The Classic TV Archive - US Crime Series
"77 Sunset Strip" (1958-64) "Hawaiian Eye" (1959-63)
"Bourbon Street Beat" (1959-60) "Surfside 6" (1960-62) "The Roaring 20's" (1960-62)
Surfside 6 (1960-62)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Cindy Rumbold, California
Barry Gould, Columbus, Ohio (episode 1.09 "Odd Job"), Sal Crisanti
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)
Surfside 6 (season 1) (ABC) (1960-61)
Surfside 6 (season 2) (ABC) (1961-62)
Warner Brothers Television Production
for
ABC (Mondays 8:30 pm)(1960-61)
ABC (Mondays 9:00 pm (1961-62)
Executive Producer Wm. T. Orr
Producers: Charles Hoffman, Joel Rogosin
US Detective series 1960-62 74 episodes x 60 min bw - 2 seasons
starring
Van Williams as Ken Madison (previously in 'Bourbon Street Beat')
Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne
Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II
also
Diane McBain as Daphne DeWitt Dutton
Margarita Sierra as Cha Cha O'Brien
Donald 'Red' Barry as Lt. Snedigar (1960-61)
Richard Crane as Lt. Gene Plehan (1961-62)
Mousie Garner as Mousie
Premise: Detective series set in Miami Beach, Florida and dealt with the exploits of Dave Thorne,
Ken Madison and Sandy Winfield, detectives who operate out of a houseboat in Florida.
'Surfside 6' was one of several detective series
from Warner Brothers following the success of
'77 Sunset Strip' , the others were:-
'Hawaiian Eye' (1959-62, 134 episodes)
'Bourbon Street Beat' (1959, 39 episodes)
'The Roaring 20's' (1960-62, 48 episodes)
"Surfside 6" theme tune
words & music
by
Mack David & Jerry Livingston
"Surfside 6" is Currently Airing on "Good Life TV Network"