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Surfside 6 Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
34 Episodes 1960 - 1961
Episode 1
Country Gentleman
Mon, Oct 3, 196060 mins
Former gangster Marty Hartman finds his attempt to buy respectability seriously compromised when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a man who took advantage of him.
Episode 2
High Tide
Mon, Oct 10, 196060 mins
A beautiful young woman visits with the detectives and ends up dazzling the men, resulting in some fights as well as a few deaths along the way.
Episode 3
The Clown
Mon, Oct 17, 196060 mins
Thorne investigates a murder that was apparently committed by the clown at a child's birthday party.
Episode 4
According to Our Files
Mon, Oct 24, 196060 mins
Sandy and insurance investigator Herbert Colter are on the trail of a recently released ex-con; and $90,000 in bonds that he had stolen seven years earlier.
Episode 5
Local Girl
Mon, Oct 31, 196060 mins
Darcy Peyton, a gangster's girlfriend, has stolen an envelope full of cash from her boyfriend. She plans to return to her small hometown and flaunt her newfound "wealth" in the faces of all the locals--especially her nasty redneck father--who mistreated her years before. She hires Kenny as her bodyguard, knowing that her ex-boyfriend will send some of his men after her to get the money back.
Episode 6
Par-a-kee
Mon, Nov 7, 196060 mins
Daphne stops a man trying to inject Par-a-kee, a race horse owned by her family and they hire Dave to look into it. It turns out a bookie is spreading false rumors about the animal and Daphne is kidnapped before the next race.
Episode 7
Deadly Male
Mon, Nov 14, 196060 mins
While investigating a murder, Thorne finds himself on the trail of a gigolo who romances and then blackmails married women.
Episode 8
Power of Suggestion
Mon, Nov 21, 196060 mins
The beautiful assistant to a domineering nightclub hypnotist fears that she has been given a post-hypnotic command to kill someone, but she doesn't know who or why. She enlists Dave Thorne to help her.
Episode 9
Odd Job
Mon, Nov 28, 196060 mins
Ken Madison drives to Fort Lauderdale to provide security for a business meeting. When he arrives, he finds another man already on the job; a man claiming to be Ken Madison.
Episode 10
The International Net
Mon, Dec 5, 196060 mins
Someone is sending anonymous notes to Alixe Hogan warning that her producer husband is planning to kill her.
Episode 11
The Frightened Canary
Mon, Dec 12, 196060 mins
Sandy's friend, lounge singer Nina Landis, suddenly finds herself blackballed and being terrorized by a sadistic stand-up comic.
Episode 12
Girl in the Galleon
Mon, Dec 19, 196060 mins
While doing an exploratory dive to a sunken galleon, diver 'Deep' Waters spots the body of a beautiful woman floating nearby - a body which then disappears.
Episode 13
Bride and Seek
Mon, Dec 26, 196060 mins
Dave Thorne is hired by Nancy Anders to find her missing husband. She is the former Nancy Clayborne of New York and her family is very wealthy. Her grandmother is a domineering woman who disapproved of her marrying Frank Anders so the two were forced to elope. Mrs. Clayborne believes that Anders is just a grifter out for her money but Nancy doesn't believe this. Arnie Helman and Stan Ritchie, two dangerous men also happen to be looking for Anders and they're not afraid to rough up anybody who gets in their way. Thorne will have to figure out who everybody is and what their part in this mystery is in order to solve it.
Episode 14
Little Star Lost
Mon, Jan 2, 196160 mins
Locally born movie star Linda Lord is back in Miami to do a publicity event. Along with her is her hard-as-nails adoptive mother Sybil who keeps a tight rein on her. A shady lawyer has lined up an elaborate scam to use her real mother to cash in on Linda's fortune, complete with faked documents and murder.
Episode 15
Heels Over Head
Mon, Jan 9, 196160 mins
Dave and Kenny unwittingly become the intermediaries between factions vying for $70,000 in illicit cash.
