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The Best Episodes of Surfside 6 Season 1

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 1 - Country Gentleman
    7.0/10(26 votes)

    #1 - Country Gentleman

    S1:E1

    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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  2. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 2 - High Tide
    7.4/10(21 votes)

    #2 - High Tide

    S1:E2

    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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  3. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 3 - The Clown
    6.5/10(20 votes)

    #3 - The Clown

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Lee Loeb

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  4. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 4 - According to Our Files
    6.8/10(16 votes)

    #4 - According to Our Files

    S1:E4

    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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  5. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 5 - Local Girl
    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #5 - Local Girl

    S1:E5

    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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  6. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 6 - Par-a-kee
    6.8/10(17 votes)

    #6 - Par-a-kee

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:William J. Hole Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 7 - Deadly Male
    7.0/10(16 votes)

    #7 - Deadly Male

    S1:E7

    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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  8. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 8 - Power of Suggestion
    7.0/10(15 votes)

    #8 - Power of Suggestion

    S1:E8

    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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  9. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 9 - Odd Job
    6.3/10(14 votes)

    #9 - Odd Job

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Robert Douglas
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 10 - The International Net
    6.9/10(18 votes)

    #10 - The International Net

    S1:E10

    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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  11. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 11 - The Frightened Canary
    6.6/10(15 votes)

    #11 - The Frightened Canary

    S1:E11

    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.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 12 - Girl in the Galleon
    6.0/10(17 votes)

    #12 - Girl in the Galleon

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Charles Hoffman

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  13. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 13 - Bride and Seek
    7.4/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Bride and Seek

    S1:E13

    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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  14. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 14 - Little Star Lost
    6.6/10(19 votes)

    #14 - Little Star Lost

    S1:E14

    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.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 15 - Heels Over Head
    5.7/10(14 votes)

    #15 - Heels Over Head

    S1:E15

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Cramoy

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  16. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 16 - Facts on the Fire
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #16 - Facts on the Fire

    S1:E16

    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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  17. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 17 - Yesterday's Hero
    5.7/10(14 votes)

    #17 - Yesterday's Hero

    S1:E17

    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.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 18 - Thieves Among Honor
    6.0/10(14 votes)

    #18 - Thieves Among Honor

    S1:E18

    No description available

    Director:Robert Altman
    Writer:Anne Howard Bailey

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  19. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 19 - License to Steal
    7.6/10(9 votes)

    #19 - License to Steal

    S1:E19

    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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  20. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 20 - Race Against Time
    6.3/10(14 votes)

    #20 - Race Against Time

    S1:E20

    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.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 21 - Black Orange Blossoms
    6.2/10(17 votes)

    #21 - Black Orange Blossoms

    S1:E21

    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.

    Director:Robert B. Sinclair
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 22 - The Chase
    6.7/10(17 votes)

    #22 - The Chase

    S1:E22

    Dave Thorne aids a murder witness.

    Director:Allen Baron
    Writers:Montgomery Pittman, Roger Smith

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  23. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 23 - Ghost of a Chance
    6.9/10(16 votes)

    #23 - Ghost of a Chance

    S1:E23

    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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  24. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 24 - The Impractical Joker
    7.5/10(16 votes)

    #24 - The Impractical Joker

    S1:E24

    No description available

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 25 - Inside Job
    7.3/10(16 votes)

    #25 - Inside Job

    S1:E25

    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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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Country Gentleman" is the best rated episode of "Surfside 6" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 26 votes. Directed by Irving J. Moore and written by Anne Howard Bailey, it aired on 10/3/1960. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "High Tide".