Flipper (1964–1967): Season 1, Episode 16 - Flipper's Bank Account - full transcript

- I wanna tell you ladies and gentlemen,

it's been a pleasure having
you as pupils here this summer.

And there isn't a one of you I wouldn't

trust with my own life on the water.

Though I hope the occasion won't arrive.

We will now make our final dive.

Now there are 10 pennies here,
and one Spanish doubloon,

a momento from my treasure hunting days.

I'm gonna toss them all
into the water like so.

Doubloon.

Now after you retrieve the
coins, your diplomas will be



waiting for you, but the one
who brings back the doubloon

will receive a special citation.

Aqua cum laude.

Ladies and gentlemen, get set.

Go!

♫ They call him Flipper,
Flipper, faster than lightning

♫ No one you see is smarter than he

♫ And we know Flipper lives
in a world full of wonder

♫ Lying there under, under the sea

- Well bud, the Shah of
Persia, he held me prisoner

in his palace for seven months

trying' to force me to become his deputy.

- A deputy maharaja, wow!

- Well, when I finally talked
him into letting' me go,



President of the United States
was gettin' a little edgy

on account I'da been gone so long.

Do you know what the maharaja gave me?

- What'd he give you Hap?

- He gave me a ruby big as my thumb.

- Wow, whatcha do with it?

- Ooh, I put it in
safekeepin' with the emerald

that the Shah of Persia
gave me when I saved

his son from them Arab tribesmen.

You know it ain't safe
leaving' valuables worth maybe

a million dollars just
laying around the house.

- Hap, if you've got millions
of dollars stashed away,

how come you had to borrow these beans

until you get your monthly pension?

- How come?
- Yeah.

- Well this is the way it is.

You see, now about my
friendship with the maharaja.

What's that?

- A coin.

Thanks Flipper.

- Lemme see it.

I had my specs, but, well
now that looks like a,

yeah, that looks like one of
them old Spanish doubloons.

- It does?
- Yeah,

looks like one of the ones
me and the Admiral found

when we blew up that pirate
ship off the coast of Jamaica.

- You never told me about that Hap.

- I didn't?

Well sir, I wanna tell you that

them pirates put up quite a fight.

Yes sir, killed 18 of our best men before

we blasted 'em out of the water.

- Hey Hap, do you suppose
this might be worth something?

- Well I don't know, it could be.

I'll tell you what, you bring
it around to my place tonight,

and if I can find my specs I'll give

you expert opinion on it.

. Okay-
. Okay-

- Happy birthday Sandy.

Master King Water Skis, 25.95.

Wonder if he'd let me use 'em.

- Sorry Bud.

Three dollars the best I can do.

- Three dollars?

But the doubloon's my friend
found were worth millions!

- Well, there are all
kinds of doubloons son.

This one's not old
enough to be worth much.

- You sure?
- Quite sure.

- May I?

- Oh of course Miss Thomas.

- Where'd you get this?

- My dolphin Flipper gave it to me.

- Do you know where he got it?

- He mighta found a sunken treasure.

But I haven't had time to ask him.

- Ask a dolphin?

I heard Mr. Johnson offer you
three dollars for this bud.

I'll give you five.

- Make it seven?

- Okay, seven it is.

- Gee, thanks a lot.

And if he brings me some
more, will you buy them?

- Try me next week.

Only you may have to
take wholesale prices.

. Okay-

- I didn't think charity
was in your line Miss Thomas.

- It isn't.

My line is publicizing Coral Key Park.

And lately the tourists have
been staying away in droves.

- Then I don't get it.

- You will my friend.

You will.

- Morning Flipper.
- Hey Flipper!

Hey Sandy, look!

What do you suppose that's all about?

- Hey dad?

Hey dad.

Dad, come here, quick.

Hey dad, look.

- What do you suppose that's all about?

- I don't know.

Better find out in a hurry.

Alright mister, I think we
can do without the horn.

- Hey what are you doing?

