5.9/1035 votesLoading...#1 - 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
6.0/1042 votesLoading...#2 - 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
6.0/1035 votesLoading...#3 - 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
6.0/1033 votesLoading...#4 - 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
6.1/1033 votesLoading...#5 - Bud Minds Baby
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/20/1965
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.
Director: Ricou Browning
Writer: N/A
6.2/1039 votesLoading...#6 - 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
6.2/1034 votesLoading...#7 - 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 votesLoading...#8 - 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
6.2/1023 votesLoading...#9 - Flipper And The Bounty
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1965
Bud is fascinated when an old ship called the Bounty arrives at Corral Key Park. Without anyone's knowledge, he decides to sneak on board and explore.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.3/1044 votesLoading...#10 - 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
6.3/1034 votesLoading...#11 - 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
6.3/1037 votesLoading...#12 - 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 votesLoading...#13 - 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
6.3/1031 votesLoading...#14 - Flipper and the Elephant (3)
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/13/1965
Judy the chimp steals a briefcase full of money and Sean McCoy of McCoy's Floating Zoo is arrested. Sandy, Bud and Bonnie decide to put on a show with Flipper to raise money for her father's bail.
Director: Andrew Marton
Writer: N/A
6.4/1038 votesLoading...#15 - 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
6.4/1032 votesLoading...#16 - Flipper's Monster
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/10/1965
A motion picture company moves in to film an underwater monster picture in Coral Key Park, and Flipper become star struck.
Director: Ricou Browning
Writer: N/A
6.4/1024 votesLoading...#17 - 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.
Director: Ricou Browning
Writer: N/A
6.4/1021 votesLoading...#18 - Whale Ahoy
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1966
While researching his book report, Bud dreams of sailing the deep blue seas with Moby Dick.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/1020 votesLoading...#19 - Cap'n Flint
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 4/1/1967
Flipper comes to the rescue of Cap'n Flint (Bud's friend's pet parrot) when the raft the bird is perched on drifts into and explosion zone.
Director: Brian Kelly
Writer: N/A
6.5/1044 votesLoading...#20 - 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
6.5/1040 votesLoading...#21 - 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
6.5/1036 votesLoading...#22 - 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
6.5/1032 votesLoading...#23 - 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
6.5/1024 votesLoading...#24 - Flipper and the Horse Thieves
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1965
While Bud shows off Flipper to his new friend Stevie, thieves steal Stevies valuable show horse.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1036 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Worst Episodes of Flipper
Every episode of Flipper ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Flipper!
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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Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Money to Blow" is the worst rated episode of "Flipper". It scored 5.9/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by Ricou Browning and written by N/A, it aired on 1/30/1965. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Mr. Marvello".