Flipper (1964–1967): Season 3, Episode 28 - Flipper's New Friends: Part 2 - full transcript

- Flipper's new friends,

Liz and Dirk Whitman,
are marooned offshore,

waiting for him to bring help.

But Flipper, trying to
reach Bud and Porter,

needs help himself.

- I can't pretend anymore,
Sandy, not even to myself.

Dirk and Liz really are lost.

- Well it's only a matter of time

before Dad or the Coast Guard finds them.

- Yes, but it's going
to be getting dark soon.

They've got nothing warm to wear.



They've got nothing to eat.

I mean, they may be all right now, but...

- Mobile 6-4, do you read me?

- That's us.

- Mobile 6-4, Porter Ricks in the air boat.

Sandy, do you read me, over?

- Yeah, Dad, have you found them?

- No, we haven't
found a thing, Sandy,

but I just wanted to check and make sure

that you're still receiving my signal.

- No we haven't heard anything
here, Dad, no messages.

- All right, Sandy, we'll
keep looking from here.

Air-boat out.

- He's been gone an awfully long time.



- Flipper, not so very.

♫ They call him Flipper

♫ Flipper, faster than lightning

♫ No one you see

♫ ls smarter than he

♫ And we know Flipper

♫ Lives in a world full of wonder

♫ Lying there under

♫ Under the sea

- Why is he barking, do you see anything?

- Nope.

We will, though, and this time it really

will be a rescue ship.

- You're just trying to cheer me up.

- Honest, we'll see a ship
by the time you can count to,

to 1,000.

- By ones or tens?

- Tens, but slow.

- All right, 10, 20,

30, 40, 50.

110,120,130.

- Hey, there's Flipper!

Boy, am I glad to see you again.

- So am I, but where's the ship?

- It'll be coming along right behind him.

- I don't see it yet.

- Here's a
bulletin just handed me

on Dirk and Elizabeth Whitman,

the youngsters who are believed
lost in the Everglades.

They have not yet been found,

but a combined ground-air
search is being pressed

by the Park Service, headed
by Porter Ricks, ranger,

and by the Coast Guard.

Lights will be flown into
the scene.

- Dirk, they still think
we're in the wrong place.

Flipper didn't get through to them.

- Guess he just couldn't.

Dolphins can't go up on land.

- Well, what are we gonna do now?

It won't be long before it gets dark.

- They'll find us before
that, Liz, believe me.

- All right.

But if they don't, I never will again.

. Okay, okay.

Hey look at Rink.

Flipper's probably telling
him just what happened.

- No, I think he's telling
him to do something.

- Like what?

- Who knows?

- I guess Rink does.

- I know, now, come on, let's help him.

- What's the idea?

- You said dolphins can't go up on land.

- That's right, they can't.

- But dogs can, so Flipper can
take Rink to the Everglades.

- On a raft.

Boy are you smart.

Come on, help me.

Come on, Rink, you're gonna go for a ride,

to get some help.

- Come on, Rink.

It's working, it's working.

- Sure it is, this time
we've got it made, Liz.

This time I'm sure.

- Honestly, Sandy, you
don't have to do that now.

Why don't you come and have
something cool to drink?

- I promised you I'd help you get

this place ready for business.

- Yes, well, that was before
Dirk and Liz got lost.

Now all I want is to
get them back to Dayton

where they'll be safe.

- You'll feel safe in Coral
Key once you get used to it.

- I'll never get used to it here.

And I'm not staying one
day longer than I have to.

- You know, this place
could be a real winner.

- For you, perhaps.

Say, how would you like that?

- I wasn't kidding.

- Well neither am I.

I'm sure that before we leave,

your father and I can make some
sort of a fair arrangement.

- Thanks, but I'm leaving
myself in the fall.

Going to New London.

I've been accepted at
the Coast Guard Academy.

- Oh, well, congratulations.

- Thanks, Bud was going away too.

He was going to Boston,

go to a school and study oceanography.

. Was?

What changed his mind, your father?

- He's worried about Flipper.

See, he'll be real upset if we both leave.

- Flipper means a great deal
to you boys, doesn't he?

- For a while, I thought
I had the problem solved.

The way Flipper got along
with the kids and Rink.

- I understand how you feel, and

I'm sorry, Sandy, truly I am.

- How come I'm so cold?

