Flipper (1964–1967): Season 1, Episode 26 - Flipper and the Elephant: Part 3 - full transcript

- Thus far in our story, the McCoys,

with the help of Flipper,
have avoided losing

their baby elephant
Esme to their creditor.

But the time has come
when they must pay him,

or never see Esme again.

- Now, we look right through
here, and we find our angles.

Take a look, right through there.

Now, if you know your longitude,

the angle tells you the time.

Here, let me have it.

Now, Greenwich Mean Time



minus six, 3:30

- Dad, why don't you
just look at your watch?

What?

- It's the McCoy's!

- Greetings and joy!

- From the real McCoy!

- Hello, Sean.

- Happy to see you, Porter.

Simpson arrive yet?

- Well, he called a little
while ago from Coral Key,

should be here soon.

Listen, Sean, he asked
if you were here and uh,

well I didn't know quite what to say.

- It's alright, it's alright.



This time I'm prepared
for Mr. Harry Simpson.

We've made enough to pay him off.

- That's great!

- Ah, speak of the devil.

- Ah, let's get the baby elephant off.

- At least you showed up, McCoy!

What's the excuse for
not paying me this time?

- I'll thank you to keep a
civil tongue in your head,

Mr. Simpson.

I am a man of honor.

- Honor? Smells like another stall.

But for once, Mr. McCoy,
you ain't gonna stall me.

I got papers here drawn up by my lawyer.

- Ah, you won't need the papers.

Here's your money.

- What? Well, I'll be
a grasshopper's uncle.

I'd just about given up.

- I doubt if you ever gave up on a nickel.

- Papa always pays his debts.

- Right.

- Yeah, if you wait long enough.

- If you'll excuse me, Mr.
Simpson, I have an important

business call to make.

- Hey, hey, wait a minute,
give me back my hat!

- Esme, bring that back!

- Stop, gimme back my hat!

- Esme!

- Dolphins, elephants!

What a way to run a park.

- Look, Simpson, you got your money.

It's what you came for, why
don't you get out of here, huh?

♫ 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

- Bonnie, the deal's been confirmed.

- Oh, how wonderful papa,
I can hardly believe it.

- Ah, you'll be happy to know Mr. Porter,

that creditors are past
history to the McCoys.

- Papa's got a job!

- Not a job, girl, a position.

- A position?

Well what about your animal exhibit?

- That's truly the best
part of it, Porter.

Esme and the chimpanzee will
share in my elevated status.

- Yes, you see we were
exhibiting Esme and Judy

at the coast with Mr. Anderson,

- Of the internationally
acclaimed Anderson Circuses.

- Yes, well he saw, and he
offered papa a j a position

as a trainer.

- Yeah, with splendid
compensation, starting tomorrow.

- Well, congratulations.

- Gee, that's great.

- Onward to fame and fortune.

Now that we've got Simpson
paid off, we'll be on our way.

- Okay, they're still here.

Okay, McCoy, where is it?

- Where is what?

- My money, what else?

- I gave you your money
not a half hour ago.

- And I witnessed it, now
what's this all about?

- If you witnessed his
giving me the money,

how come you didn't witness
him stealing it back?

- Sheriff, do you want to tell
me what this is all about?

- Well, Porter, this man
claims that he left the money

in his car, in a dispatch case.

- Yeah.

- Now this fella here, he
stayed behind while he went

chasing an elephant.

When Mr. Simpson come back,

the dispatch case and the money was gone.

- Well, that doesn't prove anything.

Simpson could have lost
that case anywhere.

- Well, you got a point there.

Except for one thing, when
Mr. Simpson come back,

he found this tie clasp in his car.

Is this yours?

- Is that yours?

- Well, what are we waiting for, Sheriff?

- Well, if you can't produce
the money, Mr. McCoy,

I'll have to take you to headquarters.

Now, I'm sorry to be
doing a thing like this

to a friend of yours, Porter.

- But you can't take papa and
he didn't steal your money.

- And in any case, you can't
arrest him without a warrant.

- Well, Mr. Simpson
filled out one already.

- Now look here, I have to
be in Centerport tomorrow

to start an important job.

You can't do this!

- It'd be better if you come along

without no fuss, Mr. McCoy.

I'm sorry, Porter.

- Go with him, Sean.

- Papa!

- Dad, can't you do something?

- I don't know what, son.

- And if I don't get my money
I'll be back for the elephant.

- No, not again.

- Oh please, Mr. Ricks, papa didn't do it.

- I know that, Bonnie, I know that.

Look, it's too late today, but
first thing in the morning,

I'm going down to the courthouse
and I'm going to convince

that prosecutor that
your dad didn't do it.

- If papa loses this job it'll kill him.

- Oh, hi, Bonnie!

- Hi, Sandy.

- How did you make out?

- We didn't.

They're going ahead
with the case next week.

- You mean, he's going
to have to stay in jail?

- Unless we raise money for bail.

Sandy, they're going to
prosecute papa for something

he didn't even do.

- Well, couldn't my dad do anything?

- Your dad tried awfully hard, Sandy.

