The BEST episodes of Lassie season 5

#1 - 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

#2 - The Camera

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

#3 - 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

#4 - The Bonnet

Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/1/1959

Knowing Ruth hasn't had a new hat in four years, Paul buys her a lovely spring hat he discovers she was longing for, but Timmy and Lassie inadvertently ruin it while playing.

#5 - Lassie's Guest

Season 5 - Episode 39 - Aired 5/31/1959

#6 - Campout

Season 5 - Episode 38 - Aired 5/24/1959

#7 - Swami

Season 5 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/17/1959

#8 - Peace Patrol

Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/10/1959

#9 - Stablemates

Season 5 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/26/1959

#10 - Teamwork

Season 5 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/19/1959

#11 - Rock Hound

Season 5 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/5/1959

#12 - The Puppet

Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/29/1959

Lassie falls in love with Suzy, a canine hand puppet manipulated by a down-on-his-luck ventriloquist.

#13 - The Watch Dog

Season 5 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/22/1959

Lassie, staying at a neighbor's house while the family as at the county fair, is blamed for the damage done by Chipper, a chimpanzee being nursed by Mrs. Collins.

#14 - The Young Flyers

Season 5 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/15/1959

The entire family pitches in to help Timmy win in his Cub Scout troop's kite-flying contest, especially after the original kite is lost.

#15 - The Cat That Came To Dinner

Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/22/1959

The Martins adopt a cat they find half-drowned outside the house, but the conniving cat, dubbed "Marmalade" by Timmy because of his color, immediately starts getting Lassie into trouble.

#16 - The Horse Show

Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/15/1959

Timmy, disappointed that there are no contests in the county fair a small boy can participate in, enters his burro Lucky in a farm horse event.

#17 - Beholden

Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/1/1959

Asa Winkler, a conniving handyman, claims Lassie bit him and tore his pants to obtain odd jobs at the Martins--and arranges other "accidents" to stay on.

#18 - 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.

#19 - Our Gal

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1958

Paul's expensive new sow "Our Gal" turns out to have an unfortunate predeliction zfor running away, even through reinforced fencing, and after she has a litter of piglets.

#20 - Lassie's Decision

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/1958

Timmy's plan to help his new friend Henry, who is afraid of dogs, backfires when Henry mistakes Lassie's extra attention as love for him and believes she wants to stay with him.

#21 - The Egret

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/1958

On a bird-watching expedition for school, Timmy sees a rare snowy egret, but no one will believe him. Finally a professor is dispatched to see if his report is true.

#22 - The Archers

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/23/1958

After bow hunters shoot a bear cub, then leave it in the forest to die, the Martins try to save the animal.

#23 - The Black Woods

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/7/1958

Having seen sugar maples while taking Timmy on a nature hike, Uncle Petrie returns to the woods to investigate--and runs into two men holding bank president Robert Hanson hostage. Remembering that he taught Timmy smoke signals on their hike, he makes a desperate gamble while helping one of the criminals make a fire.

#24 - The Raffle

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/14/1958

Tongues wag in the neighborhood after Lassie picks Ruth's ticket as a winner in a raffle for a piano--but the real loser is Timmy, who's forced to take lessons

#25 - The Christmas Story

Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/21/1958

Several days before Christmas, Lassie is struck by a truck while saving a three-year-old girl and so seriously injured she needs a special veterinarian to operate on her