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The Best Episodes of Surfside 6 Season 2

Every episode of Surfside 6 Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Surfside 6 Season 2!

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
Episodes
40
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  • Daphne, Girl Detective
    9.0/10(12)
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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

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  • Vendetta Arms
    9.0/10(13)
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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

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  • The Old School Tie
    8.9/10(13)
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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

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  • Elegy for a Bookkeeper
    8.9/10(11)
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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

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  • Love Song for a Deadly Redhead
    8.9/10(13)
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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

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  • Jonathan Wembley Is Missing
    8.8/10(12)
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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

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  • Irish Pride
    8.8/10(13)
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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

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  • A Matter of Seconds
    8.7/10(11)
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    #8 - A Matter of Seconds

    Season 2 Episode 11

    Aired 11/27/1961

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    Director: George Waggner

    Writer: Stephen Lord

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  • Dead Heat
    8.7/10(11)
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    #9 - Dead Heat

    Season 2 Episode 33

    Aired 5/7/1962

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    Director: Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer: N/A

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  • Count Seven!
    8.6/10(13)
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    #10 - 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

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  • The Quarterback
    8.6/10(12)
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    #11 - 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

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  • Midnight for Prince Charming
    8.6/10(11)
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    #12 - 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

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  • Green Bay Riddle
    8.5/10(12)
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    #13 - 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

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  • Anniversary Special
    8.4/10(12)
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    #14 - Anniversary Special

    Season 2 Episode 19

    Aired 1/29/1962

    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.

    Director: Robert Douglas

    Writer: N/A

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  • One for the Road
    8.3/10(14)
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    #15 - One for the Road

    Season 2 Episode 3

    Aired 10/2/1961

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

    Director: Robert Douglas

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Slight Case of Chivalry
    8.3/10(11)
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    #16 - A Slight Case of Chivalry

    Season 2 Episode 13

    Aired 12/18/1961

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Michael Fessier

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  • The Roust
    8.3/10(11)
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    #17 - The Roust

    Season 2 Episode 15

    Aired 1/1/1962

    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.

    Director: Robert Douglas

    Writer: N/A

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  • Artful Deceit
    8.3/10(11)
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    #18 - Artful Deceit

    Season 2 Episode 18

    Aired 1/22/1962

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    Director: Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: N/A

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  • Who Is Sylvia?
    8.3/10(11)
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    #19 - Who Is Sylvia?

    Season 2 Episode 21

    Aired 2/12/1962

    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.

    Director: Richard Benedict

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Piece of Tommy Minor
    8.3/10(11)
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    #20 - A Piece of Tommy Minor

    Season 2 Episode 26

    Aired 3/19/1962

    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.

    Director: Richard Benedict

    Writer: N/A

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  • Masquerade
    8.3/10(11)
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    #21 - Masquerade

    Season 2 Episode 36

    Aired 5/28/1962

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Pawn's Gambit
    8.2/10(9)
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    #22 - Pawn's Gambit

    Season 2 Episode 37

    Aired 6/4/1962

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    Director: Jeffrey Hayden

    Writer: Herman Groves

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  • Separate Checks
    8.1/10(11)
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    #23 - Separate Checks

    Season 2 Episode 17

    Aired 1/15/1962

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    Director: Sidney Salkow

    Writer: N/A

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  • Pattern for a Frame
    8.0/10(12)
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    #24 - Pattern for a Frame

    Season 2 Episode 14

    Aired 12/25/1961

    A judge's daughter trips and falls on the beach near Ken, injuring her ankle. The ""accident"" leads to the two going out for dinner. What Ken doesn't know is the woman is being blackmailed by a racket boss to lure Ken into a trap where he will be accused of murder.

    Director: Irving J. Moore

    Writer: Herman Groves

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  • Squeeze Play
    8.0/10(11)
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    #25 - Squeeze Play

    Season 2 Episode 34

    Aired 5/14/1962

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Daphne, Girl Detective" is the best rated episode of "Surfside 6" season 2. 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 is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Vendetta Arms".