Lassie

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  E1Lightning

  Sep 16, 1972

  Garth's brother Keith is met with resentment when he takes over running the ranch, but he proves his mettle when a storm strikes the ranch and starts a fire that traps Lassie in the woods.

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  E2The Doves of Santa Inez

  Sep 23, 1972

  Garth's brother Keith is met with resentment when he takes over running the ranch, but he proves his mettle when a storm strikes the ranch and starts a fire that traps Lassie in the woods.

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  E3For Those Who Follow

  Sep 30, 1972

  Karl Burkholz and the ""scout"" for a migrating flock of doves become friends when Karl nurses the injured bird.

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  E4Scarecrow

  Oct 14, 1972

  Lassie pursues a colt that escapes from the Baker ranch. (Elaine Baker seems to have problems keeping her livestock in check! Later in the season she loses a calf.

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  E5A Girl and a Boy (1)

  Oct 21, 1972

  A crow that snatches Mike's wallet leaves the boy angry and determined to find the animal.

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  E6A Girl and a Boy (2)

  Oct 28, 1972

  A small deaf boy is found wandering the grounds of the ranch and Lucy, communicating with him in sign language, discovers he feels no one wants him.

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  E7Deadly Surf

  Nov 4, 1972

  Deprived of the dog the Holdens have given him, the boy flees.

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  E8Golden Eagle

  Nov 11, 1972

  Deprived of the dog the Holdens have given him, the boy flees.

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  E9A Taste of Freedom

  Nov 18, 1972

  Lassie must rescue three kittens from the incoming tide.

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  E10Run to Nowhere (1)

  Nov 25, 1972

  Lassie befriends a racehorse so nervous that he can't complete a race.

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  E11Run to Nowhere (2)

  Dec 2, 1972

  A runaway inner-city orphan is taken in at the ranch, but is distrustful of everyone.

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  E12Vigil of the Stork

  Dec 9, 1972

  Joey runs away when he finds out he has to leave the ranch.

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  E13Dream Builder

  Dec 16, 1972

  The Holdens are afraid Karl will not survive after a heart attack robs his will to live.

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  E14Tell It to the Birds

  Jan 6, 1973

  While out in her own, Lassie's foot is severely damaged when caught in an illegal trap. She comes under the care of a reclusive Native American healer while Dale and Keith mount a search for their beloved animal friend.

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  E15The Visitor

  Jan 13, 1973

  Lassie alerts Willy to a dog floating down the stream and together they rescue the stray. At first the dog is fearful of country life but Lassie teaches the little animal which becomes important when a tree traps the collie.

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  E16Challenge of the Mountain (1)

  Jan 24, 1973
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  E17Challenge of the Mountain (2)

  Feb 3, 1973

  Dale, riding Midnight and accompanied by Lassie, is injured when he falls from the horse.

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  E18Legend of the Coyote

  Feb 10, 1973

  Midnight and Lassie must go for help when Dale cannot move.

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  E19Horsenappers

  Feb 17, 1973

  Lassie's determined to retrieve the puppy stolen from the Holden barn by a coyote.

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  E20A Joyous Sound (1)

  Feb 24, 1973

  Keith accompanies Lucy and Elaine into the city for tests with Lassie going along. Lucy turns out to be a candidate for surgery to restore her hearing but during the operation Lassie wanders off.

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  E21A Joyous Sound (2)

  Mar 3, 1973

  Lassie, after accompanying Keith to the big city for Lucy's hearing operation, gets lost. Keith looks for her as Lassie wanders the city, taking in a kid's baseball game, the ocean but then enters an army firing range.

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  E22A Joyous Sound (3)

  Mar 10, 1973

  Lassie continues her journey home, getting a fish hook in her paw before being helped by Jim and his surfer friend. Accepting a ride north with his two new pals he nears the Holden Ranch. Lucy finds out if her hearing operation was a success.