He's gone over to Emerald Key to see
if he can get Mr. Simpson

to drop the charges.

At least until papa can go to
Centerport and start work.

- What's he saying?

- Guess he wants the
rest of his breakfast.

- Can't you see,
Flipper's found something!

I think it's over there,
he wants us to follow him!

- Come on!

- Maybe he's found the money.

- What?

There's something behind us?

- Oh, it's only Judy.

- Come on Judy.

Judy, come down here.

- I thought you said it
was something important.

You know, sometimes you
just can't understand him.

- I can't help thinking about papa.

Imagine being cooped up in a cell.

- Maybe we could make a
cake, and put a saw in it,

and take it to him.

I saw it in a movie once.

- Well, I guess I better call Mr. Anderson

and tell him we can't make it.

And papa was so happy
about his new position.

- Couldn't you just tell him
you'll be slightly delayed?

- He'd want to know why.

And he won't want to hire a jail bird.

If there were only some way

to raise the money to spring papa.

- Spring him?

- Set him free.

- Oh, I see.

- He is cute.

Flipper, how would you
like to join our act?

- That is, if we already had an act.

- Hey, I've got an idea!

Why don't we get up our
own show, charge admission,

and raise the money?

- Oh, we couldn't do it in
time to get papa out today.

- Sure we could if we hurry.

Let's see, we'll need a sign
and some flags and streamers,

Bonnie, you think you could get

Esme and Judy to work with Flipper?

- You bet, Esme's only
a baby but she'll help!

- Well, let's go, gang,
we've got work to do!

- Something I can do for you, Ranger?

- Yeah, is Simpson around?

- No.

- Could you tell me where I
might be able to find him?

- No.

What's he done?

- Well, I'd rather discuss
my business with him,

if you don't mind.

Do you know if he'll be back soon?

- Could be, I might even be
able to tell you where he went,

if, that is if you

- If what?

- Okay, okay, no harm in trying.

He went down to Coral Key

with a guy who wants to
buy an elephant and

Hey, don't you want to hear the rest?

- Hi. Her old man's in the
jug and she's playing games.

- That'll be one dollar, please.

- A dollar for what?

- We don't charge that much in our zoo.

- Highway robbery.

- Thank you.

- That's the baby, huh?

It is a nice looking animal.

- That elephant's worth
every penny of five hundred.

- Two hundred, maybe.

- Nothing doing.

♫ Once an elephant went to sea

♫ Tra la la, tra la lay oh

♫ With a mischievous chimpanzee

♫ Tra la la ayo

♫ But they left on a stormy day

♫ Tra la la, tra la layo

♫ Then they naturally lost their way

♫ Tra la la layo

♫ Their boat went aground

♫ And no one was around

♫ But Flipper came and helped them

♫ Or else they would have drowned

♫ Now the three of them make a team

♫ Tra la la, tra la layo

♫ Strange and weird as a crazy dream

♫ Tra la la layo

- And now, ladies and
gentlemen, for our next number,

Flipper at his best.

- Nothing.

Fish.

Flipper!

- Big deal.

- Bonnie, we're doing great.

We should have enough money
in the till to get your dad

out of jail.

- Well, I hope so.

Take Judy to the other side
and I'll send the raft over.

And now, ladies and gentlemen,

Flipper will pick up Judy
and tow her back on the raft.

Take her to the other side, go on.

Take it across.

- Okay, we're ready.

Come on, Judy.

Hey, Judy, come back here.

Hey Judy, get back here.

- Hey, she's not supposed to do that!

' Judy!

Judy, get out of that tree!

You come down here at once!

' MY Case!

That chimp's got my case!

- We gotta get her!

- What did you say?

There's something behind me?

Thanks a lot, Flipper!

Judy, you come down
from there this minute.

Gimme that!

Dad, come here, quick,
Judy got the case!

Come here, dad.

Dad, look, she's got it.

- What in blazes?

- It's Simpson's case.

- Judy, give me the case, come on, Judy.

- Is this your case?

- Yes.

- Well, then there's
your real thief up there.

And you had McCoy arrested.

- Well I'll be a monkey's uncle.

- Here.

Come on, kids.

- Thanks, chimp.

- Bud, Bud, come over
here a minute, will you?

- Well, here's your money from the show.

- Do we really have to
give back all this money?

- That's right, you do.

And you know why, too.

This is a government park.

- Seems like all our ideas
turn out wrong somehow.

- Well, this idea didn't
turn out wrong at all.

That was a fine thing you boys
did, putting on that show.

And I'm proud of both of you.

- And well you might be.

We've been all over the
world, Bonnie and me.

But until we met the Ricks,

we never knew what friendship really was.

- Well, thank you very much, Sean.

And I want to wish you and
Bonnie all the best luck

in anything you do.

- Thank you.

- Come on, you, come on.

- Sandy, I'm going to miss you a lot.

- Me too, but I'll come
and see you in Centerport.

- You will?

- The circus.

- The circus?

- No, no, I mean you.

- Hey dad, look at Flipper!

Flipper, you come back here,
come back here this minute.

Golly Flipper, for a minute
I thought you flipped too.

♫ 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 laugh 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