The Best Episodes of Surfside 6

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   7.8/10(11 votes)

   #1 - Invitation to a Party

   S1:E263/27/1961

   A young woman feels she is being blackmailed to keep an accident from making headlines and ruining her father's chance at political office. 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.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.6/10(9 votes)

   #2 - License to Steal

   S1:E192/6/1961

   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 jewelry to attract publicity. The ""gimmick"" indeed attracts publicity -- thieves, who rob the nightclub during the show.

   Director:Charles R. Rondeau

   Writer:Paul Savage

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   Director:Charles R. Rondeau

   Writer:Paul Savage
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   7.6/10(12 votes)

   #3 - Midnight for Prince Charming

   S2:E406/25/1962

   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 with the intended scam victim. Ken refuses to take the job because the man named is a friend and frequent client, but he becomes involved when a cohort of the couple turns up dead.

   Director:George Waggner

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:George Waggner

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   7.5/10(16 votes)

   #4 - The Impractical Joker

   S1:E243/13/1961

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   Director:Charles R. Rondeau

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Charles R. Rondeau

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   7.4/10(21 votes)

   #5 - High Tide

   S1:E210/10/1960

   A woman, who identifies herself as a ""boring stenographer on vacation"", shows up at the houseboat with three thugs after her. After Sandy 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.

   Director:Montgomery Pittman

   Writers:Robert J. Shaw, Montgomery Pittman

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   Director:Montgomery Pittman

   Writers:Robert J. Shaw, Montgomery Pittman
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   7.4/10(14 votes)

   #6 - Bride and Seek

   S1:E1312/26/1960

   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 -- and the woman who hired him isn't really the bride she claims to be.

   Director:Charles F. Haas

   Writer:Anne Howard Bailey

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   Director:Charles F. Haas

   Writer:Anne Howard Bailey
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   7.4/10(15 votes)

   #7 - One for the Road

   S2:E310/2/1961

   When Daphne falls in love with a mysterious young nomad, the detectives are suspicious of his past.

   Director:Robert Douglas

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Robert Douglas

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   7.3/10(14 votes)

   #8 - Facts on the Fire

   S1:E161/16/1961

   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 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.

   Director:Charles R. Rondeau

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Charles R. Rondeau

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   7.3/10(16 votes)

   #9 - Inside Job

   S1:E253/20/1961

   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 hires Dave to gather information and to possibly infiltrate the group planning the robbery.

   Director:Charles R. Rondeau

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Charles R. Rondeau

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    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #10 - Local Girl

    S1:E510/31/1960

    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, unaware that the brother of the man the bribe is intended to free is on their tail.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Charles R. Rondeau

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    7.2/10(15 votes)

    #11 - The Old School Tie

    S2:E1011/20/1961

    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 to murder.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Unknown
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    7.2/10(15 votes)

    #12 - Love Song for a Deadly Redhead

    S2:E324/30/1962

    Jeff, a private investigator from L.A. and friend of the SurfSide detectives, is called to Miami to investigate a threatening note left for a lounge singer. He meets a redhead, who takes him to her home. He passes out and wakes up the prime suspect in the murder of the redhead's husband, leaving his SurfSide friends to clear him.

    Director:Richard Benedict

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Richard Benedict

    Writer:Unknown
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    7.1/10(13 votes)

    #13 - An Overdose of Justice

    S1:E345/22/1961

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    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

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14. 

    7.1/10(12 votes)

    #14 - A Slight Case of Chivalry

    S2:E1312/18/1961

    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 inquiring as to the man's whereabouts include a bounty hunter who is out for the $5,000 reward on Castle's head on a murder charge in New York and a woman who claims to be his wife. Dave tries to sort out who is telling the truth about his one-time co-worker before the bounty hunter makes Castle his sixth victim.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Michael Fessier

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    Writer:Michael Fessier
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    7.0/10(26 votes)

    #15 - Country Gentleman

    S1:E110/3/1960

    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 turns up dead after denying him access to the yacht club.

    Director:Irving J. Moore

    Writer:Anne Howard Bailey

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    Director:Irving J. Moore

    Writer:Anne Howard Bailey
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    7.0/10(16 votes)

    #16 - Deadly Male

    S1:E711/14/1960

    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 prime suspect, and asks Dave to find the truth.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer:Lee Loeb

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    Director:Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer:Lee Loeb
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    7.0/10(15 votes)

    #17 - Power of Suggestion

    S1:E811/21/1960

    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 suggestion to kill someone.

    Director:Irving J. Moore

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Irving J. Moore

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    7.0/10(17 votes)

    #18 - Vendetta Arms

    S2:E253/12/1962

    Daphne befriends five retired old crooks sharing a house together. A young crook is staying there and is stealing things and threatening everyone.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    Writer:Unknown
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    6.9/10(18 votes)

    #19 - The International Net

    S1:E1012/5/1960

    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 find who sent the message. A man the producer hated, a former love rival, turns up dead, and there are no shortage of suspects.

    Director:William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer:Dean Riesner

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    Director:William J. Hole Jr.

    Writer:Dean Riesner
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    6.9/10(16 votes)

    #20 - Ghost of a Chance

    S1:E233/6/1961

    A Treasury Department engraver retiree disappears from Bass Creek on his honeymoon. A federal agent thinks he's being forced to work with 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.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Gerald Drayson Adams

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    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Gerald Drayson Adams
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    6.9/10(15 votes)

    #21 - Count Seven!

    S2:E19/18/1961

    Ken is hired to investigate theft at an amusement park. He befriends a little girl while there, then finds himself between the girl's divorced parents when the man's fiancee turns up murdered and the little girl's stuffed birthday present is stolen at gunpoint from her home.

    Director:Richard C. Sarafian

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Richard C. Sarafian

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    6.9/10(14 votes)

    #22 - Daphne, Girl Detective

    S2:E410/9/1961

    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 Daphne's friend and kills her. Daphne strongly suspects this, but since Lt. Plehn and the SurfSide detectives refuse to listen to her theories she decides to take matters into her own hands.

    Director:Leslie Goodwins

    Writer:Herman Groves

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    Director:Leslie Goodwins

    Writer:Herman Groves
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    6.9/10(13 votes)

    #23 - Portrait of Nicole

    S2:E273/26/1962

    An insurance company hires the boys to find the beneficiary of a life insurance policy named Nicole Johnson. Things get complicated when the boys find three Nicole Johnsons.

    Director:Otto Lang

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Otto Lang

    Writer:Unknown
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    6.9/10(12 votes)

    #24 - Squeeze Play

    S2:E345/14/1962

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    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.8/10(16 votes)

    #25 - According to Our Files

    S1:E410/24/1960

    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 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.

    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:George Waggner

    Writer:Unknown