Flipper (1964–1967): Season 3, Episode 27 - Flipper's New Friends: Part 1 - full transcript
A new family moves into the park, and Flipper befriends them. But the children's curiosity gets them stranded on an island and nobody knows where they are.
- All right, Bud.
Let's give it a try.
- Hey, Dad.
Dad, I got it.
- ls it from the
Coast Guard Academy?
- Yep-
- Well, are you in or are you out?
- I don't know.
I was scared to open it.
- Well, you don't want
me to open it, do you?
- Oh, well.
Okay)!-
I made it.
They accepted me.
- Congratulations, Sandy.
- Nice going, Sandy.
- ls that the rest of the mail?
- Well, when do you have to report?
- September 11th.
Hey, we can leave together.
I can drop you off in Boston
and go on to New London.
Wouldn't that be great?
- Will it?
Look.
' Hey, Flipper!
Come back here!
What's the matter with him?
- Well, he's upset because
the both of us are leaving.
- What do we do?
- Well, I know what I'm doing.
I'm staying here with Flipper.
- Oh, Bud.
- Well, I am.
- Dad went to a lot of
trouble setting it up
so you could stay in Boston
and go to that school.
How do you think he's gonna feel?
He thinks you wanna go.
- Well, I do, Sandy.
But, how was I supposed to know Flipper
was gonna get this upset?
I'm just gonna write Aunt Martha
and tell her I've changed my mind.
Besides, I couldn't study
while worrying about Flipper.
♫ 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
- If you can find Flipper,
I'm sure it will make
Bud feel a lot better.
Take the auto horn.
- Okay, Dad.
- Go get it.
- Come on.
- Come on.
- Come on, Rink.
Come on.
- Go get it.
- Go get it.
Come on.
- Come on.
- Come on.
Bring it here, baby.
Come on, bring it here.
Rink, what's the matter?
- He lost his ball in the water.
See?
Dirk, what's that?
- I think it's a seal.
- Let me try.
- That's a trained seal.
- Maybe it was just an
accident and he didn't mean it.
Oh:?
Come on, Rink.
Let me have it.
- Dirk, Liz.
You promised to change your clothes
and help unpack your things.
- In a minute, Mom.
- We're just making friends.
- Friends?
Now, you get away from him.
Shoo.
Scat, go away.
- Gosh, Mom.
You didn't have to scare him.
- Scare that thing?
- Hi, Flipper.
- You mean that creature is your pet?
- More like one of the family.
My name is Sandy Ricks.
My dad's a park ranger over at Coral Key.
Okay, okay.
And that's Flipper.
He's a dolphin.
- Well, I'm sorry I was
so rude to your pet.
My name is Fran Whitman
and this is my son, Dirk,
and my daughter, Liz.
- Hi.
- Oh, and that is Rink.
- He's one of our family.
- Hey, look.
Rink wants to play some more.
- Can Flipper stay a while?
- Sure.
- Well, it doesn't look like
I'm going to have much help
with the unpacking, now does it?
- Maybe I could give you a hand.
- Oh, would you?
That place is such a mess.
I had no idea it would be so rundown.
- What did you do, buy it sight unseen?
- No, I inherited it.
Captain Ellis was my Grand Uncle.
My lawyer in Dayton,
that's where we're from.
All of us.
Dayton, Ohio.
Well anyway, he said
I'm a very lucky woman.
- He could be right.
Marine supply can be a
good business down here.
- Unfortunately, I don't
know the first thing
about business, let alone boats.
My husband would've
loved all this, though.
But, now I guess I'll just have to sell.
- What would you do then?
- Oh, go back to Dayton.
It's a shame, too.
Look.
The children seem to love
it here so much already.
- Yeah, I'll say they do.
Look, why don't I go get
my dad and my brother?
We'll have this place
shipshape for you in no time.
- Sandy, that's awfully sweet of you, but.
- And I'll give you a hand running it
till you learn the ropes, okay?
Don't give me an answer yet, Mrs. Whitman.