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  E23Johnny Piper

  Mar 17, 1973

  Lassie, after a narrow escape on a firing range, befriends two young men who have been camping at the beach in their van. While they tend the injured collie, Lucy, now returned home, prays for two miracles: that her hearing -- and Lassie -- will return.

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  E24The DawningFinale

  Mar 24, 1973

  Lucy trades lessons in ""home"" to an attractive young drifter who gives her guitar lessons in return.

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  E1Fury Falls

  Oct 7, 1971

  A hawk Lassie rescues from entanglement in kite string returns the favor when the coyote pup Lassie has befriended is threatened by a snake. But it's Lassie herself who then must be rescued by Ron Holden and Dale Mitchell, two young men on a hiking trip, after she must save the hapless pup from nearby rapids.

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  E2Search for Yesterday

  Oct 14, 1971

  Now accompanied by Lassie, Ron and Dale have the gold they have been placer mining assayed--and just for the heck of it, buy an old treasure map and go in search of a gold mine. Once they find the place, however, their search is endangered by fire heading for some old dynamite left in a shed.

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  E3Trouble Tracks

  Oct 21, 1971

  Lassie befriends a trouble-prone mutt who is mascot of an old railroad spur line.

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  E4Wings of the Ghost

  Oct 21, 1971

  The boys and Lassie sleep in an old barn that appears to be haunted.

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  E5Homecoming

  Nov 4, 1971

  Ron and Dale return to the Holden Ranch, where Lassie is welcomed by Garth Holden and his foster sons, boys who have been orphaned or abandoned by their families.

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  E6Orphan of the Wild

  Nov 11, 1971

  Mike, the new boy, begins works at the local animal clinic and developes a crush on the veterinarian,he's also feeling shy until he helps nurse an injured owl back to health.

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  E7Day of Disaster

  Nov 18, 1971

  While in town picking up a gift for Garth, Ron is knocked unconscious when an earthquake strikes, and when he comes to, Lassie has escaped from the truck. As he and the dog search for each other, Lassie helps fellow animals dislocated by the quake, and Ron enlists his father in the search.

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  E8The Schemer

  Nov 25, 1971

  Ron and Lassie return home from a trip to find Mike has adopted a raccoon from the wild animal park--and ""Rags"" is immediately jealous of Lassie. Soon dog and raccoon are embroiled in a feud, endangering both of them on a house construction site.

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  E9The Flying Grandpa

  Dec 2, 1971

  Mike befriends Henry Newton, who flies a Curtis Pusher at airshows under the name ""The Flying Grandpa,"" when his aircraft breaks down in the Holden pasture. His long involved tall tales of bravery during air feats impress the boy, but bother Garth, who thinks Newton's lies might backfire. And when a bear charges Newton and Mike, the elderly man finds out they do.

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  E10Mustang (1)

  Dec 9, 1971

  Garth and Dale survey rangeland for the Forest Service and see a young white stallion challenging the older black leader of a horse herd; Garth predicts the white horse will soon succeed. When he does, driving the injured black stallion away from water, Lassie tries to lead him to safety before he collapses.

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  E11Mustang (2)

  Dec 16, 1971

  As Lassie gently leads the stallion back to the Holden Ranch, Garth and Dale leave food and drink for the animal, hoping he will choose himself to live at the ranch.

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  E12Roundup

  Jan 13, 1972

  Ron and Dale, home from college, go out on the annual stray roundup and make a bet on which of them will find the most cattle. But it's Lassie who gets the jump on them, helps a calf stuck in quicksand, and then must help Ron when he's thrown from his horse.

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  E13Dream Seeker

  Jan 20, 1972

  Ron and Dale, spending two days camping at Pine Lake before returning to college, pick up a boy that Dale can tell is ""on the run."" Sure enough, once he leaves them he builds a campsite in the woods. When the boys find his camp in the woods, he steals one of the motorcycles they've rented.

