7.0/1012 votesLoading...#1 - 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
- 7.3/1013 votesLoading...
#2 - A Private Eye for Beauty
Season 2 Episode 35 - Aired 5/21/1962
No description available
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1020 votesLoading...
#3 - 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
- 7.4/1016 votesLoading...
#4 - 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
- 7.4/1012 votesLoading...
#5 - Thieves Among Honor
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1961
No description available
Director: Robert Altman
Writer: Anne Howard Bailey
- 7.4/1012 votesLoading...
#6 - 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
- 7.4/1013 votesLoading...
#7 - Prescription for Panic
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1961
No description available
Director: Sidney Salkow
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1012 votesLoading...
#8 - 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
- 7.5/1012 votesLoading...
#9 - 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
- 7.6/1024 votesLoading...
#10 - 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
- 7.6/1018 votesLoading...
#11 - 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
- 7.6/109 votesLoading...
#12 - 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
- 7.6/109 votesLoading...
#13 - Little Mister Kelly
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/1/1961
No description available
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1012 votesLoading...
#14 - 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
- 7.6/109 votesLoading...
#15 - 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
- 7.6/109 votesLoading...
#16 - 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
- 7.6/109 votesLoading...
#17 - House on Boca Key
Season 2 Episode 39 - Aired 6/18/1962
A drug store delivery boy borrows a formal jacket from Sandy for a prom. As he leaves the houseboat he is shot. Sandy thinks it was a case of mistaken identity and the bullets were meant for him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Herman Groves
- 7.7/1013 votesLoading...
#18 - 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
- 7.8/1014 votesLoading...
#19 - 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
- 7.8/109 votesLoading...
#20 - 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
- 7.8/1010 votesLoading...
#21 - The Neutral Corner
Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 6/11/1962
Someone is trying to kill a former boxing champion, so his manager hires Ken to find out who is behind the ""accidents"" (including a bomb placed at SurfSide 6 during a party for the champ). Ken finds no shortage of suspects, including the boxer's ex-wife, a crusading sports writer, and a mob boss who owns the boxer's contract.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1011 votesLoading...
#22 - Invitation to a Party
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/27/1961
A young woman feels she is being blackmailed to keep an accident from making headlines and ruining her father's chance at political office. To prove her case Sandy poses as the wild son of a millionaire who is in danger of having his inheritance cut off if he gets into trouble.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1015 votesLoading...
#24 - The Money Game
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 4/9/1962
A prince is developing a new co-op with oil. Sandy has been hired to ask the prince to consider a rival partner for the ""black sand"". With the amount of money at stake, rivals will stop at nothing to be the prince's partner.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1013 votesLoading...
#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Surfside 6
Every episode of Surfside 6 ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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...
Genre:Drama
Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Green Beret" is the worst rated episode of "Surfside 6". It scored 7/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/5/1962. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "A Private Eye for Beauty".