Let me talk to my dad first.
- All right.
- Hmm.
You know, I think we're finally
starting to get somewhere.
- Sure.
It'll go even faster when
my brother gets here.
He'll be over as soon as
he finishes his chores.
- Isn't this pretty?
- It's all dusty.
I'll have to get you some new ones.
- I mean, the park.
- The Everglades?
It's one of the prettiest
parks in the country.
There's all kinds of
birds and animals there.
- Alligators?
Where is this park anyways?
- Well, you're practically in it.
Starts just behind the store
and goes clear across Florida.
- Gosh, I can hardly wait to see it.
- Yes, well you never will unless we
get this place straightened up.
- Sure, Mom.
Hey, Mom.
Look what else we found.
- It still plays.
- So I can hear.
Now, take it outside.
- All right, if you don't want us to help.
- Can we get something to eat, too?
- Just a snack.
It's almost lunchtime.
There's some fruit out
there if you want it.
I don't know, must be the sea air.
- Best thing in the world for them.
- Let's think of
something we all can play.
- I know, we can go down to the park.
- But, Sandy said there
were animals there.
Alligators.
- So what?
They'll all be in cages.
It's a park, isn't it?
Besides, we'll have Rink with us.
Oh, and Flipper, too.
We'll follow the beach road
until we come to a river, or something.
Then, we'll follow that
right into the park
and that we he can stay right with us.
- That's a good idea.
Come on, Rink!
- Come on, Flipper!
- Hi.
I'm Bud Ricks.
Sandy's my brother.
You must be Liz and Dirk.
- That's right.
- That's a nice dog you got there.
- He and Flipper are friends.
- Yeah, I can see that.
How about you and Flipper?
- Us, too.
- He's more fun than anything.
- How would you like to play
with him every single day?
- You'll have to excuse us now.
We're going to the park for a picnic.
- Listen, Flipper.
If you wanna go with them you can,
'cause I gotta lot of work to do.
- Hey, look.
Isn't this the greatest?
- Aw, it's just an old boat.
- It happens to be just what we need.
Hey, it's even got a paddle
so I could push us along the water.
Come on, help me get it in.
- We're supposed to stay out of boats.
Mother said so.
- Liz, we'll keep next
to shore all the way.
- We will?
- I promise.
- All right then.
- Come on, Rink.
Come on.
Come on, get in the boat.
Come on, help me get it into the water.
- Dirk, you broke your promise.
We're nowhere near the shore.
- Don't worry, Liz.
I'll get us back somehow.
. How?
- I'll think of something.
- Dirk?
- What?
- You better think fast.
My feet are getting wet.
- Bail!
Hey, here's a bucket.
Hey, we stopped moving.
Maybe the tide's gone the other way.
- What is it, Flipper?
Dirk, look.
An island.
- Maybe we can get there before we sink.
Come on, paddle.
- It's no use, Dirk.
- Maybe I could think of something else.
- What else is there?
- How can I think with all that noise?
Hey, he wasn't just making
noise, he was talking.
And Rink understood.
Gee, I sure am glad Flipper was with us.
- Mrs. Whitman?
All done.
- Oh, really?
That's marvelous.
- Wish we could get him
to work that fast at home.
- Well, what next?
- Lunch.
It's almost ready.
Oh, will you call the children for me?
- For lunch?
But, when I met them on the way over here,
they said they were going
to a picnic in the park,
but they were headed outside Coral Key.
- You don't think?
- What?
- They were looking at that book.
- You mean, Everglades National Park?
That's not a park, that's a jungle.
- Hey, wait a minute.
They couldn't go in too far.
Flipper and Rink are with them.
- Come on.
Don't worry, Mrs. Whitman.
It won't take us long to find them.
- What's he trying to tell us now?
- Probably not to worry.
We're gonna be all right, Liz.
- Sorry, Mrs. Whitman.
We didn't see any sign of them.
- But, you said they
couldn't have gone very far.
- Don't worry.
It won't take a real search
party long to find them.
