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TV Shows & Series: Best "surfing" TV Shows/Series

Surf movies fall into three distinct genres: The surfing documentary — targeting the surfing enthusiast.The 1960s beach party films — targeting the broader community.Fictional feature films with a focus on the reality of surfing. ()

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Blue Water High(2005-2008)

25min per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Blue Water High is an Australian television drama series, broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on ABC1 and on Austar/Foxtel Nickelodeon channel in Australia and on various channels in many other countries. Each season follows the lives of a young group of students at Solar Blue, a high-performance surf academy where several lucky 16-year-olds are selected for a 12-month-long surfing program on Sydney's northern beaches. There are three series in Blue Water High. The first two series were screened in 2005 and 2006 and the producers did not intend to create a third series. However, due to popular demand by fans, they relented and made one more series with only Kate Bell returning in a main role. Series three ended with the closure of Solar Blue, indicating that the show would most likely not continue.

Laguna Beach(2004-2006)

TV-PG
| 22min per episode | Drama, Reality-TV
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Like other teens in California, the lives of the Laguna Beach teenagers are filled with sandy beaches, beautiful friends and love triangles. But unlike other teens, they had cameras following them around. It may look like fantasyland, but they're not acting: they really are this rich and beautiful. For them, life really is a day at the beach.

Beyond the Break(2006-2009)

30min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Four passionate women with diverse backgrounds pursue their dreams of becoming professional surfers. But in order to remain afloat, each of them must overcome issues to capture surf stardom from WaveSync, a struggling surf company eager to reinvigorate itself.

Outer Banks(2020-)

TV-MA
| 49min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery
4.2/5 (with 381 votes)

A tight-knit group of teens unearths a long-buried secret, setting off a chain of illicit events that takes them on an adventure they'll never forget.

Directed by Jonas Pate, Cherie Nowlan, Valerie Weiss - With Charles Esten, Madison Bailey, Austin North, Madelyn Cline, Rudy Pankow, Jonathan Daviss, ...

John from Cincinnati(2007)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

In Imperial Beach, California, the Yosts—a dysfunctional family of surfers—intersect with two new arrivals to the community: a dim-but-wealthy surfing enthusiast and man spurned by the Yosts years ago.

Summerland(2004-2005)

TV-PG
| 42min per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Bradin, Nikki and Derrick are 3 kids from an average normal Kansas household. Their whole life is thrown upside-down when their parents are tragically killed in a car accident. Ava Gregory (their aunt) gets custody of her niece and nephews and they move into her Californian home (in Summerland). Ava, a struggling clothes designer, lives with her best friend and business partner, Susannah Rexford, her friend, an ex- pro.surfer, Jay Robertson and her ex-boyfriend, real estate agent, Johnny Durrant. All four of them are highly unequipped to handle children and are not use to including them in their everyday lives.

Top Model(1989-1990)

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Maria Eduarda "Duda" Pinheiro is a successful top model. After being hired to model Covery brand clothes, she meets the Kundera brothers, Alex and Gaspar, owners of the company. Gaspar, a former beatnik, is over 40 but still practices surfing, lives in a beach-side house and raises five children: Elvis (named after Elvis Presley), Ringo (Starr), Jane (Fonda), Olívia (Newton-John) and (John) Lennon, all from different mothers who left them with him. Anastácia "Naná" Passos, Duda's friend and mentor, loves him platonically, and rivalizes with Mariza Borges over him. Alex by contrast is a yuppie. He and their mother Morgana have a love-hate relationship and rivalry with his brother over Morgana's attention and the company. Alex begins to love Duda, however she falls in love with Lucas, a graffiti artist who is on the run from the São Paulo police due to his involvement in a crime there. He is also searching for his real father, and thinks it's either Alex or Gaspar.

100 Foot Wave(2021-)

TV-14
| 52min per episode | Documentary, Reality-TV, Drama
3.9/5 (with 7 votes)

The decade-long odyssey of surfing pioneer Garrett McNamara, who, after visiting Nazaré, Portugal in hopes of conquering a 100-foot wave, pushed the sport to ever-greater heights and alongside locals helped transform the small fishing village into the world’s preeminent big-wave surfing destination.

Lightning Point(2012)

TV-G
| 22min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
4.5/5 (with 5 votes)

When a spaceship carrying pretty, teen aliens Zoey and Kiki lands in the quiet Australian surf town of Lightning Point, the girls have to befriend local surfiegirl Amber and let her in on their secret. But while the duo learns about Earth, surf and falling in love, the girls soon realize that they aren't the first extraterrestrial visitors.

