OMG...Remember Flipper?

The unforgettable theme tune....

I remember the day Flipper died, I was so sad. Years later I heard he committed suicide or at least that is what some trainer said.

I'll take a Brian Kelly open-faced sandwich... and put some more sauce on it, Sailor!

Did Skippy make it to America?

Yes - he was delicious!

I had such a crush on Luke Halprin.

Luke

Don't look for current Luke pic, it's horrible.

I used to wait for the episodes where the father took his shirt off. Masterbation material! The hairless older brother, not so much.

Brian Kelly was so much hotter than Chuck Connors (from the movie.) And he's the uncle of Broadway's Brian D'Arcy James.

We should be eating dolphins, not playing and swimming with them. I had dolphin in Barbados and it was positively delicious.

[quote]I used to wait for the episodes where the father took his shirt off. Masterbation material!

Was 57 when the series was in its original run.

Was it real dolphin R11 or the fish called dolphin?

Real dolphin, you pick one out from the tank on the premises and they butcher and grill it for you right there.

Brian Kelly was a very handsome guy.

However, why is it that they all looked so much older. He was only 33-ish when he got cast in Flipper.

In this pic from 1966, he's 35. He looks like what I picture 45 year old to look like today.

My mother couldn't understand why I, as a teen, would never miss an episode of this kid's show.

Oh, Daddy....

r16 Well I can certainly understand why!!😁😘 What a dilf Brian Kelly was 🥰

I remember James Dean well.

Not much nostalgia for poor old Flip, it seems.

From Wiki:

In 1970, Brian Kelly sought to change his image by playing the role of Robin Stone in "The Love Machine," based on the novel by Jacqueline Susann. Just prior to filming, he was involved in a motorcycle accident that left his right arm and leg paralyzed. John Phillip Law took over the role. Kelly—whom Susann had called "the perfect Robin Stone"—won a legal settlement in the case but the accident ended his acting career.

How dreadful, R21!

Very sad situation r21

“I used to wait for the episodes where the father took his shirt off. Masterbation material!“

So you coined that phrase ‘Flog the dolphin‘?

OP, you are old girl. Did you dream about flipper's bottle nose ramming your hole while he made horny whistle clicks?

Flipper was a giant swimming penis.

R8 Luke Halpin has suffered from head and neck cancer and although in remission from what I read he now has Alzheimers.

r26 Sounds divine!

I remember Flipper, but it is an early tv memory, and I am fifty-six.

So sad about Luke Halpin if the rumours about his health are true as mentioned upthread.

Fcuk yes, their dad was hot!!

Apologies, I mean “Yes,” I remember the “Flipper” TV show so nostalgically. ;)

r31 You are in a very large group of people who had that as their first thought before they remembered to direct themselves back on to the path of purity of morality and appreciation of tv shows in a 100% clean way!!😁😉

r7 link is just disturbing

Yes, I remember the show, but not that well.

r34 Can you remember if you enjoyed it?

R35, Yes, for a Midwesterner like me, Florida seemed so exotic and glamorous. I remember "Gentle Ben' was set in Florida, too.

Oh I've not heard of Gentle Ben I will have to Google it. r36

Tell us what you find out, R37.

r38 Well for starters that the lead actor endorsed Ted Cruz for President!!😮

What else did you find out, R39?

Hope you guys discover the Daktari thread I just started.

>>>

r40 that it started in 1967

[R40] that it started in 1967

That's my era!

Google.

Yes..I remember it, JUST.

I remember the little boy.

I thought the show was creepy. I was terrified of sharks and just the fact that Flipper was waterbound freaked me out.

R41 Yes. And I blocked it. These trips down memory lane for old mediocre TV shows are growing very tiresome.

Johnny Crawford also has Alzheimers. Dean Stockwell too. 😢

Why don't you guys start a thread to ask about ALL these old shows instead of clogging DL with all these one-time threads. Ask people what their favorite kid-centered series was. Or do a poll with all of the titles. But this one-at-time shit is like death by a thousand cuts.

R47 Threads like these are one of the reasons why DL exists, especially since the IMDb boards are no longer around. Threads devoted to older tv shows probably make up less than 5% of what's posted on here. Easy enough to skip over if you're not interested.

