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Lassie Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
37 Episodes 1959 - 1960
Episode 1
The New Refrigerator
Sun, Sep 6, 195930 mins
The Martins replace their icebox with a brand new second hand electrically operated refrigerator which is a change to which Lassie has trouble adjusting.
Episode 2
Old Henry
Sun, Sep 13, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 3
The Contest
Sun, Sep 20, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 4
The Mascot
Sun, Sep 27, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 5
The Sulky Race
Sun, Oct 4, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 6
Growing Pains
Sun, Oct 11, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 7
The Flying Machine
Sun, Oct 18, 195930 mins
Timmy's friends in a quest to invent a flying machine talk Timmy into jumping off a cliff with a pair of homemade wings.
Episode 8
The UNICEF Story
Sun, Oct 25, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 9
Water Boy
Sun, Nov 1, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 10
The Whopper
Sun, Nov 8, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 11
The Bounty Hunter
Sun, Nov 15, 195930 mins
A bounty hunter is hired to track down a puma that has been seen in the vicinity of people's homes.
Episode 12
The Land Grabber
Sun, Nov 22, 195930 mins
The Martin farm experiences unrelenting vandalism as a man persistently tries to buy the farm.
Episode 13
The Man from Mars
Sun, Nov 29, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 14
In Case of Emergency
Sun, Dec 6, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 15
Star Reporter
Sun, Dec 20, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 16
Alias Jack and Joe
Sun, Dec 27, 195930 mins
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.
Episode 17
Judas Goat
Sun, Jan 3, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 18
The Space Traveler
Sun, Jan 10, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 19
The Maverick
Sun, Jan 17, 196030 mins
When a stray dog disturbs area farms, a conflict ensues between the farmers who wan to shoot the pest and the more humane approach of Warden Smith with whom the Martins side. The dispute is complicated when the dog is trapped in a ravine.
Episode 20
The Grasshopper and the Ant
Sun, Jan 24, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 21
Homing Pigeon
Sun, Jan 31, 196030 mins
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 attacked and injured but rescued by Lassie with the help of a pigeon suitor.
Episode 22
The Explorers
Sun, Feb 7, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 23
The Epidemic
Sun, Feb 14, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 24
Fur-Coated Killer
Sun, Feb 21, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 25
Judgement Seat
Sun, Feb 28, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 26
The Elephant
Sun, Mar 6, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 27
Clementine
Sun, Mar 13, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 28
The Puppy Sitter
Sun, Mar 20, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 29
Champ
Sun, Mar 27, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 30
The Phone Hog
Sun, Apr 3, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 31
The Chase
Sun, Apr 10, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 32
The Killer
Sun, Apr 17, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 33
The Moved Monument
Sun, Apr 24, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 34
The Alligator
Sun, May 1, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 35
The Wrong Gift
Sun, May 8, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 36
The Fog
Sun, May 15, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 37
The Hermit
Sun, May 22, 196030 mins
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.