I thought Florida's warm all the time.

- Because our clothes aren't
all dry yet, that's why.

- It's getting windy, too.

- I got an idea.

We can use this for a windbreak,

with some of the palm fronds.

Come on, help me.

There, that oughta do it.

Well, how do you like it?

- It's groovy, thank you, Dirk.

- Hey, Dad, look, that's their dog.

Hey, Dad, it's Rink.

Maybe he can help us find Liz and Dirk.

- All right, let's go.

Well I don't get it, he wants
us to go back to the water.

If those kids are anywhere,
they're on the high ground.

- Well, you know what I think, Dad,

I think he's just lost, too.

- We better catch that dog or
we'll never find those kids.

There's Flipper, come on.

- Flipper and Rink, what's this all about?

- I don't know, but
where are the children?

And I don't know why
the dog brought us here

instead of to the children.

- Hey, wait a minute, Dad.

Do you think Flipper
might have brought Rink

here on that raft?

- If he did, he probably
knows where the children are.

- Well let's follow him.

- We'll never get the
air boat over the levee.

We're gonna need the launch.

Come on, let's go.

- Come on, Rink.

- Dirk, you're thinking again, I can tell.

- You're right.

I'm thinking we better
start saving us ourselves.

- Dirk.

- Hey, I got it.

- You're not thinking we can swim home?

- Course not, we're gonna go by boat.

Our boat drifted ashore.

- But you know it's full of holes.

- Not if we plug them up.

Come on, help me.

You start baling out some water,

and I'll start plugging up some holes.

Now, let's see if it works.

Hey, we're really moving.

- It's the tide, it's still going out.

- Yeah, and when we get
over it, it'll come back in,

and we'll drift right up on shore.

- We will?

- Well, I've been right so far, haven't I?

Are you all right?

You look funny.

- It's leaking again.

- It's no use, Liz, I'll
have to bale some more.

Maybe if we can get in the middle,

we can balance off the boat.

Get down.

Maybe if we get in the water,
the boat'll stay up longer.

- What good will that do us?

- We can hang on to the sides, see,

like they do in the shipwrecks.

- I wouldn't be able to hold on very long.

- You won't have to, I'll
hold on with one hand

and hold you with the other, okay?

- No, no, get back in.

Hurry!

Another minute, they'd have grabbed you.

- Boy, you're as bad as Mom.

They'll grab us the same way Flipper does.

- You mean, they aren't sharks?

- They're dolphins, you can
tell by the fin on their backs.

- One's coming toward us.

- Probably just to say hello.

- That wasn't a dolphin.

- It was a shark, we
better stay in the boat.

Get down low so we won't tip over.

- Mobile 3-7, Dad, this is Sandy.

Can you read me, over?

Mobile 3-7, Dad, this is
Sandy, can you read me, over?

- This is Bud, Sandy.

I can't hear you very clearly, though.

- You haven't called, what's happening?

- Well, we're following Flipper.

We're due east from Coral Key.

- They left the Everglades, why?

- What for?

- Well, we think Flipper knows
where the kids really are.

- That's good enough for me, over and out.

- Dad, look, there are the kids.

I knew Flipper wouldn't let us down.

- We found them all right.

It looks like some sharks found them, too.

Take the wheel, Bud.

Okay, Bud, easy.

There you go, honey.

- Well, I still think it's a mistake.

- Oh, I don't know, Mr.
Ricks, it just seems to me...

- Now, my friends call me Porter.

- All right.

Porter.

But when I think of
what we all went through

the last few days.

- But we got through it, didn't we?

And Liz and Dirk learned
some very important lessons.

Let them stay, Fran, and keep on learning.

- I'll think about it.

- All right.

- Don't worry, guys, we'll
get Mom to let us stay here.

- We'll try anyway.

- We've got to, we can't leave Flipper.

He wouldn't have anybody
to look after him.

- And you would?

- You bet.

- And while we're in school,
Rink can look after him.

- Well, how does that
sound to you, Flipper?

Hey, will you take it easy.

I mean, we want you to
miss us too, you know.

- You're leaving, since when?

- Well, I had a long talk
with Flipper this morning.

- And he convinced you?

- Who else?

♫ 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

♫ ls smarter than he

♫ And we know Flipper

♫ Lives in a world full of wonder

♫ Lying there under

♫ Under the sea