Whitman frame tray puzzles, a board game, Viewmaster reels (based on the two-part episode "Dolphin Love"), a battery-operated "spouting dolphin" water toy, children's swim trunks with the Flipper logo, and a 1966 Bradley glow-in-the-dark watch. Dolphin Paradise is a hangame app based on the Flipper television series. Home media Flipper received an incomplete VHS release during the 1990s under the title Flipper–Original Series. MGM Home Entertainment (distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) released the first season on DVD on April 24, 2007. They subsequently released season two as an eight-disc set on June 3, 2010. This is a manufacture-on-demand release, available exclusively from Amazon.com. On August 29, 2017, Olive Films re-released the first two seasons on DVD in Region 1. They also released seasons one and two on Blu-ray. Season three was released on October 31, 2017 on DVD and Blu-ray. Awards and recognition The Miami Seaquarium celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Flipper in late 2013 with Tommy Norden and Ricou Browning participating, along with a series of commemorative events through 2014. A previous event celebrating the 40th anniversary of Flipper in 2004 was also held with Luke Halpin and Tommy Norden. Flipper was nominated for two TV Land awards, in 2004 for the TV Land Favorite Fauna Award, and in 2003, for the TV Land Favorite Pet-Human Relationship Award. Flipper appeared twice on TV Guide covers. Animal rights Ric O'Barry, the head trainer of the Flipper dolphins (and also Halpin's occasional stunt double), became a world-renowned animal activist after the death of the dolphin that portrayed Flipper most often. O'Barry stars in the Oscar award-winning documentary The Cove, which features dolphin capture and captivity. He also wrote of his time with the Flipper films and TV series and subsequent animal-rights activism in the book Behind the Dolphin Smile. References Further reading TV Guide. July 8, 1966. External links "The Legend of Ivan Tors" documentary Flipper Cast Members Reunite at Miami Seaquarium for the Show's 40th Anniversary 1964 American television series debuts 1967 American television series endings 1960s American children's television series American children's adventure television series Fictional dolphins NBC original programming Television series by MGM Television Television series about mammals Television shows set in Florida English-language television shows Amusement parks in fiction Television shows adapted into comics Television shows adapted into novels Television shows adapted into films Live action television shows based on films