The BEST episodes of Lassie

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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

#5 - 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

#6 - The Camera

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

#7 - 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,

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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."

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - Gramps

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

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

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - The Swallows of Los Pinos

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1960

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.

#19 - Long Chase

Season 7 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/9/1961

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.

#20 - Sea Serpent

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/1960

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.

#21 - Little Cabbage

Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/1960

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.

#22 - The Big Race

Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/4/1960

Timmy is punished for neglecting his farm chores when he joins Willie Brewster to build a vehicle for a go-cart race.

#23 - The Christmas Story

Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1960

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.

#24 - The White-Faced Bull

Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1961

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.

#25 - Apron Strings

Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1961

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.