Season 1, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/12/1954
Inheritance
In the opening episode of the series, Lassie finds a new home but the collie shows a reluctance to leave her old home.
Season 1, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/19/1954
Arithmetic
Jeff is failing math at school due to his ongoing problems with fractions. Ellen tells him that unless he gets his grades up, Jeff won't be allowed to go to the cicus.
Season 1, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/26/1954
The Colt
Gramps, feeling a little guilty over ignoring Jeff in the past, brings home a colt for him. Jeff names the horse Domino and is quite enthusiastic about having a horse to the point that he starts ignoring Lassie.
Season 1, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/3/1954
The Gun
Jeff wants to learn to use his father's gun, but Ellen is terrified of him being exposed to a firearm, although Gramps thinks he should learn to use it.
Season 1, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/10/1954
Mr. Peabody
Gramps hires a tramp to do some odd jobs on the farm, then is jealous when Jeff starts to idolize the tale-telling old man.
Season 1, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/17/1954
The Convict
Jeff and Lassie meet an escaped convict in the woods.
Season 1, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/24/1954
Feud
When Gramps quarrels with Matt Brockway after a hotly contested checker game, both men forbid their sons to play with each other. After Jeff and Porky's first attempt to fix the problem goes horribly wrong, so the boys hide in the woods in hopes that in "saving" them Gramps and Matt will be friends again.
Season 1, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/31/1954
The Lion
With Gramps and Ellen away for the day, Jeff and Porky plan a lazy day--until an escaped circus lion invades the farm. Worse, no one will believe them when they call for help.
Season 1, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/7/1954
Gramps
When Gramps has chest pains, the family tries to keep him from exerting himself.
Season 1, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/14/1954
Lassie's Pups
Jeff thinks Lassie needs a vet when her time comes, but a storm is brewing and Gramps says dogs can cope. Dr. Wilson: Frank Ferguson. Mrs. Wilson: Frances Morris.
Season 1, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/21/1954
The Job
A radio producer hears Ellen singing at church and offers her a job singing on radio--but she and Jeff must take an apartment in the city and leave Lassie with Gramps to do it.
Season 1, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/28/1954
The Carnival
Jeff shows a dog trainer at the fair Lassie's tricks--and thinking she can be a headliner for them, the man and his partner steal her. Clay: Richard Garland.
Season 1, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/5/1954
Sale of Lassie
Jeff overhears the wrong conversation, and, thinking Gramps needs an expensive operation, attempts to sell Lassie to raise the money.
Season 1, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/12/1954
The Rustlers
A calf Jeff is getting ready for the upcoming county fair mysteriously disappears at the same time that Lassie comes home muddy and injured.
Season 1, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/19/1954
The Fighter
Jeff doesn't understand why a famous prizefighter doesn't want to box any longer and pegs him as a coward.
Season 1, Episode 16 – Aired: 12/26/1954
The Contest
While Jeff prepares for the county fair, a spoiled little girl visits the farm and continually tries to hurt Lassie.
Season 1, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/2/1955
Runaways
After Lassie is suspected of having rabies, she's about to be taken to the pound--but Jeff runs away with her. Clay: Richard Garland. Brockway: Paul Maxey.
Season 1, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/9/1955
The Brat
Ellen offers the boys a special treat if they will babysit a boy while she is called out on an errand. But the kid turns out to be more than Jeff and Porky can handle.
Season 1, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/16/1955
Father
The church is holding a father-son event and Jeff doesn't want Gramps to fill in for his dad. Jeff is then even more embarrassed when Ellen decides to accompany him instead.
Season 1, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/23/1955
The Fawn
Jeff wants to adopt an orphan fawn, but Gramps says there is no place for wild animals on a farm.
Season 1, Episode 21 – Aired: 1/30/1955
Blind Soldier
The parents of a blind veteran try to buy Lassie--the young man's own collie Lassie has died and they do not want to tell him the truth, fearing he will slip into depression again.
Season 1, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/6/1955
The Cave
Jeff and Lassie are trapped in a cave shown to them by a malicious classmate.
Season 1, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/13/1955
The Injury
An injured man, hurt in a car accident, is brought to the farm. He mutters something about hitting a collie with his car--and Lassie is acting strangely.
Season 1, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/20/1955
The Well
A snoopy inspector from the water department insists on seeing the Miller well.
Season 1, Episode 25 – Aired: 2/27/1955
The Snake
Jeff is bitten by a rattlesnake and Gramps and Ellen rush to get him to a doctor.
Season 1, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/6/1955
The Bear
Jeff and Porky's campout is ruined by a persistent bear.
Season 2, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/11/1955
The Runt
All of Lassie's pups have been given away except for Laddie, the runt, and she hides him in an abandoned mineshaft to keep him with her.
Season 2, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/18/1955
The Pit
When Jeff and Porky see pit bull terriers, Gramps suspects illegal dogfights are being held in the area.
Season 2, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/25/1955
The Kittens
Jeff and Lassie find a litter of abandoned kittens and are horrified when Gramps says to leave them alone; that they can't be saved and will probably starve.
Season 2, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/2/1955
The Dog Show
Porky enters Lassie in the Capitol City Dog Show obedience trials without knowing what the procedure is, but Jeff finds out what's involved and trains her.
Season 2, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/19/1955
The School
A new teacher has forbidden the children from bringing dogs into the classroom and one of Jeff's classmates is determined to do something about it.
Season 2, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/16/1955
The Violin
Jeff teaches Lassie to howl when he plays the violin, hoping to get out of lessons, but Ellen sees through the scheme
Season 2, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/23/1955
The Monster
There is a weird "monster" in the lake making unearthly noises--but it turns out to be a displaced seal, which Jeff promptly tries to adopt.
Season 2, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/30/1955
The Witch
Lassie comes down with an odd ailment. The kids are convinced that a creepy old lady they call the "witch woman" has cast a spell on the dog.
Season 2, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/6/1955
The Wild Duck
Jeff nurses a wild duck back to health but when he releases it back to the wild, he fears the duck may be the victim of poachers in the area.
Season 2, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/13/1955
The Rival
Jeff and Gramps are jealous when Clay Horton takes Ellen out on a date.
Season 2, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/20/1955
The Newspaper
The boys start printing a newspaper to make themselves some pocket money--but the material they print gets them into hot water instead.
Season 2, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/27/1955
The Clown
After an itinerant clown and his dog entertain at a church carnival, the man is accused of robbing a neighbor.
Season 2, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/4/1955
The Twister
The Millers batten down the hatches as a severe storm approaches.
Season 2, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/11/1955
Gramps' Birthday
Jeff and Ellen plan a surprise party for Gramps so well that Gramps feels neglected on his birthday and "runs away."
Season 2, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/18/1955
The Gypsies
A gypsy girl and her family camp on the Miller farm, despite neighbors' reports of thievery.
Season 2, Episode 16 – Aired: 12/25/1955
The Gift
A television set meant for the Brockways is delivered to the Millers.
Season 2, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/1/1956
The Stamp Album
In a quest for a valuable stamp, the boys begin quarreling with each other.
Season 2, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/8/1956
The Dog Catcher
Jeff is horrified at the conditions at the local dog pound and tells the dog catcher to leave the dogs at the Miller farm until he can find homes for them.
Season 2, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/15/1956
Pokey
Matt Brockway says Pokey is useless and tells Porky he is going to give the dog away.
Season 2, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/22/1956
The Trial
When Gramps refuses to sell the farm to nasty Emmet Carey, Edgar Carey pretends that a barbed wire scratch he got in the barn is Lassie's bite, figuring the Millers will give up the farm before giving up Lassie
Season 2, Episode 21 – Aired: 1/29/1956
The Hawk
Jeff and Porky horrify Gramps by trying to tame a red-tailed hawk as a hunting falcon.
Season 2, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/5/1956
The Tree House
The boys quarrel over Pokey being able to sleep in their new tree house.
Season 2, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/12/1956
The Visitor
The Millers welcome a Japanese exchange student--and run into bigotry from a neighbor who has never gotten over World War II.
Season 2, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/19/1956
The Raft
The boys' journey on their new raft is hampered by the fact that Porky can't swim.
Season 2, Episode 25 – Aired: 2/26/1956
The Journey
When Gramps and Ellen tell him that Lassie is going blind, Jeff takes the dog on a long journey to find the doctor that can restore her sight.
Season 2, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/4/1956
The Vet
Jeff decides he wants to be a veterinarian, and his first patient is the Miller cow.
Season 2, Episode 27 – Aired: 3/11/1956
Lassie's Double
Ellen accidentally brings home a valuable champion collie from a dog show rather than Lassie--and is accused of theft!
Season 2, Episode 28 – Aired: 3/18/1956
The Child
Jeff and Porky, told to babysit little Janie, leave the child with Lassie while they run to see construction equipment at work, not knowing Janie is following them.
Season 2, Episode 29 – Aired: 3/25/1956
The Leash
After a friend's mother is involved in a serious car accident, Jeff becomes over protective of Lassie.
Season 2, Episode 30 – Aired: 4/10/1956
Sunday School
Jeff, in charge of collecting money for Sunday School, loses the contributions and has no way of replacing them.
Season 2, Episode 31 – Aired: 4/8/1956
The Deer Hunter
Jeff discovers that a new classmate's father is jacklighting deer.
Season 2, Episode 32 – Aired: 4/15/1956
Domino
A disreputable horse dealer schemes to buy Jeff's colt cheaply by proving to Gramps that the horse is vicious.
Season 2, Episode 33 – Aired: 4/22/1956
The Marauder
One of Lassie's puppies, Comet, mistreated by its owner, has turned wild.
Season 2, Episode 34 – Aired: 4/29/1956
The Calf
Jeff and Porky enter the world of business when they take a 4-H calf home from the county's fair, intent on raising it to sell for the price of an outboard motor. In their care, the calf grows into a prize-winning heifer.
Season 2, Episode 35 – Aired: 5/6/1956
The Crop Duster
Gramps' blames Lassie's son Laddie's illness on the spray used by a local crop duster.
Season 2, Episode 36 – Aired: 5/13/1956
War Dog
Jeff persuades a neighbor to buy a rehabilitated war dog, only to have the dog exhibit aggressive behavior. Joe Brown: James Griffith.
Season 2, Episode 37 – Aired: 5/20/1956
The Haircut
Ellen battles with Jeff to go get a haircut--until the unexpected happens.
Season 2, Episode 38 – Aired: 5/27/1954
Diane
Jeff and Porky quarrel over a new girl in town, who is happily playing one boy off another!
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Season 3, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/9/1956
Bee Hive
Jeff and Porky try to raise bees for an upcoming 4H show but a wild animal threatens to ruin their work.
Season 3, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/16/1956
Friendship
Cranky old Daniel Mueller fences in a pasture that's a shortcut the kids use going and coming to school and the boys want revenge, but Lassie is privy to his gentle side. Then one night the collie discovers Mueller seriously ill.
Season 3, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/23/1956
Quarantine
Pokey is temporarily quarantined at the Miller farm due to a disease threat. However, when the dog runs away, one of Miller's neighbours threatens to shoot Pokey on sight to protect his livestock.
Season 3, Episode 4 – Aired: 9/30/1956
Bone
Lassie uncovers a bone that is of interest to a local archaeologist but Pokey takes it away when she tries to bury it.
Season 3, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/7/1956
The Watch
Ellen tries to teach Jeff a lesson about being on time but Jeff takes the idea a little too far.
Season 3, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/10/1956
The Frog
Jeff's jumping frog is a female to the surprise of Porky and Jeff and they hope she lays eggs before the next frog jumping contest.
Season 3, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/14/1956
Hoax
Jeff and Porky send Lassie on a fake call for help but when Jeff is injured and does need help, people are skeptical that the need is genuine.
Season 3, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/21/1956
The Fish Story
Jeff and Porky enter a fishing contest to win a new pole, but it's Lassie that catches the fish!
Season 3, Episode 9 – Aired: 10/28/1956
Transfusion
Pokey needs a blood transfusion to save her life and only Lassie has the blood needed for the transfusion.
Season 3, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/4/1956
Local Elections
Gramps is going fishing on the day of local elections and Ellen is worried that his absence from voting could mean a man who dislikes all dogs is elected as animal catcher for the area.
Season 3, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/11/1956
Gossip
Jeff misunderstands a man who gives him a ride--and the newcomer is branded as an ex-convict.
Season 3, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/18/1956
Fish Conservation
With a drought affecting availability of fish in the area, two restaurant owners look to take advantage of the Miller's generosity by taking free fish from the Miller's lake.
Season 3, Episode 13 – Aired: 11/25/1956
Challenge
Ellen makes Jeff promise to stop taking on dares from other people. However, his promise is tested when a mischievous boy takes his report card and leaves it atop a phone pole.
Season 3, Episode 14 – Aired: 11/2/1956
Tractor
Gramps wins a tractor in a contest but refuses to learn how to use it even after his first attempts go poorly.
Season 3, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/9/1956
The Goats
To earn money for a motor for his bike, Jeff agrees to take care of Jim Teal's goats while he's fencing in their new pasture. However, the animals run Jeff, and everybody else, ragged.
Season 3, Episode 16 – Aired: 12/16/1956
A Place For Everything
Ellen enlists Lassie's help to teach Jeff to pick up after himself but things don't turned out as planned.
Season 3, Episode 17 – Aired: 12/23/1956
Party Line
Jeff discovers that the reason for Jenny's grumpiness is that no one remembered her birthday.
Season 3, Episode 18 – Aired: 12/30/1956
Superstition
Porky believes in superstitions and Jeff starts to believe himself after a series of strange incidents.
Season 3, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/6/1957
Good-bye Forever
After being punished for something he didn't do, Porky tells Jeff that he's running away. Jeff asks Porky to stick around in the hope that he can convince him not to leave.
Season 3, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/13/1957
Lassie's Vanity
Lassie is praised for her looks after a visit to a pet salon and she takes the compliments a little too much to heart.
Season 3, Episode 21 – Aired: 1/20/1957
Champion
Jeff persuades Gramps to enter a turkey shoot, even though Gramps doesn't think his eyesight is good enough.
Season 3, Episode 22 – Aired: 1/27/1957
Vigil
A little dog left in Jeff's care pines for his missing master
Season 3, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/3/1957
Chimp
Porky and Jeff receive a chimpanzee by mail instead of they hamsters ordered. When they try and hide the chimp from everyone, they discover that the task is far more difficult than they imagined.
Season 3, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/10/1957
Lassie's Day
With the Millers and Brockways attending a wedding, Lassie and Pokey set out on a series of adventures.
Season 3, Episode 25 – Aired: 2/17/1957
Rock
A baseball that goes misplaced during rock collecting for a school exhibit causes a rift between Jeff and Porky.
Season 3, Episode 26 – Aired: 2/24/1957
The Artist
Jeff tries his hand in matchmaking by matching Gramps up with an artist that is staying at a nearby cottage.
Season 3, Episode 27 – Aired: 3/3/1957
Survival
Porky and Jeff spend a night roughing it in the woods but their tranquility is threatened by a nearby camper's carless fire tending.
