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 8

S8.E1 ∙ Lassie and the Grand Canyon

Sun, Sep 10, 1961

During an awesome vacation at the Grand Canyon, Timmy's mule train descent down the canyon is disrupted by Lassie and later Timmy is helped by a befriended blind man and Lassie when Timmy is stuck on a path off the rim.

2Season 8

S8.E2 ∙ The Bloodhound

Sun, Sep 17, 1961

Cully inherits a famed tracking bloodhound whose senses Timmy discovers are failing but is loathe to disillusion Cully even when the dog is called to track a hobo thought to steal Ruth's full wallet which has really been pilfered by a crow.

3Season 8

S8.E3 ∙ The Mysterious Intruder

Sun, Sep 24, 1961

Lassie is blamed for attacks on animals on area farms when a collie gone berserk due to a brain injury finds its way into the vicinity.

4Season 8

S8.E4 ∙ The Badger Game

Sun, Oct 1, 1961

Timmy want to enter an different type of animal in the pet contest so he decide to capture a badger which lead to trouble for Timmy.

5Season 8

S8.E5 ∙ The Outlaw

Sun, Oct 8, 1961

After a police dog and policeman befriended by Timmy and Lassie are shot by a bank robber, the dog on the loose becomes aggressive to the point of attack and might be killed by authorities except the dog is gentled by Timmy and Lassie.

6Season 8

S8.E6 ∙ The Winner

Sun, Oct 15, 1961

Lassie is unable to follow the rules during a coon competition and, being thought mean, is barred from a swim competition which decision is reversed but Lassie loses because she saves the life of an struggling old dog.

7Season 8

S8.E7 ∙ Heat Wave

Sun, Oct 22, 1961

During a dry spell, local farmers set traps to catch animals down from the woods to feed on farm crops which traps Cully springs as dangerous thus the farmers want Cully declared incompetent so Timmy wants Cully to reset the traps.

8Season 8

S8.E8 ∙ The Deer

Sun, Oct 29, 1961

Timmy begins to feed a doe that has fled a fire in the woods just prior to hunting season and tries to capture the deer against the orders of Paul and Ruth but puts the deer in further danger.

9Season 8

S8.E9 ∙ Lassie Adopts the Fire Chief

Sun, Nov 5, 1961

When the fire chief's Dalmatian is killed at a fire, Timmy loans Lassie to the chief for during the day but Lassie becomes enthralled with the fire engine and fire chasing to the extent she ignores Timmy.

10Season 8

S8.E10 ∙ The Pied Piper

Sun, Nov 12, 1961

When Timmy undertakes breeding white rats to sell to a university veterinary researcher to raise money, the rats begin to destroy the farm crops.

11Season 8

S8.E11 ∙ Joey

Sun, Nov 19, 1961

Timmy fails to obtain a service dog for a blind boy (Joey) so the boy will make friends and then offers Lassie to the boy but the Martins and the boy's mother introduce Joey to a camp for blind children.

12Season 8

S8.E12 ∙ Lassie's Wild Baby

Sun, Nov 26, 1961

Lassie eschews a kitten given to her by a neighbor to compensate for not having puppies taking instead a mountain lion cub for which the mother comes looking.

13Season 8

S8.E13 ∙ The Dognappers

Sun, Dec 3, 1961

A pair of men steal dogs for ransom until they lock up Lassie after stealing Lassie with their vehicle at which time Lassie frees the stolen dogs and alerts the law.

14Season 8

S8.E14 ∙ The Dove

Sun, Dec 17, 1961

An illegally entered Mexican boy found injured by Timmy places the Martins in legal jeopardy as both Timmy and the Mexican boy struggle with doing the right thing.

15Season 8

S8.E15 ∙ Yochim's Christmas

Sun, Dec 24, 1961

When Pearlie Mae Yochim and her son Billy Joe, grieving over the loss of his dog and his father, visit the Martins on Christmas Eve,the boys rescue a man from under a sleigh and then find gifts in the Martin's yard including a puppy.

16Season 8

S8.E16 ∙ The Parrot

Sun, Dec 31, 1961

Cully foists a mischievous escaped parrot on Ruth as an ostensible birthday gift and will not take it back until Cully learns that there is a reward involved.

17Season 8

S8.E17 ∙ Lassie's Protege

Sun, Jan 7, 1962

Lassie grieves mightily when a raccoon she has befriended as a companion while Timmy returns to school after summer is killed by a careless speeding teen driver.

18Season 8

S8.E18 ∙ The Black Sheep

Sun, Jan 14, 1962

Timmy raises for a 4H competition a sheep that he is given by a truck driver for helping the driver retrieve a flock and then has trouble persuading a sheepherder that the sheep is his when it mixes with the man's flock.

19Season 8

S8.E19 ∙ The Partnership

Sun, Jan 21, 1962

A colt Timmy finds after a forest fire and wants to keep must be auctioned by the county and, when it appears Timmy will lose the bid, Washburne puts up money on the condition Timmy will house but then the mare comes looking for the colt.

