Flipper 1964 - 1967 Opening and Closing Theme (With Snippet)
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- Опубликовано: 17 фев 2016
- 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 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the companion animal of Porter Ricks, Chief Warden at fictional Coral Key Park and Marine Preserve in southern Florida, and his two young sons Sandy and Bud.
The show has been dubbed an "aquatic Lassie", and a considerable amount of juvenile merchandise inspired by the show was produced during its first-run. The television show is an adaptation of the 1963 film Flipper starring Chuck Connors and Luke Halpin as Porter and Sandy Ricks, and its 1964 sequel, Flipper's New Adventure, where Brian Kelly took over the role of Porter.
In adapting the films to a television series, the producers made Porter a single parent and gave him a second son named Bud, played by Tommy Norden. The producers departed yet again from the films in endowing Flipper with an unnatural degree of intelligence and an extraordinary understanding of human motives, behavior, and vocabulary. 
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Thank you so much. My little brother was so intrigued by this show. When he was in his 20s he went to Florida to build boats. He sent me a cookie jar that made the flipper sound. He passed away in his late 20s from a bad heart valve. This theme song is my little brothers ❤️
May God bless you and your family mate. You WILL be with him again. Love from SSSam7 🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬 AUSTRALIA. Right now, he's frolicking with the dolphins xx
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I am so sorry, Flipper and other serials will always remind me the afterschool afternoons with my parents, God Bless.
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Is that so? Then don't watch scientifically accurate dolphin
Today’s kids are deprived of their innocence. Wish there was a show like this. No snide remarks aimed at one another. What a concept.
A bit of a passive aggressive implication there.. Not like it's the kids fault the generations of adults before them failed
@@Azmina_the_warlock Its more the corporations fault. And the internet. And the agenda to fragment our society from what used to be a homogenous culture.
@@joshuacarpenter8263 k and who is running and funding those things? Not kids
@@Azmina_the_warlock No one is saying the kids are at fault.
@@joshuacarpenter8263 implicature
I couldn't wait for Saturdays when there wasn't no school, and Flipper had aired me, and my sibling would sit right in front of the tv to watch Flipper. That was the best childhood any children could have.
"and there wasn't no school"
sounds like that happened far too often.
Kids programming is great for weekends
Such a happy and joyful memories of my childhood. So nostalgic. I miss it alot. 🌹 🌹 🌹
Qutub Hashmi its gone. long gone.
Qutub Hashmi Yes I know such happy memories of my childhood too🐬 a good clean family show, I remember when my children were younger in the early 90s they were showing Flipper on a cable channel that’s was showing all the TV shows of the 60 and 70s my kids loved it.
Yes me to...most people then had better morals and more patriotic.
Did you know that dolphin committed suicide in film shoots? Flipper. Yes, I love Flipper, too, but these facts are very hurting.
@@asyacerenunal5375 not during film shoots but when she was kept alone in a pen after the show finished.
I loved this show as a kid, its so wonderful to hear the theme song again of this show.
I loved it as I child and I still do in 2023, beautiful memories
I don't get tired of watching it over and over, it's if it's like bringing a part of the m with us.
The song makes me both happy and sad. Happy because the 60’s were a great time to grow up in for me. While the 70’s was too sad in many ways for me. I loved this show very much
The music has just wiped 50 years from me. Thanks, greetings from Australia.
I can remember the ABC showing repeats of this during school holidays along with shows like Superman (1950's) and Beachcombers.
You had a kangaroo named Skippy.He could pilot a hot air balloon,something Flipper could only accomplish in his dreams.
I'm from Australia too, and remember watch and loving this show.
Just one thing puzzled me -- occasionally they would have a Kookaburra laughing in the background of this show, but it was set in Florida ??
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@@peterpiper831 Kingfisher. Although they used a lot of sweetening tracks recorded all over the world. Like the peacocks in every jungle scene in any given movie.
Back in about 1966 I wanted to be Bud Ricks! What a life; living on a marine preserve in the Florida Keys, SCUBA diving, driving boats, running around barefoot in a pair of cutoffs and frolicking with a pet dolphin. What's not to like?
I wanted to be Race Bannon!
