Surfside 6(1960)

series - first aired/released 1960-10-06 - audience 6.3

Drama

Directed by Allen Baron, Charles F. Haas, Charles R. Rondeau, George Waggner, Irving J. Moore, Jeffrey Hayden, Leslie Goodwins, Leslie H. Martinson, Michael O'Herlihy, Montgomery Pittman, Otto Lang, Richard Benedict, Richard C. Sarafian, Robert Altman, Robert B. Sinclair, Robert Douglas, Sidney Salkow, William J. Hole Jr.

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 houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.