The BEST episodes of Lassie

#1 - Sale of Lassie

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/5/1954

Jeff overhears the wrong conversation, and, thinking Gramps needs an expensive operation, attempts to sell Lassie to raise the money.

#2 - Gramps

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1954

When Gramps has chest pains, the family tries to keep him from exerting himself.

#3 - Timmy and the Martians

Season 7 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/28/1961

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.

#4 - The Alligator

Season 6 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/1/1960

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.

#5 - Gramps' Birthday

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/11/1955

Jeff and Ellen plan a surprise party for Gramps so well that Gramps feels neglected on his birthday and "runs away."

#6 - The Rustlers

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/12/1954

The calf Jeff is raising for the county fair vanishes the same night Lassie comes home injured and covered with mud--then she mysteriously starts chasing Ellen's car.

#7 - The Suit

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1957

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.

#8 - The Garden

Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/3/1958

A drought is hitting the area pretty hard, and Timmy desperately attempts to keep his own small garden from perishing.

#9 - The UNICEF Story

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1959

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,

#10 - The Camera

Season 5 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/3/1959

#11 - The Lady Bugs

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/28/1958

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

#12 - The Bundle from Britain

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/30/1958

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

#13 - The Storm

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1958

Timmy and Boomer try to teach Boomer's new dog Mike, a distant little terrier, farm ways, but he seems unable to learn.

#14 - The Crow

Season 4 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/18/1958

Timmy's "patient," an injured crow he names "Peck," recovers to become a farm pest.

#15 - Seeing Eye Dog

Season 4 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/13/1958

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.

#16 - The Penguin

Season 4 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/30/1958

A crate holding a penguin enroute to the Capitol City zoo falls off its truck, and Timmy and Scott adopt the creature

#17 - The Square Dance

Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/23/1958

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.

#18 - The Contest

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/26/1954

While Jeff prepares for the county fair, a spoiled little girl visits the farm and continually tries to hurt Lassie.

#19 - The Fighter

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/19/1954

Jeff doesn't understand why a famous prizefighter doesn't want to box any longer and pegs him as a coward.

#20 - The Carnival

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1954

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.

#21 - The Job

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1954

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.

#22 - Lassie's Pups

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1954

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.

#23 - The Lion

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1954

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.

#24 - Father

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/16/1955

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.

#25 - The Gun

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1954

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.