*** Eleven year old Jeff Miller is bequeathed a collie named Lassie. The collie however refuses to leave her dead master's house.
Screencap right: At the reading of Homer Carey's will, Jeff receives Lassie as a bequest and is overcome with joy. Tommy Rettig as Jeff and Pal as Lassie. Pal had played Lassie in several MGM films through the 1940s. He was older and near retirement when the television series went into production. He played Lassie in only this episode and in "The Well." The role was then passed to his son Junior.
Jeff is failing arithmetic. His mother arranges a make up test that coincides with the time Jeff planned to attend the circus.
Gramps gives Jeff a colt named Domino. Lassie runs away when Jeff ignores her.
Jeff finds his father's gun and wants to learn to use it. Ellen disapproves.
An elderly traveling farm worker charms Jeff with tall tales and in doing so provokes Gramps' jealousy and suspicions.
An escaped convict threatens Gramps and Ellen if Jeff won't supply him with food and clothing. Jeff hides the convict in his secret cave.
Gramps and Matt Brockway quarrel over a checkers game and forbid Jeff and Porky to see each other. The boys hide in Tuckers Woods hoping the men will be reconciled.
*** Jeff sees a lion in the woods but no one will believe him.
Gramps has chest pains. Jeff and Ellen take over his chores until Doc Stuart can diagnose. Gramps suffers beneath the restrictions placed upon his life.
Lassie suffers a difficult labor during a storm. Jeff rides for help in the night while Ellen tends Lassie.
When department store owner Phineas Monroe hears Ellen singing at church, he offers her a job on the radio show he sponsors. Ellen and Jeff must take an apartment in Capitol City to do so and leave Gramps and Lassie on the farm alone.
While visiting a carnival, Jeff shows a carnival worker Lassie's tricks. The show's owner and the carny believe Lassie can be a star and try to steal her.
Jeff tries to sell Lassie to Porky's cousin when the family needs money for Gramps' slipped disc operation.
A calf Jeff is raising for the county fair is stolen.
Jeff is excited by a man working the harvest. When the man backs away from a fight though, Jeff decides he's a coward.
Lassie participates in a dog race but is fed some spoiled meat by a disturbed child staying with the Millers.
Lassie is believed to have rabies and the constable is required to take her away from the farm for observation. Jeff runs away and hops a boxcar with Lassie.
Jeff and Porky babysit a child who proves to be a handful.
A father and son event is held at the church but Jeff doesn't want Gramps to play his father. Jeff becomes even more embarassed when his mother decides to accompany him. Jeff's friend Higgy calls him a "mama's boy."
Gramps allows Jeff to keep a fawn whose mother was killed but warns his grandson that Lassie must be kept from the fawn because dogs and wild animals don't get along together.
Jeff loans Lassie to the parents of a blind Korean War veteran. The veteran's own collie died during his absence from home and his parents believe Lassie can help ease the bad news.
Jeff and Lassie become trapped in a cave after being lured there by Ben Neilsen's story about a skeleton.
George Walton, the victim of an auto accident outside the Miller gate, recovers on the Miller farm. He wonders if he hit Lassie.
A businessman wants to dredge an old well on the Miller farm but Gramps refuses.
Jeff is bitten by a rattlesnake. Ellen and Gramps rush him to a doctor. When the truck breaks an axle, they all proceed on foot.
A bear harasses Gramps and Jeff on a fishing trip.
All of Lassie's pups have found homes except Laddie, the runt. Lassie hides him in a mineshaft.
Gramps believes illegal dogfights are being held in the area when Lassie is attacked by a bull terrier.
Lassie finds a litter of abandoned kittens. Gramps wants to drown them at once.
Jeff trains Lassie for the Capitol City Dog Obedience Trials.
Jeff's schoolmates are accustomed to having their dogs to sleep beneath their desks during the day. The new schoolteacher Miss Vernon forbids dogs in the classroom. Woody decides to do something about the regulation.
Jeff teaches Lassie to howl when he plays the violin, hoping to get out of violin lessons.
Jeff adopts a seal found in the lake and names it Joe. Ellen is dismayed.
Jeff and Porky think an eccentric old woman is a witch and are convinced she's casting spells.
Jeff nurses a duck and names him Medwick. He later releases the duck in a posted marsh where he discovers too late that men are hunting illegally.
Jeff and Gramps grow jealous when Clay Horton, the constable asks Ellen for a date. Ellen resents their attitude.
Jeff and Porky acquire a printing press and use Lassie as collateral when buying supplies. A story the boys print about graft causes them considerable trouble.
A circus clown promises to perform at a church carnival. Jeff's friend Higgy causes trouble.
A downed power line sends Gramps out of the house and into a powerful storm.
Jeff and Ellen plan a surprise birthday party for Gramps. Jeff and Porky come close to being blown to bits by dynamite while picking flowers for the celebration.