Season 3, Episode 28 – Aired: 3/10/1957
Bird Watchers
While Porky and Jeff go off to identify birds for a school project, Lassie tends bird eggs whose mother was killed by a ferret.
Season 3, Episode 29 – Aired: 3/17/1957
The Dog House
Lassie feels she is being punished when she is made to sleep outside in a dog house built by Gramps.
Season 3, Episode 30 – Aired: 3/24/1957
The Search
Gramps heads out on a secret fishing trip just as a bad storm approaches the area.
Season 3, Episode 31 – Aired: 3/31/1957
Boy's Day
Jeff and Porky are sheriffs on the town's annual boy's day, so Gramps cooks up a fake robbery to give them a little excitement.
Season 3, Episode 32 – Aired: 4/7/1957
The Snob
After visiting to Timothy Powell's summer home, Jeff is envious of the wonderful things he saw at the wealthy Powells and turns up his nose at the farm and Porky. So when the Powells go away for the weekend, Ellen has Timmy stay with the Millers.When Timothy falls seriously ill, however, it is Ellen's unwavering care that brings about his recovery, and Jeff realizes that money isn't everything and Jeff finds out the boy thinks he's the lucky one.
Season 3, Episode 33 – Aired: 4/14/1957
Haunted House
On a dare, Porky and Jeff venture into a supposed haunted house and are surprised to see what appears to be a real ghost.
Season 3, Episode 34 – Aired: 4/21/1957
The Nest
Gramps is determined to use the mower before the onset of bad weather but Jeff and Porky are just as set to protect a nest atop the machine that belongs to a rare bird.
Season 3, Episode 35 – Aired: 4/28/1957
Father Ellen
To cheer Jeff up, Ellen tries to join him for several outdoor activities but he thinks she is doing it as she needs to be cheered up.
Season 3, Episode 36 – Aired: 5/5/1957
Poverty
Under the mistaken belief that the farm is about to foreclosed on, Jeff adopts a frugal outlook on his daily life.
Season 3, Episode 37 – Aired: 5/12/1957
The Apple Tree
With the apple orchard partly ruined by rabbits, Gramps contemplates selling the farm.
Season 3, Episode 38 – Aired: 5/19/1957
The Harvesters
Nearby squatters have Jud Perkins determined to try and be rid of them but Jeff wants to help them.
Season 3, Episode 39 – Aired: 5/26/1957
Jeff's Moustache
Jeff talks about growing a moustache but when he starts acting older than he actually is, Gramps decides to teach him a lesson.
Season 4, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/8/1957
The Runaway
Lassie discovers a small, waiflike boy hiding in the barn, but the child won't talk. The Millers soon find out he's Timmy, an orphan living in Olive Branch with his elderly relatives, Uncle Jed and Aunt Abby Clausen. (Some type of accident killed Timmy's parents.)
Season 4, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/15/1957
The Suit
Timmy is so excited about his new suit that Ellen allows him to wear it until Jeff gets home, but when he tears it, afraid they will send him back to his aunt and uncle, Timmy lies and lays the blame on Lassie. To make him confess, Ellen makes him decide Lassie's punishment.
Season 4, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/22/1957
Graduation
Jeff is thrilled to accept a summer job at Doc Weaver's office, but when he neglects his duty for a few minutes, a potentially rabid dog is let loose
Season 4, Episode 4 – Aired: 9/29/1957
The Burro
When Timmy and Lassie find a sick burro, abandoned by neglectful but well-meaning owners, everyone thinks Timmy's exaggerating until Ellen finds the creature. Timmy's faith and the family's nursing save the burro, but then her owners come return.
Season 4, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/6/1957
The Berry Pickers
With Jeff at the dentist, Timmy and Gramps go out to pick huckleberries for pies for the church supper. Timmy thinks Gramps is ill when he naps after berrying, but it's Timmy who must be rescued after eating nightshade berries.
Season 4, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/13/1957
The Raccoon
Timmy and Jeff nurse an injured raccoon against protests from Gramps--and "Sam" repays them by wreaking havoc in kitchen, barn, and chicken coop. Released to the wild, he returns to begin stealing things from the house.
Season 4, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/20/1957
The Ballerina
Jeff tries every way he can to avoid meeting Debbie, the daughter of Ellen's visiting college roommate Lucy Hopkins--until he sees her dance and is smitten. But when Porky lampoons her dancing, Debbie tells both boys off.
Season 4, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/27/1957
The Elephant
Jeff and Timmy saw a huge elephant. Ellen & Gramps doesn't want it as an 2nd Pet for Lassie. They decided to keep it until the animal control person comes by and wanted to get rid of the elephant.
Season 4, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/3/1957
The Spartan
Jeff and Porky tell Timmy to keep quiet about a secret spill in the lake but Timmy soon falls gravely ill as a result of the dip.
Season 4, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/10/1957
Happy
After a visit to the zoo, Timmy discovers a stowaway in the car and tries to hide him from everybody in the treehouse.
Season 4, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/17/1957
The Wolf Cub
Wanting a pet of his own, Timmy adopts a wolf cub but the cub's mother wants him back.
Season 4, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/24/1957
The Tooth
In the excitement of a looming solar eclipse, everyone seems to forget Timmy losing his first tooth.
Season 4, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/1/1957
Transition
Tragedy grips the farm and life changes forever for the Millers and Lassie.
Season 4, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/8/1957
Timmy's Family
Timmy believes he and Lassie are unloved and unwanted by the Martins, and sends Lassie to the Millers in Capitol City. Ellen Miller, knowing that Timmy is mistaken, returns to the farm to reunite Timmy with his loving adoptive parents.
Season 4, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/15/1957
The Bike
Timmy borrows a bike to learn to ride, but when the bike is stolen, he must replace the stolen one with his new bicycle. The situation is resolved when Lassie plays detective to hunt down the bike thief.
Season 4, Episode 16 – Aired: 12/22/1957
The Goose
Timmy's vow not to speak to girls is tested when a girl and her unusual pet visits the farm.
Season 4, Episode 17 – Aired: 12/29/1957
The Baby-Sitter
Ruth gets Mrs. Grimes to babysit Timmy while she and Paul go into the city on an errand. However, Timmy is determined to prove that he doesn't need a babysitter.
Season 4, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/5/1958
The Crisis
Paul, Timmy, and Lassie are stranded on a deserted road when Paul realizes Timmy is becoming seriously ill. Lassie must risk her life to bring help to the sick child.
Season 4, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/12/1958
The Business
When Timmy and Scott launch a bait-worm selling business, their only potential customer refuses to buy anything. He changes his mind, however, when Lassie saves him from drowning.
Season 4, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/19/1958
The Ring
Timmy believes one of Uncle Petrie's tall tales and is hurt to discover he has been lied to. A gift of a friendship ring, crafted by Uncle Petrie himself, mends their relationship.
Season 4, Episode 21 – Aired: 1/26/1958
The Greyhound
Paul nearly runs over a greyhound that has escaped from its owner. Later, signs indicate the animal was stolen from its owner by someone in the area.
Season 4, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/2/1958
Inoculation
Timmy is afraid to attend school out of fear of polio shots that are being admitted to the students. Ultimately, Timmy hides out in an old mine where Lassie is hurt and needs care.
Season 4, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/9/1958
The Pony
Timmy comes running home with a story about a rabbit-sized pony--but no one believes him.
Season 4, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/16/1958
Sinbad
Timmy accidentally breaks Uncle Petrie's favorite guitar, so borrows a talking parrot in order to win a contest prize to replace it.
Season 4, Episode 25 – Aired: 2/23/1958
The Square Dance
Timmy refuses to attend the Grange Square Dance out of fear that he will have to dance with a girl. After Uncle Petrie reassures him this will not happen, he relents. To everyone's surprise, a fire disrupts the children's dance and Lassie must save the day.
Season 4, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/3/1958
The Garden
A drought is hitting the area pretty hard, and Timmy desperately attempts to keep his own small garden from perishing.
Season 4, Episode 27 – Aired: 3/9/1958
Concussion
When Timmy insists on going to a blasting site despite Lassie's protests, she is struck on the head by a dynamite-propelled rock and appears to not know who she is. Then she wanders away from the farm.
Season 4, Episode 28 – Aired: 3/16/1958
The Hungry Deer
Members of the community band together to hunt down deer driven to eat their crops, but Timmy and Scott fight to do something that doesn't involve killing them.
Season 4, Episode 29 – Aired: 3/23/1958
The Hospital
Timmy is stricken with severe stomach cramps and keeps calling out for Lassie.
Season 4, Episode 30 – Aired: 3/30/1958
The Penguin
A crate holding a penguin enroute to the Capitol City zoo falls off its truck, and Timmy and Scott adopt the creature
Season 4, Episode 31 – Aired: 4/6/1958
The Bird House
Timmy tends an injured sparrow.
Season 4, Episode 32 – Aired: 4/13/1958
Seeing Eye Dog
When Lassie finds an injured seeing-eye dog, the family searches in vain for the dog's owner. The situation appears hopeless until Lassie leads them to the dog's missing collar, and a telephone call to Capitol City Hospital reunites dog and owner.
Season 4, Episode 33 – Aired: 4/20/1958
Junior Firemen
Timmy becomes overzealous in his efforts to spot fire hazards to win a contest.
Season 4, Episode 34 – Aired: 4/27/1958
The Blanket
Ruth tries to replace Lassie's disreputable old blanket with a new one, but Lassie will have none of it.
Season 4, Episode 35 – Aired: 5/4/1958
The Rabbits
Timmy's new rabbits take precedence over Lassie.
Season 4, Episode 36 – Aired: 5/11/1958
The Cub Scout
Scott's city cousins make fun of Timmy and Scott's interest in the Cub Scouts
Season 4, Episode 37 – Aired: 5/18/1958
The Crow
Timmy's "patient," an injured crow he names "Peck," recovers to become a farm pest.
Season 4, Episode 38 – Aired: 5/25/1958
The Mother
On the sly, Lassie tends some orphaned puppies.
Season 4, Episode 39 – Aired: 6/1/1958
The House Guest
A visit from an old school friend,reminds Ruth of the finer things that are missing at the ranch. Her new outlook drives Paul and Timmy off on a hike, creating a dangerous situation when Ruth must be rescued from the gas housing.
Season 4, Episode 40 – Aired: 6/8/1958
The Sermon
Inspired by Uncle Petrie's tale of a boy who talks to the animals, Timmy sets out to befriend animals himself. But he helps some people along the way and it is their friendship and kindness that save Lassie from a precarious situation.
Season 5, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/7/1958
The Storm
Timmy and Boomer try to teach Boomer's new dog Mike, a distant little terrier, farm ways, but he seems unable to learn.
Season 5, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/14/1958
Wishing
Uncle Petrie allows Timmy to ride a pony at a pony-ride concession, and Timmy falls in love with the animal--so Lassie sneaks out in the night and brings "Star" home.
Season 5, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/21/1958
The Teacher
Timmy and his classmates adore their teacher Miss Hazlit, and when they find out she may have to leave because of budget constraints, they try to earn the money to keep her on. But the money is lost on their way to speak to the school board.
Season 5, Episode 4 – Aired: 9/28/1958
The Owl
Timmy and Boomer are so desperate to be useful that Ruth entrusts a fresh egg delivery to the boys, but they're sidetracked by an aggressive barn ow1 after they try to replace two broken eggs.
Season 5, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/5/1958
The Crash
Timmy and Boomer run to see a plane crash and don't know what to do when they find the injured pilot in the wreckage.
Season 5, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/12/1958
The Rocking Chair
Lassie falls in love with a rocking chair destined for donation to a benefit sale, and when it's sold, she determines to do something to get it back.
Season 5, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/19/1958
Fish Out of Water
Timmy brings home a rainbow trout with plans to keep it as a pet, but the idea engenders all sorts of obstacles.
Season 5, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/26/1958
Trapped
When Timmy and Boomer discover there will be girls at the Halloween party they are looking forward to, they go out hunting for foxfire to smear on their faces so girls won't kiss them and are trapped in an abandoned house.
Season 5, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/2/1958
Our Gal
Paul's expensive new sow "Our Gal" turns out to have an unfortunate predilection for running away, even through reinforced fencing, and after she has a litter of piglets.
Season 5, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/9/1958
Lassie's Decision
Timmy's plan to help his new friend Henry, who is afraid of dogs, backfires when Henry mistakes Lassie's extra attention as love for him and believes she wants to stay with him.
Season 5, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/16/1958
The Egret
On a bird-watching expedition for school, Timmy sees a rare snowy egret, but no one will believe him. Finally a professor is dispatched to see if his report is true.
Season 5, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/23/1958
The Archers
After bow hunters shoot a bear cub, then leave it in the forest to die, the Martins try to save the animal.
Season 5, Episode 13 – Aired: 11/30/1958
The Bundle from Britain
Boomer is jealous when Timmy seems to prefer the company of his English visitor, Robin, and his little Cairn terrier Basil, so he and a classmate make fun of Robin's short pants and school tie
Season 5, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/7/1958
The Black Woods
Having seen sugar maples while taking Timmy on a nature hike, Uncle Petrie returns to the woods to investigate--and runs into two men holding bank president Robert Hanson hostage. Remembering that he taught Timmy smoke signals on their hike, he makes a desperate gamble while helping one of the criminals make a fire.
Season 5, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/14/1958
The Raffle
Tongues wag in the neighborhood after Lassie picks Ruth's ticket as a winner in a raffle for a piano--but the real loser is Timmy, who's forced to take lessons
Season 5, Episode 16 – Aired: 12/21/1958
The Christmas Story
Several days before Christmas, Lassie is struck by a truck while saving a three-year-old girl and so seriously injured she needs a special veterinarian to operate on her
Season 5, Episode 17 – Aired: 12/28/1958
The Lady Bugs
Timmy and Boomer want to be partners in a business, and, learning Paul is planning to spend $10 on ladybugs to help fight aphids in his apple orchard, are determined to find a cache of them Lassie discovered earlier. But the collie wants nothing to do with the itchy pests
Season 5, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/4/1959
Junior GI's
The Army is conducting war games near the farm, and excited Timmy, Boomer, and their friends plan their own maneuvers. But it's no game when scout Timmy and his "war dog" Lassie wander into a live mine field!
Season 5, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/11/1959
The Big Cat
Ruth, taking a woods shortcut on her way to a Grange supper and having to replace a flat tire, is caught in a trap set by a state hunter to catch a marauding cougar.
Season 5, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/18/1959
The Tree
For a club project, Timmy and Boomer adopt a tree that was supposedly planted by Johnny Appleseed, then discover it is sleighted to be cut down to make way for a highway, so Timmy writes a letter to the President of the United States.
Season 5, Episode 21 – Aired: 1/25/1959
Timmy,The Oil Millionaire
When Lassie keeps coming home with greasy muck on her legs, Timmy and Boomer investigate, and discover a pool of oil on their property. But Uncle Petrie's investigation of the pool proves to be his undoing.
Season 5, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/1/1959
Beholden
Asa Winkler, a conniving handyman, claims Lassie bit him and tore his pants to obtain odd jobs at the Martins--and arranges other "accidents" to stay on.
