Episode 1 - [The Runt] |
Details : 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Lesley Selander | |
Air Date : Sep. 11, 1955 |
Episode 2 - [The Pit] |
Details : When Jeff and Porky see pit bull terriers Gramps suspects illegal dogfights are being held in the area. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey D. Vieira | John Pickard | |
Air Date : Sep. 18, 1955 |
Episode 3 - [The Kittens] |
Details : 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Madge Blake | Arthur Space | |
Air Date : Sep. 25, 1955 |
Episode 4 - [The Dog Show] |
Details : 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. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey D. Vieira | Don Beddoe | Trevor Bardette | |
Air Date : Oct. 02, 1955 |
Episode 5 - [The School] |
Guest Cast and Crew : Phyllis Coates | |
Air Date : Oct. 19, 1955 |
Episode 6 - [The Violin] |
Details : Jeff teaches Lassie to howl when he plays the violin hoping to get out of lessons but Ellen sees through the scheme |
Guest Cast and Crew : Lucien Littlefield | Earle Hodgins | |
Air Date : Oct. 16, 1955 |
Episode 7 - [The Monster] |
Details : There is a weird monster in the lake making unearthly noises--but it turns out to be a displaced seal which Jeff promptly tries to adopt. |
Air Date : Oct. 23, 1955 |
Episode 8 - [The Witch] |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey D. Vieira | |
Air Date : Oct. 30, 1955 |
Episode 9 - [The Wild Duck] |
Guest Cast and Crew : Arthur Space | |
Air Date : Nov. 06, 1955 |
Episode 10 - [The Rival] |
Details : Jeff and Gramps are jealous when Clay Horton takes Ellen out on a date. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Ken Osmond | |
Air Date : Nov. 13, 1955 |
Episode 11 - [The Newspaper] |
Details : The boys start printing a newspaper to make themselves some pocket money--but the material they print gets them into hot water instead. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Leonard Penn | Director : Lesley Selander | |
Air Date : Nov. 20, 1955 |
Episode 12 - [The Clown] |
Details : After an itinerant clown and his dog entertain at a church carnival the man is accused of robbing a neighbor. |
Air Date : Nov. 27, 1955 |
Episode 13 - [The Twister] |
Details : The Millers batten down the hatches as a severe storm approaches. |
Air Date : Dec. 04, 1955 |
Episode 14 - [Gramps' Birthday] |
Details : Jeff and Ellen plan a surprise party for Gramps so well that Gramps feels neglected on his birthday and runs away. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey D. Vieira | |
Air Date : Dec. 11, 1955 |
Episode 15 - [The Gypsies] |
Details : A gypsy girl and her family camp on the Miller farm despite neighbors' reports of thievery. |
Air Date : Dec. 18, 1955 |
Episode 16 - [The Gift] |
Details : A television set meant for the Brockways is delivered to the Millers. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Paul Wexler | |
Air Date : Dec. 25, 1955 |
Episode 17 - [The Stamp Album] |
Details : In a quest for a valuable stamp the boys begin quarreling with each other. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey D. Vieira | |
Air Date : Jan. 01, 1956 |
Episode 18 - [The Dog Catcher] |
Details : When Lassie is impounded in Capitol City for lack of tag and leash Jeff learns that most of the dogs in the pound are to be killed so he brings much to the consternation of Ellen the dogs to the farm so he can find them homes. |
Air Date : Jan. 08, 1956 |
Episode 19 - [Pokey] |
Details : Matt Brockway says Pokey is useless and tells Porky he is going to give the dog away. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey D. Vieira | |
Air Date : Jan. 15, 1956 |
Episode 20 - [The Trial] |
Details : When Gramps refuses to sell the farm to nasty Emmet Carey Edgar Carey pretends that a barbed wire scratch he got in the barn is Lassie's bite figuring the Millers will give up the farm before giving up Lassie |
Guest Cast and Crew : Will Wright | John Harmon | |
Air Date : Jan. 22, 1956 |
Episode 21 - [The Hawk] |
Details : Jeff and Porky horrify Gramps by trying to tame a red-tailed hawk as a hunting falcon. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey D. Vieira | |
Air Date : Jan. 29, 1956 |
