The ongoing saga of the Martin family and their beloved collie, Lassie.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Cast:Lassie , Jon Provost , June Lockhart , Hugh Reilly , Lassie the Dog , Robert Bray , Jan Clayton , Tommy Rettig , George Cleveland , Joey D. Vieira , George Chandler , Arthur Space , Andy Clyde , Jon Shepodd , Cloris Leachman , Jed Allan , Todd Ferrell , Robert Foulk
Young Jeff Miller inherits a neighbor's collie and, while Lassie has trouble adapting to the Miller home, she is mistreated by the deceased's misanthropic hired man Wills who hangs on to steal the deceased's hidden cash.
Jeff considers running away when he is forced to study arithmetic including a special test after copying from Porky which study could cause him to miss the circus with Gramps.
Lassie leaves the farm when Jeff ignores her while he is infatuated with new colt Gramps has given him and after Jeff chastises Lassie for startling the colt.
Ellen, at first mortified by Jeff's discovery of his deceased father's rifle, allows him to play with unloaded weapon but Jeff proves reckless with the weapon when Mr., King loads it to kill a fox on his farm.
Jeff is enthralled by the plethora of tall tales told by the new farmhand Mr. Peabody but Gramps is chafed at folksy Peabody's partial falsehoods and peculiar ways and what he perceives as these things influences on Jeff.
Jeff is met at the lake by an escaped convict who threatens harm to Gramps and Ellen if Jeff does bring him clothes and food while being silent about the man's location.
Jeff tells his parents about seeing an escaped circus lion in the woods, but no one believes him until the lion shows up at his home.
Jeff and Ellen wrongly believe that a Gramps has a bad heart and insist Gramps lie down for rest so Jeff trains Lassie to bark when ever Gramps assumes other than a prone position.
Lassie is in the barn and about to have puppies but looks ill at ease, and Jeff is worried. He wants to fetch a doctor but there is a windstorm which called Gramps away to repair lines. Without Gramps to help, Mom advises Jeff to pray. Later that night, the windstorm has died but Gramps is still gone, Jeff decides he just has to ride his bike 5 miles in the darkness to veterinarian Dr. Wilson but Mom won't let him. Jeff advocates for a world where kids can prevail with their perspective on doing the right thing. Nonetheless, he relents and is about to head for bed as told, but Mom changes her mind, lets him make the 5-mile trek in the dark. His bike blows a tire on the way, and he walks the rest of the way to Dr. Wilson's house, where Mrs. Wilson answers and says her husband is away on a call. She wants him to come in for cookies but Jeff just has to find help. As Jeff turns to leave, she tells him to stay on the main road and she will have her husband look for him on his return drive home. Dr. Wilson does see Jeff and they drive over to the Miller's barn and he gives Lassie a shot. Gramps drives up just as Dr. Wilson is heading out. The last scene has Gramps and Mom looking at a tired Lassie laying in the barn with her several pups, and a very tired Jeff asleep in the hay next to them.
Ellen takes a job as singer at radio station in Capitol City and finds a small apartment that does not allow dogs so Lassie stays on the farm with Gramps but Ellen takes Jeff who is made miserable by lack of activities and a mean neighbor.
After Jeff' shows dog show operators Lassie's skills at a carnival, the two men steal the dog when Jeff will not sell her so Jeff jumps their truck to prevent the theft.
When Gramps has back problems, Jeff thinks Gramps will die if he does not have an operation the family can not afford and begins a twenty mile hike to Creston to sell Lassie to Porky's cousin to get the operation money.
Gramps and Ellen think that Lassie has developed a bad habit of chasing vehicles but Jeff's discovery about the selectivity of what Lassie chases uncovers an illegal cattle slaughtering operation.
A man who, unknown to the Millers, has been a prizefighter who killed a man in the ring signs on to be a Miller farmhand and is perceived by formerly admiring Jeff as coward for not standing up against another farmhand bully.
Ellen cares for a divorced old friend' s troubled daughter whose repressed anger is manifest in the destruction of things dear to others even to the extent that the girl will put Lassie mortal danger so Lassie will lose a racing contest.
When Lassie is to be quarantined because she is mistakenly thought rabid, Jeff and Lassie hop a freight train and meet a hobo who takes them home after some trouble in a hobo camp.
Ellen must go to a forgotten church meeting so she leaves a little boy for whom she is babysitting with Jeff and Porky, the two of whom suffer from the mean deeds and tricks of the boy.
Jeff whose father is deceased is told by a bully that he does not belong at the church father and son banquet but,, after Jeff rejects Gramps company, Ellen injects her self into the event and gains the participants' admiration.
When hunters kill a doe, Jeff rescues her fawn which Lassie is blamed for harming until livestock is killed by a canine believed to be a wolf.
After a couple whose son was blinded in the war and had a collie named Lassie try to buy Lassie for their son's adjustment, Jeff agrees to let the couple borrow Lassie for two weeks but Lassie's return goes awry.
Since Ben Nielsen is a liar, he is not believed when he tells that Jeff is trapped in a cave by a rock he has angrily moved in front of the cave entrance but can not budge.
An unscrupulous water company executive trying to acquire by any means water rights from the Miller and other area farms is pushed into an old well by Lassie when he mistreats Jeff.
When Jeff is bitten by a rattlesnake, Gramps' truck axle breaks and he must try to carry Jeff to get a doctor and Lassie loses a note for help in a dog fight on the way to Porky's.
Jeff badgers Gramps to take him on a long promised camping trip despite Gramps' bad back and the two have good time with a fishing contest except when they are briefly accosted by an aggressive bear.
Lassie hides Laddie, the runt of her litter, to protect the pup from being given away by the Millers.
Jeff and Lassie tangle with a man who trains pit bull terriers to fight other dogs.
A mother cat is hit by a car so Lassie brings to the Miller farm the cat's new litter that Gramps wants to drown which is an action to which Jeff objects.
Jeff and Porky train Lassie and take her to an obedience trial encountering both mishap and achievement during the process.
When the new school teacher prohibit pets in the classroom one student sneaks in a snake.
Jeff schemes to get out of his violin lessons by having Lassie howl during his practice.
Jeff and Porky think they see a monster while fishing, and, while Gramps goes to the lake to see with the boys, Ellen sees it go into the house where, Gramps upon entering, finds a seal which the Millers keep for awhile.
Eccentric Sarah Dibbles, whom Jeff and Porky believe is a witch due to her stereotypical witch trappings, threatens a curse using the belief so the boys will discontinue spying on her.
Jeff's discovery of a wounded Mallard leads Jeff and Porky to the lake where they uncover market hunters violating game laws on posted land but when Jeff reports the infractions he is not believed because of the hunters' cover up.
Jeff and Gramps become jealous, after Clay asks Ellen to go out dancing with him.
When Porky finds his uncle's old mimeograph, Jeff and Porky decide to print a newspaper and, while looking for news stories, uncover a plot to swindle the town of Calverton.
A man who collapses by the Miller barn is found to be a clown on whom the circus owner has fled with the circus money so Jeff and Porky plan a circus at the church carnival but Jeff must prove first the man is not a thief.
The Millers, Lassie, and Jeff's friend Porky hunker down in the storm cellar, while a tornado wreaks havoc, above.
While Ellen prepares for Gramps' surprise birthday party, Jeff's and Porky's attempts to help ease his day continually go awry and irritate Gramps who does not remember it's his birthday.
A family of Gypsies decides to setup camp on the Miller's property.
When the Millers receive Matt Brockway's brother's used television for Matt, Gramps' old-fashioned attitudes emerge but he watches the set anyway with Lassie who reacting to a program breaks the set for which finding repair is difficult.
When Jeff and Porky find a stamp album they assumed they are valuable stamps and will become rich.
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.
After Pokey disrupts Gramps' and Matt Brockway's checker game, Brockway gives Porky an ultimatum to train Pokey or else Pokey will be given away and the training does not go well.
After Jeff bests another boy in a fight, the other youth decides to exact revenge by claiming that Lassie bit him while his attorney argues that the dog should be killed for being a vicious nuisance.
Jeff and Porky finds a injured hawk and nurses it back to health.
After building an elaborate treehouse, Jeff and Porky decide to spend the night inside, but have a falling out when Porky's dog won't stop howling.
The boy the Millers receive in a 4H youth exchange program is unexpectedly Japanese which stirs post WWII prejudices for some in the area to the extent the Miller farm is threatened.
During a storm Porky allows a raft the boys have built to drift into the lake so the boys must try to swim the lake during which Porky develops a cramp that endangers his life and requires rescue and help from Jeff and family.
Jeff' skips schools and hitches a ride to Capitol City to seek a specialist to operate on Lassie when it appears Lassie is going blind.
Jeff's practice at being a vet results in the Miller cow not giving milk which he and Porky try to correct with ever worsening outcomes while the adult Millers and Brockways are away at a school board meeting.
The Millers mistakenly take a show collie home from the county fair instead of Lassie and legal charges are exchanged between the couple watching the show collie for owners in Europe and the Millers.
Jeff agrees to babysit a little girl at a time he was to join Porky in receiving rides on a road machine and so has Gramps temporarily relieve him without making sure that Gramps and the little girl understand the change of plans.
Traumatized over a bad accident in which a friend's mother was hurt, Jeff overreacts by trying to keep everyone safe even to the extent of keeping Lassie constantly on a leash.
Jeff is more motivated by competition with a dismissive schoolmate than by charity when the Sunday School class starts a collection for flood victims within their state.
An impoverished and dispossessed man whose son is a friend of Jeff's illegally hunts deer which he sells in order to obtain an operation to fix the boy's leg.
An unscrupulous horse tamer steals a quarter horse that Jeff has been slowly training to ride after the tamer cannot trick the Millers into giving him the colt.
A dog killing livestock in the area surrounding the Miller farm is discovered to be a son of Lassie who has turned killer as a result of abuse by a hired man of the former owners.
Porky and Jeff win a calf in a 4H calf scramble to raise and enter at the county fair to sell in order to buy an outboard motor but have second thought after the sale when they learn the heifer is to be slaughtered.
Stubborn, traditionalistic Gramps falsely blames the poisoning of Laddie on Matt Brockway's crop duster on whom he has called a Grange meeting to prevent further dusting in the area.
Jeff must prove that a former military dog who has unexplainably attacked the man who Jeff arranged to have the dog is not vicious but responding to some stimulus from army canine training.
When Jeff and Gramps are finessed by Ellen into going to Gramp's cousin's daughter's wedding, they hatch multiple plots to avoid the haircuts that Ellen wants them to have for the wedding.
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.
Lassie comes to the rescue of a cantankerous neighbor who falls seriously ill.
Porky's dog Pokey is thought to have a contagious disease and must be destroy.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An orphan runaway named Timmy is befriended by the Miller family when he is found by Lassie hiding in their barn.
When Timmy tears his new suit; afraid of being sent away, he blames Lassie so Ellen makes him choose a punishment for Lassie in hopes that empathy for Lassie will spur him to honesty but Jeff is skeptical and resentful of the plan.
Jeff who is working for Dr. Weaver leaves Timmy in charge for a few minutes to assure the purchase of a discounted baseball glove and Timmy frees a biting dog under observation for rabies.
