The WORST episodes of Flipper

#1 - Flipper Joins the Navy (2)

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/19/1966

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.

#2 - Cupid Flipper

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1966

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

#3 - The Warning

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1966

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.

#4 - Lost Dolphin

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1966

Another family lays claim to Flipper after he suffers from amnesia and cannot recognize Bud and Sandy.

#5 - Disaster in the Everglades (2)

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1966

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.

#6 - Disaster in the Everglades (1)

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1966

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.

#7 - Agent Bud

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1966

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.

#8 - Dolphin Love (2)

Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/16/1966

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

#9 - Dolphin Love (1)

Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/9/1966

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 - Deep Waters

Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/2/1966

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.

#11 - Flipper's Underwater Museum

Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/26/1966

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

#12 - An Errand for Flipper

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1966

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.

#13 - Flipper Joins the Navy (1)

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/12/1966

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.

#14 - The Raccoon who Came to Dinner

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/5/1966

A park inspector, who believes animals should remain wild and not be made pets pays Porter an official visit. He clashes with Bud over the ownership of Flipper.

#15 - Gift Dolphin

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/1966

While fishing in the waters off Florida, visiting Prince Kaza and a state department official run aground on a reef. Sharks appear while the pair attempt to free the boat.

#16 - Air Power

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/19/1966

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.

#17 - The Lobster Trap

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/12/1966

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.

#18 - Flipper and the Shark Cage

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/5/1966

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.

#19 - Slingshot

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/29/1966

Bud, Ulla and Stevie are trapped when their truck swerves into a drainage canal.

#20 - Flipper's Odyssey (3)

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/1966

While Flipper recovers from the injuries received during a battle with an alligator, Bud grieves over the loss of his pet just a few miles down the coast.

#21 - Flipper's Odyssey (2)

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1966

The Ricks family sails up the coast in search of their missing friend, Flipper, only to find that the dolphin that saved a man's life, and who they hoped would be Flipper, has gone.

#22 - Flipper's Odyssey (1)

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/1966

Flipper is captured by some fishermen who transport him a long way up the coast to stock a new marine exhibit.

#23 - Dolphins Don't Sleep

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1967

The boys rush to find Flipper when he drifts to the bottom of the ocean after being hit by a tranquilizer dart.

#24 - Flipper's New Friends (2)

Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/15/1967

#25 - Flipper's New Friends (1)

Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/8/1967

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