@@692ALBANNACH Race was awesome...Dr. Quest was all brains but Race could thump heads....and that name: "Race".!
@@kendallevans4079 They don't make shows like this anymore! Did you ever watch Danger Island ?
I notice people are trying to sell outboard motors that are as old as 40 years.
Yeah right I really want to be stuck in the ocean with a broken motor.
@@692ALBANNACH That was Johnny Quest...another of my favorite shows circa 1966.
I haven't seen this for probably 25 years. All I could remember was "They call him Flipper, Flipper"... what a blast from the past.
Flipper, the Lassie of the seas.
I miss it a lot., today’s kids are deprived of their innocence. I wish there was a show like this. Flipper .
As a farm kid in Nebraska I often dreamed about what it would like to live like these guys. During the cold Nebraska winter nights, watching them having fun and adventure in the warm waters of Florida.
Yes but there were always the sharks to worry about.
I use to watch this when it was new and I was young, back about a million years ago.
And they still don't feel old!
You and me both! I loved this show!
Not only a million years ago but also like on a different planet!!!
I saw this in reruns back in the 1970's. Just love Flipper, the Miami Dolphins football team has a mascot named Flipper.
I went to a private Christian School in the 90s and after classes were over for the day, we'd watch a re-run of Flipper while waiting for our parents to pick us up. Just a random but sweet childhood memory.
In all of my dreams, I live the life that Sandy Ricks and Bud Ricks have in Florida with Flipper and we go on very magical adventures in the oceans of Florida.
I’m and 80’s baby so in the late 80s and early 90s I would watch all the old shows from the 50s & 60s on Nickelodeon. I miss those days .
Feeling so nostalgic. They dont make em like this any more
Correct, if they did it would be done in creepy CGI cartoon form.
With an alphabet dolphin 🤮
Ok boomer
@@trueleo7893 Ok boomer
@@trueleo7893 bruh the dolphin literally killed itself bcs of this show, the cgi is the better option
you look too young to be a 60s kid.
I never missed an episode in the 1960s. Naturally, I had to watch it on a black and white television.
You guys had a television???!!!
Ditto.
I remember watching reruns of Flipper back in the 80's. Good times.
me too
tellemyumad74 same here and in the early 90's.
tellemyumad74 flpper
@@thebigloc1 i watched it in the early 90's to with my aunt when she came home from high school
Tommy Norden was the first boy to have on Jean cut offs on tv..
I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY,..SO MANY YEARS AGO IN 1967, I WAS ABOUT 13,14,15 OR 16,.. I THINK IT WAS, I SAW MY LAST FLIPPER EPISODE IN A MOVIE THEATER , SOME WHERE IN LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA.....I REMEMBER TO THIS DAY, I WAS CRYING BECAUSE I WANTED TO HAVE MY OWN PET DOLPHIN, MOVE TO FLORIDA, AND LIVE THERE.... AS SOON AS I COULD!.. EVENTUALLY I BECAME BECOME A COMMERICAL DIVER... WELL, I AM 68 NOW OVER 50 YEARS AGO... HOW IMPACTED I WAS AFTER SEEING THAT MOVIE. !!!!!!!!!!..... SINCE THEN, I HAVE SCUBA DIVED ALL OVER AMERICA AND THE CARRIBEAN, .....COUNTLESS DIVE DOWN HOURS UNDER OIL RIGS, OFF THE GULF OF MEXICO, BEACH DIVES, CAVES, AND WRECKS...ALL BECAUSE OF THIS ONE MOVIE THAT CAPTIVATED MY HEART AND SOUL, WHEN I WAS A VERY SMALL BOY.....THE THINGS I HAVE SEEN AND EXPERIENCED UNDER WATER, ARE FAR BEYOND WORDS TO DESCRIBE,..THE BEAUTY, AWE OF NATURE, THIS FORIEGN ENVIROMENT, FILL WITH BREATH-TAKING CREATURES,... WAS A VERY CHEAP PRICE FOR THE 5 DOLLARS MY MOM OR DAD PAID,... THAT LAUNCHED ME INTO A WORLD OF WONDER, THAT FEW PEOPLE HAAVE EVER EXPEREINCED.. I AM JIM HAMMERS, NOW RETIRED IN FT. LAUDERDALE FLORIDA..HEAVEN ON EARTH......