The Millers nurse back to health a burro that is left dying in the Millers' woods by the negligent owner of a itinerant burro enterprise.
While Ellen and Jeff go to a dinner, Timmy and Gramps go on a berry picking trip on which Timmy eats poison berries but fortunately Timmy has called the doctor because he thinks napping Gramps is ill.
Jeff and Timmy nurse a injured raccoon much to Gramps annoyance when the raccoon causes havoc on the Miller's farm.
Jeff becomes smitten with a young ballerina who visiting the Millers.
After a circus train wreck, Timmy and Lassie find a baby elephant in the woods and Jeff and Porky want to use the baby in the back yard circus that they are holding to make money for circus tickets but mama elephant comes for the baby.
Jeff's and Porky's selfish promotion of the Spartan way of extreme self reliance to Timmy so a fishing outing can continue causes Timmy to avoid telling Ellen he is ill and results in Timmy contracting pneumonia.
When Gramps, Jeff, Porky and Timmy go to the Capitol City Zoo to visit the chimp once delivered to the Miller farm, the chimp stows away in the Miller car and is hidden on the farm by Timmy who fears imprisonment for theft.
Thinking it is a dog, Timmy brings a wolf pup to the farm which draws the mother to the house and opens discussion about the pup's destruction which Timmy has trouble accepting.
Timmy has bad dreams after Lassie pulls his loose tooth by a string fastened to her collar but loses it hurrying to be with the family to watch a solar eclipse as Timmy is fearful of losing tooth fairy money and uneasy about the eclipse.
With Gramps death, Jeff and Ellen are faced with moving to Capitol City and Timmy with going with his aunt and uncle but the Martins agree to take over the farm and adopt Timmy.
Timmy has trouble accepting Ruth as his mother and Ruth compounds the problem by wanting Lassie kept out of house to the extent that Timmy attempts to send Lassie to Jeff and Ellen Miller.
Timmy borrows Mike's bike to practice which he hides in bushes when sees Paul's truck and, since the bike is stolen, Paul tells Timmy to give Mike the new bike he has bought for Timmy so Timmy might finally get to school on time.
After Roy cancels a planned day with Timmy because he forced to go to the birthday party of a girl cousin, Timmy and Lassie begrudgingly acquire a play date with the unlikely companions of a girl and her pet goose.
Mrs. Grimes is asked to babysit Timmy and Scott while the Martins go to Capitol City but Timmy scams Mrs. Grimes into not coming after which the boys make a huge mess which they must summon Mrs. Grimes to manage.
Returning from buying a calf with Timmy who is increasingly ailing from measles along, Paul runs out of gas so sends Lassie with a note for help but Lassie is attacked by a territorial dog and then shot by a fearful mechanic.
When the worms Lassie finds prove special at landing fish, Timmy and Scott decide to sell the worms and when a wealthy fisherman refuses the worms in favor of his tackle, the boys continue to raise the price at the man's frustration grows.
Timmy becomes disenchanted with Uncle Petrie when he realizes the tall tales he been told are not true. Uncle Petrie make a friendship ring for Timmy to get his forgiveness.
A prized racing greyhound which has escaped its kidnapper is hit by Paul's truck and Paul takes it home for veterinary care and to wait for the claim of the real owner
When Timmy's school is to administer polio inoculations to the schoolchildren, Timmy who is afraid feigns sickness, does not give Ruth the permission slip and hides after the slip is signed but changes his mind after a visit to Weaver.
Uncle Petrie contemplates leaving the farm when is tale telling is believed to have caused Timmy to lose sight of reality when Timmy reports seeing a large gypsy and small ponies in the woods which Timmy has actually seen.
To replace Uncle Petrie broken guitar Timmy enters a borrowed parrot in a contest to win the prize of a new guitar.
Timmy refuses to square dance for fear of dancing with a girl.
Timmy learns the trials and tribulations of agriculture when Paul give him a plotted area on which to grow vegetables.
Lassie is struck by a flying rock and loses her memory after Timmy takes Lassie to a blasting area much to Lassie protest.
During a large snowstorm the deer start foraging in fields of the farmers which lead to special hunting permits to be issued, that when Timmy try to find a way to discourage the deer without any killing.
When Timmy becomes seriously ill and delirious he cries out for Lassie but hospital rules prevent Lassie from visiting Timmy but Lassie is determined to get to Timmy.
When a penguin in a crate falls off a truck its finds it way to the Miller's farm where Timmy and Scotty find that a penguin is a lot more than they bargain for.
Timmy helps along an injured sparrow by building a bird house.
Timmy and Scott find an injured seeing eye dog for which Timmy and family along with Lassie must perform tasks to heal and return the dog to a blind man.
Timmy and Lassie enter a fire prevention program but Timmy becomes overly aggressive in finding fire hazards.
Ruth decides it time to replace Lassie old blanket with a new one but Lassie refuses to part with her well-worn blanket.
Lassie is annoyed and jealous when Timmy devotes too much time with his rabbits.
After Timmy becomes a Cub Scout, Paul is invited to bring Timmy and Scott to help with a Boy Scout outing while Scott's impertinent and taunting cousins Ralph and Bert spurn their invitation but come unaffiliated and start a fire.
Timmy latest pet a injured crow becomes a nuisance to the other family members.
Lassie befriends a litter of newborn puppies but does it secretly.
Timmy becomes annoyed with a house guest of Ruth when all she can talk about is all the finer things Ruth is missing by living on a farm.
When Timmy is told a story of a boy who talks to animals he decides to try it too, but he only befriends several kind people who come to Timmy aid when Lassie get into trouble.
After morning chores Timmy and his new friend Ralph, who wants to be called "Boomer" set out to teach Boomer's dog, Mike how to herd sheep. The problem is poor Mike doesn't seem to know his own name. The news that a cyclone may hit Timmy's family farm has Timmy worried. After Uncle Petry tells Timmy that a cyclone could send a whole barn spinning up in the air. Timmmy decides the barnyard animals would be safer in the house. As the storm is about to hit Timmy, Mom, Dad, and Uncle Petree take refuge in the storm cellar. But wait? Oh no! Where's Lassies? He's run off! Will Lassie survive the cyclone? Will Timmy get trapped in the well? Why doesn't Mike know his name?
Uncle Petrie takes Timmy and Lassie into town. Uncle Petrie treats Timmy to ten rides on a pony. Dressed out in his best "Roy Rogers" outfit, Timmy falls in love with a pony named "Star". Timmy needs guidance. He asks mom if he can pray to God for a new pony. Mom wisely tells Timmy that prayers aren't meant for the purpose of getting things. Not to be daunted, Timmy asks if he can wish really hard for the pony. The ever hopeful little Timmy sneaks in the idea that he's wishing for a pony to God after he thanking Him just the same for the soar throat He gave him last week; even though he didn't want one. Lassie always knows what Timmy wants and bounds off early in the morning to have a private conversation with "Star". Next thing you know, Star and Lassie are racing off to be with Timmy. But, wait! Who's that chasing after Star and Lassie in a truck! It's Star's owners, who are secretly bad guys getting ready to leave town after stealing money from the townspeople. What a surprise for Timmy when he wakes up that morning. Wishes do come true! Or do they? Some of the townspeople lay claim to Timmy's knew pony to cover the damages they suffered at the hands of the bad guys. It will take the wisdom of Solomon to decide the fate of little "Star" the pony. Will "Star" get to say with Timmy? Will the County Judge be able to channel King Solomon to solve this? Will "Star" get out of jail? Will Timmy get trapped in the well? Just what does Lassie say to Star that gets her to follow him home?
When the Calverton school board wants to replace beloved Miss Hazlit to keep a budget, Timmy and the children work to make five dollars to retain her because Timmy has mistaken Ruth's remark about five dollars a week as an absolute.
Timmy breaks two eggs he is delivering to Mrs. Woodruff dodging dirt clods thrown by Boomer, replaces them with two owl eggs and when trying to replace the owl eggs winds up with Ruth, Boomer and the Woodruffs fending off an angry owl.
That old scamp, Uncle Petrie has filled Timmy's head with the notion that you can find gold by just sniffing the air for it. So Timmy and Boomer set out to find gold in the hills at the other side of the lake. All mom needs to know is where the boys are headed and to make sure they have food by packing them a lunch. She sends them off with a wave and admonishment to be home before dark. The boys do find something, but not gold. They find a crashed small airplane with an injured pilot still on board. The boys use their brains and give credit to their combined ages to save the day. Which is really hard considering the pilot is huge, has a broken leg and manages to set a brush fire by accidentally shooting a flare gun down instead of up. Will the boys be able to get the pilot of out the plane? Will they be able to set his leg? Will they be able to put out the fire in time? Will someone please get Lassie out of the pit? Will Timmy get trapped in the well? Will the boys ever find gold?
Joe Bascom wins at a charity auction a rocking chair that Paul has glued from pieces found in the barn loft to donate which Lassie is attached enough to remove from Bascom's property to use but angry Bascom blames Timmy.
Timmy needs an experience to relate at school so decides to use Lassie's attachment to a trout she caught but a greater experience occurs when Lassie guarding the trout against a fisher prevents injury from a failed barn timber repair.
Timmy and Boomer fall through the floor into the cellar of a decrepit old house that is about to be bulldozed.
It becomes difficult to confine to her quarters a year old sow about to have a first litter that Paul has acquired from Herb Simmons.
The son of a widow new to the property adjoining the Martins is afraid of dogs until Lassie rescues him from drowning during a fishing outing and he then wants his own dog but not until he learns he can not have Lassie by a loyalty test.
In an attempt to earn a Junior Audubon Club scroll, Timmy sights a rare to the area American Egret as part of his identification quota, a claim disbelieved by the group leader so that Timmy must ultimately identify different bird.
Lassie finds a bear shot with an arrow in the woods and left to die which the Martins nurse to health while they brainstorm ways to apprehend the renegade archers who practice this purposeless kind of thrill hunting.
Timmy's friends have difficulty accepting the Martin's visiting English schoolboy and Timmy's attention to the boy.
Uncle Petrie investigates sugar maples in the nearby "black woods" and discovers two men who have kidnapped a bank president. Luckily he has taught Timmy smoke signals and when he makes a fire for the criminals, manages to send out a signal Timmy can read.
Tongues wag in the neighborhood after Lassie picks Ruth's ticket as a winner in a raffle for a piano -- but the real loser is Timmy, who's forced to take lessons.
While the Martin's are Christmas shopping, Lassie saves a child from getting hit by a truck and is struck herself. Dr. Weaver is uncertain if he can do the operation to save her and the specialist who can is unreachable.
When an aphid infestation threatens the area, Timmy and Boomer decide to find ladybugs for control to sell using Lassie to track using ladybugs found in Lassie's coat as a clue.
Inspired by the pending war games scheduled for a nearby fort, Timmy, Boomer and friends play soldier and wander into a dangerous part of the maneuver area.
When Ruth has a flat tire, she chases her runaway spare tire into woods where she becomes caught in a holding trap placed by the state to capture a cougar forced into the area by a fire.
For a club project, Timmy and Boomer adopt a century old apple tree that is to be removed for the construction of a highway but the tree is saved for transplant in the Martin orchard when Timmy writes the President.