Gypsies camp on the MIller farm. Jeff's colt Domino becomes seriously ill.
Lassie breaks a television set that belongs to the Brockways.
Jeff and Porky ignore Lassie while engrossed in a stamp album. Lassie gets rid of the album.
After Lassie is nabbed by the Capitol City dogcatcher, Jeff tries to find homes for fifteen unwanted dogs.
Matt Brockway decides Pokey is useless and wants to get Porky a "real" dog.
Gramps refuses to sell the Miller farm to Emmett Carey. His son Edgar pretends Lassie has bitten him.
Jeff and Porky want to tame a hawk but Gramps suspects the bird will kill their chickens.
Jeff throws Porky out of his treehouse because Pokey barks at the moon. Jeff later finds the treehouse trashed.
The Millers host a Japanese exchange student.
Jeff and Porky sail to a nearby island looking for pirate treasure after Gramps gives them a map. A thunderstorm ruins their adventure.
Lassie is losing her eyesight. Jeff hikes to Capitol City looking for a surgeon to operate on Lassie.
Jeff pretends to be a veterianrain and frightens a cow into not giving milk.
Ellen accidentally brings a collie named Chester home from a church bazaar.
Jeff agrees to babysit a child who wanders into the path of road construction equipment.
Jeff keeps Lassie leashed in the barn, fearful that something terrible will happen to her after a neighbor has an auto accident.
When Jeff loses the money he raised to help flood victims, a Sunday school classmate taunts him.
The father of Jeff's friend Jim hunts deer illegally.
A horse dealer schemes to buy Domino cheaply by telling Gramps the horse is vicious.
One of Lassie's pup is grown and believed to be terrorizing the area.
Jeff and Porky raise a calf and become deeply attached to it.
Lassie's pup Laddie becomes ill and Gramps believes a pesticide from a crop duster is to blame. The real culprit however is Gramps' gopher poison..
A rehabilitated war dog exhibits aggressive behavior towards its new owner.
Ellen has to get Gramps and Jeff spruced up for a family wedding.
A new girl in town causes a jealous rift between Jeff and Porky.
Jeff and Porky raise bees for the 4H Livestock Show. A wild animal raids their hive.
Daniel Mueller fences in a piece of his property that the kids use as a shortcut. Lassie discovers Mueller seriously ill.
A hoof and mouth scare sweeps the area and Pokey is quarantined on the Miller farm. But the dog runs away and a neighbor threatens to shoot him.
Lassie digs up a mammoth bone that holds interest for a man of science. Pokey steals the bone from Lassie.
Jeff is always late so Ellen says he can have his father's watch if he demonstrates an awareness of time. Jeff makes up schedules for everyone -- including Porky.
Jeff "cries wolf" too many times. When he really needs help, no one will listen.
When Porky breaks Jeffs fishing rod, the boys plan to win a new one in a fishing tournament.
Pokey is badly injured and needs a transfusion.
Jud Perkins, an animal hater, runs for the office of animal regulator.
When Jim Teal's nephew Pete says he hails from Chatsburg (the site of a state prison), Jeff and Porky spread the gossip that the man is an ex-convict.
Two restauranteurs want to collect free fish from the Miller lake.
Ellen makes Jeff promise to think before he does something foolish. When Woody leaves Jeff's report card on top of a telephone pole, Jeff forgets his promise.
Gramps wins a tractor but refuses to use it after a test drive goes bad.
Jeff takes care of Jim Teal's goats but the playful animals drive everyone crazy.
Ellen wants Lassie to help Jeff learn to be tidy but Lassie begins tidying up after everyone.
Jenny has a birthday and no one remembers.
Porky's superstitions are made light of by Ellen and Jeff until bad things begin happening to Jeff.
Porky wants to run away but Jeff persuades him to stay put for a day.
Ellen wins a radio contest. In Capitol City Lassie goes to a pet salon and the experience goes to her head.
Gramps believes his eyesight is too poor to enter a turkey shoot. A marauding wolf proves Gramps wrong.
A terrier keeps vigil at the last place he saw his master -- the Calverton Junction train depot.
A chimp is mistakenly delivered to Jeff and he hides the animal in the loft.
Lassie and Pokey set off on a series of adventures when left alone for the day.
Jeff and Porky collect rocks for a school science project.
Jeff tries to fix a cranky city lady up with Gramps.
Jeff and Porky camp out as a survival test. The boys are put in danger by a neighboring camper's fire.
Jeff and Porky have a bird project for school. Lassie defends a mallard from a predator.
Gramps insists Lassie must sleep outside when a fox wrecks havoc in the hen house.
Gramps drives off in a huff just before a big storm arrives.
Gramps and his pals stage a fake bank robbery on Calverton Boys Day to give Constable Jeff and Deputy Porky some action.
After visiting a wealthy boy's home, Jeff is disappointed with everything at home.
Jeff and Porky sneak into a haunted house and see a ghost.
