Lassie

Lassie

The ongoing saga of the Martin family and their beloved collie, Lassie.

Genre: AdventureDramaFamily

Cast:LassieJon ProvostJune LockhartHugh ReillyLassie the DogRobert BrayJan ClaytonTommy RettigGeorge ClevelandJoey D. VieiraGeorge ChandlerArthur SpaceAndy ClydeJon ShepoddCloris LeachmanJed AllanTodd FerrellRobert Foulk


1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Bee Hive

Sun, Sep 9, 1956

A raccoon attacks Jeff and Porky's beehive.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Friendship

Sun, Sep 16, 1956

Lassie comes to the rescue of a cantankerous neighbor who falls seriously ill.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Quarantine

Sun, Sep 23, 1956

Porky's dog Pokey is thought to have a contagious disease and must be destroy.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Bone

Sun, Sep 30, 1956

Lassie's and Pokey's affinity for a fossil leg bone that Lassie uncovered while the boys were digging for diamonds creates difficulty for the university archaeological team putting together a complete skeleton.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Watch

Sun, Oct 7, 1956

When Ellen gives Jeff a cheap watch to earn his late father's watch by being more punctual, Jeff's autocratic insistence that he and everybody follow a strict schedule grows wearisome for all.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Hoax

Sun, Oct 14, 1956

Jeff's tests to prove to Porky that Lassie is smarter than a Saint Bernard deters Jeff from a favor for Ellen and distracts Gramps from his farm work

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Fish Story

Sun, Oct 21, 1956

During a trout derby for which the prize is a rod and reel, Lassie helps Jeff land a big fish which help calls for an unforeseen interpretation of the rules by Doc Weaver.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Transfusion

Sun, Oct 28, 1956

When Pokey falls from an unstable bridge, Doc Weaver must operate to repair a broken rib and internal bleeding with Lassie acting as a blood donor.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Local Elections

Sun, Nov 4, 1956

When dog hater Perkins conducts a last minute write-in campaign for Teal's office, Jeff and Porky conduct an impromptu campaign for Teal and make a hurried trip to get Gramps, Weaver and Teal from a fishing trip so that they might vote.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Gossip

Sun, Nov 11, 1956

Jim Teal's nephew Pete who has come to live Teal after finishing college at Chatsburg jokes with Jeff that he has just been let out and, because there is a prison in that town, a dreadful rumor spreads that Pete Teal is a convict.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Fish Conservation

Sun, Nov 18, 1956

Restaurant owners illegally and recklessly over fish the Miller's pond which has been stocked by the state because it is one of few with a quantity of water during a drought period.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ The Challenge

Sun, Nov 25, 1956

Woody's dares putting Jeff in danger causes Ellen to get from Jeff a promise not to take dares which causes Jeff ridicule and diminished self esteem that forces Jeff into a near disaster causing Jeff to realize the foolishness of dares.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ The Tractor

Sun, Dec 2, 1956

Gramps is both too habituated to his old ways and too fearful to use the new tractor he has won in a raffle until he must use it to rescue Jeff when the pickup with a load of timber is about to go over a cliff.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Goats

Sun, Dec 9, 1956

Jeff, after he agrees to watch Jim Teal's pesky goat herd pending a goat fence to earn money to buy a motor for his bike, develops an ingenious rope and stake method to avoid overnight duty but then buys presents for all at Teal's chiding.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ A Place for Everything

Sun, Dec 16, 1956

Ellen teaches Lassie to have Jeff who has grown careless put away his belongings but Lassie carries the training too far putting away Ellen's cleaning supplies and Gramp's tools while still in use.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Party Line

Sun, Dec 23, 1956

People of Calverton are upset with Jenny for not relaying or relaying wrong messages until Jeff finds it is her birthday and only her far away brother remembered and makes others aware of the situation so they may remember Jenny.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Superstition

Sun, Dec 30, 1956

Jeff is influenced by Porky's excessive belief in superstition to heed them after a number of events occur until he is corrected by a couple events that should have been bad luck are the opposite.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Goodbye Forever

Sun, Jan 6, 1957

While trying to persuade Porky to go home, Jeff resists pressure to tell the whereabouts of Porky who has left home after an unwarranted licking because Jeff has made a promise not to tell.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Lassie's Vanity

Sun, Jan 13, 1957

After Lassie is professionally groomed for a family photo that Ellen won through a radio program, Lassie resists messy tasks and the surrender of her adornments.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Champion

Sun, Jan 20, 1957

When each of the boys boasts that the shooting ability of his father will win the turkey shoot, Jeff says Gramps, once a crack shot, will enter and win but Gramps has aged since he put the gun away ten years ago and comes a little short.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Vigil

Sun, Jan 27, 1957

Jimmy Travis whose father is continually relocated gets his first dog but must shortly leave it behind so he has Jeff promise to care for the dog but the dog mourns and shuns food while waiting for Jimmy's return at the train station.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ The Chimp

Sun, Feb 3, 1957

Jeff and Porky order two hamsters but receive by a mistake due to its misbehavior a chimpanzee from the same shipment which chimp must be kept over the weekend until it can be retrieved and it saves Gramps from a fall from the barn roof.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ Lassie's Day

Sun, Feb 10, 1957

While the gang is at a wedding, Lassie runs after a bakery truck to a delivery, is taken on a hitchhike by transient worker at a delivery, given by the worker to a little girl from whom she flees and helped by campers before coming home.