[quote]—I'm outta here

I assure you that you will not be missed, R47. Really? Complaining about too many threads about old TV shows when there are about a dozen new Meghan Markle threads created every day?

R47 is clearly new here.

r43 My era is a little later than yours -More Lee Majors as The Fall guy, Michael Nader as Dex Dexter in Dynasty being the tv crushes that got my loins excited!🔥🥰😁

[quote]Well for starters that the lead actor endorsed Ted Cruz for President!

Total bullshit, Surviving Angel. You were obviously a little too hasty with your research. The star of "Gentle Ben," aside from the bear, was Dennis Weaver, best known for "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud." He was a lifelong liberal. More to the point, Cruz ran for president in 2016. Dennis Weaver died in 2006.

I think he's talking about Clint Howard, who played the kid.

[quote]I think he's talking about Clint Howard, who played the kid.

Then he need to be more specific. Dennis Weaver was the top-billed star of "Gentle Ben," not Ron Howard's even uglier little brother.

r54 Clint Howard is listed as top billing first cast photo on google.

I had a crush on Luke Halprin as well, but that was only because I was too young to appreciate Daddy.

r56 and Daddy certainly deserves appreciation!😘

Here's a clearer view of his legs . . .

Brian Kelly and Jacqueline Susann promoting the upcoming filming of "The Love Machine," before Kelly was disabled in a motorcycle accident and replaced by John Phillip Law.

WHY OH WHY didn't Kelley ever wore a speedo/bikini on that show i mean in 1967.. guys handsome guys in shape DID wear that stuff on the beach!... was it because he was always with his 2 young sons? or it was a "family show"?...

loved the episode where he is injured in some swamp and is captured by some ugly weirdo swamp guy (huntz hall the actor) and i found him captured and helpless such a turn on!...

I remember Flippaa!

An excellent question r60!!

I wanted to eat out Luke Halpin's ass.

Luke Halpin was one of the Lost Boys on Broadway in Mary Martin's "Peter Pan," a role he repeated in the live 1955 and 1956 live TV productions. (Not in the 1960 videotaped version that was repeated several times over the years.)

Luke Halpin (and two Luke Halpin imposters) on a 1964 episode of "To Tell the Truth," talking about his work in the original "Flipper" movie and an upcoming sequel, "Flipper's New Adventure." It's interesting that in the days before media saturation, despite the popularity of the first movie, the show's producers must have figured he probably wouldn't be recognized by most people.

Great find, R65.

Glancing at OP’s image reminded me of...uhhh

I was 11 years old when the Flipper series started. I loved the show. My young loins burned for Brian Kelly. I longed to run my hands all over his hairy chest.

There was a point after Flipper that Luke Halpin had aged into a very studly looking man. Of course age started taking its toll as it does with all of us.

Oh, my. That Luke is a spitting image of my first crush, Ricky, floppy hair and all.

There was a remake in the 90s with Elijah Wood and Crocodile Dundee.

I was a kid in Ireland in one channel TV land and there was no color tv. I adored Brian Kelly and imagined all American men looked like him.

Explains why every man I had sex with when I moved to the USA was of his type.

I'm old enough to remember it existed in my boyhood but I cannot remember any plots or characters.

R4 yes lived Skippy. Had the hots for the older brother and I wanted Clancy for a big sister.

another gayling experience: nautical version

R74 indeed. I loved the dark haired guy.

The dark-haired guy, David Hedison, died this past July. I don't think he was included in last night's Academy Awards in memoriam segment, despite having starred in the sci-fi classic "The Fly," under the name Al Hedison.

David Hedison was also reputedly gay.

I never heard anything about David Hedison being gay, but his daughter, the photographer Alexandra Hedison, is lesbionic and was in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres from 2000 to 2004. In 2014, Alexandra Hedison married Jodie Foster.

The rumors about Hedison have been going around for many years.

A blind gossip item (from CDAN, so more than a grain of salt is required) about David Hedison and Richard Basehart.

