Flipper (1964–1967): Season 1, Episode 7 - Not Necessarily Gospel - full transcript
An old man fills Bud's head with heroic tales, but his father warns him all the stories aren't necessarily true. Circumstances force Bud to realize then, but he wants to be a hero by finding the poachers who almost killed his father.
- The Scar was in the
harbor on his very own boat,
a 60 foot cruiser with a crew of criminals
just armed to the teeth.
And the water around that boat
was just full of tiger sharks.
Well, I seen that there was only one way
to get out to that boat,
and that was to swim.
Well I was just about out
there when The Scar spotted me.
And being the fiend that he is
he ordered his crew to
get all the raw meat
that they could find out of the galley.
- Raw meat?
- Did you ever see 50, 100 tiger sharks
in a feeding frenzy?
Well I hope you never do, boy.
I hope you never do 'cause it's a sight
that you'll remember all of your days.
Well sir, they threw all that raw meat
into the water all around me,
and them sharks just went crazy.
They was snapping, and
a-biting, and a-tearing.
And the whole sea was just running blood.
And that crew, being the
fiends that they were
they were hanging on that
rail like a pack of wolves
just waiting for me to be torn to bits
right before their very eyes.
- How did you get out of that one?
- How'd I get out of what one?
- The tiger sharks.
- Oh, the tiger, ooh.
Oh.
Come back here with that
you overstuffed sardine.
- Come on, Flipper.
Come on, boy.
Here boy, throw it up here.
- on.
- Are you all right?
- Yeah, watch we're you're
throwing them things, you pirate.
Hey, is that you dad and
your brother over there?
Looking for you, I'll bet.
- Hi Dad, hi Sandy.
- Well, Bud, old friend, you remind me
the next time you come over to visit
to tell you the story
about the jade dragon
and man with the poison fingernails.
- Poison fingernails, wow.
♫ 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
♫ Flying there under, under the sea
- See what Hap made for me, Dad.
Isn't that neat?
- Ah, that's very nice.
You thanked him, I hope.
- Sure.
- Now there's one thing about
your friendship with Hap, Bud.
If you turn up missing these days
I know just where to find you.
- Yeah, tuned into the
terror of the seven seas.
- Ah, what's wrong with you?
I think Hap's the greatest.
- Greatest?
Now I've heard everything.
- Ah, come on, knock it off.
- What's eating him, Dad, huh?
- Old age, Bud.
Sandy's too old for indiscriminate
hero worship anymore
and it's made him bitter.
- What do you mean?
Has he got something against Hap?
- No, not really.
I don't think he wants
to see you disillusioned.
- Dis, disillusioned?
- Let down, disappointed.
- By Hap?
' By anyone.
Hap's been doing an awful
lot of talking lately
and you've been doing a lot of listening.
Let's remember one thing, Bud.
Not everything Hap says is
necessarily gospel, that's all.
- But he says it's the absolute...
- Ah, I said that's all.
Sandy, you and Bud get
my scuba gear ready.
We're inside the preserve
now and I'll need it soon.
- Where we heading for, Dad?
- The lobster grounds.
I want to do a little
looking around underwater.
Take the wheel, Sandy.
- What do you want to look underwater for?
- If you were ever at home you wouldn't
have to ask so many questions.
We have a problem with poachers.
- Now maybe we do and maybe we don't.
That's what I'm going to try and find out.
- You mean somebody's stealing
the lobsters underwater?
They can't do that, it's against the law.
- No kidding.
- Well, there's been a lot of lobsters
turning up in the market, Bud.
And a legitimate fisherman thinks
that they might be
coming from out of here.
- How could a poacher operate in here
without you seeing him, Dad?
- Well, he could work at night.
He could set his lobster
pots on the bottom
so nothing's shown on the surface.
Heave to, Sandy.
' Aye aye, skipper.
- May I go too, Dad?
I can be ready in a minute.
- Not this time, sport.
- Then take Flipper with you.