Season 5, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/8/1959
Tartan Queen
A breeder says Lassie may be descended from a famous show dog and urges Timmy not to let her run wild, so she must sit on the sidelines while Boomer's terrier Mike has all the fun.
Season 5, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/15/1959
The Horse Show
Timmy, disappointed that there are no contests in the county fair a small boy can participate in, enters his burro Lucky in a farm horse event.
Season 5, Episode 25 – Aired: 2/22/1959
The Cat Who Came To Dinner
The Martins adopt a cat they find half-drowned outside the house, but the conniving cat, dubbed "Marmalade" by Timmy because of his color, immediately starts getting Lassie into trouble.
Season 5, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/1/1959
The Bonnet
Knowing Ruth hasn't had a new hat in four years, Paul buys her a lovely spring hat he discovers she was longing for, but Timmy and Lassie inadvertently ruin it while playing.
Season 5, Episode 27 – Aired: 3/8/1959
The Puppy Story
Timmy and Boomer are heartbroken when they find out Lassie's puppies are to be sold, so Lassie hides them in an old pen in the woods. But the mischevious babies get free.
Season 5, Episode 28 – Aired: 3/15/1959
The Young Flyers
The entire family pitches in to help Timmy win in his Cub Scout troop's kite-flying contest, especially after the original kite is lost.
Season 5, Episode 29 – Aired: 3/22/1959
The Watch Dog
Lassie, staying at a neighbor's house while the family as at the county fair, is blamed for the damage done by Chipper, a chimpanzee being nursed by Mrs. Collins.
Season 5, Episode 30 – Aired: 3/29/1959
The Puppet
Lassie falls in love with Suzy, a canine hand puppet manipulated by a down-on-his-luck ventriloquist.
Season 5, Episode 31 – Aired: 4/5/1959
Rock Hound
Timmy and Boomer collect rocks as part of payment for breaking a neighbor's window but the two begin to suspect the neighbor may in fact be a bank robber.
Season 5, Episode 32 – Aired: 4/12/1959
The Charm
Timmy and Boomer borrow Uncle Petrie's charm to give them good luck for an upcoming school project. However, they lose the charm and Petrie starts to have a run of bad luck.
Season 5, Episode 33 – Aired: 4/19/1959
Teamwork
Timmy and Boomer are bothered by the arrival of Boomer's cousin, who wanders away from them to explore a cave.
Season 5, Episode 34 – Aired: 4/26/1959
Stable Mates
Lassie brings home a little dog that she has been secretly been feeding. However, the warm feelings Ruth has about this situation quickly sour when Timmy adopts a feisty race horse.
Season 5, Episode 36 – Aired: 5/10/1959
Peace Patrol
Timmy and the other school children save money to buy stamps with the hopes that they win a plaque as a prize. However, the money is stolen from the school and Lassie tries to sniff out who the culprit is.
Season 5, Episode 35 – Aired: 5/3/1959
The Camera
Paul and Uncle Petrie try to find subjects for Timmy to take pictures of with his new camera. However, an unpleasant neighbor may dampen Timmy's fun with his hunting plans.
Season 5, Episode 37 – Aired: 5/17/1959
Swami
Timmy and Boomer set up a fortune telling booth at the church carnival but things don't go as planned.
Season 5, Episode 38 – Aired: 5/24/1959
Campout
An older boy, who has run away from his uncle, tries to get Timmy and Boomer to camp out with him.
Season 5, Episode 39 – Aired: 5/31/1959
Lassie's Guest
Boomer leaves Mike in Timmy's care while he goes away for a visit with relatives. However, Mike proves to be a handful for Timmy.
Season 6, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/6/1959
The New Refrigerator
Ruth loves her new refrigerator, but Lassie prefers meals from the old icebox instead--precipitating a battle of wills.
Season 6, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/13/1959
Old Henry
Timmy buys an old plowhorse for a dollar, but Paul says they cannot keep the animal since he can't do any work. In trying earn money to keep the horse, Timmy becomes trapped in a mine.
Season 6, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/20/1959
The Contest
Timmy enters a "why I love my pet" contest and entrusts Lassie to get the entry to the mailman on time, but she spends so much time aiding neighbors in trouble that the letter is not delivered.
Season 6, Episode 4 – Aired: 9/27/1959
The Mascot
Baseball great Roy Campanella comes to coach the Calverton Boys' League just as Timmy puts in a bid for Lassie to become the team's mascot. But when Timmy overhears two boys bargaining over who will pitch the first game and is threatened that Lassie will not get the mascot position if he tells, he's thrown in a quandary.
Season 6, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/4/1959
The Sulky Race
A down-on-his-luck horse racer who needs to win just one more race to start his own farm boards his two harness horses, Big Boy, his future stud horse, and Lazy Joe, Big Boy's stablemate, at the Martin farm. But at an early time-trial, Big Boy turns up lame.
Season 6, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/11/1959
Growing Pains
After Timmy gets a "real shiner" in a fight, Ruth can't understand the self-respect he's gained with his larger classmates and forbids him to play football with them.
Season 6, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/18/1959
The Flying Machine
As the smallest in the group, Timmy chosen to be test pilot for the gang's homemade glider. But the test flight will be held over a cliff.
Season 6, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/24/1959
The UNICEF Story
On a windy night, Lassie hears screaming coming from the woods, and upon investigating, finds a foreign girl named Anna wandering about lost. Befriending the girl, Lassie brings her home to the Martins. They discover she is a European girl that the Wilkins family has taken in temporarily. She is enrolled in the Calverton school and Timmy begins acclimating her to the area by taking her on a picnic. He notices she always eats as if she is starving; at first he does not notice that she is also hoarding food. Anna is continually coming in late, and then Miss Hazlit begins having complaints from Rudy that things are disappearing from the childrens' lunch boxes. When Rudy accuses Anna in front of the other kids, Timmy fights with him until Miss Hazlit breaks it up and makes Rudy apologize. Timmy comes home, however, and overhears Miss Hazlit telling Ruth that she also suspects that Anna is the thief. Timmy is disturbed, but agrees to let Miss Hazlit take care of the matter. In the meantime, Ruth volunteers to ask the children to Trick or Treat for UNICEF, but most of the children are against it because they don't get to keep the money. At lunch, Miss Hazlit sees Anna go back into the cloakroom, and the girl indeed does steal some food out of a lunchbox. When Timmy and Lassie go to look for her, they find her in the woods with a cache of food. Miss Hazlit asks Anna to apologize to the students and explain to them why she did so, and in broken English, Anna tells them that she is saving up food to send to her large family (four brothers, three sisters, and her parents) who were always hungry. After hearing Anna's story, all the children agree to go Trick or Treating for UNICEF. We see them asking for money (even Lassie has a UNICEF box) and at the end, Willy, playing the piano, Timmy, and Anna sing the "Trick or Treat for UNICEF" jingle.
Season 6, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/1/1959
Water Boy
Paul needs a new well, and Cully Wilson swears he can find water with a divining rod rather than Paul hiring an expensive geologist.
Season 6, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/8/1959
The Whopper
Ruth is disturbed by the tall tales Timmy is telling to impress Willy Brewster--a problem compounded when he tells Willy and Flip that Mrs. Larson, a new neighbor living in a run-down house, is a witch.
Season 6, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/15/1959
The Bounty Hunter
Due to stock killings by a puma nicknamed "Satan," the local farmers hire a bounty hunter, a curt, unlikable man whose tracking dog King and Lassie immediately strike sparks off one another.
Season 6, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/22/1959
The Land Grabber
After Paul refuses to consider selling his land to a real estate broker, someone ruins his tomato crop and sets fire to his hay.
Season 6, Episode 13 – Aired: 11/29/1959
The Man from Mars
When Timmy sees a meteorite come down, he's sure it was really a spaceship from another planet--and that a man from Mars is wandering around the farm. Funny thing is: food keeps disappearing from the Martin house!
Season 6, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/6/1959
In Case of Emergency
After a local farmer dies on the way to the Capitol City hospital, fifty miles away, the Martins spearhead a plan to start a community hospital, but a prominent farmer known as a skinflint refuses his approval.
Season 6, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/20/1959
Star Reporter
Timmy persuades editor Ira Caldwell to let him try and earn money by selling newspaper subscriptions to the Calverton Sentinel,and then accidently overhears a plan to rob the local dairy's co-op while at the Vance farm.
Season 6, Episode 16 – Aired: 12/27/1959
Alias Jack and Joe
During a game, the boys begin fighting and Flip is knocked out by a rock thrown by Rudy, who makes Timmy and Sam believe Flip is dead and it's their fault, so the two boys and Lassie run away to avoid disgracing their families.
Season 6, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/3/1960
Judas Goat
Phil Houston's stockyards suddenly gets a new source of lambs for market thanks to his assistant Joe Morton and Lassie seems to be reacting to strange noises not coming from the new silent dog whistle Timmy recently purchased.
Season 6, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/10/1960
The Space Traveler
When Timmy and Don accidentally release the guinea pig from an experimental rocket, they replace it with Timmy's guinea pig Alexander the Great. But authorities suspect the guinea pig on the rocket was exposed to deadly radiation.
Season 6, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/17/1960
The Maverick
large mongrel dog who's been a nuisance on neighbors' farms is trapped in a gorge, and although most of the farmers want the stray dead, the Calverton dog pound representative wants to save him.
Season 6, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/24/1960
The Grasshopper and the Ant
Timmy, studying grasshoppers for a school project, becomes so worried about a possible plague when he sees a big nest of the insects that he speaks up at the Grange meeting and tries to buy insecticide with his own money. It's only then that even Paul takes him seriously--and is glad he did.
Season 6, Episode 21 – Aired: 1/31/1960
Homing Pigeon
After he trades some old sports equipment for a homing pigeon, Timmy's next task is to train her. But only Lassie--and a male pigeon attracted to the new homer--knows "Bright Eyes" is endangered by a hawk on her first long-distance flight.
Season 6, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/7/1960
The Explorers
After hearing a speech about hiking at a Boy Scout meeting, Timmy and his friends set out on a hike of their own and quickly get into trouble.
Season 6, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/14/1960
The Epidemic
When Paul tends a neighbor's herd, he discovers they have hoof-and-mouth disease--and now Princess, the new purebred cow he invested $1000 in, and the Martin's old cow Bessie are threatened with slaughter.
Season 6, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/21/1960
Fur-Coated Killer
A neighbor may lose his new means of moneymaking when minks from his mink farm are blamed for slaughtering chickens. But the killer turns out to be something more dangerous: a wolverine.
Season 6, Episode 25 – Aired: 2/28/1960
Judgment Seat
The father of a new girl Timmy befriends owns the land Paul is renting for his alfalfa crop--and plans to flood the field before Paul can harvest it.
Season 6, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/6/1960
The Elephant
After Timmy and other schoolchildren saved up enough money to purchase an baby elephant for the Capitol City Zoo, the city authorities find there is no place to house it, so, newly named "Peanuts" by Timmy, it ends up boarding at the Martin farm.
Season 6, Episode 27 – Aired: 3/13/1960
Clementine
Timmy saves the life of a rooster that Paul only suspects was involved in cockfighting, but a neighbor's hired hand recognizes "Clementine" as a champion fighter named Dynamite who was left for dead.
Season 6, Episode 28 – Aired: 3/20/1960
The Puppy Sitter
Lassie, who turns out not to be expecting puppies, refuses to have anything to do with Henry Enders' setter puppies that Timmy is taking care of.
Season 6, Episode 29 – Aired: 3/27/1960
The Champ
Everyone makes fun of Timmy's runt piglet, Champ.
Season 6, Episode 30 – Aired: 4/3/1960
The Phone Hog
Paul is trapped in his truck by a downed power line during an electrical storm, but Timmy can't call for help because a garrilous woman is constantly on the telephone.
Season 6, Episode 31 – Aired: 4/10/1960
The Chase
After watching two callous city hunters and their rented dog ruin a neighbor's fence, Timmy and Cully Wilson lead the men on a chase through the forest using a young raccoon's scent as bait. It's a grand practical joke--until one of the unexperienced men accidentally shoots the other.
Season 6, Episode 32 – Aired: 4/17/1960
The Killer
Sam Burke buys a savage German Shepherd named Bismarck after a bobcat depredates his flock of sheep and attacks the Martin stock as well, leaving a lamb orphaned--but Lassie knows that something else was responsible for the killings.
Season 6, Episode 33 – Aired: 4/24/1960
The Moved Monument
Paul, Henry Enders, and some other farmers may lose some valuable farmland--and Paul an expensive fence--due to a road building project. Henry Enders tells the Martins he understands some of the original survey markers were once moved, so the two men try to find any that were not replaced.
Season 6, Episode 34 – Aired: 5/1/1960
The Alligator
Flip will get Timmy's turtle Myrtle if Lassie behaves like the greedy dog in Aesop's Fables, and indeed she does drop her bone--because she saw the escaped alligator that's taken up residence in the lake.
Season 6, Episode 35 – Aired: 5/8/1960
The Wrong Gift
When Willy's expensive Mother's Day gift and Timmy's more frugal choice are mixed up, Timmy can't bear to tell his mother after seeing her pleased reaction--so he takes steps to earn the additional money Willy's gift cost.
Season 6, Episode 36 – Aired: 5/15/1960
The Fog
The Martins' weekend camping trip turns dangerous when a treacherous fog envelops their camping area--and Timmy, stuck in a sinkhole in the swamp while searching for Lassie, is threatened by a maurauding wolf.
Season 6, Episode 37 – Aired: 5/22/1960
The Hermit
Timmy befriends the hermit who recently moved into the area, a man a visiting construction worker and his son scorn.
Season 7, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/11/1960
Blacktail
Jerry, the lame boy who adopted Lassie's son Blacktail, and his dog visit the farm, when the Martins find out Jerry can walk without his brace, but is afraid to try.
Season 7, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/18/1960
The Wallaby
Something's raided the family strawberry patch, but the large mysterious tracks puzzle everyone until Timmy catches a glimpse of the animal, describing it as a "giant rabbit." In reality it's a wallaby named Pancho--who poses a danger to Lassie!
Season 7, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/25/1960
Cully's New Pet
Cully tells Timmy no animal is all bad, so Timmy befriends a skunk, but no one, not even Lassie, will come near his new friend.
Season 7, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/2/1960
The Rescue
Timmy is trapped on a ledge while chasing a strayed ewe that has just given birth and Ruth desperately tries to get the attention of a nearby helicopter pilot reseeding the hills.
Season 7, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/9/1960
Feathered Menace
Ruth agrees to babysit Betty Wilder's infant twins, but the young mother arrives early and reluctantly leaves Timmy and Lassie to care for the babies until Ruth returns from an errand. Timmy thinks it will be a cinch--until a marauding hawk chases a frightened pigeon into the bedroom where the babies are sleeping.
Season 7, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/16/1960
The Gentle Tiger
Timmy learns a lesson in obedience when he takes a job as water boy at a traveling carnival. He disregards an order, inadvertently allowing a tiger to escape from its cage.