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ The Rock

Sun, Feb 17, 1957

Jeff and Porky fight because Jeff is more interested in the geode Lassie has found than finding Porky's lost new baseball and Jeff thinks Porky has said he is not interested in the geode that was to be entered in a class exhibit together.

25Season 3

S3.E25 ∙ The Artist

Sun, Feb 24, 1957

A reclusive woman with a mongrel dog who rents an area home for the summer takes a dislike to the boys and Lassie so the boys make a trade of gifts between the woman and Gramps unknown to them attempting to change the woman's attitude.

26Season 3

S3.E26 ∙ Survival

Sun, Mar 3, 1957

Jeff and Porky while on a camping trip to practice survival skills are endangered by a forest fire started by a hunter who has carelessly managed a campfire.

27Season 3

S3.E27 ∙ Bird Watchers

Sun, Mar 10, 1957

On a bird watching assignment, Jeff an Porky witness a sitting Mallard duck killed by a ferret and, unable to find a brooding hen, have Lassie sit on the eggs until they hatch which causes the ducklings to adopt Lassie as their mother.

28Season 3

S3.E28 ∙ The Dog House

Sun, Mar 17, 1957

Gramps insists that Lassie stay outside in a dog house to catch a fox that is raiding the hen house but Lassie does not feel welcome back inside after she kills the fox.

29Season 3

S3.E29 ∙ The Search

Sun, Mar 24, 1957

While having a bad day, Gramps leaves the farm thinking Lassie is more valued than he but later needs Lassie's help when pinned against his pickup by a tree that falls during a storm.

30Season 3

S3.E30 ∙ Boy's Day

Sun, Mar 31, 1957

Ellen's and Gramps' talk diminishes Jeff's passion that Jeff and Porky will be Calverton constable and deputy constable on boys' day so Gramps arranges a fake bank robbery with his friends.

31Season 3

S3.E31 ∙ The Snob

Sun, Apr 7, 1957

Jeff is embarrassed by his humble circumstances when the son of a wealthy banker and family take residence nearby while the rich boy is envious of Jeff's country lifestyle.

32Season 3

S3.E32 ∙ Haunted House

Sun, Apr 14, 1957

When Jeff accepts a dare to enter a rumored haunted house, Jeff and Porky become trapped in a cellar by the actions of a secret society initiation, the members of which the boys believe to be ghost because of their colonial dress.

33Season 3

S3.E33 ∙ The Nest

Sun, Apr 21, 1957

Jeff and Porky vow to protect a pair of band-tailed pigeons rare to the area that have nested in the farm mower but Gramps might have to disrupt the pair to cut the alfalfa in advance of a fast approaching hail storm.

34Season 3

S3.E34 ∙ Father Ellen

Sun, Apr 28, 1957

When fatherless Jeff shuns the 4H meetings because each father is in turn teaching a task, Ellen attempts to engage with Jeff in physical fatherly activities thinking Jeff is lonely but this behavior causes Jeff to think the same of Ellen.

35Season 3

S3.E35 ∙ Poverty

Sun, May 5, 1957

When a peddler relates to Jeff and Porky a lie told to him by Gramps about going broke, Jeff starts taking drastic action such giving Lassie to Porky to feed, selling his things and readying to leave school to get a job.

36Season 3

S3.E36 ∙ The Apple Tree

Sun, May 12, 1957

Lassie finds a wild Gravenstein apple tree that Jeff and Gramps can use to graft the trees in the orchard after rabbits have girdled them so the orchard and farm can be saved.

37Season 3

S3.E37 ∙ The Harvesters

Sun, May 19, 1957

While Jeff helps the boy with his education and Gramps tries to arrange a lease for the father, belligerent Jud Perkins wants the 'foreigner' squatters on an area farm removed by any means necessary.

38Season 3

S3.E38 ∙ Jeff's Moustache

Sun, May 26, 1957

Jeff's belief that he is growing facial hair, not obvious to anyone else, causes him to aspire to manhood but he both finds it difficult to forgo some of the pleasures of childhood and to accept adult duties per Gramps accounting.