I'll call my dad.
- All right, Sandy.
We'll keep in touch with these.
I've got one, you've got the other one.
Now, if you hear anything,
let me know right away.
Do you understand?
- Okay, Dad.
And Mrs. Whitman, I know it's difficult,
but try not to worry about your children.
We'll find them.
- They'll be okay.
They're with Flipper.
- All right, Bud.
Let's go.
- All right, Dad.
- My dad wasn't kidding.
He meant it when he said
there was a good chance
of finding them.
- Do you know what I'm going to do
the minute he brings them back here?
- Give them a spanking, I guess.
That's what my dad did to us
once when we wondered off.
- Yes, well after that.
I'm taking them back to Dayton
on the first plane out of here.
- But, Mrs. Whitman.
- Oh, I know.
I know, they love Florida
and they love Flipper.
And look, I like it here myself,
but this is just too much.
Excuse me.
- Helicopter, Porter Ricks, 6-1-0.
Do you read me, over?
- Roger,
this is helicopter 6-1 -0-4.
- Roger, helicopter.
Have you seen anything?
Anything at all, over?
- No, we
haven't seen anything yet,
Porter Ricks.
- All right, I'll keep
looking from down here.
Thank you very much.
Porter Ricks out.
- Here is a
special Coral Key bulletin.
The Coast Guard and the
park service are searching
a section of the Everglades National Park
for two children believed lost.
Dirk Whitman, 12, and his
sister Elizabeth, nine.
If anyone has information
as to their whereabouts,
communicate with the authorities at once.
- See, I told you.
They're looking for us.
- But, in the wrong place.
- Gosh, that's right.
- We've got to tell them
where we are and right away.
- But, how, Liz?
- I don't know, but you
always think of things.
Flipper, maybe he can help.
Flipper, listen, please.
Get somebody down here.
They're looking for us in the Everglades.
- Go on.
Be a good boy, Flipper, and help us.
- In the Everglades, Flipper.
- Do you think he really understood?
- Well, Rink thinks he did.
- Do you, boy?
- Be sure
to be with us next week
for the conclusion of
this exciting adventure.
♫ 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
Let's give it a try.
- Hey, Dad.
Dad, I got it.
- ls it from the
Coast Guard Academy?
- Yep-
- Well, are you in or are you out?
- I don't know.
I was scared to open it.
- Well, you don't want
me to open it, do you?
- Oh, well.
Okay)!-
I made it.
They accepted me.
- Congratulations, Sandy.
- Nice going, Sandy.
- ls that the rest of the mail?
- Well, when do you have to report?
- September 11th.
Hey, we can leave together.
I can drop you off in Boston
and go on to New London.
Wouldn't that be great?
- Will it?
Look.
' Hey, Flipper!
Come back here!
What's the matter with him?
- Well, he's upset because
the both of us are leaving.
- What do we do?
- Well, I know what I'm doing.
I'm staying here with Flipper.
- Oh, Bud.
- Well, I am.
- Dad went to a lot of
trouble setting it up
so you could stay in Boston
and go to that school.
How do you think he's gonna feel?
He thinks you wanna go.
- Well, I do, Sandy.
But, how was I supposed to know Flipper
was gonna get this upset?
I'm just gonna write Aunt Martha
and tell her I've changed my mind.
Besides, I couldn't study
while worrying about Flipper.
♫ 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
- If you can find Flipper,
I'm sure it will make
Bud feel a lot better.
Take the auto horn.
- Okay, Dad.
- Go get it.
- Come on.
- Come on.
- Come on, Rink.
Come on.
- Go get it.
- Go get it.
Come on.
- Come on.
- Come on.
Bring it here, baby.
Come on, bring it here.
Rink, what's the matter?
- He lost his ball in the water.
See?
Dirk, what's that?
- I think it's a seal.
- Let me try.
- That's a trained seal.
- Maybe it was just an
accident and he didn't mean it.
Oh:?
Come on, Rink.
Let me have it.
- Dirk, Liz.
