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39 Episodes 1955 - 1956
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 11, 195530 mins
Lassie hides Laddie, the runt of her litter, to protect the pup from being given away by the Millers.
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 18, 195530 mins
Jeff and Lassie tangle with a man who trains pit bull terriers to fight other dogs.
Episode 3
Fri, Sep 9, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 2, 195530 mins
Jeff and Porky train Lassie and take her to an obedience trial encountering both mishap and achievement during the process.
Episode 5
Wed, Oct 19, 195530 mins
When the new school teacher prohibit pets in the classroom one student sneaks in a snake.
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 16, 195530 mins
Jeff schemes to get out of his violin lessons by having Lassie howl during his practice.
Episode 7
Sun, Oct 23, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 8
Sun, Oct 30, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 9
Sun, Nov 6, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 10
Sun, Nov 13, 195530 mins
Jeff and Gramps become jealous, after Clay asks Ellen to go out dancing with him.
Episode 11
Sun, Nov 20, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 12
Sun, Nov 27, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 13
Sun, Dec 4, 195530 mins
The Millers, Lassie, and Jeff's friend Porky hunker down in the storm cellar, while a tornado wreaks havoc, above.
Episode 14
Sun, Dec 11, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 15
Sun, Dec 18, 195530 mins
A family of Gypsies decides to setup camp on the Miller's property.
Episode 16
Sun, Dec 25, 195530 mins
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.
Episode 17
Sun, Jan 1, 195630 mins
When Jeff and Porky find a stamp album they assumed they are valuable stamps and will become rich.
Episode 18
Sun, Jan 8, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 19
Sun, Jan 15, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 20
Sun, Jan 22, 195630 mins
Emmett Kerry approaches Gramps Miller about selling his farm to a wealthy man who wants a large spread for his cattle breeding operation. He leaves his son Edgar with Jeff in the barn. Edgar is interested in riding their yearling Daimond, but Jeff insists he is too young and not saddle broken. When Edgar tries to approach Diamond with a saddle, he is nudged over by the horse. He picks up a stick to beat the horse, but Jeff steps in and starts to wrestle him for control of the stick. Jeff's mother Ellen catches them fighting and sends Jeff into the house. When she follows him, Edgar is left alone in the barn. He again tries to saddle Diamond, once more ending up being nudged over. He picks up the same stick to hit the horse. This time Lassie is there to keep him away. In fighting to get the stick back, Edgar falls and injures his leg on a roll off barbed wire. He yelps in pain. As Gramps and Emmett show up, Emmett asks if Lassie bit him. This gives Edgar a convenient excuse for his injury, so he says yes. Emmett storms off swearing to have Lassie tried as a vicious dog. Proceedings at the trial are looking grim until Caleb Brown, the Millers' lawyer, uncovers the bite marks. Jeff instantly sees that the marks are too far apart to be from Lassie's teeth. He tosses the judge's gavel for Lassie to catch. The tooth marks on the handle prove his point. Case dismissed.
Episode 21
Sun, Jan 29, 195630 mins
Jeff and Porky finds a injured hawk and nurses it back to health.
Episode 22
Sun, Feb 5, 195630 mins
Jeff decides that he wants to build a tree house with his friend Porky as a partner. This leads to a "blood brothers" ceremony that includes not only pricking their fingers with a thorn, but also burying valuables - a pocket watch chain by Jeff and a four-leaf clover by Porky. Even Lassie and Porky's hound are involved. The boys get permission to spend the night after the tree house is complete. The dogs are raised in the elevator to sleep by their masters. Sleep becomes impossible when Porky's dog starts howling at the moon. He makes so much racket that Jeff finally loses his temper and says the Porky and his dog must leave. They do. In the morning, Jeff feels bad, so he calls Porky to apologize. But Porky never came home. Jeff runs back to the tree house to check things out and catches Porky at the bottom on the ladder. Porky flees. Jeff climbs up the ladder to peer into the tree house and finds it a wreck. He is sure that Porky has done it as revenge for being tossed out during the night. Everyone gets together to sort things out - Gramps, Jeff, Jeff's mom Ellen, Porky and his dad. Under questioning, Porky admits to sleeping in the barn but denies messing things up. Jeff is skeptical. That night Lassie is disturbed by some noises coming from the tree house. Jeff climbs up to inspect the interior. There is a bear that escaped from a local circus making itself at home and tearing up some more things. Porky is exonerated.
Episode 23
Sun, Feb 12, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 24
Sun, Feb 19, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 25
Sun, Feb 26, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 26
Sun, Mar 4, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 27
Sun, Mar 11, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 28
Sun, Mar 18, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 29
Sun, Mar 25, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 30
Sun, Apr 1, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 31
Sun, Apr 8, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 32
Sun, Apr 15, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 33
Sun, Apr 22, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 34
Sun, Apr 29, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 35
Sun, May 6, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 36
Sun, May 13, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 37
Sun, May 20, 195630 mins
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.
Episode 38
Sun, May 27, 195630 mins
Diane the new girl in town comes between Jeff and Porky.
Episode 39
Sun, Jun 3, 195626 mins
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.