Episode 16
Facts on the Fire
Mon, Jan 16, 196160 mins
Kenny is hired to prove that millionaire John Williams was murdered by his wife; hired by the wife herself.
Episode 17
Yesterday's Hero
Mon, Jan 23, 196160 mins
A Korean War pal of Dave Thorne is reportedly executed for helping revolutionaries in the island nation of San Doro, but the man's 'widow' isn't convinced that he's really dead.
Episode 18
Thieves Among Honor
Mon, Jan 30, 196160 mins
Sandy alienates Daphne when he tries to convince her that the two men managing her charitable fund-raising are in fact con-men.
Episode 19
License to Steal
Mon, Feb 6, 196160 mins
Nightclub singer Sue Morrison is robbed of $130,000 worth of jewelry that she had rented for a special performance.
Episode 20
Race Against Time
Mon, Feb 13, 196160 mins
When Dave collapses at the airport after returning on a flight from New York, it is determined that he had been poisoned while on the plane. His friends only have a few hours to identify the toxin and find an antidote before he dies.
Episode 21
Black Orange Blossoms
Mon, Feb 20, 196160 mins
While vacationing in Jamaica, Sandy becomes involved in the investigation of the mysterious death of plantation owner Sir Niles Smallens.
Episode 22
The Chase
Mon, Feb 27, 196160 mins
After Cha Cha witnesses a man dumping a woman's body in a cypress swamp, she and Dave find themselves being stalked through a ghost town by the killer.
Episode 23
Ghost of a Chance
Mon, Mar 6, 196160 mins
Ken Madison and government agent Pat Wheeler pose as newlyweds to search the bayou for a retired engraver who is being held prisoner by counterfeiters.
Episode 24
The Impractical Joker
Mon, Mar 13, 196160 mins
Harry Wilde's latest practical joke backfires when he kills his business partner with a gun that was supposed to be loaded with blanks. Was it really an accident, or murder?
Episode 25
Inside Job
Mon, Mar 20, 196160 mins
Dave Thorne goes undercover as a bank teller to thwart a suspected robbery attempt.
Episode 26
Invitation to a Party
Mon, Mar 27, 196160 mins
Sandy and Kenny try to catch the owners of the Club Imperio in the act of setting up phony 'accidents' in order to blackmail wealthy patrons.
Episode 27
Spring Training
Mon, Apr 3, 196160 mins
Kenny tries to help a naive rookie baseball pitcher who has gotten on the wrong side of a big time sports bookie.
Episode 28
Double Image
Mon, Apr 10, 196160 mins
Sandy meets a young woman vacationing in Florida who has an odd obsession with a local gangster.
Episode 29
Circumstantial Evidence
Mon, Apr 17, 196160 mins
Cha Cha's young nephew Raphael runs into trouble when he falls for a beautiful woman who, herself, is already enmeshed in a romantic quadrangle.
Episode 30
Vengeance Is Bitter
Mon, Apr 24, 196160 mins
A prominent family learns that a book is about to be published alleging that one of them had committed an unsolved murder. To avoid scandal, they hire Dave Thorne to find a way to suppress the book.
Episode 31
Little Mister Kelly
Mon, May 1, 1961
Boxer Hank Kelly's sparing partner is murdered and now someone is after his little son.
Episode 32
Spinout at Sebring
Mon, May 8, 196160 mins
Sandy has to find a way to drive in the 12 hour Sebring endurance race, while simultaneously preventing a murder.
Episode 33
The Bhoyo and the Blonde
Mon, May 15, 196160 mins
While visiting Miami, hard-drinking novelist Kevin Flanagan becomes witness to a robbery and a murder when he tries to pick up the beautiful blonde who is driving the crooks' getaway car.
Episode 34
An Overdose of Justice
Mon, May 22, 196160 mins
Insurance investigator Phil Molloy enlists Dave's aid in tracking down the $75,000 that was stolen in a payroll heist. Helping them both is the thief's girlfriend.