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Lassie Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1954 - 1955
Episode 1
Inheritance
Sun, Sep 12, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 2
Arithmetic
Sun, Sep 19, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 3
The Colt
Sun, Sep 26, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 4
The Gun
Sun, Oct 3, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 5
Mr. Peabody
Sun, Oct 10, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 6
The Convict
Sun, Oct 17, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 7
Feud
Sun, Oct 24, 195430 mins
Jeff and Porky try to patch up the friendship between the feuding Gramps and Porky's father.
Episode 8
The Lion
Sun, Oct 31, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 9
Gramps
Sun, Nov 7, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 10
Lassie's Pups
Sun, Nov 14, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 11
The Job
Sun, Nov 21, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 12
The Carnival
Sun, Nov 28, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 13
Sale of Lassie
Sun, Dec 5, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 14
The Rustlers
Sun, Dec 12, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 15
The Fighter
Sun, Dec 19, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 16
The Contest
Sun, Dec 26, 195430 mins
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.
Episode 17
Runaways
Sun, Jan 2, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 18
The Brat
Sun, Jan 9, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 19
Father
Sun, Jan 16, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 20
The Fawn
Sun, Jan 23, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 21
Blind Soldier
Sun, Jan 30, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 22
The Cave
Sun, Feb 6, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 23
The Injury
Sun, Feb 13, 195530 mins
Lassie sustains a severe injury after being hit by a car.
Episode 24
The Well
Sun, Feb 20, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 25
The Snake
Sun, Feb 27, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 26
The Bear
Sun, Mar 6, 195530 mins
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.