When Lassie continues to come home greasy, a pool of oil is discovered in the flax field which causes the Martins to dream of riches until Paul discovers a broken refinery pipeline.
An itinerant handyman fakes accident and injury and surreptitiously creates disrepair on the Martin farm to gain food and lodging which actions fool everyone except Timmy and Boomer.
When Lassie is found to be possibly descended from a very successful line of show dogs, Timmy is instructed on a regime to prepare Lassie for shows but the regime strains his friendship with Boomer.
Timmy is greeted with critical amusement when he enters the farm donkey in the county fair's horse grooming and obedience competition.
Despite warnings by Lassie and Timmy, the rest of the Martin's believe a devious cat that feigns injury and fakes pest control behavior while creating mischief is a special animal.
Paul Martin buys Ruth a new bonnet as a surprise and hide it in the barn but Timmy and Lassie ruin it while playing in the barn.
Timmy and Boomer are disappointed when they find out that Lassie puppies are to be sold, meanwhile Lassie hide her pups in the woods to delayed the sale.
Timmy enters a kite flying contest in his Cub Scouts troop but has to make a quick decision when his original kite is lost.
When Lassie is left at a neighbor while the Martins are at the country fair, the neighbor's pet chimpanzee causes havoc in their home which Lassie is blamed for.
Lassie becomes smitten with a puppet that look like another dog.
Timmy and Boomer are convinced that their new neighbor is a bank robber.
While looking for his lost good luck charm Boomer becomes trapped under a fallen tree.
Timmy and Boomer heartily disagree over the methods and tasks involved in the construction of a lean to but learn to work together when the boys and Lassie must rescue Boomer's visiting cousin Millicent from a cave ledge.
Lassie befriends a stray dog and finds a rambunctious runaway show horse which, after Lassie trains the stray dog to be a stable mate, becomes more calm.
While helping Timmy get pictures for a photo contest Paul and Uncle Petrie comes across a uncooperative man hunting pheasants on the Martin property.
Timmy wants his school to participate in The Lone Ranger Peace Patrol program encouraging children to save their money to buy saving bonds to support the United States.
At the church carnival Timmy and Boomer dresses Lassie as a fortune teller but it does not goes as they planned.
An unprepared city boy who has after a quarrel run away from his uncle with whom he is visiting leads Timmy and Boomer who are camping out in the Martin barn into danger in the woods.
When Boomer goes on an overnight visit, Mike who has been left in Timmy's care becomes shut in the trunk of the Martin's car while chasing his ball and taken to a garage where a fire starts.
The Martins replace their icebox with a brand new second hand electrically operated refrigerator which is a change to which Lassie has trouble adjusting.
Timmy buys big, old horse Old Henry for a dollar to save the horse's life but has trouble persuading Paul that the family should keep the horse.
When Willie tells Timmy about contest for circuit tickets for letters about best pet, Timmy writes a letter on the last day and gives it to Lassie to post but it is made undeliverable when Lassie has to help Willie, Mr. Burke and Mr. Huff.
Roy Campanella arrives in town to instruct the Calverton boys' baseball team during which one of the boys uses threats and bribery to be pitcher and leaves Timmy in a conundrum as to what his action should be in the situation.
The Martins house a man and his horses, one fast and the other lazy, prior to a sulky race at the county fair and when the fast one becomes lame, the man must use the lazy one but Lassie has trained the lazy one to run.
When Timmy gains respect for his courage by keeping pace with a much larger peer in a fight and is asked by the boys to play football, Ruth has difficulty accepting this as part of the growing process.
Timmy's friends in a quest to invent a flying machine talk Timmy into jumping off a cliff with a pair of homemade wings.
A foreign exchange student's confession of stealing from Timmy's classmates because of her family's hunger inspires the class to help Ruth in her task as a coordinator for UNICEF.
When the Martin farm runs short of water, Paul hires a geologist to help after refusing Cully Wilson's help with a divining rod which he gives to Timmy who finds a spot that a driller chooses after the first drilling fails.
Timmy has developed the habit of telling tall tales which leads him to befriend a senior woman he has identified as a witch but his habit causes his displeased parents not to believe him when the woman needs help.
A bounty hunter is hired to track down a puma that has been seen in the vicinity of people's homes.
The Martin farm experiences unrelenting vandalism as a man persistently tries to buy the farm.
Timmy believes he has seen a space alien and food is frequently disappearing from Ruth's kitchen but the culprit is a chimpanzee loose from college experiments.
When Paul is unable to get a neighbor to hospital in time, the Martins realize the need for a closer emergency hospital for which banker/farmer Blalock's land is perfect but Blalock is stubbornly resistant to the idea.
Timmy is locked in a woodshed while selling newspaper subscriptions he discovers that new neighbor Vance is being threatened by a prison mate with exposure of his record as and force to rob the safe at the dairy coop.
When Rudy makes Timmy and Sam Kuramato believe they have killed Flip with a rock that Rudy actually threw, Timmy and Sam run away thinking that they are murderers.
The stock yard owner refuses Paul's lambs because the new foremen has his own suppliers but the foreman and his accomplice have an unusual source for the lambs using a goat which Lassie and Timmy uncover using a silent whistle.
Fearing army reprisal, Timmy and Don use Timmy's pet guinea pig as a replacement for one they let escape from an experimental space craft and in so doing expose themselves to possible radiation.
When a stray dog disturbs area farms, a conflict ensues between the farmers who wan to shoot the pest and the more human approach of Warden Smith with whom the Martins side. The dispute is complicated when the dog is trapped in a ravine.
Although not taken seriously at the grange meeting about a possible grasshopper plague, Timmy makes the Martins buy supplies to fight a grasshopper invasion and so the Martins are ready when an infestation is announced on the radio.
Timmy trades for a homing pigeon which he takes on Paul's business trip to test her ability to fly home. On the flight back it is attached and injured but rescued by Lassie with the help of a pigeon suitor.
After an Explorer lectures Timmy's Cub Scout den, the inspired den goes on a hike and wonder into the Badlands where they become stranded on a rock ledge.
Because hoof and mouth disease has been detected in the area so that the authorities want to destroy the Martin livestock, Timmy hides a cow that Paul has bought at a high price because the cow is about to calve.
Jed Ransom wants to shoot Doug Walker's minks blamed for killing area chickens until Walker shows Paul the footprint of a related but much more dangerous animal.
A developer's plans to flood Paul's alfalfa fields which Paul has rented for three years from a bank which gave Paul no notice of the title transfer result in unusual legal events as Timmy befriends the developer's daughter.
Timmy and his classmates buy a baby elephant to donate to the local zoo without acquiring the proper city authorizations so the Martin farm must house the animal for an unknown duration.
Timmy finds a badly hurt rooster that is actually a fighting cock which Ruth nurses back to health but one of the farmers who Paul supplies is an illegal cock fight promoter that steals it for a fight.
Lassie has trouble accepting hunting dog pups that have lost their mother when a local farmer going on a business trip asks Timmy to watch them.
When Timmy joins a children's farm club pig raising competition, Timmy's piglet's growth lags while the piglet's continual escape from enclosure puts itself and Timmy in danger.
Chatty Mrs. Harper's belief that Timmy is frivolous with phone use causes her to leave her phone off the hook which makes it difficult to get help for Paul when a power line falls on his pickup during a storm.
To embarrass two hunters from the city for breaking farm fences Timmy and Cully create a false game trail but the trick goes awry when the terrain causes a shooting accident between the hunters.
A Martin lamb is attacked so Paul, Sam Burke and Sam's newly acquired German Sheppard which Lassie dislikes track a bobcat thought to be to blame and the Sheppard kills the bobcat with such ferocity that it looks like a trained killer.
The county is to build a new road taking six feet of farm land so Paul and Enders look for old stone monuments not moved during an original county survey to prove ownership while Timmy moves opossums to a fence to delay the county job.
An alligator escapes from a water circus and heads for a lake near the Martin farm where Flip and Timmy are put in danger time and again being unable to interpret Lassie's warnings and behavior.
Timmy's Mothers Day gift is switched with Willie's gift which is much more expensive but Ruth likes the gift so much Timmy is afraid to tell her and puts himself in danger to make good on a deal with Willie to pay her the difference.
On a Martin camping trip Timmy walks into quicksand as a fog rolls in while Lassie fights off a hungry wolf when waiting for help.
Area folk dislike a hermit befriended by Timmy who is believed by Mr. Watson to have harmed Arnie but Arnie has slipped on to a cliff ledge and the hermit, a former climber, must rescue Arnie.
When Jerry Johnson who wears an unneeded leg brace visits the Martin farm with his Collie Blacktail, Timmy is asked to help Jerry overcome his dependency on the brace.
A wallaby escapes from a circus act, reeks havoc in Ruth's strawberry patch and must be rescued from a ravine by its circus owners with Paul's help.
After observing Cully Wilson's special way with animals, Timmy befriends a wild skunk which causes Lassie, Ruth and Miss Hazlitt consternation and trepidation.
A helicopter pilot doing conservation seeding who Timmy has befriended rescues Timmy when Timmy slips from a cliff to an unstable ledge while he is chasing an escaped pregnant ewe.
While Ruth runs an errand, Mrs. Wilder brings her twins early due to a schedule change so Timmy gets a babysitting responsibility, a task complicated by a hawk which flies into Timmy's room chasing a pigeon and creates havoc.
During his work as a water boy for carnival animals about which Ruth is anxious and disapproving, Timmy carelessly allows an untamed tiger to escape his cage.
During a time when the animal is menaced by a wolf and a wounded rogue bear, Timmy aids an injured fawn which he tries to make a pet against Paul's advice.
Timmy asks Ruth to give neighbor boy Bob a job so Bob can pay Doctor Weaver for a cataract operation for his blind dog whose condition puts the dog in constant peril.
The Martins attempt to prevent the demolition of an old mission in Calverton because it appears a group of swallows have chosen to make it their recurring spring home.
When Timmy mistakes scuba diving Dave Tanner as a sea serpent, Tanner decides to perpetuate the idea to secret his discovery of fresh water pearls he has found in lake mussel shells but puts himself in danger.
The Walkers' colt that the Martins are stabling for the summer breaks a leg and is put in a sling by Dr. Hayden but Ruth wants the horse destroyed rather than be miserable and so does Mr. Walker when he unexpectedly returns.
The Martins care for a spoiled and mischievous poodle of an actress who has wrecked her car near the Martin farm so the actress can keep an appointment while her car is repaired.
Timmy's and Willie's building an entry for a go-cart race proves detrimental to Timmy's performing his duties for the farm but Timmy's mechanical construction is still shoddy.
A drought has brought down from the hills a bobcat trailing deer which threatens Timmy caught in a trap and Bob has carelessly shot Lassie with an arrow.
Timmy befriends two poor children staying in a tool shed with the father who is fleeing authorities to prevent the children's placement in foster care so the Martins acts of charity include getting the man a job to support the children.
Paul threatens to shoot a neighbor's champion bull, an often escapee from his quarters, after it almost kills Timmy and then is excused of the demise of the bull actually poisoned by the neighbor's bitter hired man.
Timmy becomes obsessed with saving five extremely debilitated puppies he has found in the woods and achieves mixed results.
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.
