# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/41 "2016-01-19T08:14:20Z")
> [@justmeetee](#): > > Didn’t Pep Streebek live in an upstairs apartment at the beach? Son of the Beach? ---
**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 19, 2016, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/42 "2016-01-19T10:27:13Z")
> [@justmeetee](#): > > Didn’t Pep Streebek live in an upstairs apartment at the beach? > [@madsircool](#): > > Son of the Beach? The 1987 Dragnet movie with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks. Aykroyd was Joe Friday and Hanks played his partner, Pep Streebek. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/43 "2016-01-19T11:49:46Z")
Simpsons just recently did a “Miami Vice” intro/parody recently. Quite hilarious. Which is seldom seen on the Simpsons lately. I especially liked the beefed up Flanders with prison-Cape Fear tats. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/44 "2016-01-19T14:19:25Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > In 1980s TV show Simon & Simon, Rick lived on a boat, (in his brother’s back yard). I liked Riptide. Similar, but goofier. Their boat was in the water ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/45 "2016-01-19T14:22:51Z")
Sandra Bullock’s character in Murder By Numbers was a cop who lived by herself on a houseboat. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/46 "2016-01-19T14:31:42Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > In the film _Blood Work_ (2002), Clint Eastwood plays a retired FBI agent who lives on a houseboat. See post 14. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/47 "2016-01-19T14:37:42Z")
Maybe someone mentioned this, but I didn’t see it earlier, so…Simon and Simon. One of them was living on a house boat at the beginning of the series. One of the first crime solvers on board a ship (boat) Adventures in Paradise. It had a ship traveling all around the South Pacific (sort of a soggy Route 66. OK, I seem to remember a John Wayne movie McQ with Wayne living on a house boat in Seattle and cleaning up the police department. I could well be wrong, however. Another Wayne flick where a cop lived on the water…I seem to remember Wayne’s English partner lived on a house boat on the Thames in Brannigan. Finally, Dr Who often landed on a beach before setting off to solve any number of crimes. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/48 "2016-01-19T16:24:49Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > …McQ with Wayne living on a house boat in Seattle… Just reminded me of _The Killing_ (U.S. version), I think the female cop lead lived in a Seattle houseboat for a bit (owned by a friend or relative?; her home life was a mess). ---
**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, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/49 "2016-01-19T16:44:47Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > Finally, Dr Who often landed on a beach before setting off to solve any number of crimes. Well, that or a quarry or an abandoned industrial site 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/50 "2016-01-19T18:00:24Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > In CHiPs, Ponch moved into a Marina Del Rey apt. That’s almost a beach house. ISTR he moved from a beachfront trailer. ---
**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 19, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/51 "2016-01-19T18:09:19Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > Maybe someone mentioned this, but I didn’t see it earlier, so…Simon and Simon. One of them was living on a house boat at the beginning of the series. Post #40. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/52 "2016-01-19T18:12:55Z")
Dexter Morgan lived mostly in a beach front apartment. He wasn’t technically a cop but he worked for Miami PD. ---
**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, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/53 "2016-01-19T18:58:53Z")
Didn’t Dexter, the serial-killer crime tech live in an apartment right off the ocean? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/54 "2016-01-19T20:19:12Z")
And he had an easily accessible boat. In “Backdraft,” which is mostly about firefighters but it spends a lot of time on arson investigation, Kurt Russell’s grizzled veteran firefighter lives on a boat. ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/55 "2016-01-20T16:17:14Z")
Bruce Willis’ character in _Striking Distance_ lived on a houseboat. The Mel Gibson “trailer bigger on the inside” was parodied in a Charlie Sheen movie, I think it might have been _Hot Shots_ but am not sure. There’s an exterior shot of him and a girl opening the door of the trailer, cut to interior shot, they step into a ballroom. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503/56 "2016-01-20T16:20:20Z")
> [@Apocalypso](#): > > Bruce Willis’ character in _Striking Distance_ lived on a houseboat. > The Mel Gibson “trailer bigger on the inside” was parodied in a Charlie Sheen movie, I think it might have been _Hot Shots_ but am not sure. There’s an exterior shot of him and a girl opening the door of the trailer, cut to interior shot, they step into a ballroom. You may be thinking of [Loaded Weapon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107659/). The bad guys shoot up what they think is Emilio Estevez’s trailer but Bruce Willis crawls out and they say “Oops, sorry.” Spoiler, I guess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-cop-living-at-the-beach-or-marina-80s-heavy/743503.md?page=2)