With Philippa Coulthard, Lucy Fry, Andrew James Morley, Jessica Green

Surviving Summer(2022-)

TV-PG
| 27min per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 41 votes)

Rebellious Brooklyn teen Summer Torres is sent to live with family friends in the tiny town of Shorehaven on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, AUS. Despite her best efforts, Summer falls in love with the town, the people and the surf.

Big Wave Dave's(1993)

30min per episode | Comedy

Big Wave Dave's is a sitcom that ran from August 9, 1993 until September 13, 1993. In it, three friends decide to drop everything and run a surf shop in Hawaii. When they arrive, they find out that it's not as easy as they thought. The show was produced by Levine & Isaacs Productions in association with Paramount Television.

Directed by Andy Ackerman - With Adam Arkin

Wind on Water(1998)

1h per episode | Drama

Hawaiian surf-and-turf melodrama about a ranching clan with an affinity for extreme sports. The series was cancelled after two episodes.

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High Tide(1994-1997)

NR
| 42min per episode | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Drama
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Brothers work as private investigators.

Puberty Blues(2012-2014)

45min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Based on Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey's iconic novel, Puberty Blues tells the story of two girls, Debbie and Sue, of innocence lost and experience gained against the backdrop of Australia in the 1970s.

Good Vibes(2011)

TV-MA
| 30min per episode | Animation, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Transplanted Jersey boy Mondo and his best buddy Woodie live out their California dreams in the colorful beach community of Playa Del Toro, where the likeable, down-to-earth duo search out the wildest parties, prettiest girls and biggest waves. While Mondo tries to look the part among the tanned, sculpted rich kids, his portly frame is sometimes a source of embarrassment, especially when he tries to impress super-cool Jenna. Through thick and thin, however, Woodie and his heart of gold is always by Mondo's side. "I've never had a bro before,'' Woodie says. "I've always been kind of a loner, but it's fun being loners together.''

Surf Girls Hawai'i(2023)

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The next generation of Native Hawaiian female surfers compete at elite levels to earn a coveted spot on the World Tour of professional Surfing. This 4 part series offers behind the scenes access as they train, navigate family responsibilities and battle against the highest ranking surfers to get to the top of the podium.

Edge of the Earth(2022)

TV-MA
| 1h 1min per episode | Documentary, Action & Adventure
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Follow four groups of elite action-adventure athletes on four unique, never-before-accomplished missions taking place around the globe, within awe-inspiring, undiscovered realms of nature.

Chasing Waves(2023-)

TV-PG
| 41min per episode | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

An docu-series exploring the unique and wonderful surf culture in Japan, highlighting the dramatic push and pull between convention and innovation. By chronicling the lives of both the trendsetters and the traditionalists, the series paints a captivating holistic picture of the global surf industry – from Australian-Japanese surfer, Connor O’Leary to freestyle surfers, Olympic hopefuls and businesspeople trying to make their mark.

Angry Boys(2011)

TV-14
| 30min per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

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his ~I didn't think I would fall in love~(2019)

25min per episode | Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Nagisa is 17 years old and attends second grade in high school. He is apart from his parents and lives alone in the seaside town of Fujisawa in Kanagawa. He is passionate about surfing and works at a bathhouse in a hostel on the island Enoshima linked to Fujisawa. Shun is the same age as Nagisa and visits Fujisawa for spring break. They meet and develop a relationship more than friendship. However, the surfing equipment store owner's daughter, Chika, has been secretly in love with Nagisa.

Make or Break(2022-)

TV-MA
| 40min per episode | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Dive into the world of pro surfing as the best in the sport travel the globe to compete for the World Championship title. With unprecedented access, this docuseries captures the athletes’ lives on tour and the sacrifices they make to get to the top.

Living Lahaina(2007)

30min per episode | Reality-TV, Documentary, Drama

Living Lahaina is an American reality television series on MTV. The series, filmed over a three-month period on location in Lahaina, focused on a group of twenty-something surf instructors and their father-figure-boss at the Royal Hawaiian Surf Academy. Living Lahaina also followed cast members throughout travels to Indonesia, California, and Kauai. Living Lahaina premiered on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 10:30 p.m. on MTV and was scheduled to run for eight episodes. However, only 3 episodes were shown on MTV. Following the style of MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, The Hills and Maui Fever, Living Lahaina was shot in the format of a scripted television show. Cast members did not speak directly to the camera. Instead, the show made use of a Dukes of Hazzard style voice-over narrative periodically throughout each episode, to give background or sum up storylines.

Curl Girls(2024-)

0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Follows six lesbian friends in Los Angeles through a summer of competition in friendship, romance, fashion and, most important, surfing.