7.6/1024 votes#1 - Country Gentleman
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/1960
An ex-con moves to Miami from New York with his muscle man. No one believes he's gone straight, especially when a yacht club commodore turns up dead after denying him access to the yacht club.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: Anne Howard Bailey
- 7.4/1020 votes
#2 - High Tide
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1960
A woman, who identifies herself as a ""boring stenographer on vacation"", shows up at the houseboat with three thugs after her. After Sandy and Ken fend off the men, Sandy takes the woman for a drink -- and she promptly disappears on him. He's out to find out where the ""boring stenographer"" went and why men were tailing her.
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: Robert J. Shaw, Montgomery Pittman
- 7.6/1018 votes
#3 - The Clown
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1960
A hated dictator, living in exile in Miami, is murdered during a birthday party for his son. Lt. Snedigar thinks he has an open-and-shut case against Pepe the Clown, who performed at the birthday party, but Pepe insists he was not at the party. Dave has to prove to the skeptical policeman someone else went to the party in Pepe's costume.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Lee Loeb
- 8.1/1014 votes
#4 - According to Our Files
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1960
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.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1016 votes
#5 - Local Girl
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1960
A woman is on the run with $20,000 that was intended as a bribe. She hires Ken as a bodyguard to accompany her back to her hometown, unaware that the brother of the man the bribe is intended to free is on their tail.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1014 votes
#6 - Par-a-kee
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1960
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.
Director: William J. Hole Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/1013 votes
#7 - 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
- 8.1/1012 votes
#8 - Power of Suggestion
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1960
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.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1012 votes
#9 - Odd Job
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1960
Ken is paid $2000 to meet a business executive in Fort Lauderdale. En route he is kidnapped by men posing as police officers. He escapes and arrives at the hotel to meet the businessman, discovering someone else posing as Ken Madison has already contacted the businessman.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/1015 votes
#10 - 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
- 8.0/1013 votes
#11 - The Frightened Canary
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1960
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.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1013 votes
#12 - Girl in the Galleon
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/1960
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: N/A
Writer: Charles Hoffman
- 8.5/1013 votes
#13 - 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
- 8.4/1016 votes
#14 - 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
- 8.3/1011 votes
#15 - Heels Over Head
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1961
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: N/A
Writer: Michael Cramoy
- 8.0/1013 votes
#16 - Facts on the Fire
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/16/1961
A woman has an unusual request of Ken: she wants him to prove that she's guilty of murdering her husband, although she was cleared of wrongdoing by an inquest. Before he begins investigating in earnest Ken is beaten up by some ""admirers"" of the dead man and ordered to make certain his investigation does prove her guilty. The more Ken digs, the more he uncovers that makes it appear that the woman did murder her husband.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1011 votes
#17 - Yesterday's Hero
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1961
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: N/A
- 7.4/1012 votes
#18 - Thieves Among Honor
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1961
No description available
Director: Robert Altman
Writer: Anne Howard Bailey
- 7.6/109 votes
#19 - License to Steal
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1961
A former USO singer who knew Dave in Korea is trying to make a name for herself. To help, she gets a ""gimmick"" - $130,000 worth of jewelry to attract publicity. The ""gimmick"" indeed attracts publicity -- thieves, who rob the nightclub during the show.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: Paul Savage
- 8.0/1012 votes
#20 - Race Against Time
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1961
Dave is poisoned while flying back to Miami. Ken and Sandy have five hours to find what poison was used in order to save Dave's life. That task is complicated by uncooperative passengers from Dave's flight and the accidental death of the prime suspect, a man Dave once prosecuted.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1014 votes
#21 - Black Orange Blossoms
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/20/1961
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: N/A
- 8.7/1014 votes
#22 - The Chase
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1961
Dave Thorne aids a murder witness.
Director: Allen Baron
Writer: Roger Smith, Montgomery Pittman
- 8.4/1014 votes
#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
- 8.2/1014 votes
#24 - The Impractical Joker
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1961
No description available
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1014 votes
#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of Surfside 6 Season 1
Every episode of Surfside 6 Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Surfside 6 Season 1!
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
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Country Gentleman" is the best rated episode of "Surfside 6" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by Irving J. Moore and written by Anne Howard Bailey, it aired on 10/3/1960. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "High Tide".