Gramps needs to use his mower but a rare bird has made her nest on it. Jeff and Porky have resolved to protect the bird and the nest.
Ellen thinks Jeff is lonesome when he stays away from the father and son 4 H meetings.
Jef renounces his allowance and other amenities when he believes the farm is being foreclosed.
When rabbits ruin the apple orchard Jeff tries to convince Gramps to graft from a tree Lassie finds in the forest.
A migrant boy breaks into the school to read books.
Jeff feels grown up when he gets a shave so Gramps gives him adult chores.
*** One night, the Millers discover a waif-like boy hiding in the barn and take a great liking to him. Over breakfast the next morning, they learn the runaway's name is Timmy and that he's been living in distant Olive Bridge with his elderly (and ailing) Aunt Abby and Uncle Jed Clausen. Ellen meets with a social worker and Timmy's aunt and uncle to discuss Timmy's situation. She suggests that Timmy remain on the Miller farm until the Clausens see an improvement in their health and their circumstances. The Clausens readily accept Ellen's suggestion, believing it will be best for Timmy. Timmy is delighted with his new home on the farm.
Timmy tears his new suit and blames it on Lassie.
Jeff takes a summer job at Doc Weaver's office and accidentally lets loose a dog that may have rabies.
Timmy and Lassie find a sick burro and nurse it back to health.
Timmy becomes sick after eating nightshade berries.
Timmy and Jeff tend an injured raccoon. The raccoon wreaks havoc in the Miller kitchen and barn.
Jeff becomes smitten with a visiting ballerina.
Jeff and Porky find a baby elephant in the woods and want to use him in their backyard circus.
Timmy catches a cold after falling in a lake and retreats to his tree house to endure his suffering like a Spartan.
Timmy hides a chimp from the zoo in his tree house.
Timmy adopts a wolf cub and is stalked by its mother.
Timmy looses a tooth as everone gets ready to view an eclipse.
*** Ellen sells the farm to Paul and Ruth Martin after Gramps passes away. The Martins adopt Timmy. Jeff gives Lassie to Timmy when he and his mother leave the farm for a new life in Capitol City.
Screencap right: Jeff gives Lassie to Timmy and says good-bye. One of the greatest moments in the entire series.
Timmy feels his mother is smothering him with overprotectiveness. When Ruth wonders if Timmy is allergic to Lassie, Timmy packs Lassie off to Jeff in Capitol City.
Timmy tells his parents he needs a bike to get to school on time. When Timmy borrows a friend's bike and loses it, Paul wonders if Timmy is really ready for the responsibility of owning a bike.
When Willy Brewster's pet goose strays from the Martin farm, Lassie rushes to the rescue.
Ruth arranges for a baby-sitter to look after Timmy but Timmy decides he's old enough to take care of himself.
Paul sends Lassie for help when Timmy is stricken with measles.
Lassie finds the best worms for catching fish so Timmy and Scott go into business selling "Lassie Worms." But a wealthy sportsman prefers his own expensive lures and becomes the boys' most difficult customer.
Ruth invites Paul's Uncle Petrie to live on the farm.
A stolen greyhound is injured in a vehicle accident. The Martins nurse the dog back to health and find the dog's rightful owner.
After listening to frightening stories about needles and inoculations from a classmate, Timmy is reluctant to receive a polio shot at school.
After listening to Uncle Petrie's fairy tales, Timmy tells his parents he's discovered fairy ponies in the forest.
Timmy and Scott try to win a $50 contest prize by teaching a parrot to talk.
Timmy looks forward to attending a square dance at the Grange Hall with his parents until he learns he's expected to dance with girls. Timmy takes Lassie to the dance as his partner.
Timmy performs a midnight rain dance when a dry spell threatens to ruin his garden.
Lassie falls into the hands of a vicious young man after being injured at a road construction site.
Paul and his neighbors hunt the deer invading their orchards and fields.
Timmy is diagnosed with appendicitis. While recuperating he suffers chicken pox.
A penguin falls from a truck bound for the zoo. Timmy tries to hide the penguin from his parents.
Timmy builds a birdhouse and tends a sick sparrow.
The Martins successfully reunite a lost seeing eye dog with its owner.
Timmy participates in a school contest to win a ride on a fire truck.
Ruth wants to replace Lassie's old blanket with a new one. Lassie finds help when Ruth is injured in an auto accident.
Timmy neglects Lassie when he receives two rabbits as a gift.
Timmy and Scott join the Cub Scouts. Their forest outing is ruined by Scott's two cousins from Chicago.
A crow recovers one of Uncle Petrie's treasured possessions.
A dog gives birth in the forest during a storm. Lassie finds her litter of puppies.
The Martins entertain Ruth's young niece Lisa. Ruth becomes locked in a shed that houses a leaking gas tank.
On a stroll in the woods, Timmy helps several strangers and they, in turn, help Timmy when Lassie falls from a cliff.