You promised to change your clothes
and help unpack your things.
- In a minute, Mom.
- We're just making friends.
- Friends?
Now, you get away from him.
Shoo.
Scat, go away.
- Gosh, Mom.
You didn't have to scare him.
- Scare that thing?
- Hi, Flipper.
- You mean that creature is your pet?
- More like one of the family.
My name is Sandy Ricks.
My dad's a park ranger over at Coral Key.
Okay, okay.
And that's Flipper.
He's a dolphin.
- Well, I'm sorry I was
so rude to your pet.
My name is Fran Whitman
and this is my son, Dirk,
and my daughter, Liz.
- Hi.
- Oh, and that is Rink.
- He's one of our family.
- Hey, look.
Rink wants to play some more.
- Can Flipper stay a while?
- Sure.
- Well, it doesn't look like
I'm going to have much help
with the unpacking, now does it?
- Maybe I could give you a hand.
- Oh, would you?
That place is such a mess.
I had no idea it would be so rundown.
- What did you do, buy it sight unseen?
- No, I inherited it.
Captain Ellis was my Grand Uncle.
My lawyer in Dayton,
that's where we're from.
All of us.
Dayton, Ohio.
Well anyway, he said
I'm a very lucky woman.
- He could be right.
Marine supply can be a
good business down here.
- Unfortunately, I don't
know the first thing
about business, let alone boats.
My husband would've
loved all this, though.
But, now I guess I'll just have to sell.
- What would you do then?
- Oh, go back to Dayton.
It's a shame, too.
Look.
The children seem to love
it here so much already.
- Yeah, I'll say they do.
Look, why don't I go get
my dad and my brother?
We'll have this place
shipshape for you in no time.
- Sandy, that's awfully sweet of you, but.
- And I'll give you a hand running it
till you learn the ropes, okay?
Don't give me an answer yet, Mrs. Whitman.
Let me talk to my dad first.
- All right.
- Hmm.
You know, I think we're finally
starting to get somewhere.
- Sure.
It'll go even faster when
my brother gets here.
He'll be over as soon as
he finishes his chores.
- Isn't this pretty?
- It's all dusty.
I'll have to get you some new ones.
- I mean, the park.
- The Everglades?
It's one of the prettiest
parks in the country.
There's all kinds of
birds and animals there.
- Alligators?
Where is this park anyways?
- Well, you're practically in it.
Starts just behind the store
and goes clear across Florida.
- Gosh, I can hardly wait to see it.
- Yes, well you never will unless we
get this place straightened up.
- Sure, Mom.
Hey, Mom.
Look what else we found.
- It still plays.
- So I can hear.
Now, take it outside.
- All right, if you don't want us to help.
- Can we get something to eat, too?
- Just a snack.
It's almost lunchtime.
There's some fruit out
there if you want it.
I don't know, must be the sea air.
- Best thing in the world for them.
- Let's think of
something we all can play.
- I know, we can go down to the park.
- But, Sandy said there
were animals there.
Alligators.
- So what?
They'll all be in cages.
It's a park, isn't it?
Besides, we'll have Rink with us.
Oh, and Flipper, too.
We'll follow the beach road
until we come to a river, or something.
Then, we'll follow that
right into the park
and that we he can stay right with us.
- That's a good idea.
Come on, Rink!
- Come on, Flipper!
- Hi.
I'm Bud Ricks.
Sandy's my brother.
You must be Liz and Dirk.
- That's right.
- That's a nice dog you got there.
- He and Flipper are friends.
- Yeah, I can see that.
How about you and Flipper?
- Us, too.
- He's more fun than anything.
- How would you like to play
with him every single day?
- You'll have to excuse us now.
We're going to the park for a picnic.
- Listen, Flipper.
If you wanna go with them you can,
'cause I gotta lot of work to do.
- Hey, look.
Isn't this the greatest?
- Aw, it's just an old boat.
- It happens to be just what we need.
Hey, it's even got a paddle
so I could push us along the water.
