Dolphin Cove is an American-Australian drama television series created by Allan Marcil, set in Sea World, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia that aired on CBS from January 21 to March 11, 1989 for eight episodes.
[1] The show centers on widowed researcher Michael Larson and his two teenage children: daughter Katie, and her elder brother David.
The Larsons move to Australia, after Michael is hired by wealthy industrialist Baron Trent to help perfect man-to-dolphin communications.
Katie, who was in the car with her mother during the fatal crash, was not injured physically but has been an elective mute (capable of speaking but refusing) ever since.
The series, filmed on location at Seaworld on Australia's Gold Coast, was co-created by Peter Benchley.