# Movies with a cop living at the beach or marina (80's heavy) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503 "2016-01-18T15:08:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/21 "2016-01-18T17:46:03Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **[Surfside 6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_6)** predates him. The detectives on the show lived in a houseboat \[In Miami Beach!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS3hoWKLPi8)\ I was unaware of that show, probably because I was in elementary school and it was opposite Danny Thomas and Andy Griffith. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/22 "2016-01-18T17:52:19Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Rockford’s trailer was actually in the [parking lot](http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=200801959&mode=big&lastmode=sequential&flags=0&year=2008) of the restaurant there, so we can assume he got permission or was paying lot rent. He was paying housing dues. In fact, there was one episode in which the president of the HOA attempted to evict Rockford under the pretext that Rockford attracted too much trouble when in actuality he wanted to get his hands on some stolen gold that he had buried on Rockford’s trailer site some 50 years previously. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/23 "2016-01-18T20:17:04Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > I was unaware of that show, probably because I was in elementary school and it was opposite Danny Thomas and Andy Griffith. Thanks! It was one of four series that Warner Brothers produced for ABC set in “exotic” cities (i.e., the Warner Brothers backlot). The others were _Bourbon Street Beat_ (New Orleans), _77 Sunset Strip_ (Hollywood), and _Hawaiian Eye_ (Honolulu). All had the same formula, which included a catchy theme song. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/24 "2016-01-18T21:09:16Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > To Live and Die in LA > > William Petersons place in San Pedro. And his Florida house in _Manhunter_. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/25 "2016-01-18T21:16:37Z")
Frank Sinatra played an ex-cop-turned-private investigator who lived on a boat in _Tony Rome_ and _Lady In Cement_. ---
**Author:** ![scoots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@scoots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scoots)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/26 "2016-01-18T22:18:22Z")
Quincy - not a cop but he did solve crimes - lived on a boat ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/27 "2016-01-19T00:33:13Z")
Didn’t _ **Quincy, MD** _ live on a sailboat? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/28 "2016-01-19T00:46:27Z")
1992 Hardboiled. The undercover cop Alan (Tony Leung) lives on a boat where he folds his paper cranes for all the people he’s been forced to kill to maintain his cover. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/29 "2016-01-19T00:48:16Z")
In the film _Blood Work_ (2002), Clint Eastwood plays a retired FBI agent who lives on a houseboat. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/30 "2016-01-19T00:55:44Z")
> [@Arizona\_Mike](#): > > As a teen watching these flicks from land-locked Arizona, I planned to move to California, buy a trailer, and park it on the beach like they did and live cheaply!’ As a kid I always wanted a houseboat as a kid because McGuver had one. As I recall is was pretty damn big too. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/31 "2016-01-19T01:07:09Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > As a kid I always wanted a houseboat as a kid because McGuver had one. As I recall is was pretty damn big too. House boats are great! The best part is if you hate your neighbors, you can just weigh anchor and go someplace else. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/32 "2016-01-19T01:55:47Z")
^ Are you in Witness Protection? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/33 "2016-01-19T01:59:36Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > As a kid I always wanted a houseboat as a kid because McGuver had one. As I recall is was pretty damn big too. I always had visions of McGuver’s MsGuvered bilge pump crapping out and his boat sinking one dark stormy night. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/34 "2016-01-19T02:15:47Z")
Tom Selleck again – lives right up against the ocean in all those made for TV _Jessie Stone_ movies. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/35 "2016-01-19T02:22:35Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I always had visions of McGuver’s MsGuvered bilge pump crapping out and his boat sinking one dark stormy night. You take that back! :mad: Macgyver’s Bilge pump is more reliable than the sun, and it purifies the entire ocean as it works. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/36 "2016-01-19T02:55:46Z")
Bruce Willis lives on a houseboat in that movie where he and Sarah Jessica Parker are river-patrol police in Pittsburgh. It came across more trailer park than glamorous. ---
**Author:** ![theoldman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@theoldman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theoldman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/37 "2016-01-19T04:41:46Z")
I think Mitchell - Joe Don Baker lived in Marina Del Rey… Maybe not Mitchell! ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/38 "2016-01-19T05:41:59Z")
Mike Kellerman (Reed Diamond) on _Homicide: Life on the Street_ lived on a houseboat in Baltimore. Wrong coast, but there you go. ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/39 "2016-01-19T06:06:12Z")
Didn’t Pep Streebek live in an upstairs apartment at the beach? ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/40 "2016-01-19T06:16:51Z")
In 1980s TV show Simon & Simon, Rick lived on a boat, (in his brother’s back yard). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503.md?page=3)