- I couldn't keep him
away even if I wanted to.
- There he is.
- Hi, Dad.
- Did you find anything, Dad?
- Yeah, with plenty of help from Flipper.
- What did you find?
- Just a minute.
Sandy, get me that chart.
I want to get some kind
of a fix on that place.
Well, the traps are down there
all right, plenty of them.
- What did you do, Dad, break 'em up?
- Nope, I was very careful
not to touch them at all.
- How come?
- Because I'm coming back
here tonight with a gun
and I'm going to catch me a poacher.
- Hey, I know what you ought to do, Dad.
Take Hap Corman along with you.
- Oh, you think he's the
man for this job, do you?
- I know he is.
There was this gang of oyster pirates
off the coast of Tasmania.
- Oyster pirates.
- That's right.
Hap went out there all alone
with not even a penknife
and scared 'em all away.
- Well, Bud, if old Hap could do that
without even a penknife,
don't you think a park ranger
equipped with a 30-30 rifle
could handle one or two lobster poachers?
- Well, I guess so.
- Okay now, who's turn
is it to do the dishes?
- Bud's.
- Sandy's.
- On.
- Stay down.
Cut the anchor line.
- This is the warden.
Hold it right there or
I'll start shooting.
- Mr. Dennis?
This is Sandy Ricks.
I'm sorry to call you
at this time of night,
but I'm worried about my dad.
- You sure you know where
you're going, Sandy?
- Yes, sir.
I saw Dad mark it on the chart.
- There's nothing in sight.
- Flipper's spotted something.
- There he is.
Easy, take it slow.
You shouldn't have left the
hospital so soon, Po?
- Two days on the flat of
my back was plenty, Ed.
Probably time enough for them
to cover their tracks, too.
- If you ask me, they're gone
from here and still running.
- Maybe, and maybe not.
Ramming me must have caused
some damage to their boat.
I want to check any place
where they might have
pulled in for repairs.
And I want to do it now.
- Well, let's get on with it.
' Anything?
- Nah, we've drawn a blank
all the way down the line.
The only place we haven't
tried is old Hap's.
- Hap's an expert on catching outlaws
and he's my best friend.
- Well I was still two
days out of Shanghai.
And not having no radio,
of course I didn't know
that the rebels had took over.
Well, when I seen this little cutter
come racing in with bow in their teeth I...
- Hap, Hap, Hap, look.
Now that's all very interesting I'm sure.
But you still haven't
answered my question.
- You know, you getting
rammed the other night,
that remind, did lever
tell you about the time I...
. Hap, Hap.
I didn't come here to swap stories.
All I want is an answer to my question.
- Well, what was the question, Po?
- Have you in the past
two days done repairs
on the bow of a dark gray 30 footer?
- Past two days?
Shucks, Po, I ain't done no work like that
in the past two years.
- Thanks, Hap, that's all I want to know.
Let's go.
- Good thing for those skunks
they didn't come to you, right Hap?
- How was that?
- If the men who hurt my dad had come here
you would have polished them
off like that.
You would have given
them the old one, two...
- Bud, come on.
- Okay, Dad.
See you soon, Hap.
- So long, pal.
- What'd you tell 'em?
- I didn't say nothing.
Honest I didn't, Mr. Conlon.
You told me not to say
nothing and I kept my promise.
- You sure?
You were doing a lot of talking.
- Well, I was just covering up.
They kind of took me by surprise.
You didn't tell me it was Po Ricks
that you had the run in with.
- The less you know, the
longer you're likely to live.
Understand?
- I don't want to know nothing.
I don't want to say nothing.
Honest, Mr. Conlon.
- Gosh, I didn't mean to
startle you like that, Hap.
- Oh, that's all right, son.
- I came right away 'cause I figured
we got to make plans, right?
- Plans?
Now what plans?
- To catch the poachers, of course.
- Why them fellas will be
long gone from here by now.
- But that's what Mr. Dennis said too,
and I think he's got Dad believing it.