Hey let me get my boat outta here!

- Alright!

Alright!

Knock it off!

Knock it off!

- I'll see you later Buster.

- OK with me Clyde.

- I thought I told you not to launch.

- You think I'm gonna stay here while

some friend of yours goes
out and finds that treasure?

- Treasure?

What treasure?

- That treasure.

- Underwater bonanza at
Coral Key Marine Preserve.

The possibility of sunken
treasure at Coral Key

looms strong today with the appearance

of a Spanish doubloon,

the estimated value of which
is yet to be established.

An expert on rare coins claims
this indicates the presence

in an area of an old
Spanish treasure ship.

Well that's ridiculous.

I know every inch of ocean bottom,

and there is no old Spanish treasure ship.

- What about what is
says there in the paper,

what the expert says about the coin?

- Yeah dad, maybe the expert was right.

- Just a minute Bud.

Well I don't know.

I'd have to find out who started this

rumor before I can answer your question.

- Rumor?

- I ain't gonna hang around here.

Somebody else is out there
finding that treasure.

- Well I'd better put a call
into the Coast Guard for help.

I think we're gonna need it.

- Thank you folks!

Come again anytime!

Doin' more business this
morning' than I've done in years!

Remind me when I discovered
uranium in Saskatchewan!

I guess, I say I guess
I told you that one!

Hap, Hap!

Hap!

Hap, boy you gotta help
me, boy am I in trouble!

- Well sure bud, what's the matter?

- It's that treasure hunt.

Boy is dad mad, and if he
finds out I started it,

boy, he'll murder me!

- Treasure hunt?

Is that what all them
boats are don' out there?

- There was a piece in the paper about

that coin Flipper threw us yesterday.

It said it came from a
sunken treasure ship,

an expert said so.

- Piece in the paper, now
how did that get there?

- Well, I went to the coin
shop, and Mr. Johnson said the

coin wasn't worth much, but
the publicity lady, Miss Thomas,

she gave me seven dollars for it.

- Now woah, woah, woah,
now wait a minute boy,

let's just back up and go
through this all over again.

Now you said that they said
that it wasn't worth much,

but the expert said that it is?

- You know something Hap?

I think I was that expert.

- I think you was took.

They knew you was young, and those no good

chiselers put one over on ya.

- They did?

- Oh sure, they knew the
value of that coin, and they

wouldn't tell you because
they wanted to get it cheap.

- Hey Hap-

Do you think there might
be a sunken treasure ship?

- Well it says so on the paper, don't it?

Hey, you know something?

We better get out there and
get that sunken treasure

before somebody beats us to it.

I'll go get the rowboat.

- I'll call Flipper.
- Alright, oop!

I wish you'd watch where you're going.

- Well it seems to have
quieted down a bit.

We'll head back in and see what
shape that boat lift is in.

- Well I hope we never see
another day like this one.

- Yeah.

I'd like to get my hands on whoever

started this sunken treasure story.

- You sure Flipper understands

where he's supposed to be taking us?

- Sure he understands, if I tell him.

- We're a lot farther out
than I thought we'd be.

- Well, he'll give us a hand.

Here Flipper, we need some help boy.

- Hi Mr. Ricks.

Sandy.
- Hi.

- Quite a show we had today, huh?

- Quite.

It's one I could do without.

- Why Mr. Ricks, business is booming.

Do you realize there isn't a
vacancy in any of the hotels?

We've put Coral Key on the map.

' We?

Are you the one that made up that

story about the sunken treasure?

- I didn't make it.

I just reported what I heard.

- Miss Thomas, as Park Warden I'm familiar

with every inch of ocean bottom here.

Now why didn't you come to
me before printing that hoax?

- Hoax is a dirty word Warden.

I prefer to call it a
bubble, a bubble that burst.

- Well the next time you
start a bubble, check with

the people that have to
clean up the mess, will you?

- Now that's not fair.

No great harm's been done.

Anyway if it hadn't been for your son Bud

trying to sell that coin
in the first place...

