Marty Hartman once went to prison in New York thanks to then-assistant D.A. Dave Thorne. Marty has moved to Miami with hopes of starting a new life free of his criminal past. No one believes he has gone straight, including Dave. A yacht club commodore turns up murdered shortly after denying Marty membership in the club, and Marty becomes the prime suspect.
Sandy and Ken defend a young woman from three thugs. When they ask why the men were after her, she says she has no idea. She is in Miami on vacation, describing herself as "a dull little stenographer." Sandy takes her to dinner to ger more information, but she stands him up, leading him to investigate just who the woman is and what the three men wanted from her.
Pepe the Clown is hired to play the birthday party for the son of a hated dictator who is living in exile in Miami Beach. The dictator is murdered during the party, and all evidence points to Pepe. Pepe, however, insists he was not at the party, and hires Dave to prove that someone else went to the party in the Pepe the Clown costume to commit the crime.
A man has been in prison for seven years for the theft of bearer bonds. The insurance company is about to pay up and the man is about to get out of prison, so the insurance agent hires Sandy to make sure the bonds are indeed gone before the company pays. As Sandy investigates, he hits a snag because every lead the insurance agent gives him turns out to be bad.
Darcy Peyton hires Ken as a bodyguard. She doesn't tell him why she needs a bodyguard: she has taken $20,000 that was intended as a bribe for a judge to free a man from prison, and the brother of the jailed man wants the money back.
The night before a race, Daphne goes to the stable to check on her horse, Par-a-kee. She finds a man trying to kill her horse by injecting him with a virus. Daphne's father hires Dave to investigate who was behind the attempt on Par-a-kee's life.
A man attempts to blackmail the woman he is having an affair with. She refuses, and soon afterwards she is found dead. Her husband, who knew about the affair, becomes the prime suspect in his wife's death, so he hires Dave to find the real murderer.
The female assistant in a mind-reading act has a strange reaction when the mind-reader picks Dave's business card at random out of the audience for his performance. After the show she contacts Dave to hire him, because she feels the star of the show has given her a post-hypnotic order to murder someone.
A business executive is to meet Ken in in Fort Lauderdale for a job that will pay $2000. En route from Miami Ken is kidnapped by two men posing as police officers. When he escapes his captors and arrives in Fort Lauderdale, he discovers that someone posing as Ken Madison has already made contact with the businessman.
The wife of a theatrical producer receives a note implicating her husband as a killer. A second note is intercepted by the producer before it can reach his wife. He hires Ken and Sandy to find who sent the messages. When a former love rival is found dead, the producer is among many suspects.
An obnoxious superstar comedian makes unwanted advances at a singer friend of Sandy's. She tells him off in public, humiliating him in front of his friends after they have beaten up her boyfriend. He responds by harassing the woman with threats and framing her for a murder.
Sandy and friend Deep Taylor go scuba diving and discover a shipwreck with five boxes of gold coins. Sandy's friend is an experienced diver who is working to recover the gold for a museum. When Deep turns up dead, allegedly a drowning victim, Sandy and Ken investigate if the death has anything to do with Deep's claim a girl was swimming near the wrecked ship.
Dave gets what seems to be a straightforward case -- a woman hires him to locate her missing husband. As he investigates, however, he discovers that a number of criminals are looking for the man -- and that the "bride" is really not the man's wife.
A young movie star comes to Miami for a homecoming and the premiere of her new film. She discovers that she is adopted. Sandy, a friend of the girl, believes that the woman claiming to be the star's real mother is actually trying to exploit the young actress.
A man stops by the SurfSide office and gives Dave a letter to mail. After Dave and Ken discover the letter is empty and the mailing address is bogus, they find $70,000 that the man hid in the organ bench. The detectives suspect criminal activity is behind the money but they have little information to go on, even after the man who planted the money hires them but refuses to explain why.