- Well you see, now that
just goes to show ya.
- But they don't know about
the prothes of Kaiyodo.
- The what?
- The prothes of Kaiyodo, remember?
I know Poole never thought
they'd return, but you did.
I got a boat for us, Hap,
and it's all ready to go.
- Well now, see here.
I don't want to hear anymore
of that kind of talk.
- What's the matter, Hap?
- Well, I just don't want
to hear any more of it.
It's, well it's ain't safe.
- But that's nothing
compared to what you've done.
- Well now, that was a,
well that was a long time ago.
And besides, I'm too busy right now
to go trotting off on some foolishness.
Besides, this afternoon I got to row over
to Hampton Point to find some tools.
- You mean you're not coming with me?
- Well I mean, that's just what I mean.
Bud?
Bud, boy.
Come on back, Bud, and I'll tell you story
about a, Bud?
. Help-
Hey help-
Hey help-
Help, help.
Flipper.
Flipper, I lost you.
Flipper, Flipper, come back.
Flipper, don't leave me here.
Flipper, come back.
- You clown, you get out of here.
Go on.
You get out of here.
Go on, you great baloney.
Get out.
Go on, go on, get.
Get.
Go on.
Go on, get.
D'oh..
Let me tell you something.
Don't you ever talk to me like that now.
Get out, okay?
Go on, get out.
You know, why don't you
go find another dolphin
and play with it and leave me alone.
I got to row way out there to the island
all by myself, and I...
Stop it, what do you think you're doing?
You cut that out, you brainless barracuda.
Let go of that line, you pirate.
- Oh Hap, Hap, you've saved me.
- Po.
Oh Po, he's all right.
He's just tired.
- You all right, son, you okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay, Dad.
- All right, Hap, what happened?
Come on, what happened?
- Well, you know those
poachers you're looking for?
- Yeah.
- Well, I know who they are.
Fact is I fixed their boat for 'em.
- Let's take some of that courage
you're always talking about
and go get those poachers.
. Okay-
Fact is that's just what I had in mind.
Come out of there, you coward.
Well, I guess he's saved you.
♫ 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
♫ Flying there under, under the sea
harbor on his very own boat,
a 60 foot cruiser with a crew of criminals
just armed to the teeth.
And the water around that boat
was just full of tiger sharks.
Well, I seen that there was only one way
to get out to that boat,
and that was to swim.
Well I was just about out
there when The Scar spotted me.
And being the fiend that he is
he ordered his crew to
get all the raw meat
that they could find out of the galley.
- Raw meat?
- Did you ever see 50, 100 tiger sharks
in a feeding frenzy?
Well I hope you never do, boy.
I hope you never do 'cause it's a sight
that you'll remember all of your days.
Well sir, they threw all that raw meat
into the water all around me,
and them sharks just went crazy.
They was snapping, and
a-biting, and a-tearing.
And the whole sea was just running blood.
And that crew, being the
fiends that they were
they were hanging on that
rail like a pack of wolves
just waiting for me to be torn to bits
right before their very eyes.
- How did you get out of that one?
- How'd I get out of what one?
- The tiger sharks.
- Oh, the tiger, ooh.
Oh.
Come back here with that
you overstuffed sardine.
- Come on, Flipper.
Come on, boy.
Here boy, throw it up here.
- on.
- Are you all right?
- Yeah, watch we're you're
throwing them things, you pirate.
Hey, is that you dad and
your brother over there?
Looking for you, I'll bet.
- Hi Dad, hi Sandy.
- Well, Bud, old friend, you remind me
the next time you come over to visit
to tell you the story
about the jade dragon
and man with the poison fingernails.
- Poison fingernails, wow.
♫ 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
♫ Flying there under, under the sea
- See what Hap made for me, Dad.
Isn't that neat?
- Ah, that's very nice.
You thanked him, I hope.
- Sure.
- Now there's one thing about
your friendship with Hap, Bud.
If you turn up missing these days
I know just where to find you.