How sad this is when I think about the good wholesome people back then and what freaks and animals we have today.Its sad to think about the losses we have suffered in society. I grew ip with flipper. Know the song to this day.
I totally agree with you. I loved hearing the theme. I used to watch this show all the time. TV shows were so much better back then.
@@carolynfabiano8511 I agree things have gotten much worse in the last 50 years but there certainly were freaks and animals at this time as well. Do you recall Charles Manson?? US Society and values really started falling apart around the mid-60's when the free love and hippie movements started. Drugs started becoming a lot more main stream and race relations were still pretty poor. Of course much of this has only continued to worsen and at a seemingly alarming rate in the last 15-20 years.
Douglas R Yes I agree with you I also grew up watching it as well, Flipper was a good, clean family show that you don’t see any more. I saw reruns of Flipper on a cable channel. ( They were showing shows from the 60 s and 70s Brady Bunch, Partridge Family,) when my kids were younger back in the early 90s they sat down watched Flipper and they loved it.
Very true. Insanity run amok.
Marxism / Liberalism.
Flipper was going be of my favorite shows when I was a kid. I even had a Flipper lunch box. 🥰
I used to watch Flipper as a kid back in the 60s !
Skipped everthing to watch Flipper.2024 this song still in my heart and will be foreber, with that beautiful and lovely Show
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I grew up with this.
Glad to be an old girl.
Baby Baby Boomer ✈
Did anyone else ever think about how different the show would have been if the dolphin were named Buttnut instead of Flipper?
I remember back in the 80s and early 90s when Flipper was on Nickelodeon at 5 AM. If I couldn't sleep, I got up to watch it before going to school.
Lol same . I was having the same nostalgic thoughts
Same
i remember back in the early 90's i used watch this with my aunt when she came home from school
I loved this show as a child. Now, I just recently returned from a vacation in Cabo San Lucas in Mexico, and there are adventure companies that take people out doing different activities. I opted for swimming with the dolphins. I got to live a childhood fantasy and swam with a dolphin, or rather he swam with me holding on, plus I got "kisses" on my cheek and we did a little dance holding his fins! It was so much fun, and I got to cross off something from my childhood bucket list! I just had to hear this theme song again from childhood. What a beautiful memory, both then and now.
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I only was born in 2003 but my two favorite shows growing up were Flipper and Gilligan’s Island
This actually made me cry good old memories
You know, as dark as this opening is, this is actually pretty fantastic camera work for 1960s.
In the 1960s, when I watched this, I had a crush on Brian Kelly...but Flipper was good too!
Hard to imagine that parts of FLORIDA were really once like this, a great place for a child to grow up in. Same with the Andy Griffith show. Not the whole world mind you, some places like this really did . Hopefully they are not forever lost.
Summers growing up in the 60s everyday sunny
no they were not
yes, .... playing outside everyday and home at dark.... rode our bikes everywhere... all sports played, fishing, sled riding.... no parents, just us kids.....finding a playboy mag!
Wow now this brings back many pleasant memories of those wonderful times, what a blast from the past
Ivan Tors also produced the TV show "Daktari", with Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion. :)
2024 and still love Flipper🥰
Such happy memories of being a child and watching this...loved Flipper
Yes your absolutely right and not a care in the world.
Simpler better times. Wish they were like that now.
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Yes I miss those days.
yes, so happy memories of animal abuse, did you know that the dolphin who usually starred as the flipper you love so much had committed suicide thanks to the wonderful treatment it got? flipper doesnt seem as happy know, huh?
@@Gnsd45
Okay I have to ask.
How does a dolphin commit suicide??
If this show aired in 2020 it would spark nothing but internet outrage.
kids today have gone soft n coddled..what a joke
@@actuary33 The list of things 2020 netizens would find fault with would be very very long.
Yes a show with a single father!
The children would be wearing make up and we would have no idea what their gender was.
And the children would be constantly talking about the environment and how the world is about to end.
What, these days, doesn't spark Internet outrage?
I used to be so jealous of the Ricks. Wake up and right outside your door there’s a dock and a tropical sea with a friendly dolphin waiting to play!
