Surfside Six

Surfside 6
Logo of Surfside 6
Created by	William T. Orr and Hugh Benson
Starring	Troy Donohue Van Williams Lee Patterson Diane McBain Margarita Sierra
Theme music composer	Jerry Livingston and Mack David
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	74 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	William T. Orr
Producer(s)	Jerry Davis, Charles Hoffman, Ed Jurist, Joel Rogosin, Tom McKnight, Mack David, Gordon Bau (make-up)
Location(s)	California
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	1.33 : 1 monochrome
Audio format	monaural
Original release	October 6, 1960 – June 25, 1962
Chronology
Preceded by	Bourbon Street Beat
Related shows	77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye

Jerry Davis, Charles Hoffman, Ed Jurist, Joel Rogosin, Tom McKnight, Mack David,

Surfside 6 is 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 (a character recycled from Bourbon Street Beat); and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Spanish actress 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.

Surfside 6 was one of four detective TV series produced by Warner Bros. around that time, the others being 77 Sunset Strip (set in L.A.), Hawaiian Eye (set in Hawaii), and the aforementioned Bourbon Street Beat (set in New Orleans). Plots, scripts (changing the names and locales), characters, and almost everything else crossed over from one series to another, not a difficult feat since they were all actually shot on the studio's backlots in Los Angeles.