Although Merilee Williams was cleared of wrongdoing in the death of her husband, she hires Ken to find proof that she did murder him. All of the evidence Ken uncovers points to the woman as the murderer, but Ken also finds some thugs who beat him up and order him to rule the woman was responsible for her husband's death.
The wife of Dave's best friend from the Korean War shows up at the office. His friend was believed captured and assassinated by revolutionaries, but his "widow" claims she sent him money years after he was allegedly killed. The search for his old Air Force buddy leads Dave through a group of exiles who think he is working for the dictatorship they fled.
A singer tries to attract attention to her fledgling career by wearing expensive jewelry. She is noticed -- by thieves, who rob her while she is singing at a nightclub. Dave, who knew her from her USO days when he served in Korea, takes a personal interest in the case.
Someone on a flight to Miami slips Dave some poison in his drink. As he lies in a hospital with only hours to live if the doctors do not discover which poison was given, Ken and Sandy question passengers. Checking the backgrounds of the passengers turns up a prime suspect, but he is killed before he can be interrogated.
Sandy is invited to a friend's carnival celebration in Jamaica. While there someone is killed by a snake bite. As the island has no snakes, the evidence points to a farm worker who has a history of being accused of importing snakes for local voodoo rituals. Sandy investigates to try to clear his friend's employee of the crime.
A federal agent hires Ken to investigate the disappearance of a retired federal Treasury Department engraver. The man disappeared on his honeymoon to an area known as Bass Creek. Ken was chosen for his knowledge of Bass Creek, and he discovers some ugly changes to his favorite vacation site when he and the female agent arrive posing as newlyweds.
A bank president hires Dave to pose as a newly-hired bank teller. Dave's assignment is to see if he can discover what co-worker is planning to stage a robbery of the bank.
A senator's daughter hires Sandy to investigate after she is the victim of blackmail following a car wreck. Sandy poses as a millionaire's son who risks loss of inheritance if he continues to get into trouble in order to get evidence, but his life is endangered when a mobster who knows the person Sandy is impersonating shows up.
Using Ken's background as a college baseball pitcher, a manager invites him to spring training in order to have Ken look into rumors that the team's star rookie pitcher has ties to a bookie.
Sandy meets a young woman in the Boom Boom Room and strikes up a conversation. He is puzzled by her constant questions about a local gangster, but soon discovers she has personal reasons for wanting the information.
Cha Cha's nephew, Rafael, is obsessed with a performer in a water ski show, a woman who is trying to blackmail another performer in the show. When the woman is found murdered Cha Cha's nephew is the prime suspect, leaving Dave to try to find who and why the blackmail was taking place.
Kevin Flanagan is a famous, profane novelist vacationing in Miami. He has a love of women and drink, which causes his wife to hire Dave as a bodyguard "to protect him from himself". Dave has much more to protect Kevin from: while on a drinking binge he witnessed a murder. The criminals are not sure whether Kevin's alcohol fog will allow him to remember what he saw, so they make arrangements to kill him.
Ken befriends a little girl while working on a case at an amusement park. He soon finds himself on another case involving the girl's divorced parents, her father's murdered fiancee, and a stolen stuffed animal purchased as a birthday present.
Daphne is going to a friend's wedding in the Bahamas. She is kidnapped en route. When Sandy discovers that Daphne failed to show for the wedding, he searches for his friend, and in the process discovers some secrets about the groom.
Daphne has a new boyfriend, a man who wandered into town. His refusal to talk about his past has the SurfSide detectives suspicious.
Daphne's dear friend from high school is murdered. Daphne strongly suspects the woman's husband is the murderer because of a heated argument shortly before the woman turned up dead. Daphne investigates the case on her own when neither her SurfSide detective friends nor the police will listen to her suspicions about the case.
Ken is hired by a businessman to keep tabs on the man's daughter. A "wild child," she becomes fascinated with an ex-con. The ex-con is murdered and the woman goes to the police and confesses to the crime, but Ken thinks she is innocent.