Boomer wants his dog to learn to be a real farm dog.
Timmy falls in love with a pony.
Timmy and his classmates are fearful Miss Hazlit will lose her job due to budget constraints.
Timmy and Boomer are harassed by a barn owl when making an egg delivery.
Timmy and Boomer discover an injured pilot in the wreckage of an airplane.
Lassie falls in love with an old rocking chair. When the chair is sent to auction, she finds a way to get it back.
Timmy wants to keep a rainbow trout as a pet.
Timmy and Boomer become trapped in an abondoned house in the woods.
Paul's new sow runs away.
A boy afraid of dogs wants Lassie to be his pet.
Timmy spots a snowy egret but no one believes him.
The Martins nurse a wounded bear cub back to health.
Timmy has a visitor from England. Boomer becomes jealous.
Uncle Petrie discovers two men holding the bank president captive in the woods.
Ruth wins a piano in a raffle.
Lassie is struck by a car on Christmas Eve and requires delicate surgery.
Timmy and Boomer want to go into the lady bug business.
Timmy wanders into a live mine field where the Army is conducting maneuvers.
Ruth is caught in a trap set for a cougar.
Timmy writes a letter to the President when a tree planted by Johnny Appleseed is slated for removal.
Timmy and Boomer discover oil.
A handyman gets a job on the Martin farm and then arranges "accidents" to stay on.
A breeder believes Lassie is the descendant of a famous show dog.
Timmy enters his burro Lucky in a horse show.
The Martins adopt a mischievous cat who gets Lassie into trouble.
Timmy and Lassie ruin Ruth's new hat while playing.
Lassie hides her puppies in the woods so they won't be sold.
Timmy loses his kite for the Cub Scout Kite Contest.
Lassie is blamed for damage done by a chimpanzee.
Lassie falls in love with a ventriloquist's canine hand puppet.
Timmy and Boomer believe a neighbor is a bank robber.
When Timmy and Boomer borrow Uncle Petrie's good luck charm for a school project, Uncle Petrie begins having bad luck.
Timmy and Boomer make plans to build a lean-to. Boomer's cousin visits and wanders into a cave.
Timmy and Lassie bring a race horse home.
Timmy's new camera catches a hunter poaching on the Martin farmlands.
When Timmy's Peace Patrol funds are stolen, Lassie tracks the thief to the haunted barn. The Lone Ranger congratulates Timmy on his success.
Timmy and Boomer manage a fortune telling booth at the church carnival.
Timmy and Boomer camp out in the barn.
Boomer leaves his dog in Timmy's care while visiting relatives.
Ruth is thrilled when Paul comes home with an electric refrigerator to replace her old icebox. Lassie however will not accept the new appliance.
Screencap right: June Lockhart as Ruth Martin in the Main Title credits.
Timmy buys an old plowhorse for a dollar, but Paul says they cannot keep the animal because he can't work. In trying to earn money to keep the horse, Timmy becomes trapped in a mine.
Screencap right: Hugh Reilly as Paul Martin from the Main Title credits.
Timmy enters a contest and entrusts Lassie to get the entry to the mailman. But Lassie aids so many neighbors in distress that the letter is not delivered.
Screencap right: Main Title, 1959.
Baseball great Roy Campanella arrives in town to coach the Calverton Boys' League. Timmy proposes Lassie as team mascot.
A down-on-his-luck harness horse racer boards his two horses, Big Boy and Lazy Joe at the Martin farm. Big Boy becomes lame.
Ruth forbids Timmy to play football with the bigger boys at school.. But Timmy defies his mother so he won't be called a "mamma's boy."
Timmy is the smallest boy in his gang and is chosen to be test pilot for their homemade glider. The boys decide the glider will be launched from a cliff.
A European refugee girl in Timmy's class is accused of stealing food for her starving family. Ruth sends the children out to trick-or-treat for UNICEF.
Paul needs a new well. Neighbor Cully Wilson says he can find water with a divining rod and save Paul the expense of hiring a geologist.
Timmy tells his friends that a new neighbor living in a run-down house is a witch.
The local farmers hire a bounty hunter to find a rampaging puma. Lassie takes a dislike to the man's dog King.
Paul refuses to sell his land to a real estate broker. A vandal ruins his tomato crop.
When Timmy sees a meteorite fall, he's convinced a spaceship from another planet has landed and that a man from Mars is wandering about the farm.
The Martins want a community emergency room created but a prominent farmer tells area businessmen a hospital is unnecessary
While selling newspaper subscriptions, Timmy overhears a plan to rob the local dairy's co-op.
Timmy and his friend Sam Kuramoto run away after they think they've killed a playmate.
Timmy has a new silent dog whistle.
Timmy and his friend Don substitute Timmy's guinea pig for one they find in an army test rocket. Army officials then suspect Timmy and Lassie have been exposed to radiation.
An animal control representative wants to save a smart mongrel dog that's become a nuisance on the area farms.