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  E14Peace is Our Profession (1)

  Jan 28, 1972

  Garth takes Lassie with him on his visit to Vandenberg Air Force Base, where they meet Jimmy Fredericks, a boy with a weakened leg who has given up believing he will ever walk normally.

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  E15Peace is Our Profession (2)

  Feb 4, 1972

  Lassie protects a snow goose who has chosen to lay her eggs on the flightline.

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  E16Peace is Our Profession (3)

  Feb 11, 1972

  Lassie befriends a diabetic poodle named Sparky who stows away on the Looking Glass, where there's no insulin, to be with his owner.

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  E17Peace is Our Profession (4)

  Feb 18, 1972

  Jimmy finds out that his father's flight may crash and must re-examine his faith.

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  E18Paths of Courage (1)

  Feb 25, 1972

  Hoping to help his self-esteem, Garth takes Jimmy back to the ranch with him. There the uncertain boy meets Lucy Baker, a girl who's been deaf most of her life, and her pet wolf Mountie. But while Jimmy and Lucy get to know each other, Mountie, playing with Lassie, is shot by a shepherd who doesn't know he's a pet.

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  E19Paths of Courage (2)

  Mar 3, 1972

  After Lucy and Jimmy find Mountie in the cave where Lassie has hidden him, Lucy sends Jimmy for help on her horse. He is frightened to do so, but does so for her sake, and despite being thrown, finds Domenic, the shepherd who shot Mounty. Meanwhile, Lassie returns to the ranch.

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  E20Circle of LifeFinale

  Mar 10, 1972

  When Mountie weakens and then dies, even normally optimistic Lucy cannot understand and sinks into depression, so Sue asks her to help out at the wild animal park to take her mind off her loss. Eventually Lucy begins taking an interest in the animals, including a llama about to give birth.

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  E1Lassie's Interlude

  Sep 20, 1970

  Lassie, on her own now (no explanation is given), meets a young man traveling the countryside and his male collie, Duke. They later find haven, and the young man a job, at a ranch where the owner's young son has not spoken for years.

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  E2The Birth

  Sep 27, 1970

  While Duke and his master move on, Lassie remains at the ranch, but her new puppies are endangered by the owner, who thinks the pups were sired by a killer dog.

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  E3The Survival

  Oct 4, 1970

  Lassie and her three puppies escape from the ranch and head for the desert, where Kerry discovers them and helps them survive.

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  E4The Miracle

  Oct 11, 1970

  Mute Kerry continues to help Lassie and her puppies elude his father and the sheriff, who's determined to kill the pups, and by the time the rancher learns Duke was the father of the puppies, it's almost too late.After everything is revealed, Kerry's father let's him adopt one of Lassie's puppies.

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  E5The Innocents

  Oct 11, 1970

  In this all-animal episode, Lassie teaches her two remaining puppies to survive in the wild, not an easy task in an area full of snakes and predators.

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  E6The Offering

  Oct 25, 1970

  Lassie and her puppies meet a boy who is grief-stricken by the recent death of his dog.So Lassie leaves one of her two remaining puppies with the little boy.

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  E7Nature's Child

  Nov 1, 1970

  While wandering the forest, Lassie and her remaining puppy meet a little girl who can ""talk to animals.""

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  E8Flock of Love

  Nov 8, 1970

  Lassie befriends an elderly man whose claim that the flock of birds he feeds love him is scoffed by his cynical checkers opponent. But the faithful birds will surprise them.

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  E9Aftermath

  Nov 15, 1970

  After a forest fire, Lassie helps the wild animals displaced by the flames find new homes.

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  E10Here Comes Glory! (1)

  Nov 22, 1970

  Lassie, poisoned by pesticides, is found by an up-and-coming race horse, Glory, and her young owner. Once well again, she befriends a newborn colt on their California thoroughbred farm--then Glory is threatened by a marauding cougar.

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  E11Here Comes Glory! (2)

  Nov 29, 1970

  Even Hank can't believe all his surgical skills can heal Glory's injured leg, but Monty takes a chance and has her operated on nevertheless after a pep talk from partner Bert. Then it is up to Gary and Lassie to make her well, with exercise and swim therapy.

