The BEST episodes directed by Ricou Browning

#1 - The Day of the Shark

Flipper - Season 1 - Episode 18

Porter Ricks, Sandy and Marine Researcher Dr Williams Tollner go to sea to investigate a school of lemon sharks which have invaded Coral Key Park.

#2 - Coral Fever

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 5

Ranger Ricks is knocked unconscious by an underwater explosion while tracking down a coral poacher.

#3 - Money to Blow

Flipper - Season 1 - Episode 20

Flipper finds money underwater and presents some of the bills to Bud. Flipper shows Bud where it came from and they collect more from the underwater wreck.

#4 - Bud Minds Baby

Flipper - Season 1 - Episode 27

Like the heroes he sees on TV, Bud tries to rescue a damsel in distress, but fails to tell Porter or Sandy of his intentions, and suddenly finds himself caught in a dangerous rip.

#5 - The Lifeguard

Flipper - Season 1 - Episode 17

Flipper leads Bud to a beach where Lynn Borden lies half conscious after falling off a boat 20 miles at sea.

#6 - Flipper and the Spy

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 9

Flipper and Sandy are duped into helping a spy when a secret instrument package from a rocket is lost in Coral Key Park.

#7 - Flipper and the Shark Cage

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 20

A well meaning Bud skips his chores to go off in search of a way to earn some money for a birthday present for his Dad.

#8 - The Ditching (1)

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 7

Things take an ominous turn for Sandy and Flipper when the plane carrying them to the Bahamas crashes in the Ocean.

#9 - Dolphin Love (1)

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 29

Flipper falls in love with another Dolphin much to Bud's puzzlement, and swims about the park with his new girlfriend until Ted Marlowe mistakes the female dolphin for a shark and spears her.

#10 - Dolphin Love (2)

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 30

Flipper is concerned over the outcome of an operation on his girlfriend, who was speared by Ted Marlowe.

#11 - Love and Sandy

Flipper - Season 1 - Episode 19

Pretty teenager Bonnie McCoy takes Sandy by surprise when she sails into view aboard a floating zoo.

#12 - The Ditching (2)

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 8

Flipper is the only hope of saving Sandy from drowning in a plane that crashed at sea, in the conclusion of this two part adventure.

#13 - Agent Bud

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 1

When two pilots crash into the ocean and become trapped in their aircraft it is up to Porter and Sandy to save the day, with a little help from Flipper and Bud's newly honed secret agent detective skills.

#14 - Disaster in the Everglades (1)

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 2

Whilst on a routine check of the Everglades, Porter Ricks steps in a poacher's trap. Badly injured, he is taken to Barney's secluded hide-away where he discovers that Barney has been poaching the local wildlife.

#15 - Disaster in the Everglades (2)

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 3

Sandy and Bud become increasingly worried as they have still heard no word from their father, who failed to return from a routine check of the Everglades.

#16 - Decision for Bud

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 22

#17 - The Firing Line (2)

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 24

#18 - Flipper's New Friends (1)

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 27

Flipper befriends a young brother and sister who have moved to Coral Quay with their widowed mother.

#19 - Lady and the Dolphin (2)

Flipper - Season 1 - Episode 13

In a last ditch attempt to convince Congress woman Helen Browning that she should use government funding to keep the Park open, Sandy and Bud take her skin-diving.

#20 - The Lobster Trap

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 21

When Flipper and Bud discover some of Sandy's high school classmates setting lobster traps before the season opens, bud is faced with the problem of reporting it to his father or letting the older boys off.

#21 - Air Power

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 22

Sandy and Bud place a down payment on a used air boat and plan to pay it off by operating a touring service through the everglades.

#22 - Flipper Joins the Navy (1)

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 25

The Ricks family gets an inside look at the Navy's dolphin research when Ulla calls on Porter for assistance with a Navy dolphin that seems to have gone berserk.

#23 - Flipper Joins the Navy (2)

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 26

The Navy and the Coast Guard launch an extensive search for a research Dolphin worth half a million dollars, that escaped from the Ricks while Flipper was trying to nurse him back to health.

#24 - Flipper's Underwater Museum

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 27

An industrial spy takes a sonar device from Ulla that has been entrusted to her by an electronics company for field testing her submarine.

#25 - Deep Waters

Flipper - Season 2 - Episode 28

When Porter dives into the depths with Ulla in her submarine for a survey of the ocean floor, the tiny craft snaps its propeller on the rocky coral stranding them under 50 metres of water.

#26 - The Warning

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 5

After witnessing all the marine animals fleeing the area, Bud and Sandy alert the local folk of a hurricane headed their way, despite their father's instructions and a clear weather forecast. No such hurricane eventuates and believing they have wasted time and money in securing their boats, the towns people look to Porter for compensation. It is only after a tidal wave hits that everyone in the town is grateful to Flipper and the boys for the warning.

#27 - Cupid Flipper

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 6

After Sandy's girlfriend shows more interest in Porter than Sandy, Flipper works as cupid to bring the two teen lovebirds back together.

#28 - An Errand for Flipper

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 7

Porter is frustrated as he waits in the middle of the ocean for Flipper to deliver the tools to repair his broken plane. His anger soon dissipates when he realises that Flipper was busy saving lives all day.

#29 - Flipper and the Puppy

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 11

Flipper and Bud come to the rescue of a puppy left stranded on an island after falling of his owner's boat.

#30 - Alligator Duel

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 13

Flipper's life is in danger when he becomes the unwitting star in a movie fight scene between himself and an alligator.

#31 - The Most Expensive Sardine in the World

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 16

Bud fights to save Flipper's life after an expensive bracelet falls into the ocean and is believed to have ended up in the dolphins' stomach.

#32 - The Firing Line (1)

Flipper - Season 3 - Episode 23