8.6/1013 votes#1 - 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
- 7.6/1012 votes
#2 - The Wedding Guest
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1961
When Daphne is kidnapped on the way to a friend's wedding in Nassau, Sandy discovers the truth about the prospective groom.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1014 votes
#3 - 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
- 9.0/1012 votes
#4 - 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
- 7.6/109 votes
#5 - The Empty House
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1961
A wealthy businessman hires Ken to look after his wild daughter. The girl is enamored with an ex-con who owes a crime boss $25,000. When the man turns up dead, she confesses to his murder.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1014 votes
#6 - Witness for the Defense
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1961
Dave Thorne tries to defend Sandy, who is facing a murder charge after slugging a drunken attacker who was found dead only minutes later.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1012 votes
#7 - Laugh for the Lady
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1961
Dave Thorne runs into an old girlfriend who turns out to be involved in a marital triangle that leads to attempted murder.
Director: Leslie Goodwins
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1012 votes
#8 - The Affairs at Hotel Delight
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1961
While preparing to leave a tiny hotel Ken finds a young woman passed out in the hall outside his room. He revives her and discovers she is carrying $45,000 ransom money for her abducted boyfriend. Ken, against his better judgment, decides to help her ""negotiate"" with the kidnappers because she is $5,000 short of their ransom demand -- and she keeps fainting.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
- 8.8/1012 votes
#9 - 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
- 8.9/1013 votes
#10 - 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
- 8.7/1011 votes
#11 - A Matter of Seconds
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1961
No description available
Director: George Waggner
Writer: Stephen Lord
- 7.4/1013 votes
#12 - Prescription for Panic
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1961
No description available
Director: Sidney Salkow
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1011 votes
#13 - 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
- 8.0/1012 votes
#14 - 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
- 8.3/1011 votes
#15 - 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
- 8.6/1012 votes
#16 - 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
- 8.1/1011 votes
#17 - Separate Checks
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1962
No description available
Director: Sidney Salkow
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1011 votes
#18 - Artful Deceit
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/1962
No description available
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1012 votes
#19 - 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
- 7.7/1013 votes
#20 - The Surfside Swindle
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/5/1962
Not realizing that he is being taken by a conman, Garibaldi Dinato pays a year's rent up front to lease the Surfside 6 houseboat as a new location for his Italian restaurant.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: Robert Vincent Wright
- 8.3/1011 votes
#21 - 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
- 7.8/109 votes
#22 - Find Leroy Burdette
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/19/1962
A woman from South Carolina shows up at the office while Ken's trying to go fishing and asks him to find the boyfriend that jilted her. Initially reluctant, Ken takes the job and discovers that her ex-boyfriend has mob ties. Meanwhile, Daphne and Cha Cha attempt to improve her wardrobe in case Ken finds her boyfriend, and Lt. Plehn is trying to establish a case on a murdered mobster.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/109 votes
#23 - Many a Slip
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/1962
Sandy is hired to find an old acquaintance, the director of a lingere show. He encounters a number of romantic double-crosses. One member of the show entourage turns up dead, an apparent suicide, but Sandy thinks otherwise.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1012 votes
#24 - The Green Beret
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/5/1962
Dave is temporarily reactivated into the military as a training officer. Intelligence has an enemy agent under surveillance and knows that her contact is in the unit Dave is training, but they don't know who the spy is. Dave must discover who the spy is to prevent his unit's ordered simulated attack on a nuclear power facility from becoming real.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/1013 votes
#25 - 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 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...
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Network:ABC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Count Seven!" is the best rated episode of "Surfside 6" season 2. It scored 8.6/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Richard C. Sarafian and written by N/A, it aired on 9/18/1961. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Wedding Guest".