' Bud!

What's Bud got to do with this?

- I'd suggest you do a
little checking in your own

family before you start
being so high and mighty

about other people's business Warden.

- My brother the crook.

- It was sure a lot easier when
ol' Flipper was helping' me.

- Watch out Hap, we're gonna hit a rock!

- You alright son?

- Yeah, I guess so Hap.

- Oh, I hate these shipwrecks.

There you are.

There's a place here,
we'll tie her up right here.

There, that oughta hold her, oof.

Well, looks like we're marooned buddy.

Punched a hole right in
the bottom, look it there.

Remind me the time I went
aground the Philippine Sea.

Right in the middle of a
forest, couldn't patch the boat,

'cause we didn't have any way...

- Look Hap!

It's the treasure chest!
- Yeah, it's the treasure!

- I'll get it, stay there.

- Alright, but you watch now,

it might be heavy.
- Okay.

- 'Atta boy.
- Wooh!

- Take it easy.

Don't break any of them jewels buddy.

- It must be full of money!
- Yeah.

Now feast your eyes.

What is that?
- A map.

- Congratulations treasure hunter.

You have just won yourself
this gift certificate for $25

worth of merchandise from
Joe Spencer's Marine Store.

Well.

- Oh Hap, what are we gonna do?

The tide's coming,
we'll never get outta here.

- I don't know, it cost us
more than $25 to get back home.

- Hey a helicopter!
- Yeah!

- Hey!
- Hey!

- Oh Hap, we're liable to drown out here.

- Now don't you worry.

OI' Hap will figure a way
to get us out of this.

- Yeah?

Like how?

. How?

- Okay Coast Guard, I'll tell my dad out.

Hey dad!

Couple of more treasure
hunters in trouble.

- What now?

- Man and boy marooned on those
reefs out by Sand's Point.

Coast Guard says could we go pick 'em up

while they're investigating a fire at sea.

- Think even amateurs would have enough

sense not to go in amongst those reefs.

Probably smashed up their boat.

People like that don't even deserve

the privilege of owning one.

- Gosh Hap, I'm gettin' scared.

- Well Buddy, I'm gettin'
a little edgy myself here.

You know, why don't old
Hap tell you about the time

he was marooned in the China Sea.

Well sir, 0l' Hap come
up from under the water

to take a look and there
was a giant Manta Ray

right between me and my boat.

- A boat!

Hey Hap look, a boat!

Hey, hey over here!

Hey!

- Dad, I see 'em.

- Where?

- Off to the right.

- It's dad.

- Ain't the way I had it figured out.

- Yeah dad, it's, it's Bud and Hap.

- Take the wheel.

- What a mess.

- Ah, gosh dad, can't we just
stop, just for a few minutes?

- What do you think Sandy?

Should we let our rare coin expert and

our big treasure hunter
have a coffee break?

- I think they've sweated long enough.

- Thanks Sandy and thanks Po.

You know, that's the worst
punishment than we gave the,

gave the slave traders at Mozambique.

. Hap-

How 'bout I make a deal with you?

You stop telling your
tall tales for one week,

and I'll take you off
park cleaning duty, okay?

. Okay-

- And as for you junior
capitalist, if I ever catch

you selling rare coins again...

- I, I promise dad, I promise.

- And thanks again for spending
the treasure money on me.

I'll let you use them alternate Thursdays.

- Say, that looks like a,
an Indian ruby, looky there.

Let me see here, it sure does.

By golly it is, look
at that would you Bud?

- Hap?
- Huh?

Oh.

But this one looks like a real one.

. Hap-

- Oh.

♫ Everyone loves the king of the sea

♫ Ever so kind and gentle is he

♫ Tricks he will do when children are near

♫ And how they love when he's near

♫ They call him Flipper,
Flipper, faster than lightning

♫ No one you see is smarter than he

♫ And we know Flipper lives
in a world full of wonder

♫ Lying there under, under the sea