In Paul's absence, Timmy is unable to shoot a dog strayed on to the Martin farm that has become rabid because he and Lassie have befriended the dog before the dog contracted disease.
Lassie is accidentally ejected from a train baggage car during a trip the Martins are taking to Chicago where Paul is to be the local representative to the national Grange committee.
A trained war mule that Cully has received for a WW1 veterans parade goes berserk after eating dried lead base paint dropped on hay and is threatened with destruction by authorities for being a dangerous animal.
When Timmy learns at a Nike base that the military needs German Shepherds, he rescues an abused dog from the pound to train for military use but the dog's dispirited nature proves an frustrating obstacle.
When Timmy sees a man destroy a eagle egg Timmy replaces the egg with another egg, a goose egg. To Timmy surprise the eagle accept the gosling when the egg hatches.
An impoverished family fleeing a drought stricken farm stay overnight with Martins after Timmy draws them in by a prank but the family's boy runs off into woods during deer season when he hears his dog cannot be kept.
At Paul's offer to pay Cully to use Cully's farm, Cully sees it as criticism of his age and overworks himself to correct the perceived insult until Lassie works with Cully's old dog to show old and young can work for the benefit both.
Ruth acting as a volunteer fire watcher and Timmy are endangered in the watchtower when a carelessly discarded cigarette starts a forest fire and a ranger near the fire has been thrown by his horse frightened by a snake.
Timmy new school friend Jose has a pet coyote which is being blamed for a rash of chicken killings.
Unaware that a neighbor child whose family's cow is stealing milk for his baby sister, Ruth sells Timmy's cow for slaughter thinking she is dry.
An operator of a carnival dog show dog-naps and disguises Lassie for Lassie's ability to learn trick when the health of his main canine performer falters .
A sea captain has brought a male ostrich for a fair sulky race but must prove to the judge that the bird is ready to race a horse and the captain must call on Timmy to drive while Ruth is reluctant due to a nesting female's aggression.
Timmy and Cully search for a gold mine after Lassie find a gold miner's burro which leads to problems for both of them and which Lassie comes to the rescue.
Timmy's new neighbor wants Lassie to race against his pet greyhound.
A girl's horse who is past his rodeo glory days is made skittish by an apprehension of Lassie and later that apprehension will prove useful in resurrecting the rodeo career of girl's father returning to the arena after injury.
Lassie finds a doll that could be a clue do the location of a missing six year old city girl at time when a huge aqueduct ditch is about to be filled by a significant amount of water.
Timmy erroneously believes that his operation of a machine he and his friends have made to contact Martians has caused an army plane to crash but the army believes that Lassie's behavior at the time of crash is a clue to accident.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When Timmy undertakes breeding white rats to sell to a university veterinary researcher to raise money, the rats begin to destroy the farm crops.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An eagle that Timmy and Lassie rescued from a coyote trap helps save Lassie's newborn pups from a coyote.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lassie secrets home and befriends a pigeon in a cage belonging to a magician who Lassie believes is harming the pigeon because Lassie does not understand illusion.
Timmy and Lassie adopt two orphaned foxes after the mother fox is killed by a hunter dogs. But Timmy must face the realization that now that they are able to fend for themselves they must be freed in order for them to survive in the wilderness.
Timmy convinces his friend Andy that he would take care of his pregnant dog Sibyl while he goes to the city. But when Timmy and Sibyl are going to Timmy's home, a speeding car hit the dog who runs away injured and hide out in a abandoned unsafe mine which lead to Lassie rescue.
The wild animals nesting in Cully's barn moved by Cully and Timmy temporarily to an outlying shed pending demolition of the barn by the county continue to return to the barn so Timmy writes a letter to the newspaper to save the animals.
When Paul and Timmy arrive to pick up some goats Paul has bought, a goat is found dead from anthrax so Timmy, Paul, Weaver and Simms must struggle to keep the remaining goats in the rocky cliffs to prevent a valley quarantine.
A wild stallion is captured by Timmy and Lassie after the stallion is injured in a fall with a head injury.
Lassie becomes protector of a mallard duck's eggs when they are in the path of a railroad track line.
Lassie must be rescued by a helicopter from a cliff when her return path used in an attempt to rescue a fawn is blocked by road crew blasting.
Lassie and Timmy endeavor to accustom Chief Washburne's dog Smokey to fire department noises and commotion so Smokey might overcome his fears and become an authentic firehouse dog.
A boy who is part of a marginal father and son clown and novelty animal circus act persuades Timmy to leave home and join the circus as a partner in an act which will feature Lassie.
Lassie assists a champion Irish Setter that craves relief from the strict regimen of the show ring stowaway in the Martins pickup to the farm and the dog's owner is displeased with the dog's behavior and treatment at the farm.
After Timmy, without thoroughly searching for the terrier's owner, gives a terrier he has found to a neighbor boy despondent that his orphan status has displaced him from France, a pet shop proprietor comes looking for the dog.
Lassie receives a wound saving Cully from the shot of a careless deer hunter and the family must persuade a neurosurgeon temporarily in Capitol City to operate on a dog to prevents Lassie's paralysis from the bullet's movement.
Two of Timmy's homing pigeons fail to return to their roost during a trial run including Goldwing which Lassie has become fond of.
Timmy helps a boy whose carelessness has resulted in paralysis to his Labrador retriever build a cart to allow the dog some freedom of movement but the boy's Labrador breeder father thinks the dog's destruction is best.
So that Mr. Washburne's fish will not be ineligible in a contest because Lassie found it, Timmy has to hide that Lassie can find large fish despite that he will be rebuked for creating a news story frenzy by telling Lassie's ability.
When Cully's hound dog Sam is killed by a runaway steer, the self-professed animal lover is determined to shoot the steer for revenge.
At the county fair Jake Hodges who has a hot air balloon befriends Timmy and Lassie, but when the hot air balloon start to drift away, Timmy becomes trapped in the balloon while trying to stop it with Lassie jumping in to save Timmy and together they drift away.
The hot air balloon with Timmy and Lassie is caught in tree branches in the Canadian wilderness and Timmy must now find a way down and to find water once they are on land.
Landing in the woods from the hot air balloon journey, Timmy must resort to his scout survival skills to find food and shelter, but is sidetrack when Lassie is attacked by a wild boar.
When Lassie developed a fever after being attack by a boar Timmy find a river to cool Lassie and is convinced that following the river in a raft he built will lead him to people for help.
When the raft Timmy and Lassie capsizes they become separated, Lassie is cared for by a deaf-mute Indian, while Timmy is reunited with his parents Lassie must find his way back to Timmy.
Learning that traditional bluebird nesting sites are declining, Timmy builds birdhouses for the area to preserve the species but the preservation project is imperiled when the local farmers use dynamite to combat a starling invasion.
Neighbors grow angry with Cully who has falsely warned them of an impending frost when he misinterprets strange animal behavior but Lassie helps Cully reinterpret the behavior as a coming twister so he must use Paul to spread the word.
A turkey farmer whose poults are being raided by an owl accuses of rustling a transient who has scavenged a chick that Lassie has caused the owl to drop.
Cully borrows from the Martins to enter a burro race at the county fair hoping to win funds to buy some land before neighbor Krebbs can but draws a puny, stubborn female only Lassie can handle. Meanwhile Krebbs locks Lassie in his barn.
A bag of pine cones that Timmy is assigned from his class by a forest ranger to collect for seeds to use in a flood break planting is washed away by runoff when Timmy leaves the bag in the woods because it is too heavy.
After Cully suffers a heart attack he worries about his farm, but Timmy offer to help on the farm with Lassie. Timmy encounters a gopher problem and uses a weasel to counterattack the problem but the weasel becomes a problem too.
An army dog that accidentally injures its trainer flees and follows Lassie home where its training is mistaken by a fearful Timmy and Ruth for unreasoned aggression.
Participants in a pigeon race Timmy has organized are very angry when the pigeons do not return because everyone is unaware that radar operating in the area has interfered with the pigeons' navigation.
Timmy and Lassie help a wounded eagle by a having a goose lure her back to her nest to care for her babies.
While trying to study for an important math test Timmy becomes distracted with Lassie when she find migrating ducks stuck in a marsh.
Cully and Mr. Krebs have falling out over an agreement to cut the trees down on the property they bought together.
On her way home from shopping in Capital City, Ruth skids on the dangerous muddy cliff road and is left teetering in their pickup truck on the edge of a cliff. Lassie to the rescue.
Lassie is credited for finding a lost child but a dog named Jeeper who is consider to be a nuisance is the real hero.
When Timmy friend Ricky returns to France he gives his dog to Timmy, Timmy however gives the dog to Cully after the death of Cully's dog. But the new dog causes Cully problems and Timmy begins to regret his decision.
As a result of Washburne showing a fire prevention film at the school, Timmy removes fire hazards from Charlie James' barn creating an unintended disturbance which causes James to petition the city to remove Washburne as chief .
When Timmy and Cully visit a abandoned cabin of a deceased man who supposedly had a hidden treasure hidden away they come across an eagle inside clutching a pouch which Timmy believes to be the hidden treasure.
Cully leg is trapped by a boulder after being caught in a landslide when he and Timmy were trying to get to the eagle's nest to get a pouch which they believe to be missing hidden treasure.
While looking for butterflies for a nature school project in the Martin peach orchard Timmy and Lassie discover the orchard has been infested by the destructive gypsy moth.
When Timmy enters a Camera Club contest Timmy attach a camera to a kite to get a aerial photo, but kite and camera get caught on a high tension power wire over a neighbor stable which catches fire from the sparks.
During a time when Timmy has organized a wild animal feeding program in a severe winter for which the local farmers blame a surge in wolves, a quaint toy repairman traveling with a donkey wagon lodges with the Martins at Christmas.
It is a bustling Christmas for Calverton as Timmy sings a solo at church and the Martins host a party while Lassie rescues the cubs of a wolf Krebbs has killed and Nicholson disappears with the cubs as mysteriously as he arrived.
Timmy is begrudgingly allowed by the Martins to raise an orphan colt that is born blind and with Lassie's help overcomes challenges he experiences in the process.
While hunting for quartz for school, Timmy sees Square Deal, a stallion he and Mr. Washburne once co-owned which Timmy set free. The stallion is stealing horses to form his own herd, but the owners of the stolen horses want to shoot him.
During a bad thunderstorm lightning strikes very near to Lassie causing her to lose her hearing . . . temporarily.
To help with the Martin's financial bind, Timmy hitches a ride to a distant town to enter canine field trials to win the prize money for which he must put up Lassie for the unexpectedly high entrance fee.
The Martins go camping again and are enjoying their camping trip until a storm nearly drowns Timmy and Paul and leaves Lassie adrift in the lake.
The Martins reluctantly leave camp and return home without Lassie. Meanwhile Lassie has been rescued by a forest ranger, Corey Stuart, who is staying at a friend's cabin on the lake. As Lassie recovers she and Corey form a bond.
Having mostly recovered now, Lassie accompanies Corey as they search for an inexperienced hunter who is shooting animals out of season and who has carelessly and inadvertently started a forest fire.
Lassie goes on avalanche patrol with Corey. When he and ranger Tom Baldwin leave the station to dynamite two final dangerous buildups of snow, Lassie becomes very uneasy. Meanwhile, Timmy learns that Lassie is still alive.
