20, 1961—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 sn
- S01E22The ChaseFebruary 27, 1961—Dave Thorne aids a murder witness.
- S01E23Ghost of a ChanceMarch 6, 1961—A Treasury Department engraver retiree disappears from Bass Creek on his honeymoon. A federal agent thinks he's being forced to work with c
- S01E24The Impractical JokerMarch 13, 1961—
- S01E25Inside JobMarch 20, 1961—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 hir
- S01E26Invitation to a PartyMarch 27, 1961—A young woman feels she is being blackmailed to keep an accident from making headlines and ruining her father's chance at political office.
- S01E27Spring TrainingApril 3, 1961—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
- S01E28Double ImageApril 10, 1961—Sandy meets a beautiful tourist, a woman who has a strange obsessive interest in a local mobster.
- S01E29Circumstantial EvidenceApril 17, 1961—A performer in a water ski show is blackmailing her former boyfriend. He will lose a multi-million dollar inheritance if he gets married be
- S01E30Vengeance Is BitterApril 24, 1961—
- S01E31Little Mister KellyMay 1, 1961—
- S01E32Spinout at SebringMay 8, 1961—
- S01E33The Bhoyo and the BlondeMay 15, 1961—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
- S01E34An Overdose of JusticeMay 22, 1961—
Season02
- S02E01Count Seven!September 18, 1961—Ken is hired to investigate theft at an amusement park. He befriends a little girl while there, then finds himself between the girl's divor
- S02E02The Wedding GuestSeptember 25, 1961—When Daphne is kidnapped on the way to a friend's wedding in Nassau, Sandy discovers the truth about the prospective groom.
- S02E03One for the RoadOctober 2, 1961—When Daphne falls in love with a mysterious young nomad, the detectives are suspicious of his past.
- S02E04Daphne, Girl DetectiveOctober 9, 1961—Daphne invites a friend of hers and her actor husband to a party on the houseboat. The couple argue and leave separately. He waits for Dap
- S02E05The Empty HouseOctober 16, 1961—A wealthy businessman hires Ken to look after his wild daughter. The girl is enamored with an ex-con who owes a crime boss $25,000. When t
- S02E06Witness for the DefenseOctober 23, 1961—Dave Thorne tries to defend Sandy, who is facing a murder charge after slugging a drunken attacker who was found dead only minutes later.
- S02E07Laugh for the LadyOctober 30, 1961—Dave Thorne runs into an old girlfriend who turns out to be involved in a marital triangle that leads to attempted murder.
- S02E08The Affairs at Hotel DelightNovember 6, 1961—While preparing to leave a tiny hotel Ken finds a young woman passed out in the hall outside his room. He revives her and discovers she is
- S02E09Jonathan Wembley Is MissingNovember 13, 1961—Sandy is persuaded to help a ventriloquist whose dummy has been kidnapped.
- S02E10The Old School TieNovember 20, 1961—Jersey State, Dave's alma mater, is holding its class of 1951 reunion at the Fontainebleau Hotel. The reunion opens up old wounds that lead
- S02E11A Matter of SecondsNovember 27, 1961—
- S02E12Prescription for PanicDecember 4, 1961—
- S02E13A Slight Case of ChivalryDecember 18, 1961—Dave is the focal point in the hunt for Dan Castle, Dave's one-time employer in a private investigative office in New York. People inquirin
- S02E14Pattern for a FrameDecember 25, 1961—A judge's daughter trips and falls on the beach near Ken, injuring her ankle. The ""accident"" leads to the two going out for dinner. What
- S02E15The RoustJanuary 1, 1962—When Ken inquires as to why his partner left the Boom Boom Room in an angry huff, Dave says he saw a man he wanted to kill. The man in ques
- S02E16The QuarterbackJanuary 8, 1962—A woman, the former girlfriend of a convicted mob boss, tells Lt. Plehn's brother, a star quarterback preparing to play in the Orange Bowl,
- S02E17Separate ChecksJanuary 15, 1962—
- S02E18Artful DeceitJanuary 22, 1962—
- S02E19Anniversary SpecialJanuary 29, 1962—A famous TV star's plans for a gala program coinciding with his wedding anniversary face a potential shipwreck when his wife tells him she w
- S02E20The Surfside SwindleFebruary 5, 1962—Not realizing that he is being taken by a conman, Garibaldi Dinato pays a year's rent up front to lease the Surfside 6 houseboat as a new lo
- S02E21Who Is Sylvia?February 12, 1962—Sylvia, the head of a flourishing swimsuit company, walked off the job. Her husband hires Dave to find her, portraying her as mentally unst
- S02E22Find Leroy BurdetteFebruary 19, 1962—A woman from South Carolina shows up at the office while Ken's trying to go fishing and asks him to find the boyfriend that jilted her. Ini
- S02E23Many a SlipFebruary 26, 1962—Sandy is hired to find an old acquaintance, the director of a lingere show. He encounters a number of romantic double-crosses. One member
- S02E24The Green BeretMarch 5, 1962—Dave is temporarily reactivated into the military as a training officer. Intelligence has an enemy agent under surveillance and knows that
- S02E25Vendetta ArmsMarch 12, 1962—Daphne befriends five retired old crooks sharing a house together. A young crook is staying there and is stealing things and threatening ev
- S02E26A Piece of Tommy MinorMarch 19, 1962—Singing sensation Tommy Minor has a problem -- gambling. His manager asks Sandy to get the mob off his back. Sandy knows a gambling boat o
- S02E27Portrait of NicoleMarch 26, 1962—An insurance company hires the boys to find the beneficiary of a life insurance policy named Nicole Johnson. Things get complicated when th
- S02E28Elegy for a BookkeeperApril 2, 1962—A former client of Ken's is murdered in prison before he can be released to testify against a racket boss. In order to prove the boss was b
- S02E29The Money GameApril 9, 1962—A prince is developing a new co-op with oil. Sandy has been hired to ask the prince to consider a rival partner for the ""black sand"". Wi
- S02E30Irish PrideApril 16, 1962—
- S02E31Green Bay RiddleApril 23, 1962—The small town of Green Bay doesn't like outsiders. One such outsider was acquitted of the murder of his father-in-law, although everyone s
- S02E32Love Song for a Deadly RedheadApril 30, 1962—Jeff, a private investigator from L.A. and friend of the SurfSide detectives, is called to Miami to investigate a threatening note left for
- S02E33Dead HeatMay 7, 1962—
- S02E34Squeeze PlayMay 14, 1962—
- S02E35A Private Eye for BeautyMay 21, 1962—
- S02E36MasqueradeMay 28, 1962—
- S02E37Pawn's GambitJune 4, 1962—
- S02E38The Neutral CornerJune 11, 1962—Someone is trying to kill a former boxing champion, so his manager hires Ken to find out who is behind the ""accidents"" (including a bomb p
- S02E39House on Boca KeyJune 18, 1962—A drug store delivery boy borrows a formal jacket from Sandy for a prom. As he leaves the houseboat he is shot. Sandy thinks it was a case
- S02E40Midnight for Prince CharmingJune 25, 1962—As part of the latest scheme of a husband and wife con artist team the husband seeks to hire Ken, portraying his wife as cheating on him wit
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