The BEST episodes of Lassie season 4

#1 - 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.

#2 - The Runaway

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1957

Lassie discovers a small, waiflike boy hiding in the barn, but the child won't talk. The Millers soon find out he's Timmy, an orphan living in Olive Branch with his elderly relatives, Uncle Jed and Aunt Abby Clausen. (Some type of accident killed Timmy's parents.)

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - The Hospital

Season 4 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/23/1958

Timmy is stricken with severe stomach cramps and keeps calling out for Lassie.

#6 - The Hungry Deer

Season 4 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/16/1958

Members of the community band together to hunt down deer driven to eat their crops, but Timmy and Scott fight to do something that doesn't involve killing them.

#7 - Concussion

Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/9/1958

When Timmy insists on going to a blasting site despite Lassie's protests, she is struck on the head by a dynamite-propelled rock and appears to not know who she is. Then she wanders away from the farm.

#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 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.

#10 - The Ring

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/19/1958

Timmy believes one of Uncle Petrie's tall tales and is hurt to discover he has been lied to. A gift of a friendship ring, crafted by Uncle Petrie himself, mends their relationship.

#11 - Transition

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/1/1957

#12 - The Wolf

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1957

#13 - Happy

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/1957

#14 - The Spartan

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/1957

#15 - The Elephant

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/1957

Jeff and Timmy saw a huge elephant. Ellen & Gramps doesn't want it as an 2nd Pet for Lassie. They decided to keep it until the animal control person comes by and wanted to get rid of the elephant.

#16 - The Burro

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1957

When Timmy and Lassie find a sick burro, abandoned by neglectful but well-meaning owners, everyone thinks Timmy's exaggerating until Ellen finds the creature. Timmy's faith and the family's nursing save the burro, but then her owners come return.

#17 - Graduation

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1957

Jeff is thrilled to accept a summer job at Doc Weaver's office, but when he neglects his duty for a few minutes, a potentially rabid dog is let loose

#18 - The Cub Scout

Season 4 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/11/1958

Scott's city cousins make fun of Timmy and Scott's interest in the Cub Scouts

#19 - The Blanket

Season 4 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/27/1958

Ruth tries to replace Lassie's disreputable old blanket with a new one, but Lassie will have none of it.

#20 - The Bird House

Season 4 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/6/1958

Timmy tends an injured sparrow.

#21 - The Tooth

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1957

#22 - 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

#23 - The Pony

Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/9/1958

Timmy comes running home with a story about a rabbit-sized pony--but no one believes him.

#24 - Inoculation

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/2/1958

#25 - The Greyhound

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/26/1958