The BEST episodes of Lassie season 6

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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,

#3 - The Elephant

Season 6 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/6/1960

After Timmy and other schoolchildren saved up enough money to purchase an baby elephant for the Capitol City Zoo, the city authorities find there is no place to house it, so, newly named "Peanuts" by Timmy, it ends up boarding at the Martin farm.

#4 - The Space Traveler

Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/10/1960

When Timmy and Don accidentally release the guinea pig from an experimental rocket, they replace it with Timmy's guinea pig Alexander the Great. But authorities suspect the guinea pig on the rocket was exposed to deadly radiation.

#5 - The Maverick

Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/17/1960

large mongrel dog who's been a nuisance on neighbors' farms is trapped in a gorge, and although most of the farmers want the stray dead, the Calverton dog pound representative wants to save him.

#6 - The Grasshopper and the Ant

Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/24/1960

Timmy, studying grasshoppers for a school project, becomes so worried about a possible plague when he sees a big nest of the insects that he speaks up at the Grange meeting and tries to buy insecticide with his own money. It's only then that even Paul takes him seriously--and is glad he did.

#7 - Homing Pigeon

Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/31/1960

After he trades some old sports equipment for a homing pigeon, Timmy's next task is to train her. But only Lassie--and a male pigeon attracted to the new homer--knows "Bright Eyes" is endangered by a hawk on her first long-distance flight.

#8 - The Explorers

Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/7/1960

When Paul tends a neighbor's herd, he discovers they have hoof-and-mouth disease--and now Princess, the new purebred cow he invested $1000 in, and the Martin's old cow Bessie are threatened with slaughter.

#9 - The Epidemic

Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/14/1960

#10 - Fur-Coated Killer

Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/21/1960

A neighbor may lose his new means of moneymaking when minks from his mink farm are blamed for slaughtering chickens. But the killer turns out to be something more dangerous: a wolverine.

#11 - Judgment Seat

Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/28/1960

The father of a new girl Timmy befriends owns the land Paul is renting for his alfalfa crop--and plans to flood the field before Paul can harvest it.

#12 - The Hermit

Season 6 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/22/1960

Timmy befriends the hermit who recently moved into the area, a man a visiting construction worker and his son scorn.

#13 - Clementine

Season 6 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/13/1960

Timmy saves the life of a rooster that Paul only suspects was involved in cockfighting, but a neighbor's hired hand recognizes "Clementine" as a champion fighter named Dynamite who was left for dead.

#14 - The Puppy Sitter

Season 6 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/20/1960

Lassie, who turns out not to be expecting puppies, refuses to have anything to do with Henry Enders' setter puppies that Timmy is taking care of.

#15 - The Champ

Season 6 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/27/1960

Everyone makes fun of Timmy's runt piglet, Champ.

#16 - The Phone Hog

Season 6 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/3/1960

Paul is trapped in his truck by a downed power line during an electrical storm, but Timmy can't call for help because a garrilous woman is constantly on the telephone.

#17 - The Killer

Season 6 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/17/1960

Sam Burke buys a savage German Shepherd named Bismarck after a bobcat depredates his flock of sheep and attacks the Martin stock as well, leaving a lamb orphaned--but Lassie knows that something else was responsible for the killings.

#18 - The Moved Monument

Season 6 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/24/1960

Paul, Henry Enders, and some other farmers may lose some valuable farmland--and Paul an expensive fence--due to a road building project. Henry Enders tells the Martins he understands some of the original survey markers were once moved, so the two men try to find any that were not replaced.

#19 - The Wrong Gift

Season 6 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/8/1960

When Willy's expensive Mother's Day gift and Timmy's more frugal choice are mixed up, Timmy can't bear to tell his mother after seeing her pleased reaction--so he takes steps to earn the additional money Willy's gift cost.

#20 - Alias Jack and Joe

Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/27/1959

During a game, the boys begin fighting and Flip is knocked out by a rock thrown by Rudy, who makes Timmy and Sam believe Flip is dead and it's their fault, so the two boys and Lassie run away to avoid disgracing their families.

#21 - The New Refrigerator

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1959

Ruth loves her new refrigerator, but Lassie prefers meals from the old icebox instead--precipitating a battle of wills.

#22 - Old Henry

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1959

Timmy buys an old plowhorse for a dollar, but Paul says they cannot keep the animal since he can't do any work. In trying earn money to keep the horse, Timmy becomes trapped in a mine.

#23 - The Contest

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1959

Timmy enters a "why I love my pet" contest and entrusts Lassie to get the entry to the mailman on time, but she spends so much time aiding neighbors in trouble that the letter is not delivered.

#24 - The Mascot

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1959

Baseball great Roy Campanella comes to coach the Calverton Boys' League just as Timmy puts in a bid for Lassie to become the team's mascot. But when Timmy overhears two boys bargaining over who will pitch the first game and is threatened that Lassie will not get the mascot position if he tells, he's thrown in a quandary.

#25 - The Sulky Race

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1959

A down-on-his-luck horse racer who needs to win just one more race to start his own farm boards his two harness horses, Big Boy, his future stud horse, and Lazy Joe, Big Boy's stablemate, at the Martin farm. But at an early time-trial, Big Boy turns up lame.