Lassie rescues Corey and Tom Baldwin, both of whom have been buried in an avalanche. Corey makes a sled to transport the injured Tom, and they begin their trek back to the ranger station .. Lassie and Timmy are reunited.
Sheep begin to disappear and reappear. Lassie and Timmy investigate and find that an old shepherd and his sheep dog have been borrowing sheep to practice their trade. The local farmers decide to employ the man and his dog and share them.
Timmy buys an expensive new CB radio and takes it up to Indian Cave to test it. On the way to the cave, Timmy and Lassie are caught in an earthquake and threatened by a crack in the Rock River Canyon dam. .
Lassie and Timmy find and rescue four piglets then go looking for the mother sow. They find her, a fifth piglet, and the bobcat whose attack caused them to be separated.
Duke, a guide dog for a blind attorney, is traumatized when a motorcyclist collides into him and his master. Lassie and Timmy work to rehabilitate Duke, but it's love and concern for his master that completes Duke's rehabilitation.
Paul rents a bee hive for bees to pollinate his peach crop. When a skunk knocks over the hive, Timmy finds a new source of bees, but poor Lassie gets sprayed by the skunk, thus ending Timmy's hopes for a blue ribbon at the dog show.
On his way to school Timmy is the victim of a hit and run when the driver swerves to miss Lassie and runs Timmy off the road. Lassie is the only eye witness to the accident and she takes a souvenir from the driver.
The return of Old Blaze, a marauding wolf-dog, does not please the local farmers; however, when a naturalist professor falls from a cliff, Old Blaze leads Lassie to the injured professor thus saving both the professor and himself.
Timmy and Lassie find an injured raccoon in the woods and nurse it. The raccoon repays them by raiding Paul's hybrid corn and bringing his friends. To keep Paul from shooting the animals, Lassie and Timmy spend the night in the corn patch.
Initially excited when his parents break the news that the family is moving to Australia, Timmy changes his mind when he finds out Lassie would be quarantined for six months and cannot come with them.
Lassie has settled in living with Cully-and mostly occupied keeping Cully's mischievous Yorkshire terrier Silky in line-when the elderly man suffers another heart attack. Lassie fetches Doc Weaver, but in the process of his getting Cully to the hospital, Silky escapes, fair game for tourists at a tourist camp.
While Lassie and Silky wander Blue Canyon, where Silky is in danger from a marauding hawk, an old friend of the collie's shows up, Corey Stuart, who immediately heads out to find his missing friend.
Lassie finds a home with Corey Stuart of the Forest Service. After a mother Golden Eagle collides with a surveying plane Lassie helps out to keep her eaglets safe. She covers them and wards off a hungry bobcat.
At a logging camp Corey and Lassie assist with conservation efforts and some personal relationships. The foreman's young son is trying to grow up too fast. When the boy tries to operate heavy equipment, he injures himself and Lassie..
When Maude Lester's stream dries up, Lassie discovers that a family of beavers have built a dam and re-routed her stream. Lassie and Maude help the beavers move their dam to a new location to accommodate everyone's needs.
While Corey is running a bulldozer at the beach dunes Lassie meets a little girl Gail. She lives with her grandmother and with no children to play with she befriends the collie. A dangerous sandstorm puts them in peril.
An illiterate young man inadvertently starts a forest fire because he can't read the labels on the storage cans.
Lassie, still at Corey's ranger station, befriends a herding dog on the neighboring ranch. There is concern about a pack of wild dogs and Lassie's new pal is accidentally shot while protecting a herd of sheep from the marauding animals.
Lassie battles the wild dogs for her injured friend, hides him in a cave, obtains food for him by springing a trap, and leads the hunters away from him before accompanying him back to the ranger station where he finds a new home.
Corey is checking to see if ranchers are abiding to limit grazing on forestry land. But Roland Heinz is planning to evade the plan over son Chuck's objections. An attempt to rescue a calf in quicksand puts Chuck in danger unless Lassie can help.
Corey and Lassie visit the McKinnon ranch where there's conflict. Jim's parents want him to go to college, he wants to get a job and marry. Danger lurks as a cougar stalks the cattle, injuring Ben so Jim heads out with a rifle.
Corey is sickened while surveying in Echo Canyon, and closes the forest 48 hours before the opening of tourist season. Facing the ire of the mayor and other local businessmen of the area, he searches for the source of the problem, which he is sure is in the water supply. He's right-and Lassie has ingested some of the poison.
When a bear raids food from campers at the Twin Oaks campground, Corey helps the local game warden relocate the animal to an area away from tourists, not knowing the bear left a cub behind-luckily Lassie has found the little fellow and is leading him to safety, fighting off a bobcat and hawk to do so.
When trees cut from the forest for a Christmas charity project are stolen from a church lot, Stuart plays on the suspected thieves consciences by introducing them to the charity givers and recipients .
Corey and Lassie visit a stable run by Bruce Henderson in the park. When a guest Jetta has a bad encounter with a stallion Henderson decides he must be shot but the collie has other ideas and helps the horse escape.
A boy hides his cat and kittens in a cave in the woods because his mother doesn't want them at home. Lassie plays nursemaid to all of them during a bad storm.
Lassie accompanies Ranger Hank's sister to devil's canyon for hiking and rock climbing then must protect the woman from a cougar after she falls and injures her back.
Lassie and Corey visit Casey Howell who takes care of animals no longer able to survive in the wild. A tame mynah bird flies away and the collie feels responsible. Lassie worries about a hawk and heads into a rocky canyon to find the bird.
Lassie and Corey work on a soil erosion project to restore a watershed destroyed by fire. Corey brings a collie pup for a young girl's birthday .Then the storm arrives and sweeps the pup away giving Lassie a chance to save her..
While reliving some childhood memories of trips with his father, Corey is attacked by an escaped convict. Lassie and Corey follow the convict into an old mine which collapses and they all must find a way out.
Boone Sawyer has a unique ability to communicate with nature while protecting the animals. When hunters swear out an assault complaint against Boone, Lassie visits with him while Corey searches for a solution to his problem.
Corey, Dave, and Lassie are flying over a desolate canyon when their plane is struck by lightning. Forced to parachute Corey is injured and the collie is dumped into a raging river. Separated from the rescue area Lassie is left behind.
While Corey recuperates in the hospital, Lassie journeys homeward. A prospector confines her in his barn with his mule who helps her escape. Next the collie hops a freight train and joins two runaway boys, one of whom becomes quite ill. .
Lassie continues her journey home. She fights a wolf, stops a cattle stampede, saves a man, and injures her leg. With help from a hawk Lassie finds her way home to Corey.
When Lassie finds a migrating goose that has fallen from the sky, she brings Corey to help the goose, whose devoted mate has also stayed. Lassie and the rangers race against time to get the bird an injection to fight metallic poisoning.
A carelessly tossed cigarette causes a forest fire near a dog shelter. The dogs' caretaker tries to help but he is overcome by smoke. Lassie and Corey help in his rescue.
A swamp dweller's daughter abducts Lassie as her own pet.
Lassie's friend Binks accidentally gets trapped in a refrigeration truck on a hot day when the driver leaves the door ajar. Lassie follows the truck back to its home base in order to get Binks released and returned home.
Lassie finds a mischievous chimpanzee named Debbie and takes her to the ranger station where she ruins the newly-cleaned station and creates havoc outside. Lassie gets some help from a raven before the big inspection.
Dusty, a lead pack mule, is being retired but he doesn't want retirement. Instead, he breaks away and follows his pack team with Lassie close behind him. His persistence convinces his human to let him continue packing.
Nancy is a physical therapist who uses tree planting to help her patients, four children who are disabled. Corey and Lassie arrive to assist her with the kids who respond eagerly. Jimmy is the exception who is depressed about his limitations.
Ranger Corey and Lassie take a troop of boy scouts for a camping trip during which Lassie finds a young boy following them. Andre, a young Frenchman, is following the scouts to learn from them as he knows nothing about woodcraft.
A pregnant doe is hit by a car which injures her leg. Lassie helps her find shelter from a predator and obtains medical treatment for her.
While playing and chasing a rabbit in San Carlos Canyon, Lassie and her old friend Spike are caught in a flash flood and trapped in the river as the waters rise. Rangers Corey and Barney work in tandem to rescue their beloved canines.
In an area being developed for swimming and fishing, two youngsters playing hooky wander into the blasting zone. Lassie is able to bring help and rescue the boys.
While in the desert visiting an old friend, Lassie and Corey meet an injured seagull. When he escapes his cage, Lassie protects him from several predators before he can accompany Lassie and Corey back to the ocean when they return home.
When items begin to disappear from the ranger station, Lassie solves the mystery of the theft and reveals the identity of the thief.
Lassie and Corey accompany Dr. Hanson to a snow testing site. When the doctor suffers a cramp and Corey's sunglasses are damaged and he goes snow blind, Lassie must rescue them all.
A serious reduction in trout has caused Andy McGrew's business to fall into disrepair. Lassie, Corey and a man from the fish and game department discover the cause of the problem with the trout and help Andy save his business.
Lassie helps her friend Mattie adopt a new puppy, who breaks away and leads them both on a merry chase through the swamp, When the pup falls into the swamp, Lassie saves him from hungry alligators.
During heavy rains and flooding, a group of logs break free and float down river. Lassie and Ranger Corey battle the rapids to string a chain line across the river to constrain the logs and save a bridge construction project.
In the Bristlecone National Forest where the bristlecone trees are ancient, the earth is fragile, and no off-road vehicles are allowed, two cyclists threaten the safety of the environment as well as the safety of Lassie's new friends.
After an outbreak of rabies is confirmed in one of their campsites, Lassie and Ranger Corey Stuart search for a boy who may have been bitten by a rabid squirrel and must be stopped for medical attention before he can leave the area,
When land is being cleared and burned to create new grazing land for cattle, Lassie plays protector to a family of rabbits caught in the upheaval. She helps them relocate and protects them from predators during their move.
Corey and Lassie visit a ranger whose wife is having trouble adjusting to her new life in the forest. When a ranger at Red Oak Station is attacked by a wounded bear, the wife and Lassie must assist the ranger and deal with the bear.
Lassie and Corey fly to Los Angeles where Lassie befriends a hungry pigeon, visits an art museum, and saves a bird from the tar pits.
While conducting a fire inspection, Lassie and Corey visit their friend Carlos, a local sheep herder. When lightning starts several fires, Carlos and his sheep are in danger of being trapped.
After a car accident injures a pregnant collie and her master, the collie tries to seek help for them. While Corey offers medical assistance to the young man, Lassie finds shelter for Lady and stays with her while she delivers her pups.
Lassie and Corey are sent to a nearby river to observe a fishery. Lassie first is injured by and later catches two poachers who are stringing nets and setting off dynamite to fish illegally.
While visiting a town whose lake is drying up, Lassie and Corey try to determine what's causing the water to recede. When Lassie finds a new source of water, the townspeople must find a way to release it into the lake.
A dispute between two longtime neighbors Ben Adams and Jackson Hayes over a cow begins to escalate. Ranger Corey and Lassie try to find way to make both men happy.