Season 7, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/23/1960
The Renegade
Timmy finds out that Bob Alder's dog Butch is going blind from cataracts and that Bob's father wants to have him put to sleep, so Ruth hires Bob to help with gathering corn to help pay for Butch's surgery. But Butch wanders away from the field where they are working.
Season 7, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/30/1960
The Blind Dog
A blind dog is trapped in a skip-loader and in danger of being buried alive. Lassie risks her life to save the handicapped pup and Timmy helps the dog's owner find work to pay for a sight-restoring operation for his pet.
Season 7, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/6/1960
The Swallows of Los Pinos
Timmy and Ruth try to prove that a little chapel should not be sleighted for demolition because a flock of swallows return there every year on the same day, but they may not arrive after a hawk attacks the scout swallow.
Season 7, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/13/1960
Sea Serpent
Mistaking a fin print on the beach left by a diver for the tracks of a sea monster, Timmy and Culley Wilson let their imaginations get the better of them. They launch an attack on the would-be sea creature endangering the life of the diver.
Season 7, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/20/1960
Visiting Colt
Timmy cares for a young colt during a neighbor's vacation, and doesn't realize until Lassie has twice saved the horse's life that he has neglected his oldest and best friend.
Season 7, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/27/1960
Little Cabbage
Movie star Mimi Marlowe has car trouble near the Martin farm and is forced to leave her baby, a pet poodle, in Timmy and Lassie's care. Excitement ensues, as Lassie must save the poodle, which in turn rescues Timmy from a precarious situation.
Season 7, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/4/1960
The Big Race
Timmy is punished for neglecting his farm chores when he joins Willie Brewster to build a vehicle for a go-cart race.
Season 7, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/18/1960
Bows and Arrows
Timmy and Bob build their own bows and arrows to go "hunting" like the two bow hunters they met, but when Bob uses one of the hunter's arrows, he hits an unexpected target.
Season 7, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/25/1960
The Christmas Story
The Martin's new neighbors turn out to be living in an abandoned shack with little food. Efforts to help are rebuffed by the father, but when the sheriff becomes involved, Timmy and Lassie find the father a job and the family enjoys a happy Christmas.
Season 7, Episode 16 – Aired: 1/1/1961
The White-Faced Bull
A neighbor's prize bull strays onto the Martin farm and tries to attack Timmy. When the bull is later poisoned, the neighbor accuses Paul of the deed. Detectives Timmy and Lassie launch an investigation to find the real culprit.
Season 7, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/8/1961
Apron Strings
When Timmy and Lassie bring home a litter of starving orphaned puppies, rescued from a maurading bobcat, the family tries to save them although one has already died of starvation. Inadvertantly, the pups teach Timmy, who's been relying on Paul to help him with arithmetic homework, about self-sufficiency.
Season 7, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/15/1961
The Wild Horse
A wild horse, spotted by Timmy, is proving to be a nuisnace to the farms in the area. Timmy convinces Paul to,with the aid of other farmers, to try and catch the horse befor that happens.
Season 7, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/22/1961
The Mad Dog
While Paul is away, Ruth and Timmy care for a stray dog that Timmy names Duke. But after being involved in a fight, Duke suddenly shows all the signs of rabies.
Season 7, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/29/1961
The Trip
When the Martins travel by train to Chicago for an agricultural exhibition, as well as to visit Ruth's mother and family, Lassie is taken along, but her crate falls off the baggage car enroute and Tom and Jess, two friendly truckers, try to help her get back where she belongs.
Season 7, Episode 21 – Aired: 2/5/1961
Shadrack
Cully plays host to his old regiment's Army mule, but he and Timmy must save the animal from being destroyed when it suddenly goes mad and begins rampaging all over the countryside.
Season 7, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/12/1961
The Patriot
After finding out the local Army base needs dogs to guard their missiles, Timmy adopts Homer, a German Shepherd from the dog pound to give to the Army, but the dog has become so cowed from abuse that the family wonders if he can ever be trained.
Season 7, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/19/1961
The Eagle
Timmy and Lassie watch in horror as a man raids a golden eagle's nest and destroys her only egg, so Timmy gives the bereaved bird a goose egg to raise.
Season 7, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/26/1961
Cracker Jack
Enroute to the city to relocate after a drought, a backwoods family stops at the Martins after Timmy plays a trick on them. But when their son Billy Joe finds out his parents plan to give away his beloved dog Mitchell, he swears Timmy to secrecy after returning to the Martins', then he and the dog head for the woods--where deer season has just begun.
Season 7, Episode 25 – Aired: 3/5/1961
Cully's Hound Dog
When Paul offers to farm the land Cully has allowed to lie fallow, the old man thinks Paul means he should retire. But after Timmy gives him a pep talk, Cully decides to fight back by hitching horse to plow and farming his land again.
Season 7, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/12/1961
The Fire Watchers
Ruth is on volunteer tower duty during a dry spell and must take action when a forest fire starts due to a careless smoker. Meanwhile Lassie helps Ranger Wade start a backfire after he's injured in the path of the fire in a fall from his horse.
Season 7, Episode 27 – Aired: 3/19/1961
Senor Coyote
Timmy befriends Josè, a new Spanish boy in school (the other boys keep calling him "Josie"), but doesn't know what to do when Josè's pet coyote Taquita is accused of killing Mr. Ransom's chickens.
Season 7, Episode 28 – Aired: 3/26/1961
Bessie
When Ruth thinks their cow is going dry, she makes the difficult decision to sell Bessie to the slaughterhousea and purchase a new cow. What they don't realize is that a neighbor's boy has been stealing some of her milk.
Season 7, Episode 29 – Aired: 4/2/1961
The Pigeon
Lassie and Caesar, an Army homing pigeon that Timmy nurses back to health, get so attached to each other that when he is returned to the Army, she refuses to eat, and Caesar frees himself to return to his collie friend. So Timmy decides to see if the Army will let him buy the bird.
Season 7, Episode 29 – Aired: 4/9/1961
Long Chase
When carnival performer Mr. Conte's trained dog Terry is injured, Lassie substitutes for her--so well that he wants to buy her. When Timmy won't sell, the man steals her.
Season 7, Episode 31 – Aired: 4/16/1961
The Ostrich
Timmy and Lassie make the acquaintance of Captain Gene Holter, a man who makes his living racing his two ostriches Romeo and Juliet against horses at county fairs. But when Ruth finds out Juliet, defending a egg she just laid, chased Timmy, she forbids the boy to return to the fairgrounds.
Season 7, Episode 32 – Aired: 4/23/1961
Fools Gold
Lassie brings home a gold miner's pack burro, and Timmy and Culley get gold fever. The burro leads them to a mine, but their digging causes the roof to collapse, trapping them. Lassie and the fireman must rescue them before the mine fills with gas.
Season 7, Episode 33 – Aired: 4/30/1961
The Greyhound
Timmy bets Lassie's new jeweled collar that she can beat a friend's new greyhound, Pat, in a race, and is chagrined when the collie loses.
Season 7, Episode 34 – Aired: 5/14/1961
Rodeo
Timmy befriends a tomboy girl whose father, a professional rodeo rider, is reluctant to compete again after a bad accident in the past.
Season 7, Episode 35 – Aired: 5/21/1961
The Search
While playing on her own, Lassie brings home the talking doll belonging to a lost city child, who is trapped in a concrete irrigation ditch that's slowly filling with water.
Season 7, Episode 36 – Aired: 5/28/1961
Timmy and the Martians
Timmy believes that the "Martian communicator" he and his friends Steve and Bobby built out of old radio and electronic parts caused an Army plane crash.
Season 8, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/10/1961
Lassie at the Grand Canyon
Ruth and Timmy, visiting the Grand Canyon, befriend a blind pianist with a unique outlook on life who helps Timmy after he is angered by Lassie's behavior when she follows him on a mule ride and he's forced to turn back.
Season 8, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/17/1961
The Bloodhound
Timmy and Lassie discover the sad truth about Relentless, Cully's new--and much bragged about--dog: he's lost his sense of smell. The truth might have remained secret had not the money earned in a church fundraising drive gone missing.
Season 8, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/24/1961
The Mysterious Intruder
The Gardners, the Martins' new neighbors, accuse Lassie of killing their cat and attacking their sheep, but Lassie knows there's a strange collie in the area.
Season 8, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/1/1961
The Badger Game
Timmy tries to capture a badger so he can enter him in a pet contest at the county fair. However, during his pursuit, he gets trapped by an unexpected cave-in.
Season 8, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/8/1961
The Outlaw
An officer's dog turns savage after being injured in an accident and it's up to Timmy and Lassie to save the animal from the posse looking for him.
Season 8, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/15/1961
The Winner
Timmy enters Lassie in a local dog contest but she goes to the rescue of another animal during a race much to the ire of the reigning champion's owner.
Season 8, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/22/1961
Heat Wave
Local farmers, angry that Cully is snapping traps meant to keep wild animals away from their crops, hold a hearing to have the elderly man committed. Timmy tries to help his friend by reseting the traps.
Season 8, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/29/1961
The Deer
Timmy tries to lasso a doe he has been secretly feeding but the animal gets away with the rope still around its neck.
Season 8, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/5/1961
Lassie Adopts the Fire Chief
Timmy loans Lassie to the volunteer fire chief after the department's mascot dies. However, it seems that Lassie soon prefers to stay with the fire chief than come home with Timmy at night.
Season 8, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/12/1961
The Pied Piper
Timmy tries to raise rats so he can sell them to a researcher, who is a friend of Paul. However, the rats escape into Paul's cornfield and Timmy must figure out a way to get them back.
Season 8, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/19/1961
Joey
A friend of Timmy's is disconsolate after being blinded in an accident. Timmy feels the only way to cheer him up may be to give him Lassie to use as a seeing eye dog.
Season 8, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/3/1961
The Dognappers
Thieves steal a dog belonging to one of Timmy's friends. When the same crooks are spotted by Lassie near the Martin farm, she chases after them but is captured by them as a result.
Season 8, Episode 13 – Aired: 11/26/1961
Lassie's Wild Baby
Lassie adopts a kitten from a litter belonging to a neighbor's cat. However, the kitten turns out to be a cougar cub and the mother is looking for hm.
Season 8, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/17/1961
The Dove
Timmy must make a difficult choice when he learns a new friend and his family entered the country illegally.
Season 8, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/24/1961
Yochim's Christmas
Familiar faces from the past return to the Martin farm for the holidays and something unusual happens during their stay.
Season 8, Episode 16 – Aired: 12/31/1961
The Parrot
Cully gives Ruth a parrot he found as a birthday present. However, when the parrot proves to be a nuisance, he refuses to take it back until he learns there's a reward offered for the animal's return to its rightful owners.
Season 8, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/7/1962
Lassie's Protege
Lassie, lonely when Timmy returns to school after a vacation, befriends a raccoon. She is devistated when the raccoon, whom Timmy named Melonhead, is run over by young drag racer Johnny Sexton.
Season 8, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/14/1962
The Black Sheep
A stray sheep that Timmy and Lassie manage to find is supposed to be part of Timmy's 4H project but wanders off at an innoportune time.
Season 8, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/21/1962
The Partnership
Timmy endeavours to buy an colt orphaned after a forest fire but the horse grows restless after an unexpected visit.
Season 8, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/28/1962
The Hike
Timmy's partner for a hiking trip can't go on the trip due to illness so Timmy secretly decides to venture by himself with Lassie.
Season 8, Episode 21 – Aired: 2/4/1962
Bird of Prey
Timmy can't keep a falcon he nursed back to health and has problems when he tries to donate it to an academy.
Season 8, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/11/1962
Casey
A chimpanzee is left in Timmy's care while his owner recuperates from an injury. However, the chimpanzee proves to be a handful for Timmy.
Season 8, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/18/1962
The Odyssey I
Lassie is accidentally locked in a truck making deliveries out of town. When she finally gets out, Lassie is hundreds of miles from home.
Season 8, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/25/1962
The Odyssey II
Paul and Timmy go to Lexington to try and find Lassie. Meanwhile, Lassie, alone on her long trek home, encounters a wide range of dangers.
Season 8, Episode 25 – Aired: 3/4/1962
The Odyssey III
Lassie heads out on her long trip home once again even as Timmy begins to think that he'll never see Lassie again.
Season 8, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/11/1962
Double Trouble
At a dog show in Capital City, Lassie is mistaken for a champion showdog and Timmy and Cully are given special treatment as a result.
Season 8, Episode 27 – Aired: 3/18/1962
Eager Beaver
Beavers are causing problems for neighbours of the Martins and they are determined to kill them. However, Paul tries to humanely trap them.
Season 8, Episode 28 – Aired: 3/25/1962
Lassie and the Eagle
An eagle returns to the Martin farm to see how her 'adopted' goose is doing even as Lassie is close to giving birth to pups of her own.
Season 8, Episode 29 – Aired: 4/1/1962
The Vindication of Relentless
Cully discovers that Timmy knows his bloodhound can't track scents anymore. This revelation comes just as a tax collector wants the bloodhound to find a missing ledger.
Season 8, Episode 30 – Aired: 4/8/1962
The Unwanted
After befriending a retired policeman, Timmy obtains a white German Shepherd dog to train and give to the man but the dog is oddly unresponsive.
Season 8, Episode 31 – Aired: 4/15/1962
The Musher
Inspired by a sled dog racer, Timmy trains Lassie and several other dogs for an upcoming sledding competition.
Season 8, Episode 32 – Aired: 4/29/1962
Lassie's Good Deed
While Timmy takes responsibility for feeding an elderly man's dog during the man's stay in the hospital, Lassie tries to figure out how to make the man feel better.
Season 8, Episode 33 – Aired: 5/6/1962
Sanctuary
Timmy and Cully try to have a piece of land declared a wildlife sanctuary but when a ranger comes to inspect the land, their preparations may backfire on them.
Season 8, Episode 34 – Aired: 5/13/1962
Lassie and the Calf
Timmy takes care of a cow for a man who is away but the joy of the cow giving birth to a calf quickly sours when Timmy and Lassie learn what may be the ultimate fate for the calf.
Season 8, Episode 35 – Aired: 5/20/1962
Elephant Sitters
A friend of Cully asks him to look after his pet elephant while he goes looking for a legendary mine. While the man is gone, Cully and Timmy think of a way to make a little money with the elephant.
Season 8, Episode 36 – Aired: 5/27/1962
Lassie and the Tiger
A tiger belonging to a wild animal trainer takes a liking of Timmy and follows him home from a nearby lake.
Season 9, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/30/1962
Fine Feathered Friend
Lassie is concerned over the fate of a magician's disappearing pigeon.
Season 9, Episode 2 – Aired: 10/7/1962
Quick Brown Fox
Timmy and Lassie care for a pair of orphaned fox cubs.
Season 9, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/14/1962
Desperate Search
Timmy promises his friend Andy that he'll care for his pregnant dog, but while taking her home, she is struck by a car and runs away.
Season 9, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/21/1962
Home Within a Home
Cully's old barn is condemned for passage of a new gas line, but the old man can't get his animals to leave.
Season 9, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/28/1962
Deadly Goats
Paul orders Timmy to keep an eye on the goats he has pastured in a canyon when one of them dies from anthrax, but he's careless and lets them escape.
