Flipper (1964–1967): Season 3, Episode 3 - Disaster in the Everglades: Part 2 - full transcript
While the boys wait on word from the Coast Guard on the whereabouts for their father and Flipper continues to search the ocean for the missing father, Porter tries to find a way to escape and get home.
- While I was making
a routine check flight
over the Everglades in search
of a suspected alligator poacher,
I stopped to investigate
but then I was caught
in one of his submerged alligator traps.
Barney found me and offered to help,
but once he had me back at his camp,
he held me as prisoner.
Look, I've gotta get word to those kids.
- Relax ranger, it wouldn't hurt your boys
to worry about their pa a mite.
Appreciate ya more, if-fen you get back.
- Meanwhile Sandy worried about me.
Notifying the Coast Guard.
24 hours later and still
I was too closely guarded
to get away or let the Coast
Guard know where I was.
- Sandy.
- Yeah, Bud?
- Nothing.
- Go ahead, say what you wanna say.
- Isn't there anything we can do?
- Flipper's looked, we've looked,
the Coast Guard's doing the best they can.
- It's like you said, it's
the waiting and not knowing,
that's the worst part.
- Look, why don't we
go on up to the house,
I'll fix some pancakes and maybe later on,
we'll go on over to the
Tremaine's for awhile,
play ball with Joey or something.
I sort of promised Miss
Tremaine we'd come by anyway.
- What if Dad...
What if there's some word.
- Lieutenant Tremaine's
with the Coast Guard,
he'll be one of the first ones to know.
Come on.
- Okay.
I'll see you later, Flipper.
♫ 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
- Now that didn't do you no good.
Well, I'll be off now.
Don't get any fancy ideas.
Only a fool would try to
walk out of these glades
and with that leg, you
wouldn't get no where.
Well I'll be back, I've
got some traps to set
and some things to do.
- You might've said
something about my pancakes.
- I'm sure they were great.
I just wasn't very hungry.
- Me me too.
- Sandy, Sandy, I don't really
wanna go to the Tremaine's.
- I don't either, Bud, but you know why
we're going, don't you?
- Why?
- Because Dad would want it that way.
He wouldn't like it if he
knew we were sitting around
moping and worrying about him.
Come on, let's go.
- Sandy.
What will we do if Dad...
- Bud, you have to stop
thinking that way, you hear?
Dad's gonna be all right, just
keep telling yourself that.
You know we've been through
some pretty tight spots together.
That's part of being a ranger,
that's part of being a ranger's son.
We'll get through this one.
Come on, before you make
Dad be ashamed of you.
- Oh Sandy, could we take Flipper with us.
- Sure.
- Flipper!
- He must've gone off somewhere, Bud.
Maybe he thought of something we didn't.
Come on, we'll see him later.
' Ranger?
Ranger
Darn it, how far do you think
he's gonna get with that leg?
This time I ain't gonna
be so easy on him.
- Sandy, did you get in
touch with the Coast Guard
after you left the house?
- Yeah, I told Lieutenant Tremaine we'd be
at his house in case he heard anything.
- Sandy, haven't you ever cried since
you were a little kid?
- Sure, I cried that time Dan Turner
threw me off my bike and broke my arm.
- I don't mean that kind of crying.
- Bud, there's nothing wrong with crying
if you have something to cry about.
You don't, remember what I told you,
keep telling yourself that
Dad's gonna be all right.
- Sure, he'll be all right.
- Good boy.
- Ranger, where are ya?
Ranged
Ranged
- Flipper!
Flipper, over here!
- Ranger, where are you?
- Flipper, tow me out.
It's no use.
Flipper, go for help.
You can't tow me, go for help.
' Ranger?
Ranged
Ranged
- Temperatures
in the 80s with a slight
five to seven...
- Sandy, Bud.
I just had a phone call from my husband.
- Did you hear anything about my dad?