Timmy is studying grasshoppers for a school project, and discovers a nest of the insects. Worried about a plague, he presents his findings at a Grange meeting and tries to buy insecticide with his own money.
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. Brownie: Dick Whittinghill.
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.
*** Ruth thinks her cow Bessie is going dry but a neighbor boy has been stealing its milk to feed his baby sister.
*** When Lassie becomes fond of an injured Army pigeon, Timmy offers to buy it.
Lassie fills in for an injured carnival dog and performs so well the carnival dog's trainer steals her.
Timmy meets a man who races ostriches against horses at county fairs.
Timmy and Cully think a deceased gold prospector's burro knows where an old gold mine is located.
*** Lassie loses a race against a neighbor's greyhound but proves herself a worthy dog in another way.
*** When a saddle bronc rider's horse injures its leg, Lassie finds another horse for the cowboy to ride.
*** A six year girl falls into a concrete irrigation ditch. Lassie finds the girl's doll and leads Ruth and Timmy to her.
*** When an Army plane crashes, Timmy believes his home-made "Martian Detector" is responsible.
While vacationing at the Grand Canyon, Timmy and Ruth meet a blind musician who saves Timmy's life.
When Ruth's wallet disappears, Cully's bloodhound Relentless is brought in to solve the mystery.
Lassie is suspected of harassing the neighbor's livestock but a strange collie roaming the area is the culprit.
Timmy wants an exotic pet to enter in a contest. When he tries to capture a badger, he gets stuck in the badger's burrow and must be rescued by his father.
Officer Slater's dog Deputy is injured in a car crash following a chase for a bank robber and turns savage. Timmy and Lassie try to save the dog before a posse -- and a vengeful neighbor boy who was bitten by the animal -- catch him.
Timmy enters Lassie in the Silver Lake Coon Dog Trials. Lassie angers the owner of the reigning champ.
Jim Teal wants Cully confined to a rest home. Timmy gets caught in a trap during a violent storm.
Timmy wants to keep a doe safe from hunters and tries to capture her.
Lassie prefers keeping company with Fire Chief Ed Washburne rather than Timmy.
Timmy breeds rats on the farm and keeps the project secret from his parents.
*** Timmy's blind friend Joey is denied a trained dog because of his age. Timmy trains Lassie for the job and gives her to Joey.
Lassie wants to be a mother so she adopts a cougar baby.
Two thieves make their living stealing dogs and collecting the rewards.
Timmy shelters a Mexican boy and learns from Sheriff Miller that doing so is illegal.
Billy Joe Yochim and his mother visit the Martins at Christmastime. Billy Joe believes an aged sculptor he and Timmy save from a sleigh accident is Santa Claus.
Cully finds a lost parrot and gives it to Ruth for her birthday. Lassie is blamed for the bird's mischief-making.. When a reward is posted for the parrot, Cully tries to get it back.
After suffering a rebuke from Timmy, Lassie runs away and makes friends with a raccoon. But the friendship is short-lived when a reckless teenage driver kills the animal.
*** Timmy's black lamb escapes the barn during a thunderstorm and becomes lost in a neighbor's flock of sheep. Timmy competes at the Calverton County Fair.
*** Timmy and Ed Washburne share the cost of buying a wild colt. Timmy releases the colt when its mother comes to the farm.
Timmy's friend Mike drops their hiking plans so Timmy sets off alone. While playing hide-and-seek with Lassie he tumbles down a hillside and becomes trapped in a forest fire.
Timmy's cousin Dick Martin teaches Timmy how to train a falcon. Timmy visits the Air Force Academy with his mother and Lassie.
When a pet chimpanzee named Casey is left in Timmy's care, the animal escapes and leads Timmy on a wild goose chase.
In the Capitol City farmers' market, Lassie is locked in a truck that travels hundreds of miles away. When Lassie is released, she sets off through field and forest to find her way back to Timmy.
Lassie continues her odyssey. Timmy and his father travel to Lexington to post ads and to search for their dog. Lassie spends a night with a kind outdoorsman.
Much time has passed with no word or sign of Lassie. Cully suggests that Lassie may not come home and presents Timmy with a puppy hoping to assuage the boy's despair. Timmy gives up hope that Lassie will return.
Lassie is mistaken for a champion show dog and is given red carpet treatment at the Capitol City Dog Show.
Paul tries to trap the beavers damming the water needed for irrigation. Lassie sets them free.
"Mrs. Eagle" returns to visit her adopted gosling and helps Lassie when she has her puppies.
When the county tax assessor's ledger is carried off by a bear, Cully's bloodhound Relentless is called upon to catch the thief.
Timmy wants to give Miss Hazlit's uncle a dog.
Timmy trains Lassie, Cully's hound Sam, and Shag, a friend's dog to participate as sled dogs at the Alpine Meadows Winter Carnival. Lassie's feelings are hurt when Timmy makes Sam the lead dog.
