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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!

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...
  1. 8.7/10(11 votes)

    #1 - Double Image

    S1:E28

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

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  2. 8.7/10(11 votes)

    #2 - A Matter of Seconds

    S2:E11

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  3. 8.7/10(11 votes)

    #3 - Dead Heat

    S2:E33

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  4. 8.6/10(15 votes)

    #4 - Spring Training

    S1:E27

    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.

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  5. 8.6/10(13 votes)

    #5 - Count Seven!

    S2:E1

    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.

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  6. 8.6/10(12 votes)

    #6 - The Quarterback

    S2:E16

    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.

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  8. 8.6/10(11 votes)

    #7 - Midnight for Prince Charming

    S2:E40

    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.

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  9. 8.5/10(13 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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  10. 8.5/10(12 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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  11. 8.5/10(12 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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  12. 8.4/10(16 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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  13. 8.4/10(14 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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  14. 8.4/10(15 votes)

    #13 - The Impractical Joker

    S1:E24

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  15. 8.4/10(11 votes)

    #14 - Circumstantial Evidence

    S1:E29

    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.

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  16. 8.4/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Anniversary Special

    S2:E19

    A famous TV star's plans for a gala program coinciding with his wedding anniversary face a potential shipwreck when his wife tells him she wants a divorce. He hires Dave to look after her, presenting her as a ""nervous"" type who might try suicide. Dave believes there is something more sinister behind her ""emotional"" problems, centered around her husband's ego and political aspirations.

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  17. 8.4/10(15 votes)

    #16 - Vendetta Arms

    S2:E25

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

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  18. 8.3/10(11 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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  19. 8.3/10(14 votes)

    #18 - One for the Road

    S2:E3

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

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  20. 8.3/10(11 votes)

    #19 - A Slight Case of Chivalry

    S2:E13

    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.

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  21. 8.3/10(11 votes)

    #20 - 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.

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  22. 8.3/10(11 votes)

    #21 - Artful Deceit

    S2:E18

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  23. 8.3/10(11 votes)

    #22 - Who Is Sylvia?

    S2:E21

    Sylvia, the head of a flourishing swimsuit company, walked off the job. Her husband hires Dave to find her, portraying her as mentally unstable and having made threats on his life. Dave finds Sylvia but she runs away rather than return to her business. When her husband turns up dead, Lt. Plehn seeks her arrest, ignoring the information Dave and Ken uncover about other possible suspects.

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  24. 8.3/10(11 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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  25. 8.3/10(11 votes)

    #24 - Masquerade

    S2:E36

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  26. 8.2/10(14 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Double Image" is the best rated episode of "Surfside 6". It scored 8.7/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Irving J. Moore and written by N/A, it aired on 4/10/1961. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Matter of Seconds".