Putting aside the fact that there was a movie made before the show, we have an excellent first episode.
Porter Ricks picks up a distress call from a doctor who was attacked by a shark and in dire need of blood. The copter drops the blood, but the Porter drops it. It's an amazing few minutes as he climbs up hire and hire to try to grab the box of blood from the hook it's attached to. A far angle shot shows the danger our hero is in. Of course when the box drops into the ocean, he drops with it in an amazing, fast dive that's pretty unbelievable.
The water there is 300 feet below. Now, I don't know exactly how deep that is or anything; and I don't know how things work in water but I was a bit surprised that they could see the shark's blood so quickly and clearly when it was attacked 300 feet down!
Eight year old Bud is given a lot of responsibility. While the Porter goes to check on the doctor, he tells Bud to get the flair ready to shoot and to be careful because it's cocked. There doesn't seem to be much worry, which means that regardless of the fact that Bud gets himself into lots of trouble in later episodes, there's an element of trust and authority that Bud will do the right thing and be careful.
The Porter has a lot of trust in his older son as he leaves it solely in Sandy's responsibility to get Flipper there and knows that it would happen. How many kids now days can be trusted like that?
Porter Ricks picks up a distress call from a doctor who was attacked by a shark and in dire need of blood. The copter drops the blood, but the Porter drops it. It's an amazing few minutes as he climbs up hire and hire to try to grab the box of blood from the hook it's attached to. A far angle shot shows the danger our hero is in. Of course when the box drops into the ocean, he drops with it in an amazing, fast dive that's pretty unbelievable.
The water there is 300 feet below. Now, I don't know exactly how deep that is or anything; and I don't know how things work in water but I was a bit surprised that they could see the shark's blood so quickly and clearly when it was attacked 300 feet down!
Eight year old Bud is given a lot of responsibility. While the Porter goes to check on the doctor, he tells Bud to get the flair ready to shoot and to be careful because it's cocked. There doesn't seem to be much worry, which means that regardless of the fact that Bud gets himself into lots of trouble in later episodes, there's an element of trust and authority that Bud will do the right thing and be careful.
The Porter has a lot of trust in his older son as he leaves it solely in Sandy's responsibility to get Flipper there and knows that it would happen. How many kids now days can be trusted like that?