Surfside 6
Ken, Dave, and Sandy are three hip private detectives living on, and working out of, a houseboat in Miami Beach, Florida. While not pursuing criminals, they spend time at the Fontainebleau Hotel.
Genre: Drama
Cast:Van Williams , Lee Patterson , Margarita Sierra , Troy Donahue , Diane McBain , Richard Crane , Don 'Red' Barry , Paul 'Mousie' Garner , Benny Baker , Richard Benedict , Sol Gorss , Kaye Elhardt , Elizabeth MacRae , Ernest Sarracino , Joan Marshall , Vito Scotti , Shirley Knight , Grace Lee Whitney
S1.E1 ∙ Country Gentleman
Former gangster Marty Hartman finds his attempt to buy respectability seriously compromised when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a man who took advantage of him.
S1.E2 ∙ High Tide
A beautiful young woman visits with the detectives and ends up dazzling the men, resulting in some fights as well as a few deaths along the way.
S1.E3 ∙ The Clown
Thorne investigates a murder that was apparently committed by the clown at a child's birthday party.
S1.E4 ∙ According to Our Files
Sandy and insurance investigator Herbert Colter are on the trail of a recently released ex-con; and $90,000 in bonds that he had stolen seven years earlier.
S1.E5 ∙ Local Girl
Darcy Peyton, a gangster's girlfriend, has stolen an envelope full of cash from her boyfriend. She plans to return to her small hometown and flaunt her newfound "wealth" in the faces of all the locals--especially her nasty redneck father--who mistreated her years before. She hires Kenny as her bodyguard, knowing that her ex-boyfriend will send some of his men after her to get the money back.
S1.E6 ∙ Par-a-kee
Daphne stops a man trying to inject Par-a-kee, a race horse owned by her family and they hire Dave to look into it. It turns out a bookie is spreading false rumors about the animal and Daphne is kidnapped before the next race.
S1.E7 ∙ Deadly Male
While investigating a murder, Thorne finds himself on the trail of a gigolo who romances and then blackmails married women.
S1.E8 ∙ Power of Suggestion
The beautiful assistant to a domineering nightclub hypnotist fears that she has been given a post-hypnotic command to kill someone, but she doesn't know who or why. She enlists Dave Thorne to help her.
S1.E9 ∙ Odd Job
Ken Madison drives to Fort Lauderdale to provide security for a business meeting. When he arrives, he finds another man already on the job; a man claiming to be Ken Madison.
S1.E10 ∙ The International Net
Someone is sending anonymous notes to Alixe Hogan warning that her producer husband is planning to kill her.
S1.E11 ∙ The Frightened Canary
Sandy's friend, lounge singer Nina Landis, suddenly finds herself blackballed and being terrorized by a sadistic stand-up comic.
S1.E12 ∙ Girl in the Galleon
While doing an exploratory dive to a sunken galleon, diver 'Deep' Waters spots the body of a beautiful woman floating nearby - a body which then disappears.
S1.E13 ∙ Bride and Seek
Dave Thorne is hired by Nancy Anders to find her missing husband. She is the former Nancy Clayborne of New York and her family is very wealthy. Her grandmother is a domineering woman who disapproved of her marrying Frank Anders so the two were forced to elope. Mrs. Clayborne believes that Anders is just a grifter out for her money but Nancy doesn't believe this. Arnie Helman and Stan Ritchie, two dangerous men also happen to be looking for Anders and they're not afraid to rough up anybody who gets in their way. Thorne will have to figure out who everybody is and what their part in this mystery is in order to solve it.
S1.E14 ∙ Little Star Lost
Locally born movie star Linda Lord is back in Miami to do a publicity event. Along with her is her hard-as-nails adoptive mother Sybil who keeps a tight rein on her. A shady lawyer has lined up an elaborate scam to use her real mother to cash in on Linda's fortune, complete with faked documents and murder.
S1.E15 ∙ Heels Over Head
Dave and Kenny unwittingly become the intermediaries between factions vying for $70,000 in illicit cash.
S1.E16 ∙ Facts on the Fire
Kenny is hired to prove that millionaire John Williams was murdered by his wife; hired by the wife herself.
S1.E17 ∙ Yesterday's Hero
A Korean War pal of Dave Thorne is reportedly executed for helping revolutionaries in the island nation of San Doro, but the man's 'widow' isn't convinced that he's really dead.
S1.E18 ∙ Thieves Among Honor
Sandy alienates Daphne when he tries to convince her that the two men managing her charitable fund-raising are in fact con-men.
S1.E19 ∙ License to Steal
Nightclub singer Sue Morrison is robbed of $130,000 worth of jewelry that she had rented for a special performance.
S1.E20 ∙ Race Against Time
When Dave collapses at the airport after returning on a flight from New York, it is determined that he had been poisoned while on the plane. His friends only have a few hours to identify the toxin and find an antidote before he dies.
S1.E21 ∙ Black Orange Blossoms
While vacationing in Jamaica, Sandy becomes involved in the investigation of the mysterious death of plantation owner Sir Niles Smallens.
S1.E22 ∙ The Chase
After Cha Cha witnesses a man dumping a woman's body in a cypress swamp, she and Dave find themselves being stalked through a ghost town by the killer.
S1.E23 ∙ Ghost of a Chance
Ken Madison and government agent Pat Wheeler pose as newlyweds to search the bayou for a retired engraver who is being held prisoner by counterfeiters.
S1.E24 ∙ The Impractical Joker
Harry Wilde's latest practical joke backfires when he kills his business partner with a gun that was supposed to be loaded with blanks. Was it really an accident, or murder?
S1.E25 ∙ Inside Job
Dave Thorne goes undercover as a bank teller to thwart a suspected robbery attempt.
S1.E26 ∙ Invitation to a Party
Sandy and Kenny try to catch the owners of the Club Imperio in the act of setting up phony 'accidents' in order to blackmail wealthy patrons.
S1.E27 ∙ Spring Training
Kenny tries to help a naive rookie baseball pitcher who has gotten on the wrong side of a big time sports bookie.
S1.E28 ∙ Double Image
Sandy meets a young woman vacationing in Florida who has an odd obsession with a local gangster.
S1.E29 ∙ Circumstantial Evidence
Cha Cha's young nephew Raphael runs into trouble when he falls for a beautiful woman who, herself, is already enmeshed in a romantic quadrangle.
S1.E30 ∙ Vengeance Is Bitter
A prominent family learns that a book is about to be published alleging that one of them had committed an unsolved murder. To avoid scandal, they hire Dave Thorne to find a way to suppress the book.
S1.E31 ∙ Little Mister Kelly
Boxer Hank Kelly's sparing partner is murdered and now someone is after his little son.
S1.E32 ∙ Spinout at Sebring
Sandy has to find a way to drive in the 12 hour Sebring endurance race, while simultaneously preventing a murder.
S1.E33 ∙ The Bhoyo and the Blonde
While visiting Miami, hard-drinking novelist Kevin Flanagan becomes witness to a robbery and a murder when he tries to pick up the beautiful blonde who is driving the crooks' getaway car.
S1.E34 ∙ An Overdose of Justice
Insurance investigator Phil Molloy enlists Dave's aid in tracking down the $75,000 that was stolen in a payroll heist. Helping them both is the thief's girlfriend.