It went on Danish tv in the late 70's, loved every minute of it. I believe it made me into an ocean lover. At this day we live by the sea, and dive every spare minute we got. A fantastic series with a lot of happy feelings an knowledge about the ocean. THX for sharing and caring ;-)
I loved watching this on Saturday mornings in the late 70’s. I sand the theme Song to my kids when they were young.
What a great show. I had forgotten how much I liked it.
I'll never forget.
Ahhhhhhh, refreshing memories!
Beautiful
Loved flipper 😍😍
I watched them all as a kid. In 1972; i got to travel to the Florida Keys. I kept my eyes out for Flipper.
When life was good and wholesome , imagine you transported people from that era to 2020 , they would think they arrived in a scene from the original mad max movie . Of course they had their issues but crickey life so much.more simple and fun , the golden era of childhood .
BEFORE the internet and social media...
From the turbulent 60s to the 2020s? Really??
@@RN25899 prachtige tijd zeker vergeleken met nu,digitale shit en mobielen,niks meer aan
Ditto.
Let me explain something to you:
YOU WERE A CHILD BACK THEN.
So you probably weren't aware of how incredibly divided the country was with civil rights and the Vietnam War and the generation gap back in the 1960s.
I used to watch this as a kid. I had forgotten about this show.
LOVE Bud and Sandy. I miss this show
Being born in the 60s for a black person was suppose to be trying times with race relations, but I find that those were actually the good old days smh, what’s going on?
Even the theme songs were better in the 60’s and 70’s.
Memories! I watched this show a lot, but the girl next door (same age as I was) was into Flipper everything - coloring books, the works. Her brother was my best friend, and when I was in about 4th grade, sometimes he and I would be getting ready to do stuff together and I'd be wanting or expecting his sister to come along too, but he'd just say "she has to stay and watch Flipper, Flipper", while singing the opening notes of the song.
The theme son is catchy and beautiful. 🐬🐬👏🏼👏🏼
My childwood. Flipper and Skippy.
This show taught me to respect life in all of of its forms which people today are sadly lacking😢
You are so right.
I was born in 2010 so obviously me not being around in the 60s- but i watched in 2019
I loved Flipper! My childhood hero
My hero too besides Mr. Rogers.
😢 I Love That Show...
Just pray they don't make a remake. Imagine how ghastly it would be.
A revival of the iconic 1964 TV series entitled "Flipper - The New Adventures" was attempted in 1995, but didn’t attract much attention. The first two seasons aired in syndication. Seasons 3 and 4 aired on the PAX network.
Flipper - The New Adventures was set in a town named Bal Harbor, somewhere in the Florida Keys. In reality, the show’s first three episodes were filmed in Pigeon Key, Florida and at the Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, Florida. The balance of the show was actually filmed in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
In 1996, Universal Pictures also attempted a motion picture adaptation entitled "Filpper." It starred Elijah (Lord of the Rings) Wood as Sandy Ricks, and Paul (Crocodile Dundee) Hogan as Porter Ricks. Interestingly, Luke Halpin, the original Sandy Ricks, had a bit part as a fisherman.
Probably Rihanna would be cast to perform an SJW Flipper.
@@demmersXX It would have to be a Bi Sexual, Trans Dolphin called Freaker
I used to love Flipper, after school in Melbourne Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 STRAYA SOUTHERN Cross ➕ Southern HEMISPHERE ✈
This was one of my favorite shows as a Kid!
Iconic T V.What a Legend........
I was 4 years old and living in Hawaii when I first started watching this show. One of the best memories of that time was going to Sea Life park and to feed and pet the dolphins.
I never missed this show. I loved this.
Back when TV shows had good theme songs.
One of my Favorite shows, back then!!!
My favorite show now besides Mr. Rogers and The Three Stooges!
Back in the late 1970's, I tried my hand at being an IT recruiter. I got a job at an IT search firm and when I started working there, I discovered that Tom Norden worked there, too. Yes, Tommy Norden, of Flipper fame, worked at that search firm. He sat next to me. Everyone called him Flippy. He didn't care much for that. He went on to open his own IT search firm. I quit after one week because I hated it.