Come on, help me get it in.
- We're supposed to stay out of boats.
Mother said so.
- Liz, we'll keep next
to shore all the way.
- We will?
- I promise.
- All right then.
- Come on, Rink.
Come on.
Come on, get in the boat.
Come on, help me get it into the water.
- Dirk, you broke your promise.
We're nowhere near the shore.
- Don't worry, Liz.
I'll get us back somehow.
. How?
- I'll think of something.
- Dirk?
- What?
- You better think fast.
My feet are getting wet.
- Bail!
Hey, here's a bucket.
Hey, we stopped moving.
Maybe the tide's gone the other way.
- What is it, Flipper?
Dirk, look.
An island.
- Maybe we can get there before we sink.
Come on, paddle.
- It's no use, Dirk.
- Maybe I could think of something else.
- What else is there?
- How can I think with all that noise?
Hey, he wasn't just making
noise, he was talking.
And Rink understood.
Gee, I sure am glad Flipper was with us.
- Mrs. Whitman?
All done.
- Oh, really?
That's marvelous.
- Wish we could get him
to work that fast at home.
- Well, what next?
- Lunch.
It's almost ready.
Oh, will you call the children for me?
- For lunch?
But, when I met them on the way over here,
they said they were going
to a picnic in the park,
but they were headed outside Coral Key.
- You don't think?
- What?
- They were looking at that book.
- You mean, Everglades National Park?
That's not a park, that's a jungle.
- Hey, wait a minute.
They couldn't go in too far.
Flipper and Rink are with them.
- Come on.
Don't worry, Mrs. Whitman.
It won't take us long to find them.
- What's he trying to tell us now?
- Probably not to worry.
We're gonna be all right, Liz.
- Sorry, Mrs. Whitman.
We didn't see any sign of them.
- But, you said they
couldn't have gone very far.
- Don't worry.
It won't take a real search
party long to find them.
I'll call my dad.
- All right, Sandy.
We'll keep in touch with these.
I've got one, you've got the other one.
Now, if you hear anything,
let me know right away.
Do you understand?
- Okay, Dad.
And Mrs. Whitman, I know it's difficult,
but try not to worry about your children.
We'll find them.
- They'll be okay.
They're with Flipper.
- All right, Bud.
Let's go.
- All right, Dad.
- My dad wasn't kidding.
He meant it when he said
there was a good chance
of finding them.
- Do you know what I'm going to do
the minute he brings them back here?
- Give them a spanking, I guess.
That's what my dad did to us
once when we wondered off.
- Yes, well after that.
I'm taking them back to Dayton
on the first plane out of here.
- But, Mrs. Whitman.
- Oh, I know.
I know, they love Florida
and they love Flipper.
And look, I like it here myself,
but this is just too much.
Excuse me.
- Helicopter, Porter Ricks, 6-1-0.
Do you read me, over?
- Roger,
this is helicopter 6-1 -0-4.
- Roger, helicopter.
Have you seen anything?
Anything at all, over?
- No, we
haven't seen anything yet,
Porter Ricks.
- All right, I'll keep
looking from down here.
Thank you very much.
Porter Ricks out.
- Here is a
special Coral Key bulletin.
The Coast Guard and the
park service are searching
a section of the Everglades National Park
for two children believed lost.
Dirk Whitman, 12, and his
sister Elizabeth, nine.
If anyone has information
as to their whereabouts,
communicate with the authorities at once.
- See, I told you.
They're looking for us.
- But, in the wrong place.
- Gosh, that's right.
- We've got to tell them
where we are and right away.
- But, how, Liz?
- I don't know, but you
always think of things.
Flipper, maybe he can help.
Flipper, listen, please.
Get somebody down here.
They're looking for us in the Everglades.
- Go on.
Be a good boy, Flipper, and help us.
- In the Everglades, Flipper.
- Do you think he really understood?
- Well, Rink thinks he did.
- Do you, boy?
- Be sure
to be with us next week
for the conclusion of
this exciting adventure.
♫ 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