Season 1 • Episode 20
LatestTim and Salty find a Lucayan Indian neckpiece in the sand. Tim is led to believe that it brings good luck to the wearer.
Adventures of two orphaned brothers, Tim and Taylor, whose parents were killed by a tornado in the Gulf of Mexico. The brothers meet Clancy, an old circus hand, who was driving a bus. Aboard the bus was a menagerie including a pig, a pelican and a sea lion named Salty. Clancy adopts the two boys and takes them to his home, a marina.
Practical Effects
Real sea lion steals every scene, no CGI needed
Production
Marina setting feels genuinely lived-in and salty
Creator
Ricou Browning
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Creator Ricou Browning played the Gill-man in underwater scenes for Creature from the Black Lagoon, so he knew his way around aquatic productions.
This aired during the short-lived 'animal + kids' TV boom between Flipper and Gentle Ben, when networks assumed children only cared about creatures with flippers.
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