When Timmy's elderly friend Mr. Jensen is hit by a car and falls into a coma, Timmy takes care of his dog Ruff. Lassie knows what will cure Mr. Jensen and brings his dog to the hospital.
Timmy and Cully begin a letter writing campaign to stop a road from being built through a woodland area.
Timmy tends a neighbor's sickly calf and wants to keep it for his own.
Cully babysits an elephant named Little Lena. Timmy finds a way for Lena to make money for her owner.
A tiger escapes its trainer and follows Timmy home.
Lassie and Timmy attend a magic show. Lassie steals the magician's pigeon.
Timmy rescues two fox kits after their mother has been killed.
Timmy promises a friend to care for his pregnant dog. The dog runs off to bear her puppies in a mine shaft.
Cully's barn must be demolished to make way for a gas line. But no matter how many times Cully and Timmy evacuate the animals, the creatures come back to the barn.
Paul orders Timmy to keep an eye on the goats he has pastured in a canyon after one of them dies from anthrax. Timmy is careless and the goats escape, endangering the harvest season.
Timmy and Lassie help Forest Service biologist Mark Adams tag fawns for a conservation project. Trube Cato, a grumpy farmer is caught in one of his own "varmint" traps.
Timmy and Lassie rescue an injured wild stallion and take him home. The horse longs to join his wild companions and threatens the Martins.
Timmy discovers a duck nesting on an unused railroad track.
Lassie is trapped at a road construction site trying to rescue a fawn.
Fire Chief Ed Washburne's dog Smokey is afraid of fires but overcomes his fear when Ed needs his help.
Timmy's new friend Danny, son of a retired clown who has settled on a local farm, is homesick for the carny life and talks Timmy into running away to join the carnival.
After a promotion at the local store, an overworked champion Irish setter, stows away in the Martin truck and learns the joy of being free in the country from Lassie.
*** Timmy's friend Ricky becomes attached to a lost terrier and vows not part with him when the owner claims it.
Lassie is accidentally shot by a deer hunter and needs a specialist.
A pigeon race Timmy has entered is threatened by a hawk.
When a Labrador retriever injures its spine, its owner propose to have it put away.
*** Lassie's purported ability to point fish creates a sensation in Calverton.
Cully's beloved hound Sam is killed by a maverick steer. Cully vows revenge.
*** Timmy encourages bluebirds to take up residence in the Calverton area by providing nesting boxes. A sudden invasion of starlings threatens his project.
Cully predicts a tornado. The Martins warn their neighbors then take refuge in their storm cellar.
Timmy believes a drifter is raiding a neighbor's turkey farm.
Cully participates in a burro race with Lassie helping him win.
*** Timmy volunteers to gather pine cones for a class project.
*** Cully is confined to the hospital after a serious heart attack. Timmy tends Cully's farm but gophers invade the melon patch.
King, an army guard dog-in-training escapes his handlers and threatens Timmy.
The Martins hold a pigeon race. Timmy's pigeon falls behind an electric fence at a radar station.
A hunter shoots a bald eagle. Timmy tends the eaglets.
A cranky old women threatens to harm the beavers that have dammed the source of her stream.
A cougar stalks a pregnant doe.
Lassie and her canine friend are caught in a flood.
Lassie rescues two boys wandering in a blasting site.
Corey visits his father's old friend who is caring for an injured seagull.
Corey rescues a victim of altitude spasm and then is snowblinded. He relies on Lassie to save him.
The government turns down a request to restock Paradise Lake.
Corey orders Lassie to wait ashore while he runs a chain across a soon-to-be overflowing river to stop the progress of logs downstream, but she jumps in to retrieve his dropped oar and is swept downstream, enperiled by both rapids and logs. She makes it to safety in the midst of the rapids, then Corey must rescue her—and still set the chain.
Motorcyclists destroy bristlecone pines and endanger the life of a girl.
Corey suspects a spunky motherless boy may have been bitten by a rabid squirrel.
A collie puppy living in a ghost town and an embittered veterinarain are brought together.
An elderly animal trainer's truck is wrecked and his trained animals escape. Corey and Lassie recover the animals.
Corey, Lassie, and a young woman help a poisoned goose.
Lassie rushes for help after Corey is trapped by an earthquake but a passing motorist captures her and sells her to a professor conducting experiments on dogs.
Corey is badly burned in a forest fire and requires extensive hospitalization. Ranger Bob Erickson provides a home for Lassie.
Ranger Scott Turner joins Bob Erickson in caring for Lassie. The rangers designate themselves Lassie's "godfathers."
Lassie and Scott come to the aid of a hunter trapped near a glacier.
Lassie protects an eaglet from a predatory lynx.
A wolf stalks Lassie and Neeka.
After a boat explosion Lassie searches frigid waters for Neeka and Scott.
A jaguar threatens a rancher's livestock.