Season 9, Episode 6 – Aired: 11/4/1962
Fawn Patrol
Timmy and Lassie help ranger Mark Adams tag fawns for a conservation project.
Season 9, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/11/1962
Gentle Savage
Timmy and Lassie care for a wild stallion suddenly tame after a fall down a cliff.
Season 9, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/18/1962
The Nest
Timmy and Lassie aid a mallard duck who laid her eggs on the track of a soon-to-be-opened spur line.
Season 9, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/25/1962
Lassie's Ordeal
Lassie is trapped on a rocky ledge at a construction site while trying to help a trapped fawn.
Season 9, Episode 10 – Aired: 12/2/1962
Howling Hero
Smokey, the new fire dog, is afraid of fires.
Season 9, Episode 11 – Aired: 12/16/1962
A Career for Lassie
Timmy and his new friend Danny, the son of a retired circus performer, decide to run away to join the carnival.
Season 9, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/30/1962
Show Dog
Timmy and Lassie befriend a overworked Irish Setter doing promotions for a dog food company.
Season 9, Episode 13 – Aired: 1/6/1963
Decision
Timmy gives a dog he found to a friend but when the dog`s owner appears and wants the animal back, Timmy`s friend runs away.
Season 9, Episode 14 – Aired: 1/13/1963
A Specialist for Lassie
A rescue leaves Lassie with a bullet wound, but an operation could come at the cost of paralysis.
Season 9, Episode 15 – Aired: 1/20/1963
Lassie's Lonely Burden
Lassie is upset that " her " pigeon can not participate in an upcoming race.
Season 9, Episode 16 – Aired: 1/27/1963
Swimmers
Timmy and Lassie try to convince a man that he shouldn't destroy his dog after the animal injures his spine as a result of a fall.
Season 9, Episode 17 – Aired: 2/3/1963
Lassie's Fish Story
Timmy mentions Lassie's fish finding abilities to a person in a fishing tournament but the individual doesn't believe what he hears.
Season 9, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/10/1963
Cully's Revenge
Grief stricken over his dog's death, Cully starts acting in a way that convinces Timmy he will shoot the steer responsible for his pet's demise.
Season 9, Episode 19 – Aired: 2/17/1963
The Journey I
Timmy and Lassie find themselves alone in a balloon and no way of knowing where or when they will land.
Season 9, Episode 20 – Aired: 2/24/1963
The Journey II
The balloon, with Timmy and Lassie inside, gets caught up in some tall trees. Timmy must figure out a way to get down and find desperately needed water.
Season 9, Episode 21 – Aired: 3/3/1963
The Journey III
Timmy uses skills he learned as a Scout to help him and Lassie in the woods but wild boar threatens them both.
Season 9, Episode 22 – Aired: 3/10/1963
The Journey IV
Timmy believes a nearby river will take him and Lassie to people and builds a raft to navigate it.
Season 9, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/13/1955
The Journey V
Lassie and Timmy are separated when the raft they are on overturns in rapids.
Season 9, Episode 24 – Aired: 3/24/1963
Project Bluebirds
Timmy builds a number of birdhouses to help the declining bird population in the area. However, his good intentions lead to problems with local farmers.
Season 9, Episode 25 – Aired: 3/31/1963
The Twister
Cully is ridiculed by many of the local farmers for predicting a killer frost that fails to materialize.
Season 9, Episode 26 – Aired: 4/7/1963
Lassie and the Rustler
Timmy hopes to get the reward for catching the person responsible for stealing a local man's turkeys.
Season 9, Episode 27 – Aired: 4/14/1963
Lady from Nevada
Cully asks Paul for a loan so he can enter a wild burro race with the idea of taking the prize money and buying a piece of land that lies between him and a neighbor.
Season 9, Episode 28 – Aired: 4/21/1963
Operation Woodland
Timmy looks to get a number of pine cones that he needs for a school project from a squirrel in the woods.
Season 9, Episode 29 – Aired: 4/28/1963
Weasel Warfare
After Cully suffers a heart attack, Timmy offers to help look after his farm while Cully recuperates.
Season 9, Episode 30 – Aired: 5/5/1963
Silver Soldier
Lassie brings home an Army war dog after one of its handlers is hurt.
Season 9, Episode 31 – Aired: 5/12/1963
A Matter of Pride
The first race of the local pigeon club is held but none of the pigeons return after a couple of hours.
Season 9, Episode 32 – Aired: 5/19/1963
Eagle's Lair
Timmy and Lassie try to save a bald eagle's eggs while the mother recovers from an injury.
Season 10, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/29/1963
Lassie and the Birdwatch
Timmy is diverted from preparing for an upcoming test by Lassie needing help saving ducks trapped in thick mud.
Season 10, Episode 2 – Aired: 10/6/1963
The Agreement
Matt Krebs and Cully argue over a piece of property that borders both of them.
Season 10, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/13/1963
Lassie to the Rescue
Ruth and her friends are determined to do something about a dangerous cliff road before someone gets seriously hurt.
Season 10, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/20/1963
Jeeper
A neighbor's dog saves a young boy but Lassie gets the credit.
Season 10, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/27/1963
A Time for Giving
A friend of Timmy gives him a dog to look after. Timmy considers passing the dog onto Cully but worries that the dog may be too much for Cully to handle.
Season 10, Episode 6 – Aired: 11/3/1963
Three Alarm
Ed Washburne lobbies the council for a new fire engine but a stingy and reclusive man is equally determined to see it doesn't happen.
Season 10, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/10/1963
The Treasure (1)
Timmy and Cully set out to find treasure supposedly left by a man who led a solitary life in a remote cabin.
Season 10, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/17/1963
The Treasure (2)
Timmy and Cully are caught in a rock slide and Cully winds up pinned under a boulder.
Season 10, Episode 9 – Aired: 12/1/1963
Lassie and the Winged Enemy
While out in the woods, Timmy finds cocoons that point to the presence of gypsy moths, a destructive species that could pose a threat to the local forests.
Season 10, Episode 10 – Aired: 12/8/1963
High Tension
Timmy tries to win a contest with an aerial photo taken from a kite he flies but his plan leads to unforseen results.
Season 10, Episode 11 – Aired: 12/15/1963
Lassie's Gift of Love (1)
Timmy and an elderly man start a program to feed the woodland animals during the Christmas season but soon run into problems.
Season 10, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/22/1963
Lassie's Gift of Love (2)
While Timmy and Paul are bringing toys to the hospital in town, Lassie must defend the Martin barn by herself against an intruding wolf.
Season 10, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/29/1963
Day of Darkness
A new colt is born blind at the Martin farm and the Martins are torn as to what do with the animal.
Season 10, Episode 14 – Aired: 1/5/1964
Horse Thief
A horse Timmy once owned returns from the hills and quickly causes problems for the Martin's neighbours.
Season 10, Episode 15 – Aired: 1/12/1964
Her Master's Voice
Lassie is stunned by a lightning bolt striking nearby and it becomes clear her hearing has been affected by the incident.
Season 10, Episode 16 – Aired: 1/19/1964
A Challenge for Lassie
Timmy uses Lassie as collateral for the fee to enter Lassie in a contest.
Season 10, Episode 17 – Aired: 2/2/1964
The Disappearance (1)
A camping trip in the mountains leads to a major crisis for Timmy and Lassie.
Season 10, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/9/1964
The Disappearance (2)
The Martins leave camp without Lassie, who has been rescued by Ranger Stuart on the opposite side of the lake.
Season 10, Episode 19 – Aired: 2/16/1964
The Disappearance (3)
Lassie accompanies Corey on a search for an inexperienced hunter.
Season 10, Episode 20 – Aired: 2/23/1964
The Disappearance (4)
Lassie accompanies Corey on a dangerous avalanche patrol. Elsewhere, Timmy learns that Lassie is still alive.
Season 10, Episode 21 – Aired: 3/1/1964
The Disappearance (5)
Lassie tries to rescue Corey and his partner, who are buried by an avalanche.
Season 10, Episode 22 – Aired: 3/8/1964
Lassie Counts Sheep
Sheep are disappearing, and reappearing, on local farms and no one can figure out what is going on.
Season 10, Episode 23 – Aired: 3/15/1964
Lassie and the Moving Mountain
An earthquake hits the area Timmy and Lassie are hiking in and the two face an additional threat from a nearby dam weakened by the quake.
Season 10, Episode 24 – Aired: 3/22/1964
Lassie and the Piglets
Paul gives Timmy a litter of piglets to look after but the piglets get loose and are soon menaced by a bobcat.
Season 10, Episode 25 – Aired: 4/5/1964
Guide Dog
Timmy tries to help a seeing eye dog regain his confidence.
Season 10, Episode 26 – Aired: 4/12/1964
Bee Line
A skunk wrecks Paul's bee pollination plans and Timmy tries to get more bees to replace the lost ones.
Season 10, Episode 27 – Aired: 4/19/1964
Hit'n'Run
Lassie is the only witness to Timmy being struck and knocked unconscious by a car driven by a neighbour's son.
Season 10, Episode 28 – Aired: 4/26/1964
Lassie and the Savage
A legendary wolf dog returns to the area and a local professor, intrigued by the legends he's heard, accompanies the hunt for the animal.
Season 10, Episode 29 – Aired: 5/3/1964
The Samaritans
Timmy tends his own patch of corn but raccoons threaten to ruin his efforts.
Season 11, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/6/1964
The Wayfarers (1)
Timmy is excited about the news that the Martins will be moving to Australia but heartbroken that he will be forced to leave Lassie behind as a result.
Season 11, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/13/1964
The Wayfarers (2)
Lassie has settled in with Cully at his home but the elderly man suffers a heart attack and Lassie must go for a doctor.
Season 11, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/20/1964
The Wayfarers (3)
Corey joins Lassie in her search for her missing friend.
Season 11, Episode 4 – Aired: 9/27/1964
Incident of the Eagle
After an eagle is struck and injured by a survey plane, Lassie looks to protect her defenseless eaglets from menaces.
Season 11, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/4/1964
Climb the Mountain Slowly
Season 11, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/11/1964
Leave It to Lassie and the Beavers
A new assistant ranger has his hands full with a catankerous local woman and the beavers that have taken over a stream she owns.
Season 11, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/18/1964
Lassie and the Shifting Sands
Lassie makes friends with a lonely girl who has no one to play with. When a bracelet belonging to the girl's grandmother goes missing, Lassie tries to find it.
Season 11, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/25/1964
Lassie and the Loner
Corey offers to help a young man become a ranger but the man refuses Corey's help.
Season 11, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/8/1964
Lassie and the Fugitive (1)
Lassie befriends a neighbour's farm dog who is shot while defending a herd of sheep from a pack of wild dogs.
Season 11, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/15/1964
Lassie and the Fugitive (2)
Lassie fights the leader of the wild dogs to save her new friend while Corey and Barney search for Lassie.
Season 11, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/22/1964
Nature's Way
A rancher, to avoid being accused of overgrazing, moves his herd of cattle to an area where quicksand is located and endangers his son's life in the process.
Season 11, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/29/1964
Crossroad
Corey thinks Jim should go to college but Jim wants to work instead and make enough money to allow him to marry his girlfriend.
Season 11, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/6/1964
Mountain Mystery
Core tries to find the source of a local epidemic even though he is sick himself.
Season 11, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/13/1964
Realm of the Wild
Corey helps a local game warden transport a troublesome bear out of an area popular with tourists. However, the warden is unaware that the bear has left behind a young cub.
Season 11, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/20/1964
The Little Christmas Tree
Lassie looks to find stolen Christmas trees that have been earmarked for needy families.
Season 11, Episode 16 – Aired: 12/27/1964
Lassie Works a Miracle
Lassie saves a stallion from death after the animal's erratic behaviour endangers people around him.
Season 11, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/3/1965
It's an Ill Wind
Corey and Lassie race to rescue a cat and her newborn kittens that are trapped in a cave by a fallen power line.
Season 11, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/10/1965
Lassie and the Girl in the Canyon
Hanks's sister takes a bad fall while exploring a canyon with Lassie.
Season 11, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/24/1965
Stranger in the Woods
Lassie searches the woods for an escaped pet.
Season 11, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/31/1965
High Water
A local rancher's daughter and her puppy are caught in rising waters during a fierce storm.
Season 11, Episode 21 – Aired: 2/7/1965
The Loser
Corey, Lassie and an escaped convict are trapped by a mine cave-in.
Season 11, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/14/1965
The Old Man in the Forest
Corey tries to help a reclusive woman who is in trouble for frightening local hunters.
Season 11, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/21/1965
Look Homeward, Lassie (1)
Corey and Lassie are separated after they parachute out of a damaged plane. Alone in a desert, Lassie looks to find her way home.
Season 11, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/28/1965
Look Homeward, Lassie (2)
Lassie's journey home takes through a ghost town, where she is captured by an eccentric prospector.
Season 11, Episode 25 – Aired: 3/7/1965
Look Homeward, Lassie (3)
Corey tries to get more time to search for Lassie from his employers. Meanwhile, Lassie is injured while saving a man from a stampede.
Season 11, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/7/1965
Day of Devotion
Corey, Hank and Lassie race to save a goose from dying of metallic poisoning.
Season 11, Episode 27 – Aired: 3/21/1965
Tinderbox
A young man warns the local people of raging forest fire only to find himself trapped in the path of the fire.
Season 11, Episode 28 – Aired: 3/28/1965
Lassie and the Swamp Girl
A young girl falls in love with Lassie and undertakes a dangerous journey in an attempt to get the collie to follow her home.
Season 11, Episode 29 – Aired: 4/4/1965
Trouble Below Zero
Lassie tries to help a terrier friend that is trapped in a delivery truck.
Season 11, Episode 30 – Aired: 4/11/1965
Runaround
An escaped chimpanzee wrecks the ranger station at a most inopportune time.
Season 11, Episode 31 – Aired: 4/28/1965
Long Ears
Lassie and Corey try to capture a runaway mule.
Season 11, Episode 32 – Aired: 5/9/1965
Lassie's Teamwork
Corey and Nancy worry about a disabled boy, who is despondent and uninterested in any activities.
Season 11, Episode 33 – Aired: 5/16/1965
Honor Bright
Corey, Lassie and a Boy Scout troop are secretly followed by a young French boy, who is out of his element in the woods.
Season 12, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/12/1965
Lassie Meets a Challenge
Lassie tries to help a pregnant doe struck by a car.
Season 12, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/19/1965
Sudden Fury
Lassie and a friend are caught in the wrath of an unexpected flash flood.
Season 12, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/26/1965
Lassie and the Dynamite
Lassie tries to rescue two young boys playing near a blasting site.
Season 12, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/3/1965
Lassie and the Seagull
Lassie befiends an injured seagull being cared for by a friend of Corey's father. However, the seagull escape his cage and soon faces a variety of menaces.
Season 12, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/10/1965
Charlie Banana
A rash of mysterious thefts at the ranger station has everyone wondering who the culprit could be.
Season 12, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/17/1965
In the Eyes of Lassie
With the aid of Lassie, Corey looks to rescue a scientist trapped by a slide in snow covered woods.