- Yeah, tuned into the
terror of the seven seas.
- Ah, what's wrong with you?
I think Hap's the greatest.
- Greatest?
Now I've heard everything.
- Ah, come on, knock it off.
- What's eating him, Dad, huh?
- Old age, Bud.
Sandy's too old for indiscriminate
hero worship anymore
and it's made him bitter.
- What do you mean?
Has he got something against Hap?
- No, not really.
I don't think he wants
to see you disillusioned.
- Dis, disillusioned?
- Let down, disappointed.
- By Hap?
' By anyone.
Hap's been doing an awful
lot of talking lately
and you've been doing a lot of listening.
Let's remember one thing, Bud.
Not everything Hap says is
necessarily gospel, that's all.
- But he says it's the absolute...
- Ah, I said that's all.
Sandy, you and Bud get
my scuba gear ready.
We're inside the preserve
now and I'll need it soon.
- Where we heading for, Dad?
- The lobster grounds.
I want to do a little
looking around underwater.
Take the wheel, Sandy.
- What do you want to look underwater for?
- If you were ever at home you wouldn't
have to ask so many questions.
We have a problem with poachers.
- Now maybe we do and maybe we don't.
That's what I'm going to try and find out.
- You mean somebody's stealing
the lobsters underwater?
They can't do that, it's against the law.
- No kidding.
- Well, there's been a lot of lobsters
turning up in the market, Bud.
And a legitimate fisherman thinks
that they might be
coming from out of here.
- How could a poacher operate in here
without you seeing him, Dad?
- Well, he could work at night.
He could set his lobster
pots on the bottom
so nothing's shown on the surface.
Heave to, Sandy.
' Aye aye, skipper.
- May I go too, Dad?
I can be ready in a minute.
- Not this time, sport.
- Then take Flipper with you.
- I couldn't keep him
away even if I wanted to.
- There he is.
- Hi, Dad.
- Did you find anything, Dad?
- Yeah, with plenty of help from Flipper.
- What did you find?
- Just a minute.
Sandy, get me that chart.
I want to get some kind
of a fix on that place.
Well, the traps are down there
all right, plenty of them.
- What did you do, Dad, break 'em up?
- Nope, I was very careful
not to touch them at all.
- How come?
- Because I'm coming back
here tonight with a gun
and I'm going to catch me a poacher.
- Hey, I know what you ought to do, Dad.
Take Hap Corman along with you.
- Oh, you think he's the
man for this job, do you?
- I know he is.
There was this gang of oyster pirates
off the coast of Tasmania.
- Oyster pirates.
- That's right.
Hap went out there all alone
with not even a penknife
and scared 'em all away.
- Well, Bud, if old Hap could do that
without even a penknife,
don't you think a park ranger
equipped with a 30-30 rifle
could handle one or two lobster poachers?
- Well, I guess so.
- Okay now, who's turn
is it to do the dishes?
- Bud's.
- Sandy's.
- On.
- Stay down.
Cut the anchor line.
- This is the warden.
Hold it right there or
I'll start shooting.
- Mr. Dennis?
This is Sandy Ricks.
I'm sorry to call you
at this time of night,
but I'm worried about my dad.
- You sure you know where
you're going, Sandy?
- Yes, sir.
I saw Dad mark it on the chart.
- There's nothing in sight.
- Flipper's spotted something.
- There he is.
Easy, take it slow.
You shouldn't have left the
hospital so soon, Po?
- Two days on the flat of
my back was plenty, Ed.
Probably time enough for them
to cover their tracks, too.
- If you ask me, they're gone
from here and still running.
- Maybe, and maybe not.
Ramming me must have caused
some damage to their boat.
I want to check any place
where they might have
pulled in for repairs.
And I want to do it now.
- Well, let's get on with it.
' Anything?
- Nah, we've drawn a blank
all the way down the line.
The only place we haven't
tried is old Hap's.
- Hap's an expert on catching outlaws
and he's my best friend.
