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Flipper - Flipper's Bank Account (1965) |
A Florida dolphin finds an old Spanish coin and causes a commotion
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"Flipper" was a one-half hour television program which ran on the NBC television network
from 1964 to 1967.
Florida beach park ranger Porter Ricks and his two sons, Sandy and Bud, keep a bottlenose dolphin named Flipper as a pet.
This episode is titled "Flipper's Bank Account" and was first broadcast on January 2, 1965.
A boat owner drops a coin into the water as part of a contest and Flipper finds the coin.
Flipper gives it to Bud. Later a local woman uses the coin to promote a "treasure hunt".
The coin is shown in close-up and appears to be an imitation of a Spanish "cob" coin.
1. Title
A man throws a coin into the water and invites people to dive for it.
2. Coin on the bottom
Flipper gets there first.
3. Flipper retrieves coin
He swims over to where Bud is sitting with elderly Hap Gorman.
4. Hap talks to Bud
Hap enjoys telling tall stories about working for Maharajas in India.
5. Flipper gives the coin to Bud
Both Bud and Hap look at it.
Hap calls it a "doubloon".
6. The coin
The coin is shown in close-up and appears to be an imitation of a Spanish "cob" coin.
The coin is referred to as a "doubloon" but doubloons were Spanish gold coins and this coin appears to be silver colored.
At home Bud examines the coin again.
7. Bud examines coin
Bud takes the coin to a local coin dealer, Mr. Johnson.
8. Rare coins store
Mr. Johnson examines the coin
9. Coin dealer offers
The dealer offers Bud three dollars for the coin.
Joanne Thomas, a woman who works for a resort, is in the store.
10. Joanne offers more
Joanne offers Bud seven dollars and he sells the coin to her.
After a couple of days a large number of boats have converged on the area.
11. Porter and Sandy read the news
A newspaper article claims that the coin is from a sunken Spanish treasure ship.
The boats have arrived with treasure hunters.
Bud and Hap take a small boat out on the water and then beach the boat at a reef.
Bud finds a small chest and the pair pull out a map.
12. Bud and Hap find treasure map
They turn the map over and find that it is an advertisement for a marine goods store.
The treasure hunters leave and as punishment for causing the problem Porter orders Bud and Hap
to spend time picking up the trash left by the hunters.
13. Hap and Bud cleaning up
Hap also agrees to stop telling tall stories for a week.
He pulls out a coin and shows it to Bud.
14. What's the coin?
Hap says "It's an Indian rupee"
Cast, Directors, Writers:
Flipper as Flipper
Brian Kelly as Porter Ricks
Luke Halpin as Sandy Ricks
Tommy Norden as Bud Ricks
Andy Devine as Hap Gorman
Charles Martin as Mr. Johnson (coin dealer)
Dorothy Wilson as Joanne Thomas
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writers: Donn Mullally, Maria Little, Ricou Browning
Brian Kelly as Porter Ricks
Luke Halpin as Sandy Ricks
Tommy Norden as Bud Ricks
Andy Devine as Hap Gorman
Dorothy Wilson as Joanne Thomas
Writers: Donn Mullally, Maria Little, Ricou Browning
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