Season 12, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/24/1965
Trouble at Paradise Lake
With fish disappearing from Paradise Lake, Corey faces a tough decision about what to do with a lake dock belonging to a local man.
Season 12, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/31/1965
Little Dog Lost
Corey and Lassie try to rescue a young pup trapped in a swampy area.
Season 12, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/7/1965
Lassie's Time of Peril
A flooded river threatens to sweep away a bridge construction project. Ranger Corey Stuart and Lassie brave the raging waters in a small boat to construct a log chain barrier and control the flow of water and logs.
Season 12, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/14/1965
In the Midst of Splendor
Irresponsible motorcyclists endanger a young woman looking for them.
Season 12, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/21/1965
Lassie Saves a Life
Corey suspects a young boy camping in the area may have contracted rabies.
Season 12, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/28/1965
The Waif
A vetrenarian and a wild collie puppy are brought together by Corey and Lassie.
Season 12, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/5/1965
Crisis
A relatively new ranger requests a transfer under unusual circumstances.
Season 12, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/12/1965
Pitfall
While in Los Angeles, Lassie befriends a pigeon but the bird may be responsible for getting Lassie into a dangerous situation.
Season 12, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/19/1965
Temper the Wind
A forest fire endangers the lives of a local shepherd and his flock of sheep.
Season 12, Episode 16 – Aired: 12/26/1965
The Gift of Life
Lassie helps a pregnant collie find refuge in the woods.
Season 12, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/2/1966
Lassie Catches the Poachers
Lassie discovers two people that are using illegal means to catch fish.
Season 12, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/16/1966
The Town That Wouldn't Die
Corey tries to locate a source of water for the town of Pine Lake.
Season 12, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/23/1966
Just One Old Cow
A pet cow is at the center of a dispute between a rancher and his neighbor.
Season 12, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/30/1966
The Outcast
After Lassie frees several animals from traps, one decides to tag along with Lassie but the animal is not welcome by others.
Season 12, Episode 21 – Aired: 2/6/1966
Cradle of the Deep
While Corey and Lassie visit a friend of Corey's on the California coast, Lassie befriends two sea lions.
Season 12, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/13/1966
The Homesick Hound
A bloodhound needs to be relocated, but he dislikes all his new abodes.
Season 12, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/20/1966
The Silent Threat
A rancher is reluctant to have his land sprayed for budworms for fear the chemicals will harm his horses.
Season 12, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/27/1966
The Friendless
Corey and Lassie befriend a young man who has run away from an honor camp.
Season 12, Episode 25 – Aired: 3/6/1966
Avalanche
Corey is trapped in an overturned truck and has to use an unusual method to alert people as to his location.
Season 12, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/13/1966
Babes in the Woods
A coyote stands between a female raccoon and her kits and Lassie looks to solve the problem.
Season 12, Episode 27 – Aired: 3/20/1966
Lassie's Rescue Mission
Lassie finds a new home for a family of rabbits displaced by a range clearing project.
Season 12, Episode 28 – Aired: 3/27/1966
The Doll
Corey and Lassie locate a lost young girl who longs to be reunited with her doll.
Season 12, Episode 29 – Aired: 4/3/1966
The Untamed Land
A hermit is opposed to power lines that are scheduled to be put in a wilderness area untouched by man.
Season 12, Episode 30 – Aired: 4/17/1966
The Day the Mountain Shook
An earthquake endangers a hearing impaired young boy who is on a hike in the woods.
Season 12, Episode 31 – Aired: 4/24/1966
The Vigil
Lassie tries to lead a small dog out of a rockslide area but the dog refuses to leave until its master is found.
Season 12, Episode 32 – Aired: 5/1/1966
The Strongest Instinct
A young man in charge of the family lumber business looks to cut down a huge pine tree despite his mother's advice not to do so.
Season 13, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/11/1966
Lassie and the Buffalo
Corey shows an old friend why a buffalo hunt will improve the quality of life in a herd while Lassie helps a perpetually straying calf get back to its mother, who is slated to be killed.
Season 13, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/18/1966
Danger Mountain
While inspecting a ski area with the careless proprietor, Corey and Lassie find major infractions, but trouble is only starting when they are trapped at the top of a stalled ski lift with the now injured man.
Season 13, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/25/1966
Fly Away Home
In the Franklin National Forest, a wetlands sanctuary, Lassie saves a Canada goose who was trapped in a fishing line and then attacked by bobcat, injuring her wing.
Season 13, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/2/1966
A Time for Courage
Corey leaves Lassie with Ed, a novice smoke jumper injured in a fire, when he participates in a smoke jump. When Corey and his friend Lane, a veteran fire fighter, are trapped and Ed has the idea to send Lassie, with a transmitter, in to find them.
Season 13, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/9/1966
Lassie Baits a Bear
When Corey devises a way to free a female bear from the pit trap she has been caught in, the animal "repays" him by attacking him and knocking him into the same pit.
Season 13, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/16/1966
Lassie the Voyager (1)
While trying to find Corey, on duty in the thick of a hurricane, Lassie is trapped on a freighter which sails with her aboard.
Season 13, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/23/1966
Lassie the Voyager (2)
Lassie, finally escaped from the freighter, swims ashore and assists an injured lighthouse keeper.
Season 13, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/30/1966
Lassie the Voyager (3)
Lassie is put on trial for being a stray in Williamsburg, Virginia, and is defended by an elderly lawyer.
Season 13, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/6/1966
Lassie the Voyager (4)
Lassie helps a lonely teenage mountain girl who attempts to protect her pet fox Riddle from a neighbor's boy and his hounds.
Season 13, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/13/1966
Lassie the Voyager (5)
Lassie,continuing on her voyage, comes up on and helps an abandoned kitten before befriending two young runaways rafting down a river.
Season 13, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/20/1966
Lassie the Voyager (6)
Lassie joins two runaway boys who are rafting down the river to New Orleans; when their raft is lost, they decide to spend the night in a cave.
Season 13, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/27/1966
Lassie the Voyager (7)
Unbeknownst to Corey, who is assigned a project in New Orleans, Lassie has also reached the cresent city.They end up just missing each other several times before finally meeting up again.
Season 13, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/4/1966
Little Jim
Dan Casey's hope of winning the trotting races at the Franklin County Fair with his pony Little Jim is dashed when he is hurt in a fall from the sulky--until his granddaughter Maureen resolves to drive in his place.
Season 13, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/25/1966
The Greatest Gift
Corey and Lassie stop to help young Johnny Conrad on their way to supervise the cutting of the national Christmas tree--but Johnny is heartbroken when he discovers the chosen spruce is "the meeting tree" his father, who is missing in action in Vietnam, and he used while on fishing and hunting trips.
Season 13, Episode 15 – Aired: 1/1/1967
Once Upon a Horse
Corey and Lassie tame a wild stallion that was injured in a fall down a ridge and who will always be a little lame.
Season 13, Episode 16 – Aired: 1/8/1967
Interlude of Mercy
Lassie is trying to defend a cougar cub from a vicious attack from a wolf.When she accidently slips and falls down the cliff and is hurt.But Lassie's good deed is repayed when the cougar cub's mother,cares for Lassie and nurses her back to health.
Season 13, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/15/1967
Crisis at Devil's Gorge
While surveying the badlands of North Dakota,for use as a wilderness area, Corey is bitten by a rattlesnake; when his horse returns riderless to the corral, a fellow ranger and a pilot set up a desperate search for him.
Season 13, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/22/1967
Lassie's Litter Bit
After Corey and a fellow ranger put up a trash display to remind tourists to clean up their litter, Lassie finds a well-meaning man tossing trash into a ravine--and after he leaves, a raccoon gets his head caught in a can the man left.
Season 13, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/29/1967
Day of the Bighorn
Lassie helps an aging bighorn sheep who has been trapped and is helpless before a pack of wild dogs.
Season 13, Episode 20 – Aired: 2/5/1967
The Protectors
In this,another of the classic Lassie all-animal episodes, Lassie and an eagle protect a helpless mother owl who was injured by a possum trying to steal her eggs. The eagle hatches the eggs and then feeds the chicks as the owl recovers and Lassie protects the nest.
Season 13, Episode 21 – Aired: 2/19/1967
A Matter of Seconds
When the rangers have an area cleared for a vista stop, several wrecked cars must be towed away from the site. But a squirrel is trapped in the trunk of one of the vehicles and only Lassie knows it.
Season 13, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/26/1967
Never Look Back
Luther Jennings, the elderly ranger manning the survey tower at Strawberry Peak, takes it hard when he finds he'll lose his job when the tower is slated for destruction. Then he's attacked by a jaguar while out on a walk.
Season 13, Episode 23 – Aired: 3/5/1967
The Eighth Life of Henry IV
While Corey helps the town of Whitehorse Falls with modern forestry methods, Lassie has her hands--uh, paws--full with a mischievous kitten who can't seem to help endangering himself.
Season 13, Episode 24 – Aired: 3/12/1967
Lure of the Wild
A coyote rescued and tamed by a fellow forest ranger and now returning to the wild again is stalked by a hunter, but Lassie and "Monday's" mate try to outwit the man.
Season 13, Episode 25 – Aired: 3/19/1967
Most Dangerous Game
It's fire season in the Franklin National Forest and when a reporter interviews Corey about fire safety, he finds out most fires are caused by children playing with matches. Sure enough, Lassie soon finds a boy playing with matches who finally ends up setting a fire which she strives to put out.
Season 13, Episode 26 – Aired: 4/2/1967
Barney
Ranger Corey Stuart and Lassie visit a turkey ranch where watchdog Barney has been injured in a fight with a lynx. The lynx successfully terrorizes the ranch as Barney shies away in fear, but when the lynx attacks Lassie, Barney must confront his fears.
Season 13, Episode 27 – Aired: 4/9/1967
Return of the Charm
When Jeremy Boggs loses a good luck charm he acquired during World War II, Lassie returns to the place he lost it to track it down. A squirrel has stored it in a winter cache and Lassie must make a trade to regain the special stone.
Season 13, Episode 28 – Aired: 4/16/1967
Winged Attack
Eddie, a racing pigeon enthusiast, takes his pigeon to an abandoned mine for a test flight. He falls through a mineshaft and sends his pigeon to bring help. Lassie and Ranger Corey Stuart must rescue the boy before heavy beams collapse in the mineshaft.
Season 13, Episode 29 – Aired: 4/23/1967
Goliath
While in the Red River National Forest, Lassie tries to help a huge steer used as a roadside attraction at a tourist cafe, the mistreated animal having escaped after attacking the owner who has been abusing him.
Season 13, Episode 30 – Aired: 4/30/1967
Trapped
While staying with elderly Ben Adams, Lassie befriends an otter couple--one of whom is later caught in a trap set by a neighbor.
Season 14, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/10/1967
Perils of the Prairie
After a recent earthquake, Ranger Corey Stuart and Lassie survey the prairie for damage. Lassie comes to the rescue of a colony of frightened prairie dogs threatened by a tarantula and badger and caught in a flood caused by the quake.
Season 14, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/17/1967
Inferno
When an oil well explodes in flames, a pet terrier is injured in the blast. Lassie rescues the dog and follows her to the hospital to donate the blood needed to save her life.
Season 14, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/24/1967
Cry of the Wild
Corey and his partner Bert enlist a widowed sailplane pilot in a Forest Service project to learn about wind-shears; meanwhile, Lassie helps hunt a marauder that savaged a ranch's chickens.
Season 14, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/1/1967
The Guardian
Lassie becomes the protector for a cougar, mistakenly shot as the ranch's maurauder, and her newborn cubs, while Corey accompanies Carol on her surveys.
Season 14, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/8/1967
Starfire
Carol's unbroken mare escapes her corral and heads for the wilderness, oblivious to the danger from a maurading dog, while Carol must crash-land her glider.
Season 14, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/15/1967
Brink of Oblivion
Ranger Corey Stuart and Lassie travel to northern California to alert the community to the dangers of littering. The message hits home when a small fire is fueled by trash and oil-soaked rags, trapping a small dog in a dockside office.
Season 14, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/22/1967
The Homeless
Construction of a motel on Fawn Lake destroys the home of two ring-tailed cats. The homeless animals are separated and threatened by a stalking bobcat and Lassie must reunite them in a new home, far from encroaching civilization.
Season 14, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/29/1967
A Time for Decision
Beauty takes a back seat to progress as urban growth threatens the lakeside community of Fawn Lake. Ranger Stuart recommends an anti-pollution campaign, but warnings go unheeded until a photo of Lassie at the pristine resort serves as a wake-up call.
Season 14, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/5/1967
Rim of Disaster (1)
Ranger Corey Stuart, the plane's pilot and Lassie are stranded on a Glacier Peak when mechanical problems force their plane to land.
Season 14, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/12/1967
Rim of Disaster (2)
Ranger Corey Stuart must use his plane to save Lassie from the attack of a marauding bear.
Season 14, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/19/1967
Ride the Mountain
Lassie is paralyzed by a falling log and, rather than travel several hours by road to a vet, she and Ranger Corey Stuart brave a death-defying ride on a nine-mile wooden log flume to reach the vet in time.
Season 14, Episode 12 – Aired: 11/26/1967
Dangerous Journey
A tugboat owner is temporarily blinded while in the Columbia River basin. Following the path of a log flume, Lassie leads the helpless man through dangerous territory and into the hands of friends.
Season 14, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/3/1967
Fury at Wind River
Hunters are pursuing a family of deer when Lassie intervenes to help them cross a raging river. All the deer cross safely except a playful fawn, which is swept downstream. Lassie plunges in the torrent to save the young deer.
Season 14, Episode 14 – Aired: 12/17/1967
Showdown
A man who professes to be protecting the forest tries to sabotage the Forest Service's new balloon logging program. After shooting at Corey's truck, cutting a telephone line, and sabotaging a bulldozer, he's ready to do even more damage.
Season 14, Episode 15 – Aired: 12/24/1967
Miracle of the Dove
A small girl's beloved dog is lost right before Christmas.
Season 14, Episode 16 – Aired: 12/31/1967
Have You Any Wool?
Lassie is out feeding her forest friends,when she comes upon a black lamb. The little creature was caught in a snare and being stalked by a coyote. Lassie chases away the coyote and chews the snare rope free. She is about to leave when the pathetically bleating lamb makes her realize it has no home. First she finds a flock of white sheep and the lamb runs up and eagerly nurses on a ewe. But the ewe doesn't recognize the black lamb as hers and savagely drives it away. Next they find a cow, and the lamb tries to nurse on her. But she kicks it away. By now the little fellow is so weak from hunger that Lassie wants to leave it while she reconnoiters, but a hawk appears, so first she must hide the lamb in some brush. To her relief, ahead she finds a flock of black sheep, but returns to find the hawk attacking the lamb, who has broken cover, and must fight the bird off. To Lassie's relief, the black sheep accept the black lamb. But a white lamb is loose in the flock of black ones, being rejected as well, and Lassie takes on its charge. She's on firmer ground now, recalling where she saw a flock of white sheep, and sure enough, the white lamb is accepted there. Having had a busy day, Lassie heads off in relief. Then she hears a lamb's bleat. She stares. Here is another stray lamb trotting toward her--this one white with black spots! She gives a howl of despair and tries to run off, but a pathetic bleat makes her pause in her tracks. She stops as the spotted lamb catches up with her, licks it in resignation, and the two of them trot off together as the episode ends.
