Surfside 6: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Surfside 6 Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Count Seven!
Sep 18, 1961 · 60 min
Ken is hired to investigate theft at an amusement park. He befriends a little girl while there, then finds himself between the girl's divorced parents when the man's fiancee turns
The Wedding Guest
Sep 25, 1961 · 60 min
When Daphne is kidnapped on the way to a friend's wedding in Nassau, Sandy discovers the truth about the prospective groom.
One for the Road
Oct 2, 1961 · 60 min
When Daphne falls in love with a mysterious young nomad, the detectives are suspicious of his past.
Daphne, Girl Detective
Oct 9, 1961 · 60 min
Daphne invites a friend of hers and her actor husband to a party on the houseboat. The couple argue and leave separately. He waits for Daphne's friend and kills her. Daphne stro
The Empty House
Oct 16, 1961 · 60 min
A wealthy businessman hires Ken to look after his wild daughter. The girl is enamored with an ex-con who owes a crime boss $25,000. When the man turns up dead, she confesses to h
Witness for the Defense
Oct 23, 1961 · 60 min
Dave Thorne tries to defend Sandy, who is facing a murder charge after slugging a drunken attacker who was found dead only minutes later.
Laugh for the Lady
Oct 30, 1961 · 60 min
Dave Thorne runs into an old girlfriend who turns out to be involved in a marital triangle that leads to attempted murder.
The Affairs at Hotel Delight
Nov 6, 1961 · 60 min
While preparing to leave a tiny hotel Ken finds a young woman passed out in the hall outside his room. He revives her and discovers she is carrying $45,000 ransom money for her ab
Jonathan Wembley Is Missing
Nov 13, 1961 · 60 min
Sandy is persuaded to help a ventriloquist whose dummy has been kidnapped.
The Old School Tie
Nov 20, 1961 · 60 min
Jersey State, Dave's alma mater, is holding its class of 1951 reunion at the Fontainebleau Hotel. The reunion opens up old wounds that lead to murder.
A Slight Case of Chivalry
Dec 18, 1961 · 60 min
Dave is the focal point in the hunt for Dan Castle, Dave's one-time employer in a private investigative office in New York. People inquiring as to the man's whereabouts include a
Pattern for a Frame
Dec 25, 1961 · 60 min
A judge's daughter trips and falls on the beach near Ken, injuring her ankle. The ""accident"" leads to the two going out for dinner. What Ken doesn't know is the woman is being
The Roust
Jan 1, 1962 · 60 min
When Ken inquires as to why his partner left the Boom Boom Room in an angry huff, Dave says he saw a man he wanted to kill. The man in question is Bernard ""Chilly"" Childress, a
The Quarterback
Jan 8, 1962 · 60 min
A woman, the former girlfriend of a convicted mob boss, tells Lt. Plehn's brother, a star quarterback preparing to play in the Orange Bowl, that she is Lt. Plehn's mistress, and he
Anniversary Special
Jan 29, 1962 · 60 min
A famous TV star's plans for a gala program coinciding with his wedding anniversary face a potential shipwreck when his wife tells him she wants a divorce. He hires Dave to look a
The Surfside Swindle
Feb 5, 1962 · 60 min
Not realizing that he is being taken by a conman, Garibaldi Dinato pays a year's rent up front to lease the Surfside 6 houseboat as a new location for his Italian restaurant.
Who Is Sylvia?
Feb 12, 1962 · 60 min
Sylvia, the head of a flourishing swimsuit company, walked off the job. Her husband hires Dave to find her, portraying her as mentally unstable and having made threats on his life
Find Leroy Burdette
Feb 19, 1962 · 60 min
A woman from South Carolina shows up at the office while Ken's trying to go fishing and asks him to find the boyfriend that jilted her. Initially reluctant, Ken takes the job and
Many a Slip
Feb 26, 1962 · 60 min
Sandy is hired to find an old acquaintance, the director of a lingere show. He encounters a number of romantic double-crosses. One member of the show entourage turns up dead, an
The Green Beret
Mar 5, 1962 · 60 min
Dave is temporarily reactivated into the military as a training officer. Intelligence has an enemy agent under surveillance and knows that her contact is in the unit Dave is train
Vendetta Arms
Mar 12, 1962 · 60 min
Daphne befriends five retired old crooks sharing a house together. A young crook is staying there and is stealing things and threatening everyone.
A Piece of Tommy Minor
Mar 19, 1962 · 60 min
Singing sensation Tommy Minor has a problem -- gambling. His manager asks Sandy to get the mob off his back. Sandy knows a gambling boat outside the territorial limits runs crook
Portrait of Nicole
Mar 26, 1962 · 60 min
An insurance company hires the boys to find the beneficiary of a life insurance policy named Nicole Johnson. Things get complicated when the boys find three Nicole Johnsons.
Elegy for a Bookkeeper
Apr 2, 1962 · 60 min
A former client of Ken's is murdered in prison before he can be released to testify against a racket boss. In order to prove the boss was behind the murder, Ken must make everyone
The Money Game
Apr 9, 1962 · 60 min
A prince is developing a new co-op with oil. Sandy has been hired to ask the prince to consider a rival partner for the ""black sand"". With the amount of money at stake, rivals
Green Bay Riddle
Apr 23, 1962 · 60 min
The small town of Green Bay doesn't like outsiders. One such outsider was acquitted of the murder of his father-in-law, although everyone still considers him guilty. Ken is hired
Love Song for a Deadly Redhead
Apr 30, 1962 · 60 min
Jeff, a private investigator from L.A. and friend of the SurfSide detectives, is called to Miami to investigate a threatening note left for a lounge singer. He meets a redhead, wh
The Neutral Corner
Jun 11, 1962 · 60 min
Someone is trying to kill a former boxing champion, so his manager hires Ken to find out who is behind the ""accidents"" (including a bomb placed at SurfSide 6 during a party for t
House on Boca Key
Jun 18, 1962 · 60 min
A drug store delivery boy borrows a formal jacket from Sandy for a prom. As he leaves the houseboat he is shot. Sandy thinks it was a case of mistaken identity and the bullets we
Midnight for Prince Charming
Jun 25, 1962 · 60 min
As part of the latest scheme of a husband and wife con artist team the husband seeks to hire Ken, portraying his wife as cheating on him with the intended scam victim. Ken refuses