- Well I was still two
days out of Shanghai.
And not having no radio,
of course I didn't know
that the rebels had took over.
Well, when I seen this little cutter
come racing in with bow in their teeth I...
- Hap, Hap, Hap, look.
Now that's all very interesting I'm sure.
But you still haven't
answered my question.
- You know, you getting
rammed the other night,
that remind, did lever
tell you about the time I...
. Hap, Hap.
I didn't come here to swap stories.
All I want is an answer to my question.
- Well, what was the question, Po?
- Have you in the past
two days done repairs
on the bow of a dark gray 30 footer?
- Past two days?
Shucks, Po, I ain't done no work like that
in the past two years.
- Thanks, Hap, that's all I want to know.
Let's go.
- Good thing for those skunks
they didn't come to you, right Hap?
- How was that?
- If the men who hurt my dad had come here
you would have polished them
off like that.
You would have given
them the old one, two...
- Bud, come on.
- Okay, Dad.
See you soon, Hap.
- So long, pal.
- What'd you tell 'em?
- I didn't say nothing.
Honest I didn't, Mr. Conlon.
You told me not to say
nothing and I kept my promise.
- You sure?
You were doing a lot of talking.
- Well, I was just covering up.
They kind of took me by surprise.
You didn't tell me it was Po Ricks
that you had the run in with.
- The less you know, the
longer you're likely to live.
Understand?
- I don't want to know nothing.
I don't want to say nothing.
Honest, Mr. Conlon.
- Gosh, I didn't mean to
startle you like that, Hap.
- Oh, that's all right, son.
- I came right away 'cause I figured
we got to make plans, right?
- Plans?
Now what plans?
- To catch the poachers, of course.
- Why them fellas will be
long gone from here by now.
- But that's what Mr. Dennis said too,
and I think he's got Dad believing it.
- Well you see, now that
just goes to show ya.
- But they don't know about
the prothes of Kaiyodo.
- The what?
- The prothes of Kaiyodo, remember?
I know Poole never thought
they'd return, but you did.
I got a boat for us, Hap,
and it's all ready to go.
- Well now, see here.
I don't want to hear anymore
of that kind of talk.
- What's the matter, Hap?
- Well, I just don't want
to hear any more of it.
It's, well it's ain't safe.
- But that's nothing
compared to what you've done.
- Well now, that was a,
well that was a long time ago.
And besides, I'm too busy right now
to go trotting off on some foolishness.
Besides, this afternoon I got to row over
to Hampton Point to find some tools.
- You mean you're not coming with me?
- Well I mean, that's just what I mean.
Bud?
Bud, boy.
Come on back, Bud, and I'll tell you story
about a, Bud?
. Help-
Hey help-
Hey help-
Help, help.
Flipper.
Flipper, I lost you.
Flipper, Flipper, come back.
Flipper, don't leave me here.
Flipper, come back.
- You clown, you get out of here.
Go on.
You get out of here.
Go on, you great baloney.
Get out.
Go on, go on, get.
Get.
Go on.
Go on, get.
D'oh..
Let me tell you something.
Don't you ever talk to me like that now.
Get out, okay?
Go on, get out.
You know, why don't you
go find another dolphin
and play with it and leave me alone.
I got to row way out there to the island
all by myself, and I...
Stop it, what do you think you're doing?
You cut that out, you brainless barracuda.
Let go of that line, you pirate.
- Oh Hap, Hap, you've saved me.
- Po.
Oh Po, he's all right.
He's just tired.
- You all right, son, you okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay, Dad.
- All right, Hap, what happened?
Come on, what happened?
- Well, you know those
poachers you're looking for?
- Yeah.
- Well, I know who they are.
Fact is I fixed their boat for 'em.
- Let's take some of that courage
you're always talking about
and go get those poachers.
. Okay-
Fact is that's just what I had in mind.
Come out of there, you coward.
Well, I guess he's saved you.
♫ 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
♫ Flying there under, under the sea