During a nature walk Lassie brings a bag of treats to feed her animal friends. She .springs a hunter's traps and befriends a skunk, who follows her. When a hungry wolf shows up to fight Lassie, the skunk steps in to help.
While visiting his friend Jim, Corey goes fishing and Lassie befriends a pair of sea lions. When Lassie is swept out to sea, one of the sea lion goes to Corey for help.
Ranger Henry's Aunt Sam arrives with Rufus, a homesick hound. They're moving into the area and are searching for a house. Lassie discovers and reveals the reason why Rufus is homesick and what he wants in a house.
Corey and another ranger battle a spruce bud worm infestation by spraying but meet resistance from a horse ranch owner. Lassie makes friends with a colt and reveals the true cause of death of one of the horses.
Young Mike runs away from a detention farm stealing items from a nearby house. He also saves a colt and befriends Lassie. Corey tracks Mike with the collie's help, then tries to convince him that both he and Lassie are friends wanting to help.
When Corey becomes trapped in an overturned truck, a new kind of balloon signal device helps him. It's Lassie, however, who comes to the rescue.
When the rangers are too busy to play with her, Lassie goes for a walk in the woods and finds two baby raccoons whose mother was forced downstream by a hungry coyote. Lassie babysits until the mother raccoon returns.
Lassie and Corey assist a scientist who has invented a nuclear probe to measure snow packs. When the scientist has a cardiac event and Corey suffers from snow blindness, Lassie must lead the two men to safety.
Ranger Corey gets a call from Steve regarding a lost girl Kathy and takes Lassie along to search. They locate her at the bottom of a cliff but her recovery hinges on finding her missing doll. Lassie heads out to find it.
Lassie visits her friend Boone Sawyer who does not want power lines coming into the forest. When a surveyor gets stranded, Boone has a chance to argue his point of preserving the beauty of the wilderness from the ugliness of technology.
Lassie and Corey work at a summer camp for handicapped boys. Most of the boys were born deaf, but one young man is severely traumatized from an automobile accident. Lassie and a squirrel help him overcome his problem after an earthquake.
Lassie finds a small dog near a rock slide and tries to lead his new friend to safety. But the collie doesn't know that a person is trapped beneath and the man's pet refuses to leave until he's rescued.
To get timber cut and moved before an impending snow storm, a lumberjack makes a risky climb to "top" a tree. Corey must help the lumberjack while Lassie clears out the wildlife on the ground to protect them when the tree falls..
While Lassie and Corey are visiting buffalo country and a hunt to cull the herd for conservation purposes, Lassie finds a calf that has been separated from its mother and reunites the two before the cow can be shot as a "barren cow."
Corey and Lassie visit a private ski lift where the manager plans some additions. The area is currently unsafe, so Corey requires improvements be made before the new ski season begins. An accident reinforces the need for increased safety.
Lassie and Corey visit a wildlife sanctuary where many types of migrating birds gather. Lassie rescues a goose caught on an old fishing line. The goose bonds with the collie and doesn't want to migrate until Lassie plays matchmaker..
Lassie and Corey travel to a forest fire to observe new technology. The paratroopers are using a new infrared tracker. When Corey is lost in the fire area, Lassie carries the tracking device and a radio into the fire.
After a cougar trees a bear cub and his mother falls into a pit, Lassie rescues the cub while Corey helps the mother out of the pit. Once rescued, the mother bear becomes violent. Lassie must reunite the two bears.
While in Florida with Lassie, Corey supervises the loading of a special shipment from Jacksonville to Hawaii. A hurricane strikes the area and while Lassie is searching for Corey, she gets trapped on the ship which sails with her aboard.
Set free from a locked room on the freighter by a crew member, Lassie leaps overboard and swims toward shore. She is saved from a shark by a dolphin then proceeds to go ashore in Virginia and heads for the open countryside.
Landing in Williamsburg, Lassie is accused of being a dangerous wild dog by ., a turkey farmer named Seth Plummer. Lassie is defended by Jebediah Wakefield, an elderly attorney, and his assistant Benjamin.
Lassie leaves Williamsburg and heads for the Virginia hill country. While there she befriends a teenage girl named Maggie Pagget, who has a pet fox named Riddle. Lassie saves Riddle from a neighbor boy and his dogs.
Still moving westward, Lassie helps an abandoned kitten in this all-animal episode.
Continuing her trip, Lassie finds and joins two runaway boys who are floating their raft down the river to New Orleans. After their raft is lost, they all go ashore and spend the night in a cave.
Lassie arrives in New Orleans by riverboat at about the same time Corey arrives in the city, having followed her trail across country. They are finally reunited after several near misses.
Little Jim is a trotting pony preparing to run a sulky race when two backfires startle him and cause him to injure his driver, Dan. Dan's granddaughter takes over the training but needs Lassie's help to get Little Jim to run.
Stuart arranges a trip to Washington for the White House Christmas tree lighting for a boy because the chosen tree is special to the boy and his missing in action father.
Lassie finds a beautiful wild black stallion who has injured his leg, so Corey adopts him. The horse, however, misses his herd so Lassie sets him free. After the herd's new leader drives him away, he returns to Corey and his new life.
Lassie is injured when she defends a mountain lion's cub from a wild dog. The cub's mother leads Lassie to water, takes her back to their den to recover, and brings food. Lassie returns the cat's kindness when a hunter tries to shoot her.
Corey is in remote Devil's Gorge when he is bitten by a rattlesnake. He is dependent on his horse to bring aid in time.
When a raccoon gets its head caught in a can discarded by a camper, Lassie teaches that camper not to litter again.
Lassie and Corey help Jack deliver special salt blocks to a herd of Bighorn sheep. The males battle for supremacy which leaves an old ram injured. Since there is a wild dog pack in the area, Lassie is concerned about the old ram.
Out on one of her nature walks, Lassie helps an owl family survive after the mother owl is injured by an opossum, Lassie hides and feeds the injured owl and provides a surrogate mother for the owl's eggs until the mother owl can return.
To construct a new View Point area, the park service contracts a salvage year to remove three old wrecked cars at the bottom of the gorge. Lassie must rescue a squirrel before the car in which he trapped in is crushed at the salvage yard.
Luther Jennings is being forced to retire from his job as lookout at a fire station. Lassie and her friend, an older mixed breed dog, try to cheer up the embittered man.
White Horse Falls, a logging town, is failing due to poor lumber management. Corey helps the town by demonstrating new timber technology while Lassie watches over Henry IV, a kitten with a penchant for getting into all types of trouble.
While Corey works with locals on a soil management project, Lassie befriends a German Shepherd and a coyote. When the coyote is shot illegally by a hunter, Lassie brings Corey to doctor the coyote and deal with the hunter.
When a young boy becomes curious about fire it leads to a small blaze starting in the forest. Lassie must find a way to keep it from getting bigger and dangerous.
Barney is a watch dog at a turkey game preserve. He lost a fight to a bob cat and has lost his spirit. When Lassie gets tangled in barbed wire and is prey to the bobcat, Barney comes to her rescue.and gets his fighting spirit back.
A house painter hired to paint the ranger station goes fishing and loses his good luck charm. After two days of bad luck he asks that Lassie help him. A squirrel has the charm and Lassie trades with the squirrel to retrieve the charm.
Lassie prevents a pigeon from attack by a hawk earning the gratitude of Eddie, the pigeon's owner. Spending time with the young man, Lassie goesable for help when Eddie falls down an isolated mine shaft.
Goliath is a huge steer and tourist attraction at a roadside cafe. When the abusive owner beats Goliath. he escapes and injures the man. Lassie helps Goliath hide and leads him away from the men trying to shoot him until Corey can arrive.
Lassie and Corey visit old Ben where Lassie meets the otters. When one otter is trapped, the other comes for help. Ben destroys the traps but meets the angry neighbor who want the otters gone. Corey explains how the otters help the lake.
While Corey examines an area to assess damage after an earthquake, Lassie becomes involved with first a duck and then a prairie dog town who are rebuilding after the quake. Then an aftershock brings even more trouble.
Stuart helps a crew extinguish an oil well fire during which process Pat's terrier is badly injured and requires a transfusion from Lassie.
Corey and Bart enlist a sail plane pilot to learn about wind sheers, while Lassie helps a pregnant cougar who has been mistakenly shot by a farmer for raiding his chickens. The real culprit is a feral dog.
While Corey learns more about wind sheers, Lassie protects the injured cougar and her newborn cubs and feeds them by stealing meat from the ranch and bringing it to them.
A wild animal is by night stealing poultry and frightening the horse Starfire. The foreman thinks it is a cougar who has done this and wants to shoot it, but Lassie understands that the cougar is innocent. When Lassie finds out that the cougar has cubs but is too wounded to feed them, Lassie has to find meat for them and protect all of them from being shot.
Unless something changes, Corey is convinced Fawn Lake will be ruined. With Lassie's assistance, Corey tries to convince a businessman named Kirby that his boat rental service is the primary polluter.
Lassie protects a ring-tail and ground birds along with their chicks and eggs from predation by a bobcat, a coyote, a weasel and an opossum.
Pristine Fawn Lake is becoming polluted and Lassie's friend Corey meets a photographer he thinks can help change things.
Corey, Lassie, and their pilot are trapped when their small plane makes a forced landing on a glacier. Not only is the plane damaged, but also Jack has broken ribs and a storm is coming.
Corey and Jack fix the plane before the storm breaks, but every pound is precious. When Jack insists that the aircraft will not be able to take off with Lassie's added weight, Corey rigs a device so she can be picked up after the plane is in the air.
Lassie trails an adventuresome cat called Dandelion around a logging camp. It leads to several dangerous situations for the animal friends.
In his capacity as advisor for a new balloon logging project, Corey inspects a tugboat operation. Corey and Lassie journey on two different boats. When the pilot of Lassie's boat has a stroke, Lassie must find Corey to get help for him..
At the Wind River tree nursery deer are eating the seedling trees. Rather than see the deer shot, Lassie moves the family of deer across a bridge into a wildlife preserve. When the fawn strays into the river, Lassie helps it to safety.
Corey's reforestation project runs up against Bob Stokes who sees himself as the protector of the trees in Oregon. Corey, Merle, and Lassie are shown how hot air balloons are used to transport timber.
Delivering trees on Christmas Eve, Lassie and Corey find and free a dove tangled up in brush. The dove repays the favor by leading Lassie to a little girl's lost puppy so that Lassie can return it to the worried child.
Out delivering treats to her forest friends, Lassie finds a lost black lamb. She reunites that lamb with its mother only to find a lost white lamb. After finding that lamb's mother, Lassie finds a lost black and white lamb. She howls her frustration before setting out to find that lamb's mother.
Miss Ridgeway is an artist who lives in an isolated area who is also a diabetic. When a fire destroys her supply of insulin it is up to Lassie to get her to safety.
After two tourists discover a fawn and feed and handle it, Corey and a local ranger fear the doe will no longer accept it and the fawn will have to live in captivity. Lassie is able to find the doe and convince her to accept it again.
Lassie rescues a coati-mundi's wayward kit and a lost lamb as well while Corey and his compatriots battle the forest fire threatening their home.
While Corey and two other rangers blast snow for avalanche control, Lassie deals with a rabbit and a fox. First she saves the rabbit from the fox; next she feeds the fox a sandwich; finally she saves them both from the snowfall resulting from blasting.
