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The Worst Episodes of Surfside 6

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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 Worst Episode
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    Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 24 - The Green Beret
    5.0/10(15 votes)

    #1 - The Green Beret

    S2:E24

    Dave is temporarily reactivated into the military as a training officer. Intelligence has an enemy agent under surveillance and knows that her contact is in the unit Dave is training, but they don't know who the spy is. Dave must discover who the spy is to prevent his unit's ordered simulated attack on a nuclear power facility from becoming real.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 7 - Laugh for the Lady
    5.3/10(15 votes)

    #2 - Laugh for the Lady

    S2:E7

    Dave Thorne runs into an old girlfriend who turns out to be involved in a marital triangle that leads to attempted murder.

    Director:Leslie Goodwins
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 5 - The Empty House
    5.5/10(12 votes)

    #3 - The Empty House

    S2:E5

    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 the man turns up dead, she confesses to his murder.

    Director:Robert Douglas
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 23 - Many a Slip
    5.5/10(12 votes)

    #4 - Many a Slip

    S2:E23

    Sandy is hired to find an old acquaintance, the director of a lingere show. He encounters a number of romantic double-crosses. One member of the show entourage turns up dead, an apparent suicide, but Sandy thinks otherwise.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

    #6 - 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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  7. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 18 - Artful Deceit
    5.7/10(14 votes)

    #7 - Artful Deceit

    S2:E18

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    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 36 - Masquerade
    5.7/10(14 votes)

    #8 - Masquerade

    S2:E36

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 39 - House on Boca Key
    5.7/10(11 votes)

    #9 - House on Boca Key

    S2:E39

    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 of mistaken identity and the bullets were meant for him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Herman Groves

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  10. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 15 - The Roust
    5.8/10(14 votes)

    #10 - The Roust

    S2:E15

    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 question is Bernard ""Chilly"" Childress, a ruthless criminal whom Dave once unsuccessfully prosecuted in New York, and who was responsible for Dave once being shot in the chest. Lt. Plehn has word that Childress is planning on moving to Miami, so Dave sets out to do what he failed to do in New York: finish off Childress.

    Director:Robert Douglas
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 6 - Witness for the Defense
    5.9/10(17 votes)

    #11 - Witness for the Defense

    S2:E6

    Dave Thorne tries to defend Sandy, who is facing a murder charge after slugging a drunken attacker who was found dead only minutes later.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 8 - The Affairs at Hotel Delight
    5.9/10(14 votes)

    #12 - The Affairs at Hotel Delight

    S2:E8

    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 carrying $45,000 ransom money for her abducted boyfriend. Ken, against his better judgment, decides to help her ""negotiate"" with the kidnappers because she is $5,000 short of their ransom demand -- and she keeps fainting.

    Director:Robert Douglas
    Writer:Montgomery Pittman

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  13. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 12 - Prescription for Panic
    5.9/10(15 votes)

    #13 - Prescription for Panic

    S2:E12

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    Director:Sidney Salkow
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

    #15 - Thieves Among Honor

    S1:E18

    No description available

    Director:Robert Altman
    Writer:Anne Howard Bailey

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  16. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 30 - Vengeance Is Bitter
    6.0/10(15 votes)

    #16 - Vengeance Is Bitter

    S1:E30

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Lee Loeb

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  17. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 33 - The Bhoyo and the Blonde
    6.1/10(15 votes)

    #17 - The Bhoyo and the Blonde

    S1:E33

    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.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 26 - A Piece of Tommy Minor
    6.1/10(14 votes)

    #18 - A Piece of Tommy Minor

    S2:E26

    Singing sensation Tommy Minor has a problem -- gambling. His manager asks Sandy to get the mob off his back. Sandy knows a gambling boat outside the territorial limits runs crooked games, but he has to prove it, and keep himself and Tommy out of danger.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 31 - Green Bay Riddle
    6.1/10(15 votes)

    #19 - Green Bay Riddle

    S2:E31

    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 still considers him guilty. Ken is hired by the man's wife to prove to the townsfolk that the man is indeed innocent.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 37 - Pawn's Gambit
    6.1/10(13 votes)

    #20 - Pawn's Gambit

    S2:E37

    No description available

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Herman Groves

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  21. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 38 - The Neutral Corner
    6.1/10(12 votes)

    #21 - The Neutral Corner

    S2:E38

    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 placed at SurfSide 6 during a party for the champ). Ken finds no shortage of suspects, including the boxer's ex-wife, a crusading sports writer, and a mob boss who owns the boxer's contract.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #22 - 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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  23. Surfside 6 Season 1 Episode 32 - Spinout at Sebring
    6.2/10(13 votes)

    #23 - Spinout at Sebring

    S1:E32

    No description available

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 2 - The Wedding Guest
    6.2/10(14 votes)

    #24 - The Wedding Guest

    S2:E2

    When Daphne is kidnapped on the way to a friend's wedding in Nassau, Sandy discovers the truth about the prospective groom.

    Director:Irving J. Moore
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Surfside 6 Season 2 Episode 17 - Separate Checks
    6.2/10(13 votes)

    #25 - Separate Checks

    S2:E17

    No description available

    Director:Sidney Salkow
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Green Beret" is the worst rated episode of "Surfside 6". It scored 5/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/5/1962. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Laugh for the Lady".