20Season 8

S8.E20 ∙ The Hike

Sun, Jan 28, 1962

Disobedient Timmy hikes in the woods alone because his hiking partner is sick and is knocked unconscious after slipping down an embankment as a forest fire starts.

21Season 8

S8.E21 ∙ Bird of Prey

Sun, Feb 4, 1962

Timmy and Paul's nephew Richard find a trapped falcon which Richard, a cadet and falconer, instructs Timmy to train and, when it is learned that Timmy is too young to keep a falcon, the falcon is donated to the Air Force Academy.

22Season 8

S8.E22 ∙ Casey

Sun, Feb 11, 1962

After Mr. Grisby, a railroad worker and friend of Timmy, is injured, Timmy offers to take care of Mr.Grisby's pet chimpanzee Casey while he recuperates.

23Season 8

S8.E23 ∙ The Odyssey: Part 1

Sun, Feb 18, 1962

Lassie is locked into transport trailer while Paul is selling the farm crop at market in Capitol City and, when the truckers open the trailer over 600 miles away, panicked Lassie flees into nearby woods.

24Season 8

S8.E24 ∙ The Odyssey: Part 2

Sun, Feb 25, 1962

While Paul and Timmy search for Lassie, Lassie still lost continues her journey escaping several dangers and is taken in by an hunter who treats her wolf bites and feeds her from his larder.

25Season 8

S8.E25 ∙ The Odyssey: Part 3

Sun, Mar 4, 1962

Timmy grows increasingly despondent at Lassie's absence so that he is unable to accept Cully's puppy while Lassie instinctively forges ahead toward home and arrives just as Timmy has lost all hope.

26Season 8

S8.E26 ∙ Double Trouble

Sun, Mar 11, 1962

When Cully and Timmy attend the Capital City Dog show, they are given free perks and accommodations because Lassie is mistaken for an expected to attend champion dog but the promoter is not peeved as Lassie has often saved embarrassment.

27Season 8

S8.E27 ∙ Eager Beaver

Sun, Mar 18, 1962

Paul attempts to solve the problem of a beaver dam blocking area irrigation by trapping the beavers for relocation but Lassie's fondness for beaver causes Lassie to spring the traps while Paul dissuades a neighbor from shooting the beavers.

28Season 8

S8.E28 ∙ Lassie and the Eagle

Sun, Mar 25, 1962

An eagle that Timmy and Lassie rescued from a coyote trap helps save Lassie's newborn pups from a coyote.

29Season 8

S8.E29 ∙ The Vindication of Relentless

Sun, Apr 1, 1962

When the assessor loses his entry book prior to arriving at Cully's, he threatens to alert the citizens that Cully's bloodhound has no sense of smell unless Cully finds the book which is found in a bear cave by Lassie or the bloodhound.

30Season 8

S8.E30 ∙ The Unwanted

Sun, Apr 8, 1962

Timmy obtains an unwanted German Shepherd to give to Miss Hazlit's uncle, a disabled in the line of duty police dog trainer, and then finds that the dog's deafness prevents training but Doc Porter does a corrective operation gratis.

31Season 8

S8.E31 ∙ The Musher

Sun, Apr 15, 1962

Timmy trains a mixed breed of dogs for a junior sled race entered with some resistance from Paul and Ruth and then makes the mistake putting in the lead a hunting dog which goes off course when distracted by a rabbit.

32Season 8

S8.E32 ∙ Lassie's Good Deed

Sun, Apr 29, 1962

After a pensioner Timmy has befriended is hit by a car when getting his check in town, Lassie brings his little dog from the man's cabin deep in the woods to the hospital in an attempt to revive the pensioner from a coma.

33Season 8

S8.E33 ∙ Sanctuary

Sun, May 6, 1962

Timmy's and Cully's efforts to impress upon a forestry official the need to declare a certain section of forest a wildlife refuge in order to prevent the construction of the road backfire with sometimes hilarious outcomes.

34Season 8

S8.E34 ∙ Lassie and the Calf

Sun, May 13, 1962

Timmy and Lassie save a premature calf of a heifer Timmy is tending while the surly owner Mr. Tate is away and, when Tate wants to send the calf to slaughter, Timmy persuades an attorney to sue for possession of the calf.

35Season 8

S8.E35 ∙ Elephant Sitters

Sun, May 20, 1962

Cully's treasure hunting friend foist on him a small elephant which Cully is unable to contain and prevent from damaging the Martin farm and other property in the vicinity.

36Season 8

S8.E36 ∙ Lassie and the Tiger

Sun, May 27, 1962

An animal trainer permits his tiger to swim in the fishing hole at which time it flees at Lassie' s bark and terrorizes the Martins while Sheriff Miller's posse is on the hunt and the trainer attempts to prevent the animal's destruction.