The BEST Episodes of Lassie
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Aug 1, 2020
Network: Syndication
Relive the adventures of America’s favorite collie, Lassie, and her best friend, Timmy. Together they take on heroic tasks and exciting adventures.
#1 - Mr. Peabody
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 10, 1954
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.
10.00 #2 - Gramps
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired Nov 7, 1954
When Gramps has chest pains, the family tries to keep him from exerting himself.
10.00 #3 - The Job
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired Nov 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.
10.00 #4 - The Carnival
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired Nov 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.
10.00 #5 - Sale of Lassie
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired Dec 5, 1954
Jeff overhears the wrong conversation, and, thinking Gramps needs an expensive operation, attempts to sell Lassie to raise the money.
10.00 #6 - The Rustlers
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired Dec 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.
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#7 - The Fighter
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired Dec 19, 1954
Jeff doesn't understand why a famous prizefighter doesn't want to box any longer and pegs him as a coward.
10.00 #8 - The Contest
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired Dec 26, 1954
While Jeff prepares for the county fair, a spoiled little girl visits the farm and continually tries to hurt Lassie.
10.00 #9 - Runaways
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired Jan 2, 1955
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.
10.00 #10 - The Brat
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired Jan 9, 1955
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.
10.00 #11 - The Fawn
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired Jan 23, 1955
Jeff wants to adopt an orphan fawn, but Gramps says there is no place for wild animals on a farm.
10.00 #12 - Blind Soldier
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired Jan 30, 1955
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.
10.00 #13 - The Cave
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired Feb 6, 1955
Jeff and Lassie are trapped in a cave shown to them by a malicious classmate.
10.00 #14 - The Injury
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired Feb 13, 1955
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.
10.00 #15 - The Well
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired Feb 20, 1955
A snoopy inspector from the water department insists on seeing the Miller well.
10.00 #16 - The Runt
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 11, 1955
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.
10.00 #17 - The Pit
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired Sep 18, 1955
When Jeff and Porky see pit bull terriers, Gramps suspects illegal dogfights are being held in the area.
10.00 #18 - The Kittens
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired Sep 25, 1955
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.
10.00 #19 - The Dog Show
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 2, 1955
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.
10.00 #20 - The Violin
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 16, 1955
Jeff teaches Lassie to howl when he plays the violin, hoping to get out of lessons, but Ellen sees through the scheme
10.00 #21 - The Alligator
Season 6 - Episode 34 - Aired May 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.
10.00 #22 - Timmy and the Martians
Season 7 - Episode 36 - Aired May 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.
10.00 #23 - The Convict
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 17, 1954
Jeff and Lassie meet an escaped convict in the woods.
9.00 #24 - The Lion
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired Oct 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.
9.00 #25 - Father
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired Jan 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.
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