"The deceased older lead and the recently deceased younger co-lead had an unusual competition on this adventure show with science fiction and horror overtones, which was produced by this extremely successful movie and TV mogul . They would compete to sleep with whatever young actors came on set either as guest stars, regulars, extras, or crew. Neither man identified as homosexual, although there were rumors about the older actor earlier in his career. This was on the down low. Strangely enough, they never had any desire to sleep with each other. (Richard Basehart, David Hedison - Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (Irwin Allen - mogul)"

Hawt ^

i remember richard basehart as the psychotic and mean teacher in that episode of "little house on the prairie"... demeaning and torturing poor laura ingalls until pa stepped in... he was almost "too good" in that role!..

but yes, watching now episode of "voyage under the sea" late at night on ME Tv.. their was a aura and air of homoerotic-ness and tension undertones.

r6

Pedobear.

This whole thread is a pedophile's wet dream

Don't be stupid, he was probably his age or younger when he crushed on him. You have a sick mind.

r82 It is amazing in retrospect how many old tv series and films had homoerotic undertones.

I remember Flipper (though I assume it was re-runs that I was watching) but I mostly remember reading the (possibly mythical) story of the dolphin who played Flipper committing suicide by swimming to the trainer and holding its breath until it suffocated.

R83"Pedophiles wet dream"... You rang

Yeah, I remember having a crush on Will Wheaton from Star Trek. I was like 5. He was about 10-15 years older than me but I still remember the crush when I see him.

Obviously no, just... No.

And a crush on Doogie Houser, MD. A crush on Kirk Cameron. A crush on Zach Morris. A crush on almost every cute boy because I was a kid at the time.

r89 Crushes are a fantastically fun part of growing up !

interesting in that i NEVER EVER i don't think had a "crush" on any young actor my age... it was always hot handsome "daddies".... i'm talking like when i was 10,12, 15, etc...

i crushed over MEN, not boys.. i wonder why some crush on their peer group and others like me don't?... i just thought and think i wanted and lusted after men because why lust after someone just like me? men were MORE built, handsomer, sexier, more confident, masculine and so on then a boy...

R7 that is a pretty disturbing webpage🤮

Flipper was such a conundrum for me as a gayling. Did I want the dad or the kids-- so torn.

"i crushed over MEN, not boys.. i wonder why some crush on their peer group and others like me don't?... i just thought and think i wanted and lusted after men because why lust after someone just like me? men were MORE built, handsomer, sexier, more confident, masculine and so on then a boy..."

Slut.

So much sadness.

Here's more info. on Brian Kelly and his motorcycle accident. He was 39 at the time and had a 21 year old woman riding on the pillion at the time. I was surprised to learn the incident had a connection to the development of Blade Runner into a film years later.

Another link detailing the suicide of Cathy (one of the Flippers) and the way it caused her trainer, Ric O'Barry, to immediately become an animal rights activist.

The kid was an Uber twink and the dad was an Uber daddy. Best of both worlds,

The story of what happened to Flipper is one of the major reasons I became an animal rights activist. The father is probably one of the many reasons I knew I was gay,

R94 and being a slut is a bad thing because??? since when is being a jack off slut to hot men on tv or in real life a bad thing? lol!...

r100 If it is a bad thing then I am definitely a very evil naughty bad lad!!The worst probably!😯😁😉

R101.. oh i don't know about that, i may contest for your title, your crown as i pretty much every night i "spank the monkey" to some tv/movie stud whether old school classics or newer ones! thank goodness for vcr's and dvd' recorder players! for the past 20 years! lol!

Are we really having a competition over who is the biggest wa**er??!!😯😅😁😁😉

R103... yes we are! lol!...

I remember SANDY!!

Big brother of the little redhead.

r89

No, you are just rationalizing your pedophilia. You would be saying, "I can't believe I thought so and so was attractive." You all are still saying they are attractive, thus making you sickos.

Did straight boys fantasise about fucking Flipper?

[quote]Did straight boys fantasise about fucking Flipper?

About the dolphin? I doubt it.

Good lord r107 I sincerely hope not!!😯

Were all the Flippers male?

No r10. Some of the shots were of female dolphins. I think the tail walk was a male dolphin.

I was the same, R91. I was never interested in my peer group, only in grown men. Even in HS, the only fellow students I thought were attractive were the guys who looked older than their age. There were some very hot teachers, though.

Anyway, Brian Kelly was the perfect-looking man as far as I’m concerned. It seems as though there used to be more actors with that classic tall, dark and handsome look. I wish we had more around today.

R52, Dennis Weaver was handsome back in the '60s and early '70s. The picture below is Weaver with Beth Brickell, who played his wife on the show. I don’t recall her in anything else, although, according to imdb, she guest-starred in just about every TV series of the ‘70s.

