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The Best Episodes of Surfside 6

Every episode of Surfside 6 ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Surfside 6!

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...
Genre:Drama
Network:ABC

Best Episodes Summary

"Daphne, Girl Detective" is the best rated episode of "Surfside 6". It scored 9/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Herman Groves, it aired on 10/9/1961. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Vendetta Arms".

  • Daphne, Girl Detective
    9.0/1012 votes
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    #1 - Daphne, Girl Detective

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1961

    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

  • Vendetta Arms
    9.0/1013 votes
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    #2 - Vendetta Arms

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/1962

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Old School Tie
    8.9/1013 votes
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    #3 - The Old School Tie

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1961

    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: N/A

  • Elegy for a Bookkeeper
    8.9/1011 votes
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    #4 - Elegy for a Bookkeeper

    Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 4/2/1962

    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 behind the murder, Ken must make everyone think the murdered man is still alive -- and that Ken and Dave have split up in an argument over the man's daughter.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Herman Groves

  • Love Song for a Deadly Redhead
    8.9/1013 votes
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    #5 - Love Song for a Deadly Redhead

    Season 2 Episode 32 - Aired 4/30/1962

    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: N/A

  • Jonathan Wembley Is Missing
    8.8/1012 votes
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    #6 - Jonathan Wembley Is Missing

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1961

    Sandy is persuaded to help a ventriloquist whose dummy has been kidnapped.

    Director: Irving J. Moore

    Writer: N/A

  • Irish Pride
    8.8/1013 votes
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    #7 - Irish Pride

    Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/16/1962

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    Director: Sidney Salkow

    Writer: N/A

  • Deadly Male
    8.7/1013 votes
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    #8 - Deadly Male

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1960

    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

  • The International Net
    8.7/1015 votes
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    #9 - The International Net

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1960

    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

  • The Chase
    8.7/1014 votes
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    #10 - The Chase

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1961

    Dave Thorne aids a murder witness.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: Roger Smith, Montgomery Pittman

  • Double Image
    8.7/1011 votes
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    #11 - Double Image

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/10/1961

    Sandy meets a beautiful tourist, a woman who has a strange obsessive interest in a local mobster.

    Director: Irving J. Moore

    Writer: N/A

  • A Matter of Seconds
    8.7/1011 votes
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    #12 - A Matter of Seconds

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1961

    No description available

    Director: George Waggner

    Writer: Stephen Lord

  • Dead Heat
    8.7/1011 votes
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    #13 - Dead Heat

    Season 2 Episode 33 - Aired 5/7/1962

    No description available

    Director: Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer: N/A

  • Inside Job
    8.6/1014 votes
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    #14 - Inside Job

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1961

    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: N/A

  • Spring Training
    8.6/1015 votes
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    #15 - Spring Training

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/3/1961

    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 a bookie.

    Director: Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: Ed Jurist

  • Count Seven!
    8.6/1013 votes
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    #16 - Count Seven!

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1961

    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: N/A

  • The Quarterback
    8.6/1012 votes
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    #17 - The Quarterback

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/1962

    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, that she is Lt. Plehn's mistress, and he stole evidence. Her boyfriend approaches the football star and tells him that, unless he throws the outcome of the Orange Bowl, the district attorney will be contacted and Lt. Plehn will be arrested. The charges aren't true, but the quarterback is so angry at his brother over the story that he refuses to talk to him. Sandy knows something is wrong after he sees Lt. Plehn's brother with a racketeer, but he has only one day before the big game to sort everything out.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Herman Groves

  • Midnight for Prince Charming
    8.6/1011 votes
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    #18 - Midnight for Prince Charming

    Season 2 Episode 40 - Aired 6/25/1962

    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: N/A

  • Bride and Seek
    8.5/1013 votes
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    #19 - Bride and Seek

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/1960

    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

  • The Bhoyo and the Blonde
    8.5/1012 votes
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    #20 - The Bhoyo and the Blonde

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/15/1961

    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 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: N/A

  • Green Bay Riddle
    8.5/1012 votes
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    #21 - Green Bay Riddle

    Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 4/23/1962

    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 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: N/A

  • Little Star Lost
    8.4/1016 votes
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    #22 - Little Star Lost

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1961

    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 real mother.

    Director: Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: N/A

  • Ghost of a Chance
    8.4/1014 votes
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    #23 - Ghost of a Chance

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1961

    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: N/A

    Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams

  • The Impractical Joker
    8.4/1015 votes
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    #24 - The Impractical Joker

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1961

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    Director: Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: N/A

  • Circumstantial Evidence
    8.4/1011 votes
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    #25 - Circumstantial Evidence

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/17/1961

    A performer in a water ski show is blackmailing her former boyfriend. He will lose a multi-million dollar inheritance if he gets married before the age of 30, but she discovers he secretly got married to a rival in the water ski show. When the woman turns up dead, Cha Cha's nephew, who had an almost obsessive crush on her, is implicated in the murder.

    Director: Allen Baron

    Writer: Anne Howard Bailey