- One of the copter pilots
wired into headquarters
and said that he saw a
dolphin near the Everglades
and he's quite sure that it's Flipper.
- Sandy, I think we'd
better go find Flipper.
- Yeah, thank you, thank you very much.
- Sandy hey Sandy.
- What is it?
- Look there's Flipper.
Flipper, here we are, boy.
- What is it, Flipper?
Did you find Dad?
- Where is he, where is he, boy?
- We'd better go get to the launch
and follow him, come on.
- We'll be right with you, Flipper.
' Ranger!
You hear me?
- Can't you make this thing go any faster?
- We're going as fast as it can go.
- Sandy, do you think
he's really found Dad?
- We'll soon find out, take the glasses.
' Ranger!
- There isn't anything here, Flipper.
- What'd you bring us here for?
- Boys!
Sandy, Bud, over here!
- Dad!
- Boys, over here!
Sandy, come over here, stay on ground.
Flipper, good boy.
Sandy.
- Dad.
- Now wait a minute, stay on the surface.
Stay on the surface, Bud,
there's manga roots down here
and I'm stuck in one, my leg's caught.
Bud, go back to the boat and
send up a flair right now.
Go ahead.
Sandy, I'll need your
help getting my leg out.
See if you can pull my leg out.
Be careful, the right
one's badly cut, okay?
- Okay.
- Take a breath, go.
Still stuck, still stuck.
Here we go.
That got it, that got it, good.
All right, let's get out of here.
Let's take this boot off.
Easy now.
Easy.
- Leg all right, Dad?
- Well it's not all right, Sandy,
but I think it will be when
Dr. Weston looks at it.
- You had us awful worried, Dad.
- It was a little rough
out there, Bud, I'll admit,
but everything's all right now.
- You think that poacher's gonna get away?
- Not a chance, I'll let
the boys in the chopper
know what area he's in.
They'll pick him up
when they find my plane.
I think I'm gonna talk to the judge
about not being too rough on him.
After all he did kind of help me.
- Yeah but Flipper's the
one who saved you, Dad.
- Yeah, Flipper, you and Sandy.
All right, boys, let's get out of here,
get for home.
♫ 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
a routine check flight
over the Everglades in search
of a suspected alligator poacher,
I stopped to investigate
but then I was caught
in one of his submerged alligator traps.
Barney found me and offered to help,
but once he had me back at his camp,
he held me as prisoner.
Look, I've gotta get word to those kids.
- Relax ranger, it wouldn't hurt your boys
to worry about their pa a mite.
Appreciate ya more, if-fen you get back.
- Meanwhile Sandy worried about me.
Notifying the Coast Guard.
24 hours later and still
I was too closely guarded
to get away or let the Coast
Guard know where I was.
- Sandy.
- Yeah, Bud?
- Nothing.
- Go ahead, say what you wanna say.
- Isn't there anything we can do?
- Flipper's looked, we've looked,
the Coast Guard's doing the best they can.
- It's like you said, it's
the waiting and not knowing,
that's the worst part.
- Look, why don't we
go on up to the house,
I'll fix some pancakes and maybe later on,
we'll go on over to the
Tremaine's for awhile,
play ball with Joey or something.
I sort of promised Miss
Tremaine we'd come by anyway.
- What if Dad...
What if there's some word.
- Lieutenant Tremaine's
with the Coast Guard,
he'll be one of the first ones to know.
Come on.
- Okay.
I'll see you later, Flipper.
♫ 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
- Now that didn't do you no good.
Well, I'll be off now.
Don't get any fancy ideas.
Only a fool would try to
walk out of these glades
and with that leg, you
wouldn't get no where.
Well I'll be back, I've
got some traps to set
and some things to do.
- You might've said
something about my pancakes.
- I'm sure they were great.
I just wasn't very hungry.
- Me me too.
- Sandy, Sandy, I don't really
wanna go to the Tremaine's.
- I don't either, Bud, but you know why
we're going, don't you?
- Why?