Season 14, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/7/1968
The Bracelet
Corey escorts Miss Ridgeway, a nature painter of renown, to a secluded area where she can work, leaving Lassie with her for company. When her insulin supply is destroyed after a lightning strike sets her cabin afire while she is away painting, Lassie must help get her back to the ranger station over a treacherous bridge before she goes into a diabetic coma.
Season 14, Episode 18 – Aired: 1/14/1968
The Foundling
Corey, investigating a potential campsite at Emerald Forest, and Bill the resident ranger, are chagrined when well-meaning tourists rescue an "abandoned" fawn from the forest; believing the fawn's mother will not take it back, they plan to send it to a game ranch. But Lassie has other ideas.
Season 14, Episode 19 – Aired: 1/21/1968
Rescue Ridge
Lassie rescues a coati-mundi's wayward kit--and a lost lamb as well--while Corey and his compatriots battles the forest fire threatening its home.
Season 14, Episode 20 – Aired: 1/28/1968
White Wilderness
Lassie accompanies Ranger Corey Stuart on an avalanche control expedition. When the snow from a man-made avalanche buries a fox, Lassie must find the fox and dig her to the surface.
Season 14, Episode 21 – Aired: 2/4/1968
The Lonely One
While Corey is at Cape Kennedy participating in a paracute-testing project, Lassie encounters Atlas, a guard dog gone wild after the death of his master.
Season 14, Episode 22 – Aired: 2/11/1968
The Searchers
Still in Florida, Corey and Lassie befriend Donnie Baker, whose puppy was run over while chasing a rabbit, and must rescue Atlas, trapped in the swamp.
Season 14, Episode 23 – Aired: 2/18/1968
Countdown
Lassie has her hands full: she's reacclimating Atlas to society while keeping watch over a bald eagle injured during one of the parachute tests.
Season 14, Episode 24 – Aired: 2/25/1968
Escape to Danger
An animal trainer's truck crashes in the woods, freeing his animals in the wilderness. Ranger Corey Stuart tends to the trainer's injuries as Lassie retrieves the escaped animals, just as a vicious lynx is threatening to make a meal of Zelda, the pet raccoon.
Season 14, Episode 25 – Aired: 3/3/1968
The Ledge
A shutterbug Boy Scout is so intent on following an eagle to take a photo that he disregards where he is going and is trapped on a ledge.
Season 14, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/10/1968
Hanford's Point (1)
Making a lake into a tourist attraction that will help a town depends on buying land from two independent boys the townspeople view as "hippies."
Season 14, Episode 27 – Aired: 3/17/1968
Hanford's Point (2)
The Hanford boys refuse Corey's offer, to the outrage of speculator Wade, whose also worried because his teenager daughter Luci is attracted to "the hippies."
Season 14, Episode 28 – Aired: 3/24/1968
Hanford's Point (3)
Wade faces off against the boys and is enraged when he finds out Luci has been helping them in their cause to keep their land from her father.
Season 15, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/29/1968
Lassie's Race for Life
As Corey, Lassie, and a young woman consulting with the Forest Service on landslide prevention aid a poisoned goose, its mate waits faithfully by.
Season 15, Episode 2 – Aired: 10/6/1968
Burst of Freedom
Lassie races for help after an earthquake traps Corey under a tree in the path of an incipient rockslide, but the motorist who picks her up nets and drugs her, selling her to a vet conducting animal experiments.
Season 15, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/13/1968
The Holocaust (1)
A fire rages on a Western mountain range and, despite the efforts of helicopter crews, firefighters, and Lassie, Ranger Corey Stuart is trapped in the inferno. When a rescue team finally reaches Corey, he is seriously injured.
Season 15, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/20/1968
The Holocaust (2)
Severely injured from a raging fire, Ranger Corey Stuart lies in a hospital with Lassie keeping vigil by his side in this conclusion to a two-part series. When Lassie is given to a new Ranger during Corey's recovery, she journeys miles to return to his side.
Season 15, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/27/1968
Last Frontier
Lassie, Scott, and their pilot Johnny assist an injured hunter trapped near a glacier.
Season 15, Episode 6 – Aired: 11/3/1968
Eagle's Dynasty
While Neeka's father and Scott nurse an eagle that has become sodden from a fall in the lake, Lassie protects the bird's baby from a lynx.
Season 15, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/10/1968
Day of the Wolf
Neeka must take charge when Lassie breaks a leg in a trap on a hike--and a wolf is stalking them.
Season 15, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/17/1968
Glacier Canyon
After surviving a boat explosion that traps Neeka's father, Lassie braves icy waters to find Neeka and Scott.
Season 15, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/24/1968
Track of the Jaguar (1)
A jaguar has been attacking cattle and the watchdog on a Western ranch, and Lassie arrives to help. She gets some unexpected assistance when a cougar, foraging nearby, hears the battle and attacks the jaguar.
Season 15, Episode 10 – Aired: 12/1/1968
Track of the Jaguar (2)
Lassie stands guard over the injured watchdog as the jaguar and cougar battle. The jaguar retreats in defeat and Lassie recognizes the cougar as a friend from days past. Lassie summons the rangers to eliminate the hostile jaguar for good.
Season 15, Episode 11 – Aired: 12/8/1968
New Horizon
Ranger Scott Turner and a Scripps Oceanographic scientist, Diane Stafford, become trapped in a kelp bed during a deep-sea scuba dive. Lassie discovers their predicament and alerts Ranger Bob Erickson for the rescue.
Season 15, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/15/1968
Out of the Frying Pan
Lassie twice comes to the rescue of a stray kitten that is first attacked by an angry hawk, then trapped in a cave by rising tides. The collie also finds time to retrieve a forest ranger's horse that has broken loose from his tether.
Season 15, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/29/1968
Lassie and the 4-H Boys
Two brothers are quarreling over ownership of a prize bull that they are entering in the 4-H show. They must resolve their feud, however, when the bull strays and is lost in the mountains, with a marauding mountain lion close by.
Season 15, Episode 14 – Aired: 1/5/1969
Deadly Game
Lassie's day with Jingo on his master's construction site turns too busy: first she pulls the beagle away from a blasting site, then, in trying to get him out of a house about to be demolished, Lassie is herself trapped.
Season 15, Episode 15 – Aired: 1/12/1969
What Price Valor?" (1)
Bruno, a war dog under rehabilitation, suffers from flashbacks after being exposed to blasting and escapes from his run. Warning the construction crew and local ranchers that Bruno is dangerous, Lassie, Bob, and his trainer Mike then try to find him before the others do.
Season 15, Episode 16 – Aired: 1/19/1969
What Price Valor?" (2)
In the second of a two-part series, Lassie finds Bruno, a retired war dog that has been spooked by dynamite explosions. Lassie tries to calm the frightened and confused canine, and must intervene to prevent ranchers from shooting the dog before his master arrives.
Season 15, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/26/1969
A Chance to Live
On a trek through the Oregon rainforest, Lassie and her master discover a careless camper who has leaked oil into a stream, endangering hundreds of ducks on their seasonal flight. The Ranger and Lassie teach the camper a conservation lesson he won't soon forget.
Season 15, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/2/1969
The Return Home
Bob must figure out a away for man to keep his sand buggy club and protect the sensitive dunes at the same time.
Season 15, Episode 19 – Aired: 2/9/1969
Tempest (1)
Bob and Lassie visit the wild, surf-tossed Oregon coast where logs washed downriver into the bay are creating a problem, where they meet Jake Peterson, an old acquaintance of Lassie, a former forest ranger who now is a crab fisherman. The logs prove even more dangerous next day, when Jake takes Lassie out fishing with him.
Season 15, Episode 20 – Aired: 2/16/1969
Tempest (2)
Huddled together in his disabled boat, Lassie and injured Jake Peterson ride out the tumultuous surf. But as the boat heads for the Cliffs, Bob and the Coast Guard begin a highly dangerous rescue.
Season 15, Episode 21 – Aired: 2/23/1969
To Catch a Crow
A boy's camp is in danger of being disbanded when a wristwatch is stolen from a camper at the swimming hole. Lassie unravels the mystery, however, when she discovers the thief not another camper, but a pilfering crow.
Season 15, Episode 22 – Aired: 3/2/1969
Walden
Lassie befriend Patricia Prescott, who refers to herself as "Walden," a free-spirited teenage girl, who has left home to live in the wilderness like her idol, Henry David Thoreau, after the young woman cleans up a picnic area. But both of them are endangered by aftershocks from an offshore earthquake.
Season 15, Episode 23 – Aired: 3/9/1969
The Stalker
Lassie leads the search for a tiger that escaped while en route to the zoo. The frightened animal is on a rampage.
Season 15, Episode 24 – Aired: 3/16/1969
Price of Wisdom
Scott and Lassie stay with Neeka and his dad Dean Chalmers for a couple of days, and Neeka has the weekend to finish a biology report. While collecting leaves, he and Lassie meet Mr. Bowers, a lonely man who limps due to an injury and has turned his back on society. After Lassie and Neeka uncover Mr. Bowers' scientific knowledge and help him when he is hurt, Mr. Bowers realises he wants human company after all.
Season 15, Episode 25 – Aired: 3/23/1969
Night of the Ghost
Scott, Lassie and Neeka camp overnight in an old mining town that is haunted, according to legend, by a wolf and a man. Despite Scott's assurances there are no ghosts haunting the town, Neeka and Lassie hear strange sounds and see things that have even Lassie spooked.
Season 15, Episode 26 – Aired: 3/30/1969
Time of Crisis
Neeka tries to drive his father's truck, which subsequently catches fire after bumping over a rock, and explodes in a ball of flame. Three terrified horses nearby break out of their corral and run off. After Neeka, Lassie and Dean put out the fire, they find the horses, including Neeka's horse Cloudy, who has been hurt in the escape.
Season 15, Episode 27 – Aired: 4/6/1969
Lassie and the Flying Squirrels
Lassie helps two flying squirrels find a new home.
Season 15, Episode 28 – Aired: 4/13/1969
Moonshiners
Moonshiners set up operations on national forest land. In an attempt to outwit forest rangers, the moonshiners set a fire. Tragedy results as the fire spreads and Lassie must come to the rescue of the moonshiners who become trapped by flames.
Season 16, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/28/1969
Last Chance
On a surveying mission of the forest, Scott and Bob are delighted to find wolves restablishing themselves in the area. Then the male is shot while hunting for his pregnant mate and the rangers must save him--and change the hunter's mind about wolves.
Season 16, Episode 2 – Aired: 10/5/1969
Success Story
Scott and Lassie help a Job Corps volunteer who just isn't making the grade.
Season 16, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/12/1969
Patsy
Lassie must save a pet chimpanzee named Patsy from harm when Patsy, unnerved by the noise of nearby construction, wanders into a gravel pit.
Season 16, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/19/1969
No Margin for Error
During a surveying trip at a former bombsite sleighted to become a national grassland, Scott carefully disarms the unexploded bomb next to a trapped man while Lassie shuttles supplies to him.
Season 16, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/26/1969
Lassie and the Water Bottles
Widowed Sarah Caldwell will have to give up the family ranch if she can't keep water on the property, so Scott helps her install "water bottles," large vinyl storage "tanks." But a thirsty fawn gets himself trapped inside the slippery containers.
Season 16, Episode 6 – Aired: 11/2/1969
Survival
As they take an elk survey, Scott and Lassie's helicopter ride turns deadly when the vehicle has has mechnical problems and crashes in the snowy wilderness. Bert tries to at least fix the communications system, but that too is beyond hope; they must rely on their survival gear and wait for rescue.
Season 16, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/9/1969
Father and Son
While surveying Government rangeland, Scott is hurt by a careless rifle shot fired by young Tom Bradley, a boy who has taken to playing hookey and staying in the woods after his mother's death; later, another shot of Tom's gone wrong injures his father.
Season 16, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/16/1969
The Sky is Falling
Neeka, spending his vacation with Scott and Bob, is delighted to help the rangers out at the Roaring Camp spur line, a railroad that will run directly through the majestic redwood forest. There they befriend a persistent little bantam chick (Neeka names him Fairbanks) who is constantly wandering into trouble.
Season 16, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/23/1969
No Greater Love
Bob has the weekend off, so he takes Neeka fishing on the Columbia River, but on a hike, Lassie and Neeka discover a crow building her nest in a dangerous place. When Lassie attempts to save the bird, she is swept down the icy cold river.
Season 16, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/30/1969
More Than Meets the Eye
On a nature hike, Scott and Lassie help Kathy, a withdrawn and fearful girl who is attending school with other blind children for the first time.
Season 16, Episode 11 – Aired: 12/14/1969
The Chase
Scott and Lassie help a doe who has been chased to exhaustion by snowmobilers.
Season 16, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/21/1969
The Blessing
Manuel Sandoval sneaks over the border with his deaf dog Poco, hoping that the Blessing of the Animals as Mission San Luis Rey will restore the little terrier's hearing in time for Christmas.
Season 16, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/28/1969
Superstition Canyon
Lassie babysits a prospector's burro.
Season 16, Episode 14 – Aired: 1/4/1970
The Road Back (1)
Scott and Lassie, in San Francisco's Chinatown for a mini-forest project, befriend the children in a Chinese school. Lassie is struck by a car while saving one of the children and appears to have amnesia. So when a fire strikes the vet's office she's staying at, she escapes to the streets with no idea where she belongs.
Season 16, Episode 15 – Aired: 1/11/1970
The Road Back (2)
Lassie's search for her identity takes her to a wax museum and finally down to the waterfront, where she is befriended by a down-on-his-luck young fisherman with a family and a boat loan he can't pay off.
Season 16, Episode 16 – Aired: 1/18/1970
The Road Back (3)
Heading back to San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge, Lassie befriends a lonely runaway teenager and a lonely soldier, then is mistaken for a possibly rabid collie named Tawny.
Season 16, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/25/1970
The Road Back (4)
Her memory recovering at last, but still hunted by health officials as a rabid dog, Lassie is chased through the streets of San Francisco.
Season 16, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/1/1970
Winged Rescue
A young vet and Lassie are in a canoe that sinks and their only hope for rescue may be a seagull the vet helped in the past.
Season 16, Episode 19 – Aired: 2/8/1970
The Cliff
Neeka and Lassie take a wrong turn on the self-guided trail at the Mesa Verde National Forest, and, while trying to find their way back, slip off a cliff where Neeka breaks his leg. As darkness falls, Bob and ranger Gene McClintock desperately search for the pair.
Season 16, Episode 20 – Aired: 2/15/1970
Warm Heart--Cold Nose
With Bob at a meeting, Lassie visits overnight with the Frasers, a blind man and his wife who live in the woods without any way of communicating with the outside world. When Edie Fraser is hurt during a walk, Clint and his guide dog Ginger start for help, but Lassie must save them from a cougar's attack and go herself.
