7.0/1064 votes#1 - 300 Feet Below
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1964
Dr Phil Harmon is attacked by a shark. He radios to bring a rare blood type that can save his life.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse, Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
6.7/1047 votes#2 - The Red Hot Car
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1964
The boys find themselves in deep water when they disobey their father and dive down to investigate a car that has been dumped in the ocean.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
6.3/1044 votes#3 - SOS Dolphin
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1964
Flipper comes to the rescue when a submarine gets caught on the bottom of the ocean, trapping its occupant who is fast running out of air.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse, Ivan Tors
Writer: N/A
6.5/1044 votes#4 - The Gulf Between
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1964
Bud isn't happy with the new woman in his father's life. Feeling alone in the world, Bud stays out in the ocean too late and winds up lost in an underwater cave at high tide.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
6.7/1044 votes#5 - City Boy
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1964
City boy, Mike Beldon arrives in Corel Key with a huge chip on his shoulder about his mother's new husband. However, a near death accident helps him see his new step-father in a different light.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lee Erwin
6.5/1040 votes#6 - Dolphin for Sale
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1964
Dorrie steals Flipper and sells him to a carnival owner.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
6.7/1039 votes#7 - Not Necessarily Gospel
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1964
Porter is concerned that Bud is taking old Hap Gorman's stories too seriously and warns his son that not everything the old man tells him is true.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.3/1034 votes#8 - Countdown for Flipper
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1964
Flipper's days are numbered when he is accused of eating a prized fish worth a lot of money. Just as Flipper is to be cut open to retrieve the fish, Bud and Sandy discover it has been stolen by Jim and race to prove their pet's innocence in before it's too late.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.0/1042 votes#9 - Mr. Marvello
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1964
Bud and Sandy hear Flipper say in plain English he wants to leave for London with Professor Marvello, and the professor's circus colleagues bring nets to take Flipper away.
Director: Frank McDonald
Writer: N/A
6.2/1039 votes#10 - My Brother Flipper
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1964
Flipper saves the life of an old Greek sponge poacher in the preserve, but Bud and Sandy tell Po of his illegal activities.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: N/A
6.7/1041 votes#11 - The Second Time Around
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1964
Po and Sandy rescue a despondent former water ski champion, now in a wheelchair, and her mother from a hurricane. Flipper gets tangled in a fishnet.
Director: Frank McDonald
Writer: Orville H. Hampton
6.8/1038 votes#12 - Lady and the Dolphin (1)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1964
Despite their best attempts to impress a visiting Congress woman, Porter and the boys are devastated to learn that she plans to close the park.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Orville H. Hampton
6.7/1039 votes#13 - Lady and the Dolphin (2)
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1964
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.
Director: Ricou Browning
Writer: Orville H. Hampton
6.4/1038 votes#14 - Danger
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/19/1964
Bud and Sandy, on a trip with Hap Gorman to his secret fishing grounds, board an abandoned boat, not knowing that a hidden charge of dynamite is about to blow it to pieces.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
6.6/1036 votes#15 - The Misanthrope
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/26/1964
Sandy, Bud and Flipper decide to become detectives when reports claim that someone has been looting boats in Coral Key Park.
Director: Frank McDonald
Writer: Lee Erwin, Alan Caillou
6.5/1036 votes#16 - Flipper's Bank Account
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/2/1965
When Flipper finds a Spanish doubloon on the ocean bottom and brings it to Bud and Sandy, rumours about Spanish Treausures spread quickly and an underwater gold rush ensues.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
6.0/1035 votes#17 - The Lifeguard
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/9/1965
Flipper leads Bud to a beach where Lynn Borden lies half conscious after falling off a boat 20 miles at sea.
Director: Ivan Tors, Ricou Browning, Frank McDonald
Writer: N/A
6.3/1037 votes#18 - The Day of the Shark
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/1965
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.
Director: Ricou Browning
Writer: N/A
6.3/1037 votes#19 - Love and Sandy
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/1965
Pretty teenager Bonnie McCoy takes Sandy by surprise when she sails into view aboard a floating zoo.
Director: Ricou Browning
Writer: N/A
5.9/1035 votes#20 - Money to Blow
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/1965
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.
Director: Ricou Browning
Writer: N/A
6.0/1033 votes#21 - Flipper's Treasure
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/6/1965
Flipper goes to Bud and Porter Ricks for detective help after seeing a treasure chest stolen from the wreck of a sunken Spanish ship hidden on a nearby island.
Director: Marshall Thompson
Writer: N/A
6.6/1034 votes#22 - The White Dolphin
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/13/1965
Flipper disappears for several days and, when found by Porter Ricks, Sandy and Bud, is with another dolphin, an amazing albino the only white dolphin in Porter's memory.
Director: Marshall Thompson
Writer: N/A
6.2/1034 votes#23 - Teamwork
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/20/1965
While Sandy and Bud prepare for the annual Coral Key Park swimming race, Porter is overcome by toxic chemicals dropped from a passing ship while he is carrying out an underwater investigation.
Director: Marshall Thompson
Writer: Orville H. Hampton
6.2/1031 votes#24 - Flipper and the Elephant (1)
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/27/1965
Sentinel of the sea Flipper discovers a sinking raft, manned by Bonnie McCoy, her father, an elephant and a chimpanzee.
Director: Andrew Marton
Writer: N/A
6.5/1032 votes#25 - Flipper and the Elephant (2)
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/6/1965
In an effort to raise money to pay off creditors of McCoy's Floating Zoo, Sandy and Bud join Bonnie McCoy in a scheme to run away with her father's elephant and chimpanzee.
Director: Andrew Marton
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Flipper Season 1
Every episode of Flipper Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Flipper Season 1!
Flipper, from Ivan Tors Films in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, is an American television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"300 Feet Below" is the best rated episode of "Flipper" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 64 votes. Directed by Hollingsworth Morse, Leon Benson and written by N/A, it aired on 9/19/1964. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Red Hot Car".