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    Drama TV Shows - 1960s 2 Mins Read

    Surfside Six

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    1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 1 (USA)
    74 x 60 minute episodes

    The success of 77 Sunset Strip prompted both its producers (Warner Bros) and its network (ABC) to try a series of cookie-cutter copies.

    surfside6_003

    This one featured a trio of sexy, young private detectives (Ken, Dave and Sandy) who lived on a houseboat at Miami Beach and spent much time with beautiful women (Daphne and Cha Cha). All that was missing was a jive-talking parking lot attendant . . .

    ‘Surfside 6’ was the Miami telephone exchange that included the number of the houseboat which served as both home and office to the detectives.

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    Anchored next to it was the yacht of kooky socialite Daphne Dutton, and across from it was the fabulous Fontainebleau Hotel, where Cha Cha worked as an entertainer in the Boom Boom Room.

    Heartthrob Troy Donahue featured as Sandy Winfield II (pictured at right), while Ken Madison (Van Williams) was a survivor of another private eye show that had been seen in the same time slot during the previous season – Bourbon Street Beat.

    His Bourbon Street partner, Rex Randolph, latched on to another job too, joining the team on 77 Sunset Strip.

    Warner Bros certainly made the most of its characters . . .

    Ken Madison
    Van Williams
    Dave Thorne
    Lee Patterson
    Sandy Winfield II

    Troy Donahue
    Daphne Dutton
    Diane McBain
    Cha Cha O’Brien
    Margarita Sierra
    Lt. Snedigar
    Donald Barry
    Lt. Gene Plehan
    Richard Crane
    Mousie
    Mousie Garner

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