Season 16, Episode 21 – Aired: 3/1/1970
Whitewater Fury
While Bob and Dan are scouting out the rapids for a "whitewater trail" for tourists, Lassie finds a baby raccoon that has been poisoned by "pink snow"--the same material she has already eaten. The only way to get her help--a trip down the worst of the rapids.
Season 16, Episode 22 – Aired: 3/8/1970
Chucka
Bob and his Navajo guide Sam find a dog swimming across Lake Powell on their way to survey tribal lands and rescue him; he is Chucka, an indolent dog who'd rather rest or play than tend sheep. But Chucka must "grow up" quickly after his shepherd owner, Charlie Ngani, is injured and Lassie must go for help.
Season 17, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/20/1970
Lassie's Interlude
Lassie, on her own now (no explanation is given), meets a young man traveling the countryside and his male collie, Duke. They later find haven, and the young man a job, at a ranch where the owner's young son has not spoken for years.
Season 17, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/27/1970
The Birth
While Duke and his master move on, Lassie remains at the ranch, but her new puppies are endangered by the owner, who thinks the pups were sired by a killer dog.
Season 17, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/4/1970
The Survival
Lassie and her three puppies escape from the ranch and head for the desert, where Kerry discovers them and helps them survive.
Season 17, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/11/1970
The Miracle
Mute Kerry continues to help Lassie and her puppies elude his father and the sheriff, who's determined to kill the pups, and by the time the rancher learns Duke was the father of the puppies, it's almost too late.After everything is revealed, Kerry's father let's him adopt one of Lassie's puppies.
Season 17, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/11/1970
The Innocents
In this all-animal episode, Lassie teaches her two remaining puppies to survive in the wild, not an easy task in an area full of snakes and predators.
Season 17, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/25/1970
The Offering
Lassie and her puppies meet a boy who is grief-stricken by the recent death of his dog.So Lassie leaves one of her two remaining puppies with the little boy.
Season 17, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/1/1970
Nature's Child
While wandering the forest, Lassie and her remaining puppy meet a little girl who can "talk to animals."
Season 17, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/8/1970
Flock of Love
Lassie befriends an elderly man whose claim that the flock of birds he feeds love him is scoffed by his cynical checkers opponent. But the faithful birds will surprise them.
Season 17, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/15/1970
Aftermath
After a forest fire, Lassie helps the wild animals displaced by the flames find new homes.
Season 17, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/22/1970
Here Comes Glory! (1)
Lassie, poisoned by pesticides, is found by an up-and-coming race horse, Glory, and her young owner. Once well again, she befriends a newborn colt on their California thoroughbred farm--then Glory is threatened by a marauding cougar.
Season 17, Episode 11 – Aired: 11/29/1970
Here Comes Glory! (2)
Even Hank can't believe all his surgical skills can heal Glory's injured leg, but Monty takes a chance and has her operated on nevertheless after a pep talk from partner Bert. Then it is up to Gary and Lassie to make her well, with exercise and swim therapy.
Season 17, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/6/1970
A Year of Sundays
Lassie and a workaholic trucker rescue a young man traveling across America trying to live "a year of Sundays" after getting out of the Army. The trucker scoffs at Mark's idea--until the brakes fail on a steep downhill run.
Season 17, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/13/1970
Any Heart in a Storm
Lassie takes refuge during a rainstorm in the garage of a good-hearted, lonely widow whose children have gone to college, but the woman is reluctant to let the muddy collie into her tidy house. Then the loose earth behind her house, weakened by water, begins to slide.
Season 17, Episode 14 – Aired: 1/10/1971
Gentle Dawn
Lassie and an injured mother linnet, who was stunned by a car while foraging for food on a road, bring together a lonely man and woman; in caring for the injured creature, they also learn to open themselves to each other.
Season 17, Episode 15 – Aired: 1/17/1971
Lassie's Busy Day
The ring-tailed cat Lassie saves from a bobcat becomes the hunter after he goes after a grouse's nest along with a grey fox; next, a horned owl's nest is threatened by an opossum. After Lassie deals with the possum, she enlists the grey fox's help to rescue a burrowing owl from a ferret. Then the bobcat returns to stalk the horned owl's nest
Season 17, Episode 16 – Aired: 1/24/1971
The River
Lassie makes her way upstream after helping rescue two campers who left their father to try out a new raft and were swept downstream on the rapids. Once she finds help, however, she must find the boys, who are also heading upstream.
Season 17, Episode 17 – Aired: 1/31/1971
Other Pastures, Other Fences
A boy restless with his rural life and chafing under the "no trespassing" signs of their territorial neighbor wishes to strike out to "follow his star"--stealing the neighbor's mare to do so.
Season 17, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/7/1971
The Awakening
Teenage Patty, reluctantly having left the city for a summer in the country with her aunt, has an inauspicious beginning: she's poisoned by arsenic in the well. Her aunt finds the source of the problem in an old mine, but is then trapped when the floor collapses, so Lassie must find Patty, who's just about to leave.
Season 17, Episode 19 – Aired: 2/21/1971
Troubled Waters
Lassie and her new pal, a mutt named Skipper, are getting along just fine with Reed and Johnny, a couple of guys they befriended on the beach, until John discovers Reed is "the law," a harbormaster, and walks out. But he finds he needs "the law" later on when he "borrows" a for-sale cabin cruiser and takes Lassie and Skipper along for the ride.
Season 17, Episode 20 – Aired: 2/28/1971
For the Love of Lassie (1)
Lassie returns to visit the farm where she left one of her puppies--and once upon her way again, falls down a hidden well.
Season 17, Episode 21 – Aired: 3/7/1971
For the Love of Lassie (2)
People who have been helped by Lassie (including the couple from "Gentle Dawn," who are now married) help rescue her from the well.
Season 17, Episode 22 – Aired: 3/21/1971
Sneakers
Lassie acquires a companion, a small grey kitten with a talent for trouble: he falls in a lake, catches the attention of an owl, gets his head caught in picnicker trash, and finally is charged by a pig. Finally they are trapped between an angry bear and a hungry bobcat, with their only way out a rickety bridge.
Season 18, Episode 1 – Aired: 10/7/1971
Fury Falls
A hawk Lassie rescues from entanglement in kite string returns the favor when the coyote pup Lassie has befriended is threatened by a snake. But it's Lassie herself who then must be rescued by Ron Holden and Dale Mitchell, two young men on a hiking trip, after she must save the hapless pup from nearby rapids.
Season 18, Episode 2 – Aired: 10/14/1971
Search for Yesterday
Now accompanied by Lassie, Ron and Dale have the gold they have been placer mining assayed--and just for the heck of it, buy an old treasure map and go in search of a gold mine. Once they find the place, however, their search is endangered by fire heading for some old dynamite left in a shed.
Season 18, Episode 3 – Aired: 10/21/1971
Trouble Tracks
Lassie befriends a trouble-prone mutt who is mascot of an old railroad spur line.
Season 18, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/21/1971
Wings of the Ghost
The boys and Lassie sleep in an old barn that appears to be haunted.
Season 18, Episode 5 – Aired: 11/4/1971
Homecoming
Ron and Dale return to the Holden Ranch, where Lassie is welcomed by Garth Holden and his foster sons, boys who have been orphaned or abandoned by their families.
Season 18, Episode 6 – Aired: 11/11/1971
Orphan of the Wild
Mike, the new boy, begins works at the local animal clinic and developes a crush on the veterinarian,he's also feeling shy until he helps nurse an injured owl back to health.
Season 18, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/18/1971
Day of Disaster
While in town picking up a gift for Garth, Ron is knocked unconscious when an earthquake strikes, and when he comes to, Lassie has escaped from the truck. As he and the dog search for each other, Lassie helps fellow animals dislocated by the quake, and Ron enlists his father in the search.
Season 18, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/25/1971
The Schemer
Ron and Lassie return home from a trip to find Mike has adopted a raccoon from the wild animal park--and "Rags" is immediately jealous of Lassie. Soon dog and raccoon are embroiled in a feud, endangering both of them on a house construction site.
Season 18, Episode 9 – Aired: 12/2/1971
The Flying Grandpa
Mike befriends Henry Newton, who flies a Curtis Pusher at airshows under the name "The Flying Grandpa," when his aircraft breaks down in the Holden pasture. His long involved tall tales of bravery during air feats impress the boy, but bother Garth, who thinks Newton's lies might backfire. And when a bear charges Newton and Mike, the elderly man finds out they do.
Season 18, Episode 10 – Aired: 12/9/1971
Mustang (1)
Garth and Dale survey rangeland for the Forest Service and see a young white stallion challenging the older black leader of a horse herd; Garth predicts the white horse will soon succeed. When he does, driving the injured black stallion away from water, Lassie tries to lead him to safety before he collapses.
Season 18, Episode 11 – Aired: 12/16/1971
Mustang (2)
As Lassie gently leads the stallion back to the Holden Ranch, Garth and Dale leave food and drink for the animal, hoping he will choose himself to live at the ranch.
Season 18, Episode 12 – Aired: 1/13/1972
Roundup
Ron and Dale, home from college, go out on the annual stray roundup and make a bet on which of them will find the most cattle. But it's Lassie who gets the jump on them, helps a calf stuck in quicksand, and then must help Ron when he's thrown from his horse.
Season 18, Episode 13 – Aired: 1/20/1972
Dream Seeker
Ron and Dale, spending two days camping at Pine Lake before returning to college, pick up a boy that Dale can tell is "on the run." Sure enough, once he leaves them he builds a campsite in the woods. When the boys find his camp in the woods, he steals one of the motorcycles they've rented.
Season 18, Episode 14 – Aired: 1/28/1972
Peace is Our Profession (1)
Garth takes Lassie with him on his visit to Vandenberg Air Force Base, where they meet Jimmy Fredericks, a boy with a weakened leg who has given up believing he will ever walk normally.
Season 18, Episode 15 – Aired: 2/4/1972
Peace is Our Profession (2)
Lassie protects a snow goose who has chosen to lay her eggs on the flightline.
Season 18, Episode 16 – Aired: 2/11/1972
Peace is Our Profession (3)
Lassie befriends a diabetic poodle named Sparky who stows away on the Looking Glass, where there's no insulin, to be with his owner.
Season 18, Episode 17 – Aired: 2/18/1972
Peace is Our Profession (4)
Jimmy finds out that his father's flight may crash and must re-examine his faith.
Season 18, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/25/1972
Paths of Courage (1)
Hoping to help his self-esteem, Garth takes Jimmy back to the ranch with him. There the uncertain boy meets Lucy Baker, a girl who's been deaf most of her life, and her pet wolf Mountie. But while Jimmy and Lucy get to know each other, Mountie, playing with Lassie, is shot by a shepherd who doesn't know he's a pet.
Season 18, Episode 19 – Aired: 3/3/1972
Paths of Courage (2)
After Lucy and Jimmy find Mountie in the cave where Lassie has hidden him, Lucy sends Jimmy for help on her horse. He is frightened to do so, but does so for her sake, and despite being thrown, finds Dominic, the shepherd who shot Mounty. Meanwhile, Lassie returns to the ranch.
Season 18, Episode 20 – Aired: 3/10/1972
Circle of Life
When Mountie weakens and then dies, even normally optimistic Lucy cannot understand and sinks into depression, so Sue asks her to help out at the wild animal park to take her mind off her loss. Eventually Lucy begins taking an interest in the animals, including a llama about to give birth.
n 19, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/16/1972
Lightning
Garth's brother Keith is met with resentment when he takes over running the ranch, but he proves his mettle when a storm strikes the ranch and starts a fire that traps Lassie in the woods.
Season 19, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/23/1972
The Doves of Santa Inez
Karl Burkholm and the "scout" for a migrating flock of doves become friends when Karl nurses the injured bird.
Season 19, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/30/1972
For Those Who Follow
Lucy, with the aid of Lassie, pursues a colt that escapes from the ranch during a violent storm.
Season 19, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/14/1972
Scarecrow
A crow that snatches Mike's wallet leaves the boy angry and determined to find the animal.
Season 19, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/21/1972
A Girl and a Boy (1)
A small deaf boy is found wandering the grounds of the ranch and Lucy, communicating with him in sign language, discovers he feels no one wants him.
Season 19, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/28/1972
A Girl and a Boy (2)
Deprived of the dog the Holdens have given him, the boy flees.
Season 19, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/4/1972
Deadly Surf
Lassie races to save three kittens from the path of an incoming tide.
Season 19, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/11/1972
Golden Eagle
Lassie looks to protect golden eagle eggs when the mother is badly injured after being shot.
Season 19, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/18/1972
A Taste of Freedom
Lassie befriends a racehorse so nervous that he can't complete a race.
Season 19, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/25/1972
Run to Nowhere (1)
A runaway inner-city orphan is taken in at the ranch, but is distrustful of everyone.
Season 19, Episode 11 – Aired: 12/2/1972
Run to Nowhere (2)
Joey runs away when he finds out he has to leave the ranch.
Season 19, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/9/1972
Vigil of the Stork
The Holdens are afraid Karl will not survive after a heart attack robs his will to live.
Season 19, Episode 13 – Aired: 12/16/1972
Dream Builder
A Chicano man searches for a piece of land that will be his own.
Season 19, Episode 14 – Aired: 1/13/1973
The Visitor
Benji guest-stars as a city mutt who must learn country ways from Lassie.
Season 19, Episode 15 – Aired: 1/6/1973
Tell It to the Birds
A native American rescues Lassie from an illegal trap.
Season 19, Episode 16 – Aired: 1/24/1973
Challenge of the Mountain (1)
Dale, riding Midnight and accompanied by Lassie, is injured when he falls from the horse.
Season 19, Episode 17 – Aired: 2/3/1973
Challenge of the Mountain (2)
Midnight and Lassie must go for help when Dale cannot move.
Season 19, Episode 18 – Aired: 2/10/1973
Legend of the Coyote
Lassie's determined to retrieve the puppy stolen from the Holden barn by a coyote.
Season 19, Episode 19 – Aired: 2/17/1973
Horsenappers
Two bumbling horse thieves steal Midnight, but run afoul of Lassie.
Season 19, Episode 20 – Aired: 2/24/1973
A Joyous Sound (1)
A surgeon gives Lucy and her mother hope that she may hear again after surgery, so Keith and Lassie accompany Elaine and her daughter to Los Angeles for the operation.
Season 19, Episode 21 – Aired: 3/3/1973
A Joyous Sound (2)
Lassie's assistance to a toddler is misinterpreted as an attack, and she is chased away from the hospital to become lost in the tangle of city streets; in the meantime Keith searches for her and Elaine wonders what to tell Lucy.
Season 19, Episode 22 – Aired: 3/10/1973
A Joyous Sound (3)
Lassie, after a narrow escape on a firing range, befriends two young men who have been camping at the beach in their van. While they tend the injured collie, Lucy, now returned home, prays for two miracles: that her hearing -- and Lassie -- will return.
Season 19, Episode 23 – Aired: 3/17/1973
Johnny Piper
Lucy trades lessons in "home" to an attractive young drifter who gives her guitar lessons in return.
Season 19, Episode 24 – Aired: 3/24/1973
The Dawning
Lassie tracks down the Baker calf, on the loose and endangered by predators.