Scott and Lassie hunt the jaguar after it attacks a bloodhound.
Scott and Bob rescue a pelican.
While Bob and Al exercise their horses along the seashore, Lassie protects a lost kitten from a predatory hawk and returns it to its owner.
Two brothers raise a 4-H bull and argue over its fate. Russ wants to keep the bull as a pet while Ken suggests selling the bull to earn their college tuition.
Lassie is trapped at a construction site.
Bruno, a war dog being rehabiliated from his violent past with bombs, escapes his caretakers.
Lassie finds the escaped dog and tries to lead him home.
A mallard and her ducklings are endangered by a man working on his car.
Bob is opposed in his plans to stabilize an area threatened by erosion..
Logs washed downriver create a hazard on the Oregon coast.
Lassie and a friend are trapped in a disabled boat.
Luke Roberts, a former deliquent is wrongly suspected when a watch is stolen.
Lassie and a free-spirited teenager called Walden are threatened by the aftershocks of an offshore earthquake.
Lassie leads the search for a rampaging tiger.
While collecting leaves for a biology report, Neeka and Lassie meet a lonely man who shuns society.
Scott, Lassie, and Neeka camp overnight in the ruins of a haunted mining town.
Three frightened horses run away after a truck explosion.
Lassie helps two flying squirrels find another home.
Brothers Leroy and Woody plan to make moonshine in a national forest.
Scott and Bob try to change a hunter's mind about killing wolves.
Scott and Lassie help a Job Corps vounteer succeed.
Lassie saves a chimp in danger at a construction site.
Scott disarms a bomb that lies next to a trapped man.
Scott rescues a fawn trapped in a water tank on a widow's ranch.
During an elk survey, Scott's helicopter crashes in the snow swept wilderness.
A boy playing hooky injures Scott with a rifle shot.
Lassie and Neeka track a stray chick through a redwood forest.
Bob and Neeka camp in the wilderness. Lassie is swept down an icy river after rescuing a crow tangled in twine.
Scott and Lassie help a withdrawn blind girl enjoy a nature trail with other blind children.
Scott and Lassie help an exhausted doe chased by snowmobilers.
Bob Erickson encounters a Mexican boy on his way to the Mission San Luis Rey who believes his deaf terrier's hearing can be restored with a blessing.
While in San Franciso with Scott, Lassie is hit by a car and suffers amnesia. She escapes from a veterenarian's office and wanders without direction.
Lassie wanders to San Francisco's waterfront and befriends a boat owner.
Lassie makes more friends but is mistaken for a rabid collie called Tawny.
Lassie is chased through the streets of San Francisco by health officials.
Lassie and Neeka become lost in the desert.
Neeka takes a wrong path in the Mesa Verde National Park and breaks his leg. A search and rescue operation is organized by Park Rangers,
When a blind woman is injured, Lassie goes for help.
While Bob and Dan scout a river for a tourist trail, Lassie is poisoned and needs immediate treatment.
Bob rescues a playful dog named Chucka from the waters of Lake Powell. When an old Navajo shepherd is injured in Monument Valley, Chucka tends his sheep while Lassie races for help.
Lassie's friend Mark Saunders helps put out a fire with summer camp owners Jim and Nancy Pearson.. Lassie remains with the Pearsons when Mark continues on his travels. Lassie has a romantic interlude with the Pearsons' collie Duke.
Lassie's puppies are in danger of being killed by a man who believes they were sired by a vicious dog.
Lassie and her three puppies escape to the desert. Kerry finds them and helps them to survive.
Lassie continues to elude those who wish her puppies harm. One of the pups remains with Kerry.
Lassie teaches her two remaining pups to survive in the wild.
Lassie and her pups meet a boy who has suffered the recent death of his dog. One of Lassie's pups remains with the boy.
While wandering through a forest, Lassie and her remaining puppy meet a girl who can talk to the animals.
After a forest fire, Lassie helps the animals find new homes.
*** Lassie is poisoned by a pesticide and is discovered by a race horse named Glory and his trainer.
*** Gary and Lassie help Glory recover from surgery after a leg injury.
*** A truck driver picks up a young man eager to see the world.
*** Lassie takes refuge during a rainstorm in the garage of a lonely woman. A mudslide threatens the house.
*** Two lonely people are brought together when Lassie brings them an injured bird.
*** Lassie is kept busy helping her fellow animals.
*** Lassie rescues two boys from a raft trapped in whitewater.
*** A boy steals a neighbor's horse to strike out on his own.
*** Teenager Patty is poisoned by arsenic in her aunt's well. When Patty prepares to go home, her aunt becomes trapped in a mine and Lassie brings Patty to the rescue.
*** Reed Adams, a young officer with the Orange County Sheriff's Dept. strikes up a relationship with a surfer dude. Lassie and her mutt pal Skipper are taken for a boat ride and save the surfer's life.
Lassie returns to the farm where she left one of her pups. She falls down a well.
