Surfside 6″, the ’60s TV private eye show filmed in Miami Beach, is history. The original houseboat used in the series is who-knows-where. But the man who built the boat is still in Ft.

Diane McBain, whose career playing spoiled rich girls included turns as the yacht owner Daphne Dutton on the ABC crime show Surfside 6 and an author ... She modeled for TV commercials and magazine ...

Adding more glitter to the houseboat’s image in the early 1960s, ABC aired a TV show called “Surfside 6” based in a houseboat moored across from the Fontainebleau. The show featured a trio ...

contract player in the early 1960s soon had her starring in the ABC series Surfside 6 and co-starring ... Her final credit was a 2001 episode of the TV series Strong Medicine, after which she ...

straight out of high school, McBain broke out as the loopy Daphne on the 1960-62 Miami Beach-set crime show Surfside 6. Her character ... She modeled for TV commercials and magazine ads as a ...