Sandy defends himself from a drunk man. The intoxicated man falls and is later found dead, leading to charges of murder against Sandy. Dave serves as Sandy's attorney while trying to discover what really happened to the man.
Dave reacquaints himself with an old girlfriend, but quickly discovers she is involved in a love triangle with a married man. He must then investigate an attempted murder resulting from the affair.
A lead on a case has Ken out of town. The lead proves fruitless, but he finds himself on another case -- a kidnapping in the run-down hotel he is staying at.
A ventriloquist performing at the Boom Boom room finds his dummy has been stolen. He later finds it hanging by its neck from a rope. He hires Sandy to investigate.
Dave's college reunion is taking place at the Fontainebleau Hotel. The reunion opens old wounds and deep secrets, leading to murder.
Sandy helps investigate the murder of the brother-in-law of Joe, the worker at the Fontainbleau. The dead man's psychiatrist has an unusual interest in Sandy's progress in the case, leading Sandy to suspect that the doctor may know more than she has told the police.
A man whom Dave once worked for in New York is missing, and a number of people are looking for him: a woman claiming to be his wife, a bounty hunter looking to bring the man in because of a murder charge, and the police. Dave looks for his one-time employer while trying to discover who is telling the truth about the man.
A woman falls and twists her ankle near Ken as he is enjoying a day on the beach. He helps the woman, unaware that she is part of a man's plan to frame Ken for a murder.
Lt. Plehn's younger brother is the quarterback for a team playing in the Orange Bowl. He is being blackmailed into throwing the football game by a woman who claims she has incriminating evidence against Lt. Plehn. Sandy tries to discover the truth before the game starts.
Sylvia, the designer and head of a swimsuit company, disappears, and Dave is hired to find her. When her husband is found murdered she is Lt. Plehn's chief suspect, but Dave and Ken have found evidence that points to other suspects.
A woman from South Carolina hires Ken to find the boyfriend who jilted her. Ken's investigation leads him to Lt. Plehn's investigation of a murdered mobster.
A friend of Sandy's, the director of a lingerie fashion show, is missing. While investigating the disappearance, another member of the entourage is found dead. Only Sandy disputes the claim that the death was a suicide.
Dave is recalled to active military duty. While he is officially acting as a training officer, he is also serving as an investigator: military intelligence knows that there is a spy in the unit Dave is commanding. Dave needs to find the spy and the spy's contact before a simulated attack on a nuclear power plant can be sabotaged.
A singing star's manager hires Sandy to help the young performer out of his gambling debt to the mob. Sandy has to prove the mob is operating an illegal gambling boat outside of territorial waters while steering clear of vengeful mobsters.
Ken suspects the murder of a one-time client in prison was arranged from outside, but in order to prove it he has to make everyone believe that the murdered man is alive and freed from prison. The racket boss turns to Dave after Dave and Ken break up following a heated argument, hoping that Dave will double-cross Ken.
A lounge singer receives a threatening note and phones an L.A. detective for assistance. The detective, a friend of the SurfSide detectives, arrives in Miami to investigate, but soon finds himself in the hospital and charged with murder after visiting the home of a redhead. The SurfSide detectives must solve the case in order to save their friend.
A mob bookie hires Dave, the man responsible for putting him away, from prison to check on threatening phone calls his wife has been receiving. His wife is part of the threat scheme, put on in order to find where the man hid $100,000 before he was sent to prison. A rival mob is also interested because they feel the missing money is theirs.
A young woman asks Ken to investigate a man romantically interested in her mother. The man is running a con game involving "can't miss" horse race bets, taking the woman for $10,000. When he turns up dead, the woman confesses to his murder, Ken fears to save her daughter from being charged with the crime.
A man seeks to hire Ken to investigate whether his wife is cheating with another man. Ken is unaware of the fact that the couple is attempting to establish a scam with the man named as the third member of a "love triangle" as the victim; however, since that man is a friend of Ken he will not take the case. The scam becomes apparent -- only after an acquaintance of the scheming couple is found murdered.