While in Florida visiting a friend in astronaut training, Corey and Lassie meet Atlas, a dog who lost his handler, has gone rogue, and is hurt. When Atlas gets trapped in muck in the swamp, Lassie brings help to rescue him.
Still at Cape Kennedy Lassie and Corey meet a boy who has lost his dog. Lassie brings the boy to meet Atlas and later takes Atlas to the boy's house. Atlas accepts water and goes into the doghouse to rest. The building of trust has begun.
At Cape Kennedy the testing of parachutes for the lunar module injures an American bald eagle. The race begins to see which bird will launch first: the lunar capsule or the bald eagle.
After obtaining a permit for his performing animals to put on a camp show, Tom Whitney's brakes fail and his truck crashes. His dog goes for help and Lassie must gather up the four escaped animals while Corey gets Tom to the hospital.
Boy Scout Hank takes a tumble off the trail and lands on a disintegrating ledge. Lassie discovers him and must find help quickly before it's too late.
At Pine Lake to begin a Wilderness Project by acquiring land through a series of land exchanges, Corey and Lassie meet the Hanford brothers. When Lassie falls down a mine shaft, the brothers and a local girl named Lucy rescue her.
When Corey leaves Lassie with the Hanford brothers, she alerts them to an accident their friend Lucy has on the lake when her boat has mechanical problems and she must swim to safety. The experience leaves Lucy hospitalized with pneumonia.
Since the Hanford brothers rescued Lucy and got her to the hospital, her father agrees to help them with their house after they have a setback in construction because they ignored warnings from Corey, Lassie, and a crow named JR.
When Stuart's truck is blocked by a landslide, Lassie must deliver an injection to counteract mineral poisoning in an important banded Canadian Goose in time for it to be effective to a female employee on assignment at the station.
Lassie races for help after an earthquake traps Corey under a tree in the path of a rock slide. Unfortunately the motorist who finds Lassie confines and drugs her then sells her to a vet conducting animal experiments.
While accompanying smoke jumpers, Corey and his partner Lane are trapped in the path of a fire. Both rangers are badly burned and rushed to the hospital. Lassie tracks them but encounters ranger Bob Erickson, who takes over caring for her.
The Forest Service must decide Lassie's fate after they realize Corey's recovery will take months. Lassie escapes from Ranger Bob's trailer to go to the hospital just as Corey is transferred to another one. Lassie has a decision to make.
While Scot is taking a tour with a bush pilot of Scot's new assignment in the National Forest of Alaska, a man in distress is spotted and on landing he finds the man has been attacked by a companion delirious following a bear attack.
Scott and Lassie are introduced to Johnny's adopted brother Neeka. The rangers survey an island where they rescue a female eagle that has fallen into the lake. Meanwhile Lassie protects the baby eaglet from a lynx.
While Dean and Scott continue to survey the water areas, Neeka and Lassie go fishing. When Lassie breaks her leg in a trap. Neeka must take charge of the situation. Meanwhile a wolf stalks the injured Lassie.
While repairing a gas leak on their boat Dean is knocked unconscious, so Lassie swims for help. She finds Neeka and Scott who are finishing up a series of glacier studies. Then they must wait for the Coast Guard to complete the rescue.
The livestock of a ranch on which Scott is taking samples to see if more grazing can be allowed is menaced by a jaguar from which Lassie must defend the ranch hound during an attack.
After Scott and Paul chase off a puma that has chased a jaguar from the injured hound Jason, Lassie leads Scott joined by Billy to track down and kill the jaguar.
Scott and Lassie visit Bob Erickson, who's affliated with a California university oceanography division. Lassie helps free a pelican tangled in a net then the bird returns the favor when Scott and Diane are trapped taking underwater photos.
When Bob and Al give the horses salt water therapy, Lassie protects a lost kitten from the perils of hawks and sea water while preventing a horse broken free after a bee sting from straying afar.
Two brothers have raised a calf as their 4-H Project. Russ had made a pet of Butch and wants to keep him while Ken wants to sell him for beef to pay their college tuition. When Butch wanders away, Lassie assists with the situation.
While Bob advises a developer on a desert development. Lassie and the developer's dog are imperiled by blasting and demolition.
Bruno is a war dog undergoing rehabilitation. When blasting occurs nearby, he panics and escapes. His trainer Mike warns all parties that Bruno is dangerous, then sets out with Bob and Lassie to find Bruno before anyone else can.
Archers begin hunting Bruno after he stampedes a corral of horses and kills a calf. Lassie finds Bruno and tries to lead him home. Then Buck is thrown from his horse and Bruno has a decision to make: will he attack or not?
On a trip to the Oregon coast Lassie befriends a mallard and her ducklings while Bob surveys a potential campsite. Danger lurks nearby in the woods from an unusual source.
While Bob tries to protect dunes from erosion near a lake at a dune buggy track, the club's pregnant dog Lady looks for a place to deliver her pups but ends up having them in the midst of the raceway. Lassie must help her.
While Erickson is assessing the danger caused by timber washed away by a flood, he allows former ranger Peterson to take Lassie on his boat to survey crab cages where Peterson is knocked unconscious with a storm approaching.
Newly conscious Peterson due to rough seas, timber debris and his condition cannot prevent his boat from drifting toward cliffs but Erickson drops seaward from a helicopter to contact a rescue boat which saves Peterson and Lassie.
The success of a camp for Job Corps volunteers is threatened when a crow steals a congressman's son's watch and implicates one of the volunteers, a former delinquent trying to turn his life around. Lassie must reveal the truth.
Lassie befriends a free-spirited young woman who calls herself "Walden" in homage to her idol, Henry David Thoreau. Aftershocks from an offshore earthquake endanger both Lassie and Walden, especially when Walden takes refuge in a cave.
It's a typical day for Lassie and Scott with the collie being interested in nature and it's wild creatures. But an Asian tiger being transported escapes and it's up to Lassie with her friends to locate the big cat before it does harm.
Scott and Lassie visit Neeka who takes Lassie with him to help collect and identify plants for a school project. They meet Clay Bowers, whom Neeka asks for help with his project partially to draw the unhappy man out of his shell.
While surveying riding trails, Scott, Lassie and Neeka camp out in a hotel in a deserted town supposedly haunted by the spirits of a wolf and the man who killed him. Many sounds including a wolf howl upset both Neeka and Lassie.
When Neeka's dad comes to town, Neeka decides to drive his truck. Although he and Lassie escape harm, the truck isn't so lucky. It. crashes and leaks gas. The resulting explosion frightens the horses and Neeka's own horse is badly injured.
Lassie meets a pair of flying squirrels. When one becomes trapped in a can, the mate seeks Lassie's help. The trapped squirrel is chased by a hungry coyote and then rolls down a cliff with Lassie and its mate following closely behind.
Two moonshiner brothers move into the Clear Lake National Forest in order to make their product undisturbed by the law. When ranger Bob catches Woody buying suspicious supplies, Leroy decides to distract the ranger by setting a small fire.
A man pursuing wolf bounty shoots a wolf in protected territory and then watches Erickson and Turner nurse the wolf back to health with help from Lassie who uses the creature's paternal instinct to gain recovery.
Bumbling Job Corp worker Cal Baker is prevented from dropping out by the inspirational words of a fellow Job Corp worker and the successful rescue of that fellow Job Corp worker when a crisis occurs.
A pet chimpanzee of a man who lives near a massive project site leaves the house and wanders into various dangerous aspects of the construction with Lassie in a pursuit of concern.
When Allan surveys an old Air Force bombing range to develop as a grassland, his helper, who is partially buried by a landslide, dislodges an old unexploded bomb which Allan must disarm via remote instructions from the ranger station.
Lassie attempts to rescue a fawn that has become trapped in a vinyl reservoir that is part of an experimental water system constructed to rescue the cattle business of a lady rancher that leases from the forest service.
When pilot Bert, Scott and Lassie crash land a helicopter in the snowy wilderness, a search ensues by air and snowmobiles operated by Bob and Mark who are lead to the crash site by Lassie.
Scott intervenes to correct the a father and a son relationship which has become dysfunctional after the mother's death and has caused the son to shun school and take careless actions with firearms.
Neeka spends his vacation with Lassie, Scott and Bob at the Roaring Camp spur line which will run through the redwood forest. There they befriend a little chick who continually wanders into trouble.
Bob and Neeka must nurse Lassie back to health when on a camping trip she falls into freezing rapids while she and Neeka are assisting a nesting crow in danger.
On a nature hike, Scott and Lassie help Kathy, a withdrawn and fearful girl who is attending school with other children who are blind.
A fawn run nearly to death puts Scott on the trail two youths who recklessly operate their snowmobiles.
Manuel Sandoval crosses the Mexican border into the U.S.to receive the blessing of the animals at a mission to keep a promise to his little sister that their deaf dog will hear by Christmas.
Scott, with Lassie, joins Park Ranger Ivan in flying over Superstition Canyon discussing local legends. They locate a hardy prospector Hobart who has appendicitis. Lassie is left to take care of his burro Emily until Scott can return.
Scott and Lassie visit San Francisco's Chinatown. When Lassie is struck by a car while saving a child, she is taken to a vet's office. She may have amnesia so when a fire breaks out in the office, she escapes with no idea where she is or where she should go.
The next day Lassie searches for her identity. She visits a wax museum at Fisherman's Wharf and the waterfront, where she meets a down-on-his-luck young fisherman with a family and a boat loan he can't repay.
Lassie heads back into San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge and meets Sue, a lonely runaway. Next day Lassie brings together Sue with a lonely soldier. On her own again, Lassie is mistaken for a possibly-rabid collie named Tawny.
Her memory now recovering, Lassie flees through San Francisco streets while being hunted by both health officials and police as a rabid dog. Meanwhile Bob joins Scott in the search for their beloved collie.
Paul Peterson crashes his boat on a rock and he and lassie are stranded in the water. a rescued seagull guides a game warden and friend to the rescue.
Bob takes Lassie and Neeka, an Alaskan native, to see the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde Park. While exploring Neeka falls, breaking his leg with Lassie going for help. A daring and dangerous rescue is conducted by the rangers.
Clint and Edie, along with Clint's guide dog Ginger, live in a remote area of the forest. Bob leaves Lassie for a visit so when Edie is injured Lassie leads Clint to her. Lassie goes for help while Ginger faces a mountain lion.
When Lassie is sickened by toxic pink snow, Bob must kayak through the rapids without portaging through the most dangerous parts to get help on time.
On a trip to survey tribal lands Lassie, Bob and a Navajo guide find and rescue a dog swimming in Lake Powell. Chuka is a lazy dog and would rather rest than tend sheep, but things change quickly when his owner is injured and Lassie must go for help.
Lassie and drifter Mark come upon a fire on the Pearson ranch, putting it out for which the Pearsons are grateful. Their collie Duke bonds with Lassie so Mark parts ways with his traveling companion. The dogs later tangle with a vicious stray.
Lassie finds happiness with Sgt. Hayes learning to herd sheep on his ranch. She has three pups with his collie Duke but the sergeant is under the mistaken belief a killer wild dog is the father. Lassie runs away to save her puppies.
