Episode
number: 41
Network broadcast date: Monday,
September 28, 1964
Look
Who's Talking
Genre: Science fiction
Author: Richard McCracken
Production number: 45
Production date: Friday,
September 4, 1964
Director: Ted Bell
Plotline: A marine biologist closes in on the breakthrough of his career: human communication with dolphins. But as his supervisor’s experiments on the creatures become more dangerous, the biologist’s “conversations” with them start feeling less like science and more like madness.
Cast: William Redfield, Bryna Raeburn, Evie Juster, Owen Jordan, June Graham, Ralph Bell, Edward Bryce
Notes:
Surviving recording is from ABC feed with Fred Foy announcing the timing of breaks.
Dolphins were a very popular topic at the time of the airing because of the Flipper movie (1963) and a sequel (1964) and the Flipper television series (1964-1967); there were many news stories about the intelligence of dolphins related to the release of the movies and also as general information in these years.