I remembered the lyrics to this song 50 years later... I loved this show as a kid.
Im 31 so sure this guy is old now.But Luke Haplin was freaking adorable! Omg such a attractive guy!
I love this little show as a kid.
A 80s kid growing up watching all the classics and now my daughter is turning 6 and I've been trying to get her more into these classic TV shows and 70s and 80s cartoons. She seems to enjoy them especially, Roadrunner & Coyote and almost all the Looney Tunes characters. I wish television producers and writer's would go back and create shows like they once did.
Omg! Flipper! Forgot about this show :(
I drive a tiller motor on boat nowadays and it always reminds of Flipper.
OMG, what wonderful memories. 😢
Used to watch this when I was eight years young. Long long ago😊.
I used to watch this every day with my aunt every day after she came home from high school
Back in the days when all boys were named either Tommy,, Bobby or Billy.
Yup! Now they are Ian, Trevor, Josh and De'Angelo
Now they are all called Mohammad
I guess that's why my parents named me THOMAS. Lol.
As a retired school teacher, I laugh about the 'unique' names hung on kids today, and a lament the demise of sturdy names like Michael, John, David and James . . . Tommy, Bobby and Billy too.
I remember watching Flipper in 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe in the 80’s
Although this is TV, the show had the feel of a Motion Picture. The cinematography was awesome. The music and vibe was very ‘Disney’. And the boys with their New York accents. Norden’s was especially pronounced and he seemed a natural comedic actor (e.g. facial expressions). reminds me now of the ‘Our Gang/Little Rascals’ comedies. TV today has lost so much of it’s innocence. Thank you for posting. Now I need to point out that this intro demo is not the complete collection. It only includes the later episodes. It would be great if you could upload the earlier seasons. A shot there is of Tommy Norden getting his face licked by a puppy when his credits are shown. Such a marvelous series I watched as a kid and still do.
America was so rich in that period that TV shows were on 35mm film stock and 16mm stock hence why some of them looked like a movie.
I long for those days. I used to watch this on a crappy Sylvania TV.
Yo veía esta serie cuando tenía 5 años en la vecindad que hermoso era
I remembered this movie. I lived 1970- s in Soviet Union. I' m sorry for my English. Hello from Baku, Azerbaijan.
Rovshen: Don't apologize. Your English is better than many Americans!
nice city Baku 👍
Beautiful movie
omg omg i was raised on this i so wanted a dolphin .i would look in the near by river thames ,but no dolphin lol lol
Me too!
One was spotted on the river cam a few days ago.
So many beautiful memories.
Loved this show as a kid
My god. This was aired in Croatia in 1981, 1982. I was 3yr old kid, I remember this intro song. Everything would stop when there was Flipper or Muppets.
Flipper was a sweet, adorable dolphin and a great show!
Great memories! Thanx!
This was my favorite serie in the summer vacation in Cuba. I used to go to the beach and imagine I was playing with the dolphin 🐬 and because I learn to use my imagination to play not with video games but use my imagination I never feel lonely or bored. Never!
Thank God for You Tube and contributors who bring these amazing clips to us!!❤❤❤
I used to watch this when i was a kid
The music for the classic "Flipper" song was written by Henry Vars, who was actually a very distinguished Jewish composer who managed to survive during WWII in Poland and emigrated to the US after the war. He scored a number of movies and composed symphonies and popular songs and worked at MGM in the 1960s. The lyrics were by William D. "By" Dunham who wrote songs and lyrics and was also a producer.
I watched this show a lot when I was a kid and this show is indeed a classic, I wish this show was on METV
If you get roku the series is on it
Wow oh wow...the memories...what a trip.
I grew up with the movies. Along with the show, it turned me into a freediver.
Oh man the memories! Just showed my lil girls. Namaste for posting this. ♡
till today song is fire :) best childhood memories
Excellent .👍👍👍
I'm in my 70s and still sing the song!
Never watched the show but I remember the intro theme when it aired on Nickelodeon in the 80s.
Luis Hernandez Same, in the early 90’s.
This also aired in 90"s I remember watching it every day with my aunt every day after she came home from school
Wow this goes wayy back… ♥️