In 1978's "Sisid, Dyesebel, Sisid", made by Sampaguita Pictures, Dyesebel (Alma Moreno) was a mermaid born to a rich couple. The husband claimed his wife had an affair with a merman. Still loving and accepting, they moved to their beach house where Dyesebel was kept in a wheelchair covered with a blanket to hide her tail. It was only her parents and her nanny who knew her identity as a mermaid. As she grew up into a lady mermaid (still on shore) the family hires Fredo (renamed David, played by Mat Ranillo III) and his dad as their gardener. Fredo and Dyesebel fell in love with each other.