• Air date: 10 Sep '67 26 episodes
      Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie dog named Lassie and her companions, human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 24, 1973. One of the longest-running series on television, the show chalked up seventeen seasons on CBS before entering first-run syndication for its final two seasons. Initially filmed in black and white, the show transitioned to color in 1965. The show's first ten seasons follow Lassie's adventures in a small farming community. Fictional eleven-year-old Jeff Miller, his mother, and his grandfather are Lassie's first human companions until seven-year-old Timmy Martin and his adoptive parents take over in the fourth season. When Lassie's exploits on the farm end in the eleventh season, she finds new adventures in the wilderness with a succession of United States Forest Service Rangers. After traveling without...
  • List of Episodes (26)
    • 1. Perils of the Prairie

      10 Sep '67
      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.
    • 2. Inferno

      17 Sep '67
      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.
    • 3. Cry of the Wild

      24 Sep '67
      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.
    • 4. The Guardian

      01 Oct '67
      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.
    • 5. Starfire

      08 Oct '67
      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.
    • 6. Brink of Oblivion

      15 Oct '67
      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.
    • 7. The Homeless

      22 Oct '67
      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.
    • 9. Rim of Disaster (1)

      05 Nov '67
      Ranger Corey Stuart and Lassie are stranded on a Glacier Peak when mechanical problems force their plane to land. In order to take off again, Lassie must be left on the ground, leaving her prey to a marauding bear.
    • 10. Rim of Disaster (2)

      12 Nov '67
      Ranger Corey Stuart must use his plane to save Lassie from the attack of a marauding bear.
    • 11. Ride the Mountain

      19 Nov '67
      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.
    • 12. Dangerous Journey

      26 Nov '67
      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.
    • 13. Fury at Wind River

      03 Dec '67
      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.
    • 15. Miracle of the Dove

      24 Dec '67
      A small girl's beloved dog is lost right before Christmas.
    • 16. Have You Any Wool?

      31 Dec '67
      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 th
    • 17. The Bracelet

      07 Jan '68
      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.
    • 18. The Foundling

      14 Jan '68
      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.
    • 19. Rescue Ridge

      21 Jan '68
      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.
    • 20. White Wilderness

      28 Jan '68
      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.
    • 21. The Lonely One

      04 Feb '68
      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.
    • 22. The Searchers

      11 Feb '68
      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.
    • 23. Countdown

      18 Feb '68
      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.
    • 24. Escape to Danger

      25 Feb '68
      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.
    • 25. The Ledge

      03 Mar '68
      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.
    • 26. Hanford's Point (1)

      10 Mar '68
      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.""
    • 27. Hanford's Point (2)

      17 Mar '68
      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.""