Lassie has fallen into a well. Many of her friends from the past unite to rescue her from the well.
*** Lassie's kitten pal Sneakers gets himself in one scrape after another. Lassie finds him a safe home.
*** Still without a home and wandering on her own, Lassie helps several critters in distress before tumbling into a turbulent river and being rescued by two young men on a wilderness camping trip.
*** Ron, Dale, and Lassie search for a gold mine after buying a treasure map. A fire threatens the lives of the three friends when it engulfs a shack filled with dynamite.
Lassie befriends a toublesome mutt who's a mascot for a spur line.
Ron, Dale, and Lassie sleep in a barn that may be haunted.
*** Ron and Dale return with Lassie to the Holden Ranch, a foster home for boys run by Ron's father Garth Holden. Mike Bishop, an emotionally withdrawn boy on the ranch is given a birthday party.
Mike Bishop tends an injured owl at the animal park.
*** Ron is knocked unconscious during an earthquake and Lassie is lost in the confusion. Ron and Garth search for Lassie while she helps her fellow animals.
*** Mike's pet raccoon Rags becomes jealous of Lassie and the two animals find themselves in danger on a construction site.
*** Mike Bishop befriends the elderly pilot of a Curtis Pusher when his aircraft breaks down in the Holden pasture. The pilot's tall tales of air feats impress Mike but bother Garth, who thinks the man's lies might backfire.
*** A young white stallion challenges the older black leader of a horse herd. When the white horse drives the injured black stallion away from water, Lassie tries to lead the injured horse to safety.
*** Lassie leads the black stallion back to the Holden Ranch. Garth and Dale hope the horse will remain on the ranch.
*** Having finished their final exams at college, Ron and Dale return to the Holden Ranch to roundup the strays. Lassie saves a calf stuck in quicksand and rescues Ron when he falls from his horse in the path of the onrushing herd of cattle.
*** Ron and Dale take a two day vacation at Pine Lake before going back to college. They pick up a hitch-hiking boy who steals one of their rented motorcycles.
Garth and Lassie visit Vandenberg Air Force Base. Lassie finds a snow goose nesting near a missle launching area.
Lassie protects the snow goose during a missle launch and then makes a friend of a diabetic poodle who stows-away on SAC's airborne command post to be near his owner.
SAC's airborne command post is given permission to land early to help the diabetic dog. Lassie meets Jimmy Fredericks, a frustrated boy depressed over his crippled leg.
Jimmy must re-examine his faith when he receives word his father's flight may crash.
*** Jimmy returns to the Holden Ranch with Garth. Jimmy meets Lucy Baker, a deaf girl with a pet wolf named Mountie. Mountie is shot by a shepherd who does not know the wolf is a pet.
*** Lucy and Jimmy find Mountie in a cave where Lassie has hidden him. Jimmy rides for help on Lucy's horse and meets the shepherd who shot Mountie. Garth and the shepherd tend to Mountie.
*** Mountie dies and Lucy becomes severely depressed. She finds meaning and recovery in tending a llama about to give birth at the animal park.
Garth's brother Keith takes over the management of the ranch while Garth is abroad. Keith is met with resentment from the boys but he proves himself a capable man when a storm strikes the ranch and starts a fire that traps Lassie in the woods.
Karl Burkholm, the baker tends an injured migrating dove.
A colt escapes from Elaine Baker's ranch.
A crow snatches Mike Bishop's wallet.
A deaf boy wanders about the ranch. Communicating through sign language, Lucy discovers he feels no one wants him.
Upset when deprived of the dog the Holdens gave him, the deaf boy flees the ranch.
Lassie aids a pair of golden eagles.
Lucy brings a runaway boy named Joey to the Holden Ranch. Joey has difficulty learning the ways of the ranch.
Joey believes he will be sent to an institution and runs away from the ranch. Keith, Dale, Ron, and Lucy set off after him with Lassie trailing his scent but the dog looses him. The Civil Air Patrol joins the search.
Karl Burkholm has a heart attack. The Holdens are concerned that Karl will loose his will to live.
A Chicano man wants a piece of land he can call his own.
An Indian and his pet birds save Lassie from a trap.
Dale is injured when he falls from his horse Midnight.
*** Lassie and Midnight go for help when Dale cannot move.
A coyote steals a puppy from the Holden barn.
Two bumbling thieves try to steal Midnight.
A surgeon believes Lucy's hearing can be restored. Keith and Lassie accompany Lucy and her mother to Los Angeles for Lucy's operation.
In Los Angeles, Lassie is chased from the hospital where Lucy is undergoing surgery. Lassie wanders the streets. Keith searches for her and Elaine wonders what to tell Lucy.
At home after her operation, Lucy prays that her hearing -- and Lassie -- will return.
Lucy meets an attractive drifter who gives her guitar lessons.
Lassie tracks down the Baker calf which is loose and being stalked by predators.