Episode 22 - [The Tree House] |
Details : The boys quarrel over Pokey being able to sleep in their new tree house. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey D. Vieira | |
Air Date : Feb. 05, 1956 |
Episode 23 - [The Visitor] |
Details : The Millers welcome a Japanese exchange student--and run into bigotry from a neighbor who has never gotten over World War II. |
Air Date : Feb. 12, 1956 |
Episode 24 - [The Raft] |
Details : The boys' journey on their new raft is hampered by the fact that Porky can't swim. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey D. Vieira | |
Air Date : Feb. 19, 1956 |
Episode 25 - [The Journey] |
Details : When Gramps and Ellen tell him that Lassie is going blind Jeff takes the dog on a long journey to find the doctor that can restore her sight. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Arthur Space | Paul Cavanagh | |
Air Date : Feb. 26, 1956 |
Episode 26 - [The Vet] |
Details : Jeff decides he wants to be a veterinarian and his first patient is the Miller cow. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Arthur Space | |
Air Date : Mar. 04, 1956 |
Episode 27 - [Lassie's Double] |
Details : Ellen accidentally brings home a valuable champion collie from a dog show rather than Lassie--and is accused of theft! |
Guest Cast and Crew : Milton Frome | |
Air Date : Mar. 11, 1956 |
Episode 28 - [The Child] |
Details : Jeff and Porky told to babysit little Janie leave the child with Lassie while they run to see construction equipment at work not knowing Janie is following them. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey D. Vieira | |
Air Date : Mar. 18, 1956 |
Episode 29 - [The Leash] |
Details : After a friend's mother is involved in a serious car accident Jeff becomes over protective of Lassie. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Arthur Hilton | |
Air Date : Mar. 25, 1956 |
Episode 30 - [Sunday School] |
Details : Jeff in charge of collecting money for Sunday School loses the contributions and has no way of replacing them. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Philip Ford | |
Air Date : Apr. 10, 1956 |
Episode 31 - [The Deer Hunter] |
Details : Jeff discovers that a new classmate's father is jacklighting deer. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Robert J. Wilke | |
Air Date : Apr. 08, 1956 |
Episode 32 - [Domino] |
Details : A disreputable horse dealer schemes to buy Jeff's colt cheaply by proving to Gramps that the horse is vicious. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Francis McDonald | |
Air Date : Apr. 15, 1956 |
Episode 33 - [The Marauder] |
Details : One of Lassie's puppies Comet mistreated by its owner has turned wild. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Strother Martin | Arthur Space | |
Air Date : Apr. 22, 1956 |
Episode 34 - [The Calf] |
Details : Jeff and Porky enter the world of business when they take a 4-H calf home from the county's fair intent on raising it to sell for the price of an outboard motor. In their care the calf grows into a prize-winning heifer. |
Air Date : Apr. 29, 1956 |
Episode 35 - [The Crop Duster] |
Details : Gramps' blames Lassie's son Laddie's illness on the spray used by a local crop duster. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Ross Elliott | |
Air Date : May. 06, 1956 |
Episode 36 - [War Dog] |
Details : Jeff persuades a neighbor to buy a rehabilitated war dog only to have the dog exhibit aggressive behavior. Joe Brown: James Griffith. |
Guest Cast and Crew : James Griffith | |
Air Date : May. 13, 1956 |
Episode 37 - [The Haircut] |
Details : Ellen battles with Jeff to go get a haircut--until the unexpected happens. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Philip Ford | |
Air Date : May. 20, 1956 |
Episode 38 - [Diane] |
Details : Jeff and Porky quarrel over a new girl in town who is happily playing one boy off another! |
Guest Cast and Crew : Joey D. Vieira | Aline Towne | |
Air Date : May. 27, 1954 |
Episode 39 - [The Frog] |
Details : When Jeff and Porky discover their competition jumping frog is female and about to lay eggs they drive Gramps and Ellen to exhaustion in their quest to see the eggs are fertilized and produce offspring. |
Air Date : Jun. 03, 1956 |