The BEST episodes of Lassie season 7

#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 Trip

Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/1961

When the Martins travel by train to Chicago for an agricultural exhibition, as well as to visit Ruth's mother and family, Lassie is taken along, but her crate falls off the baggage car enroute and Tom and Jess, two friendly truckers, try to help her get back where she belongs.

#3 - The Wild Horse

Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1961

Timmy observes what he believes is a wild horse which becomes a menace to the local farms but persuades Paul to convince the local farmers to spare the life of the horse which is later learned to be an escaped thoroughbred.

#4 - Shadrack

Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/5/1961

Cully plays host to his old regiment's Army mule, but he and Timmy must save the animal from being destroyed when it suddenly goes mad and begins rampaging all over the countryside.

#5 - The Patriot

Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1961

After finding out the local Army base needs dogs to guard their missiles, Timmy adopts Homer, a German Shepherd from the dog pound to give to the Army, but the dog has become so cowed from abuse that the family wonders if he can ever be trained.

#6 - The Eagle

Season 7 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/19/1961

Timmy and Lassie watch in horror as a man raids a golden eagle's nest and destroys her only egg, so Timmy gives the bereaved bird a goose egg to raise.

#7 - Cracker Jack

Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/26/1961

Enroute to the city to relocate after a drought, a backwoods family stops at the Martins after Timmy plays a trick on them. But when their son Billy Joe finds out his parents plan to give away his beloved dog Mitchell, he swears Timmy to secrecy after returning to the Martins', then he and the dog head for the woods--where deer season has just begun.

#8 - Cully's Hound Dog

Season 7 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1961

When Paul offers to farm the land Cully has allowed to lie fallow, the old man thinks Paul means he should retire. But after Timmy gives him a pep talk, Cully decides to fight back by hitching horse to plow and farming his land again.

#9 - The Fire Watchers

Season 7 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/12/1961

Ruth is on volunteer tower duty during a dry spell and must take action when a forest fire starts due to a careless smoker. Meanwhile Lassie helps Ranger Wade start a backfire after he's injured in the path of the fire in a fall from his horse.

#10 - Bessie

Season 7 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/26/1961

When Ruth thinks their cow is going dry, she makes the difficult decision to sell Bessie to the slaughterhousea and purchase a new cow. What they don't realize is that a neighbor's boy has been stealing some of her milk.

#11 - The Pigeon

Season 7 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/2/1961

Lassie and Caesar, an Army homing pigeon that Timmy nurses back to health, get so attached to each other that when he is returned to the Army, she refuses to eat, and Caesar frees himself to return to his collie friend. So Timmy decides to see if the Army will let him buy the bird.

#12 - 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.

#13 - The Ostrich

Season 7 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/16/1961

Timmy and Lassie make the acquaintance of Captain Gene Holter, a man who makes his living racing his two ostriches Romeo and Juliet against horses at county fairs. But when Ruth finds out Juliet, defending a egg she just laid, chased Timmy, she forbids the boy to return to the fairgrounds.

#14 - Fools Gold

Season 7 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/23/1961

Lassie brings home a gold miner's pack burro, and Timmy and Culley get gold fever. The burro leads them to a mine, but their digging causes the roof to collapse, trapping them. Lassie and the fireman must rescue them before the mine fills with gas.

#15 - The Greyhound

Season 7 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/30/1961

Timmy bets Lassie's new jeweled collar that she can beat a friend's new greyhound, Pat, in a race, and is chagrined when the collie loses.

#16 - Rodeo

Season 7 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/14/1961

#17 - The Search

Season 7 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/21/1961

While playing on her own, Lassie brings home the talking doll belonging to a lost city child, who is trapped in a concrete irrigation ditch that's slowly filling with water.

#18 - 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.

#19 - Blacktail

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1960

Jerry, the lame boy who adopted Lassie's son Blacktail, and his dog visit the farm, when the Martins find out Jerry can walk without his brace, but is afraid to try.

#20 - The Wallaby

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1960

Something's raided the family strawberry patch, but the large mysterious tracks puzzle everyone until Timmy catches a glimpse of the animal, describing it as a "giant rabbit." In reality it's a wallaby named Pancho--who poses a danger to Lassie!

#21 - Cully's New Pet

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1960

Cully tells Timmy no animal is all bad, so Timmy befriends a skunk, but no one, not even Lassie, will come near his new friend.

#22 - The Rescue

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1960

Timmy is trapped on a ledge while chasing a strayed ewe that has just given birth and Ruth desperately tries to get the attention of a nearby helicopter pilot reseeding the hills.

#23 - Feathered Menace

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1960

Ruth agrees to babysit Betty Wilder's infant twins, but the young mother arrives early and reluctantly leaves Timmy and Lassie to care for the babies until Ruth returns from an errand. Timmy thinks it will be a cinch--until a marauding hawk chases a frightened pigeon into the bedroom where the babies are sleeping.

#24 - The Gentle Tiger

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1960

Timmy learns a lesson in obedience when he takes a job as water boy at a traveling carnival. He disregards an order, inadvertently allowing a tiger to escape from its cage.

#25 - The Blind Dog

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1960

A blind dog is trapped in a skip-loader and in danger of being buried alive. Lassie risks her life to save the handicapped pup and Timmy helps the dog's owner find work to pay for a sight-restoring operation for his pet.