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  E12A Year of Sundays

  Dec 6, 1970

  Lassie and a workaholic trucker rescue a young man traveling across America trying to live ""a year of Sundays"" after getting out of the Army. The trucker scoffs at Mark's idea--until the brakes fail on a steep downhill run.

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  E13Any Heart in a Storm

  Dec 13, 1970

  Lassie takes refuge during a rainstorm in the garage of a good-hearted, lonely widow whose children have gone to college, but the woman is reluctant to let the muddy collie into her tidy house. Then the loose earth behind her house, weakened by water, begins to slide.

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  E14Gentle Dawn

  Jan 10, 1971

  Lassie and an injured mother linnet, who was stunned by a car while foraging for food on a road, bring together a lonely man and woman; in caring for the injured creature, they also learn to open themselves to each other.

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  E15Lassie's Busy Day

  Jan 17, 1971

  The ring-tailed cat Lassie saves from a bobcat becomes the hunter after he goes after a grouse's nest along with a grey fox; next, a horned owl's nest is threatened by an opossum. After Lassie deals with the possum, she enlists the grey fox's help to rescue a burrowing owl from a ferret. Then the bobcat returns to stalk the horned owl's nest

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  E16The River

  Jan 24, 1971

  Lassie makes her way upstream after helping rescue two campers who left their father to try out a new raft and were swept downstream on the rapids. Once she finds help, however, she must find the boys, who are also heading upstream.

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  E17Other Pastures, Other Fences

  Jan 31, 1971

  A boy restless with his rural life and chafing under the ""no trespassing"" signs of their territorial neighbor wishes to strike out to ""follow his star""--stealing the neighbor's mare to do so.

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  E18The Awakening

  Feb 7, 1971

  Teenage Patty, reluctantly having left the city for a summer in the country with her aunt, has an inauspicious beginning: she's poisoned by arsenic in the well. Her aunt finds the source of the problem in an old mine, but is then trapped when the floor collapses, so Lassie must find Patty, who's just about to leave.

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  E19Troubled Waters

  Feb 21, 1971

  Lassie and her new pal, a mutt named Skipper, are getting along just fine with Reed and Johnny, a couple of guys they befriended on the beach, until John discovers Reed is ""the law,"" a harbormaster, and walks out. But he finds he needs ""the law"" later on when he ""borrows"" a for-sale cabin cruiser and takes Lassie and Skipper along for the ride.

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  E20For the Love of Lassie (1)

  Feb 28, 1971

  Lassie returns to visit the farm where she left one of her puppies--and once upon her way again, falls down a hidden well.

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  E21For the Love of Lassie (2)

  Mar 7, 1971

  As Lassie remains trapped in the well the people she met and helped the previous months converge. In between frequent flashbacks everyone works diligently, including a honeymooning couple, to rescue the beloved dog.

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  E22SneakersFinale

  Mar 21, 1971

  People who have been helped by Lassie (including the couple from ""Gentle Dawn,"" who are now married) help rescue her from the well.

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The first season of the television series Lassie premiered in the United States on CBS on September 12, 1954 and ran for 26 episodes until its conclusion on March 6, 1955. Produced by Robert Maxwell, the episodes follows the adventures of a female rough collie named Lassie and her young owner Jeffrey Miller. In 1958, the first through third seasons began syndication under the title "Jeff's Collie." Though the first season of Lassie has never been released completely to home video, some episodes from the first season have been released to DVD. On November 25, 2003, Classic Media released a three episode set, "Lassie: Best of Jeff's Collie," which included the series first episode, "Inheritance". A second set, "Lassie: 50th Anniversary Collection", was released on September 14, 2004 and contained 24 episodes from across the entire series. The set includes three episodes from the first season: "Inheritance", "The Lion", and "Lassie's Pups".

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