Introduced in the 1963 film Flipper, Sandy Ricks rescues and befriends an injured dolphin and names him Flipper. In the 1964 sequel Flipper's New Adventure, his father Porter is widowed and goes to park warden school. In the 1964 television series, Porter becomes chief warden of Coral Key Park in Florida, and Sandy gains a younger brother Bud.
As played by Luke Halpin, Sandy has a pretty, boyish face, tousled mop of blond hair in the first season, and a slender, athletic swimmer's build. He is often shirtless, dressed in nothing more than blue cutoff jeans and white sneakers.
In the 1964 series, Sandy's and Bud's job was to appear to translate for the dolphin and to get into trouble so that the animal star could rescue them. Sandy tends to be the more responsible brother. He often accompanies Bud in his misadventures or his father in his ranger duties.
In this episode, Sandy and Bud are lured into helping a pair of burglars rob a boat and its reclusive owner. After realizing the thieves' bad intentions, the boys are trapped in the storage area, and one of the villain plans to complete the crime by sinking the boat with their unwitting accomplices inside.
My favorite scenes are when Sandy is shirtless above water without a diving mask. There are two such scenes in this episode, a brief one where Bud convinces him to swim to the boat and introduce themselves to its reclusive owner and a lengthy one in which he and Bud encounter a pair of burglars, are persuaded to swim to the boat again, unwittingly help the burglars get aboard, and get trapped in the storage space while the burglars debate whether to sink the boat with the boys inside.
Favorite scenes:
This is another one of my favorite episodes. The lengthy shirtless scene of Sandy trapped in a storage space with Bud by a pair of burglars, one of whom is sadistic enough to plan on sinking the boat with the boys inside, is wonderful. He is completely ineffective in attempting to escape from the storage area and even manages to knock out his rescuer.
This blog is intended to promote the appreciation of Luke Halpin's portrayal of Sandy Ricks in the 1964 television series "Flipper".
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