Here's Dennis Weaver as McCloud, which ran for 7 seasons (1970-77). Love the porn 'stache!

[quote]Anyway, Brian Kelly was the perfect-looking man as far as I’m concerned. It seems as though there used to be more actors with that classic tall, dark and handsome look. I wish we had more around today.

OMG, me too.

Oh, well...at least we have the old pics to look through. I guess we have Ben Affleck.

I liked the Dad in Nanny & The Professor as well. Hot Buns, I used to call him.

The cover photo in the OP doesn’t miss its branding opportunity, does it? A giant FLIPPER title. Underneath the title, “Flipper.” To the left of the title, FLIPPER. On the torturously small tank of water the poor dolphin is confined to? FLIPPER.

R85 Honestly, I think so many movies and TV shows have “homoerotic undertones” simply because any sort of friendship shown among men is regarded as ‘gay.’ Even when they are shown, as usual, doing ‘guy things’ like playing poker, playing pool, etc., some people always see “undertones” in men’s interactions if they aren’t talking about banging women. But if they do anything other than stereotypically masculine activities and show any kind of human affection for one another, then people see sexual attraction there. I think it’s pretty ridiculous. Some men have sex with men. Many do. Some men hang out with one another, not while golfing or bowling and drinking beer, and talk about things other than cars and sports and tits, and they’re not necessarily blowing one another.

Just like not all gay guys who are friends fuck, nor do they all sit around together going “Gurrrrrrl! Spill the tea, gurrrl!”

I did a short study abroad trip in college because a friend, who was dating a friend of mine, talked me into it and we stayed in bunk beds in a room with two straight frat guys. This was 20 years ago, when many young straight people were just starting to understand gay people are human beings. My friend was persnickety and kind of OCD, and he was obsessive about making his bed every morning and ironing his clothes even though we were in a beachside jungle. I’m...well, sloppy. But I’m also pretty gay acting. The frat guys interrogated us incessantly, which at first seemed like a gesture to show acceptance and then became annoying as fuck. They wanted to know why I, as a gay guy, am not as persnickety as my friend about being neat and tidy. They were SHOCKED when—after they implied it—we told them that no, we don’t fuck. We’re not interested. We’re friends. One of them said, “Why are you gay, then? Isn’t that the point, that you can have sex anytime you want with your friends?” We really had to educate them that gay people are just people who have normal, typical human to human interactions. And likewise, not all straight friendships are sexual relationships.

Flipper?!

I knew the muthafucks as JAMES...

R117. At their idea that you and your friend fucked you should have said, 'Don't be macabre.'

R112... i hear you... we have gone backwards in many ways on what a man is including on film and tv... think about it, men like CLINT WALKER!... he would be seen as a "oddity" in today's film and tv world, perhaps even a "joke" and used as a punchline in a movie or tv, but in his prime he was seen as thee ultimate man, the ultimate man's man.. men wanted to be like him, women wanted to be with him!.. ....

today? eww, he's too big and muscular and tall, eww he has a hairy chest, eww his voice is too deep.... the metrosexualization of men in our culture and society is the only thing i can think of... let's face it many women if not most women want a boyfriend or a husband whose basically a girlfriend who just happens to have a penis too!...

I jacked off to images of Sandy many times, especially when he displayed his pit hair. Then, when Bud got little whisps of hair in his pits, it sent me over also. I was their age at the time and was discovering the pleasures of masturbation.

R121.. now imagine the two instead of wearing their jean shorts were running around in speedos INCLUDING their dad on the show! and scenes of all 3 together like this in various locations and situations!...

I just remember them scooting around in a flat boat with a goddam king kong-size fan behind them. WTF. We didn't have those in our neighborhood.

This thread has legs!!... even if Flipper did not.

🐬FLIPPER POWER!🐬

R122, I preferred that they all were nudists or running around in bikinis.

You might be thinking of Gentle Ben, R123. I don't remember them using an airboat in Flipper.

R125 well yeah of course, but i'm thinking "realistically" i mean in the mid 60's guys and youngsters did wear speedos on the beach.....i guess even this reality would be TOO much for the family audience though.

Here he is without the jean shorts.

I was more into Billy Mumy and Mitch Vogel.