- Because Dad would want it that way.
He wouldn't like it if he
knew we were sitting around
moping and worrying about him.
Come on, let's go.
- Sandy.
What will we do if Dad...
- Bud, you have to stop
thinking that way, you hear?
Dad's gonna be all right, just
keep telling yourself that.
You know we've been through
some pretty tight spots together.
That's part of being a ranger,
that's part of being a ranger's son.
We'll get through this one.
Come on, before you make
Dad be ashamed of you.
- Oh Sandy, could we take Flipper with us.
- Sure.
- Flipper!
- He must've gone off somewhere, Bud.
Maybe he thought of something we didn't.
Come on, we'll see him later.
' Ranger?
Ranger
Darn it, how far do you think
he's gonna get with that leg?
This time I ain't gonna
be so easy on him.
- Sandy, did you get in
touch with the Coast Guard
after you left the house?
- Yeah, I told Lieutenant Tremaine we'd be
at his house in case he heard anything.
- Sandy, haven't you ever cried since
you were a little kid?
- Sure, I cried that time Dan Turner
threw me off my bike and broke my arm.
- I don't mean that kind of crying.
- Bud, there's nothing wrong with crying
if you have something to cry about.
You don't, remember what I told you,
keep telling yourself that
Dad's gonna be all right.
- Sure, he'll be all right.
- Good boy.
- Ranger, where are ya?
Ranged
Ranged
- Flipper!
Flipper, over here!
- Ranger, where are you?
- Flipper, tow me out.
It's no use.
Flipper, go for help.
You can't tow me, go for help.
' Ranger?
Ranged
Ranged
- Temperatures
in the 80s with a slight
five to seven...
- Sandy, Bud.
I just had a phone call from my husband.
- Did you hear anything about my dad?
- One of the copter pilots
wired into headquarters
and said that he saw a
dolphin near the Everglades
and he's quite sure that it's Flipper.
- Sandy, I think we'd
better go find Flipper.
- Yeah, thank you, thank you very much.
- Sandy hey Sandy.
- What is it?
- Look there's Flipper.
Flipper, here we are, boy.
- What is it, Flipper?
Did you find Dad?
- Where is he, where is he, boy?
- We'd better go get to the launch
and follow him, come on.
- We'll be right with you, Flipper.
' Ranger!
You hear me?
- Can't you make this thing go any faster?
- We're going as fast as it can go.
- Sandy, do you think
he's really found Dad?
- We'll soon find out, take the glasses.
' Ranger!
- There isn't anything here, Flipper.
- What'd you bring us here for?
- Boys!
Sandy, Bud, over here!
- Dad!
- Boys, over here!
Sandy, come over here, stay on ground.
Flipper, good boy.
Sandy.
- Dad.
- Now wait a minute, stay on the surface.
Stay on the surface, Bud,
there's manga roots down here
and I'm stuck in one, my leg's caught.
Bud, go back to the boat and
send up a flair right now.
Go ahead.
Sandy, I'll need your
help getting my leg out.
See if you can pull my leg out.
Be careful, the right
one's badly cut, okay?
- Okay.
- Take a breath, go.
Still stuck, still stuck.
Here we go.
That got it, that got it, good.
All right, let's get out of here.
Let's take this boot off.
Easy now.
Easy.
- Leg all right, Dad?
- Well it's not all right, Sandy,
but I think it will be when
Dr. Weston looks at it.
- You had us awful worried, Dad.
- It was a little rough
out there, Bud, I'll admit,
but everything's all right now.
- You think that poacher's gonna get away?
- Not a chance, I'll let
the boys in the chopper
know what area he's in.
They'll pick him up
when they find my plane.
I think I'm gonna talk to the judge
about not being too rough on him.
After all he did kind of help me.
- Yeah but Flipper's the
one who saved you, Dad.
- Yeah, Flipper, you and Sandy.
All right, boys, let's get out of here,
get for home.
♫ 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