After Lassie leaves the Hayes Ranch she finds shelter in a small cave with her pups but has no food or water. A young mute boy Kerry finds them, bringing them food but learns he is to be sent away to school. He then runs away.
The Holts and their friends search for the runaway Kerry but he is with Lassie and her pups. After a dangerous encounter with a mountain lion Kerry is found. Lassie leaves one of her offspring before continuing her journey.
Lassie's journey goes on, teaching the two pups about predators and survival in the wild. Taking shelter in an abandoned building during a storm, the adventuresome youngsters still find danger but Lassie keeps them safe.
Lassie and her pups meet Davey Braddock, a boy so grief-stricken by the recent death of his dog that he doesn't want anything to do with any other dog. Lassie and her pups have their work cut out for them.
Lassie and her remaining puppy meet a young teen Jodi Tyler in the forest. Living there with just her father, she has a special bond with animals. Lassie helps in a bulldozer accident then leaves her pup before continuing her journey.
Lassie befriends an elderly man who feeds a flock of birds and claims that they love him. His friends laugh at him about this claim, but when he becomes ill the behavior of the birds surprises everyone.
After a forest fire caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette, Lassie assist various animals recover from difficulties caused by the fire.
Lassie's journey is interrupted when she is sickened by insecticide. Found by Gary and his father, the collie regains her health on their horse ranch. She calms a nervous stallion, helps deliver a colt and fights a cougar.
Gary is upset over Glory's cougar injury and Lassie tries to comfort him. Bert is convinced to give equine surgery a chance so they follow the horse through the operation and swim therapy until he's ready to return to the track.
Lassie and a truck driver rescue a man walking across America while living "a year of Sundays." The workaholic trucker, who has been putting off a vacation, laughs at Mark's plan until a near-tragedy makes him re-think his own priorities.
During a storm Lassie takes shelter in a garage belonging to a lonely woman whose children have all gone. Lassie is dirty so the woman doesn't want to let her come into the house. Then the loose dirt behind her house begins to slide.
Lassie brings together two lonely people when she finds an injured bird and brings it to a man. He enlists the help of his neighbor, a single woman. While caring for the bird, they learn to care for each other.
Lassie is kept busy saving animals: a ring-tailed cat, a horned owls nest, a gray fox, and a burrowing owl.
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. With Robert Patten, Don Eitner, Scott Perry, Robert Ferrel, and Danny Madrid. Note: When the question of who Lassie belongs to arises, the forest ranger replies, "Oh, I guess to everyone who needs her."
A rural boy, bored with his surroundings, decides to strike out on his own and go exploring. Being angry with his neighbor for posting "no trespassing" signs makes it easier for him to steal that neighbor's horse for the journey. .
When Patty comes to visit her aunt, she is poisoned by arsenic in the water. Her aunt finds the source of the poison in an old mine but is trapped when the floor collapses. Lassie helps the aunt by finding Patty before she leaves for home.
Lassie makes new friends at the beach, mixed breed Skipper plus two surfers, new acquintances Reed and John. Reed is with the harbor patrol but John is aimless, who "borrows" a boat. Lassie must save John after an accident.
Lassie returns to the Braddock ranch where she left one of her pups. While playing Lassie falls down an abandoned well. The Braddocks begin to dig to get the heroic collie out and but are needing help.
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.
Lassie finds an abandoned grey kitten and protects it throughout a memorable day. The cat finds a lake to fall into, a hungry owl, and a beligerent pig. Lassie manages to find a new home for the wayward youngster.
Lassie rescues a hawk tangled in a kite string; the hawk returns the favor when a snake threatens Lassie's friend, a coyote pup, Next Lassie saves the pup from nearby rapids before finally needing help herself and receiving it from two young men on a hiking trip,
Lassie travels with the two men who rescued her. Ron and Dale have bought a treasure map and search for a gold mine. Once they find the location they're in trouble: a fire is headed for an old shed which contains dynamite.
Lassie makes friends with a small dog who is the mascot of an old railroad spur line. The little dog manages to get into all sorts of trouble. Luckily Lassie is there to help.
Ron and Dale and Lassie travel onward and stop for the night to sleep in an old barn that appears to be haunted.
Ron and Dale return home to the Holden Ranch where Lassie is welcomed by Garth Holden and his foster sons. The ranch is a working ranch and a foster home for boys. Lassie helps a withdrawn little boy who never knew his parents.
A mother raccoon with two babies is attacked by a wolf. The babies hide. The mother goes into the river and is washed downstream. Lassie finds the baby raccoons.
Ron and Lassie go to town to get a gift for Garth. When an earthquake hits, Ron is knocked unconscious and Lassie escapes from the truck. While Lassie helps other animals inconvenienced by the quake,.Garth helps Ron search for Lassie.
When Ron and Lassie return home from a trip, they find that Mike has adopted a raccoon. The raccoon is jealous of Lassie. Soon Lassie and Rags are feuding, which endangers both of them when a fire breaks out on a house construction site.
Mike befriends Henry Newton, an elderly man who flies a plane at airshows under the name of "The Flying Grandpa." Henry's tales of his own bravery during his air stunts impress Mike but seem to be untrue when a bear charges Henry and Mike.
While checking range land's suitability for grazing cattle, Garth and Dale see a young white stallion challenge the older black leader for dominance. .When the white stallion wins and drives the injured black stallion away, Lassie tries to lead him to safety.
Back at the Holden Ranch Garth and Dale leave food and water for the black stallion and hope he will choose to live at the ranch. The stallion once more visits his herd then accepts his new reality and returns to the ranch.
Home from college, Ron and Dale go out on the annual stray roundup. They make a bet as to which of them will find the most cattle. Meanwhile Lassie helps a calf stuck in quicksand and then helps Ron when he's thrown from his horse.
Out with Lassie, Ron and Dale spend a couple of days camping at Pine Lake before returning to college. They meet a boy who may be a runaway; he builds a campsite in the woods and then steals one of the motorcycles they've rented.
Lassie and Garth go to Vandenberg Air Force Base where Garth will be best man for one of his foster sons. While Garth attends a Minuteman missile launch, Lassie befriends a snow goose who has laid her eggs in a missile launching area.
A snow goose has laid eggs in the prohibited missile range zone. Lassie enters the area and manages to save the mother bird and her goslings. Later on, Lassie, back in Offut, becomes the friend of Sparky, a diabetic poodle. The trouble is that the doggie unfortunately stows away on the "Looking Glass"...
The presence of Sparky, the stowaway poodle, aboard the Looking Glass,is discovered. But as he has not taken his insulin dose, he is bound to go into a diabetic coma. Fortunately, Cameron receives permission to land and Sparky is saved in extremis. Later, Lassie and Colonel Stone get to know Jimmy, a crippled boy who does not believe in God anymore because of his condition...
Jimmy Fredericks doesn't believe in God anymore, but when his father's aircraft is stricken with a power failure that may interfere with the lowering of the landing gear and cause the plane to crash, the boy must re-examine his faith.
Garth takes Jimmy Fredericks back to the ranch. There Jimmy meets Lucy Baker, deaf most of her life, and her pet wolf Mountie. Unfortunately while he's playing with Lassie, Mountie is shot by a shepherd who doesn't know he's a pet.
Lassie hides Mountie in a cave where Lucy and Jimmy find him. Lucy sends JImmy for help on her horse. Despite being thrown from the horse, Jimmy finds the shepherd who shot Mountie. Meanwhile Lassie returns to the Holden Ranch. .
When Mountie dies, Lucy cannot understand why and goes into a deep depression. To help Lucy deal with her loss Sue asks her to help out at the wild animal park. Eventually Lucy begins to take an interest in the animals. Lassie also helps.
Ron reads a letter to the boys that Garth will remain a VISTA volunteer and his brother Keith will take charge of the ranch. This upsets the boys and Mikey takes off with Lassie. A storm related fire endangers Lassie but Keith proves himself.
Lassie and Lucy eagerly anticipate the return of the doves to the local mission. While waiting they wander the town, greeting people and then help the gardener Johann. A hawk threatens the first dove they see.
A storm knocks down a fence allowing a foal to wander off and injuring the mother. Lassie and Lucy leave on horseback to search for the colt followed by Ron and Dale. A tumble into a river endangers the young animal.
Crows are marauding the corn and Lassie can't fend them off herself. The boys create a scarecrow but the birds aren't impressed. One steals Mike's $3 and he falls into a water storage tower trying to get it back. Lassie must rescue him.
Lassie finds a hearing impaired boy, who cannot speak, so she lets Keith and Dale know. They bring young Lucy over to communicate with him but he won't identify himself. The boy then finds an injured dog that he bonds with.
The mystery boy turns out to be Tommy, who is a runaway from an orphanage because Father Lavery is being transferred. The injured dog is a police dog identified by two officers who want to help. Lucy gets Tommy to open up.
Lassie is exploring the seashore when she encounters three kittens left in a cage. They get released but Lassie must fight off a mean dog and then keep the kittens safe from the incoming tide.
Out exploring Lassie encounters a pair of nesting eagles. When the female injures her wing, Lassie alerts Ron and Keith who try to help. Lassie and her friends devise a way to help feed the chicks without disturbing the male.
Lassie befriends a high strung horse Midnight who belongs to Mr. Dobbs, a neighbor to the Holden Ranch. The stallion is being trained to race but a trip to the track ends in a mishap with Lassie on hand to help out.
Lassie and Lucy meet Joey, a runaway boy, when she is out riding. Bringing him to the Holden Ranch, he learns from the other boys about cattle and other farm activities. Joey overhears Keith on the phone and takes off again.
Because of the misunderstood phone call Joey runs away. After it's discovered Keith, Dale, and Ron start searching for on horseback in the rugged country. With the help of Lassie they discover Joey has fallen into a crevice.
The Holdens are afraid Karl will not survive after a heart attack robs his will to live.
Dale, Keith, and Lassie encounter Julio, who wants to build his dream house in an area with no water. Willie helps Julio build a well in a likely futile exercise. Dale and Keith want to include the older man as part of the ranch family.
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.
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.
Dale's new hobby is building and flying model airplanes so he is determined to retrieve one lost in a remote area. Dale leaves with Lassie and a new horse Midnight but the trip turns disastrous when a rattlesnake startles Dale near a cliff.
Dale is severly hurt after tumbling down a cliff with only an injured Lassie by his side. Lassie struggles to make her way to Midnight, hoping the horse will know to head to the ranch and alert Keith to the situation.
Lassie's stray dog friend gives birth in the Holden barn. Dale and Keith trail a coyote who takes a puppy into the mountains. They encounter two ranchers hunting coyotes as pests so Lassie teaches everyone a lesson.
Two inept crooks Harley and Frank, don't call him Francis, steal Midnight from the Holden ranch. Lassie follows them to a ghost town, leaving enough clues for Keith and Dale to find the horse thieves.
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.
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.
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.
Lucy, while hiking with Lassie, meets a traveling young Johnny who has a guitar and a dog Smokey. Her mother agrees to hire the troubled young man temporarily as he learns about life and what's important.
Dale and Keith are going to be gone so Lassie heads over to the Baker farm to look in on the newborn calf. It escapes from it's pen and Lassie spends the day keeping the calf safe.
