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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...

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  1. Background image for Vendetta Arms
    8.4/10(15 votes)

    #1 - 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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Heels Over Head
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #2 - 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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    Director:Unknown
  3. Background image for One for the Road
    8.3/10(14 votes)

    #3 - 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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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for A Slight Case of Chivalry
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #4 - 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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    Director:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Roust
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #5 - 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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    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Artful Deceit
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #6 - Artful Deceit

    S2:E18

    No description available

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  8. Background image for Who Is Sylvia?
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #7 - 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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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for A Piece of Tommy Minor
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #8 - 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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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Masquerade
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    #9 - Masquerade

    S2:E36

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Black Orange Blossoms
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #10 - 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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  12. Background image for Inside Job
    8.2/10(15 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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  13. Background image for Vengeance Is Bitter
    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #12 - Vengeance Is Bitter

    S1:E30

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Lee Loeb
  14. Background image for Pawn's Gambit
    8.2/10(9 votes)

    #13 - Pawn's Gambit

    S2:E37

    No description available

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  15. Background image for According to Our Files
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Power of Suggestion
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Yesterday's Hero
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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  18. Background image for Spinout at Sebring
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Spinout at Sebring

    S1:E32

    No description available

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  19. Background image for An Overdose of Justice
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #18 - An Overdose of Justice

    S1:E34

    No description available

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    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Old School Tie
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    #19 - The Old School Tie

    S2:E10

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Separate Checks
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #20 - Separate Checks

    S2:E17

    No description available

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    Director:Sidney Salkow
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Love Song for a Deadly Redhead
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    #21 - Love Song for a Deadly Redhead

    S2:E32

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Par-a-kee
    8.0/10(15 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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  24. Background image for The International Net
    8.0/10(16 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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  25. Background image for The Frightened Canary
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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  26. Background image for Girl in the Galleon
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Vendetta Arms" is the best rated episode of "Surfside 6". It scored 8.4/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/12/1962. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Heels Over Head".