Original subtitles

(ominous music)

- While I was making a routine check flight

over the Everglades in search

of a suspected alligator poacher,

I stopped to investigate but then I was caught

in one of his submerged alligator traps.

Barney found me and offered to help,

but once he had me back at his camp,

he held me as prisoner.

Look, I've gotta get word to those kids.

- Relax ranger, it wouldn't hurt your boys

to worry about their pa a mite.

Appreciate ya more, if-fen you get back.

- Meanwhile Sandy worried about me.

Notifying the Coast Guard.

24 hours later and still I was too closely guarded

to get away or let the Coast Guard know where I was.

(Flipper squeaking)

- Sandy. - Yeah, Bud?

- Nothing.

- Go ahead, say what you wanna say.

- Isn't there anything we can do?

- Flipper's looked, we've looked,

the Coast Guard's doing the best they can.

- It's like you said, it's the waiting and not knowing,

that's the worst part.

- Look, why don't we go on up to the house,

I'll fix some pancakes and maybe later on,

we'll go on over to the Tremaine's for awhile,

play ball with Joey or something.

I sort of promised Miss Tremaine we'd come by anyway.

- What if Dad...

What if there's some word.

- Lieutenant Tremaine's with the Coast Guard,

he'll be one of the first ones to know.

Come on.

. Okay'

I'll see you later, Flipper.

J1 They call him Flipper, Flipper

J1 Faster than lightning

J1 No one you see

J1 ls smarter than he

J1 And we know Flipper

J1 Lives in a world full of wonder

J1 Lying there under

J1 Under the sea

(dramatic music)

(plane humming)

(groaning)

- Now that didn't do you no good.

Well, I'll be off now.

Don't get any fancy ideas.

Only a fool would try to walk out of these glades

and with that leg, you wouldn't get no where.

Well I'll be back, I've got some traps to set

and some things to do.

(tense music)

- You might've said something about my pancakes.

- I'm sure they were great.

I just wasn't very hungry.

- Me me too.

- Sandy, Sandy, I don't really wanna go to the Tremaine's.

- I don't either, Bud, but you know why

we're going, don't you?

- Why?

- Because Dad would want it that way.

He wouldn't like it if he knew we were sittin' around

mopin' and worryin' about him.

Come on, let's go. - Sandy.

What will we do if Dad--

- Bud, you have to stop thinking that way, you hear?

Dad's gonna be all right, just keep tellin' yourself that.

You know we've been through

some pretty tight spots together.

That's part of being a ranger,

that's part of being a ranger's son.

We'll get through this one.

Come on, before you make Dad be ashamed of you.

- Oh Sandy, could we take Flipper with us.

- Sure.

- [Bud] Flipper!

- He must've gone off somewhere, Bud.

Maybe he thought of something we didn't.

Come on, we'll see him later.

(tense music)

(dramatic music)

' Ranger?

Rangen

Darn it, how far do you think he's gonna get with that leg?

This time I ain't gonna be so easy on him.

- Sandy, did you get in touch with the Coast Guard

after you left the house?

- Yeah, I told Lieutenant Tremaine we'd be

at his house in case he heard anything.

- Sandy, haven't you ever cried since

you were a little kid?

- Sure, I cried that time Dan Turner

threw me off my bike and broke my arm.

- I don't mean that kind of crying.

- Bud, there's nothing wrong with crying

if you have something to cry about.

You don't, remember what I told you,

keep telling yourself that Dad's gonna be all right.

- Sure, he'll be all right.

- Good boy.

(Flipper squeaking)

(dramatic music)

- Ranger, where are ya?

Ranged

Ranged

(Flipper squeaking)

(Flipper squeaking)

- Flipper!

Flipper, over here!

- [Barney] Ranger, where are you?

- Flipper, tow me out.

(groaning)

It's no use.

Flipper, go for help.

You can't tow me, go for help.

(Flipper squeaking)

' Ranger?

(animals screeching)

Ranged

Ranged

(tense music)

- [Radio] Temperatures in the 80s with a slight

five to seven-- - Sandy, Bud.

I just had a phone call from my husband.

- Did you hear anything about my dad?

- One of the copter pilots wired into headquarters

and said that he saw a dolphin near the Everglades

and he's quite sure that it's Flipper.

- Sandy, I think we'd better go find Flipper.

- Yeah, thank you, thank you very much.

(tense music)

- Sandy hey Sandy. - What is it?

- Look there's Flipper.

Flipper, here we are, boy.

(Flipper squeaking)

- What is it, Flipper?

Did you find Dad?

- Where is he, where is he, boy?

- We'd better go get to the launch and follow him, come on.

- We'll be right with you, Flipper.

(squeaking)

' [Barney] Ranger!

You hear me?

- Can't you make this thing go any faster?

- We're going as fast as it can go.

- Sandy, do you think he's really found Dad?

- We'll soon find out, take the glasses.

' Ranger!

(Flipper squeaking)

- There isn't anything here, Flipper.

- What'd you bring us here for?

(squeaking)

- [Porter] Boys!

Sandy, Bud, over here!

- [Both] Dad!

- Boys, over here!

Sandy, come over here, stay on ground.

Flipper, good boy-

Sandy. - Dad.

- Now wait a minute, stay on the surface.

Stay on the surface, Bud, there's manga roots down here

and I'm stuck in one, my leg's caught.

Bud, go back to the boat and send up a flair right now.

Go ahead.

Sandy, I'll need your help getting my leg out.

See if you can pull my leg out.

Be careful, the right one's badly cut, okay?

- Okay. - Take a breath, go.

Still stuck, still stuck.

Here we go.

(squeaking)

That got it, that got it, good.

(squeaking)

All right, let's get out of here.

(squeaking)

Let's take this boot off.

Easy now.

Easy.

- Leg all right, Dad?

- Well it's not all right, Sandy,

but I think it will be when Dr. Weston looks at it.

- You had us awful worried, Dad.

- It was a little rough out there, Bud, I'll admit,

but everything's all right now.

- You think that poacher's gonna get away?

- Not a chance, I'll let the boys in the chopper

know what area he's in.

They'll pick him up when they find my plane.

I think I'm gonna talk to the judge

about not being too rough on him.

After all he did kind of help me.

- Yeah but Flipper's the one who saved you, Dad.

- Yeah, Flipper, you and Sandy.

All right, boys, let's get out of here,

get for home.

(squeaking)

J1 Everyone loves the king of the sea

J1 Ever so kind and gentle is he

J1 Tricks he will do when children are near

J1 And how they laugh when he's near

J1 They call him Flipper, Flipper

J1 Faster than lightning

J1 No-one you see

J1 is smarter than he

J1 And we know Flipper

J1 Lives in a world full of wonder

J1 Lying there under

J1 Under the sea