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36 Episodes 1960 - 1961
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 11, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 18, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 25, 196030 mins
After observing Cully Wilson's special way with animals, Timmy befriends a wild skunk which causes Lassie, Ruth and Miss Hazlitt consternation and trepidation.
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 2, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 5
Sun, Oct 9, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 16, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 7
Sun, Oct 23, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 8
Sun, Oct 30, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 9
Sun, Nov 6, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 10
Sun, Nov 13, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 11
Sun, Nov 20, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 12
Sun, Nov 27, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 13
Sun, Dec 4, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 14
Sun, Dec 18, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 15
Sun, Dec 25, 196030 mins
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.
Episode 16
Sun, Jan 1, 196130 mins
Paul threatens to shoot a neighbor's champion bull, an often escapee from his quarters, after it almost kills Timmy and then is accused of the demise of the bull when it is actually poisoned by the neighbor's bitter hired man.
Episode 17
Sun, Jan 8, 196130 mins
Timmy becomes obsessed with saving five extremely debilitated puppies he has found in the woods and achieves mixed results.
Episode 18
Sun, Jan 15, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 19
Sun, Jan 22, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 20
Sun, Jan 29, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 21
Sun, Feb 5, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 22
Sun, Feb 12, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 23
Sun, Feb 19, 196130 mins
When Timmy sees a man destroy an eagle egg, Timmy replaces the egg with another egg, a goose egg. To Timmy's surprise the eagle accepts the gosling when the egg hatches.
Episode 24
Sun, Feb 26, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 25
Sun, Mar 5, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 26
Sun, Mar 12, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 27
Sun, Mar 19, 196130 mins
Timmy new school friend Jose has a pet coyote which is being blamed for a rash of chicken killings.
Episode 28
Sun, Mar 26, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 29
Sun, Apr 2, 196130 mins
Timmy nurses a injured homing pigeon with Lassie help.
Episode 30
Sun, Apr 9, 196130 mins
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 .
Episode 31
Sun, Apr 16, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 32
Sun, Apr 23, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 33
Sun, Apr 30, 196130 mins
A neighbor boy's smugness about his greyhound's racing ability causes Timmy anxiety over Lassie's inability to out run the dog until both boy's learn the value of individual talents when Lassie assists the neighbor out of a fallen log pile.
Episode 34
Sun, May 14, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 35
Sun, May 21, 196130 mins
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.
Episode 36
Sun, May 28, 196130 mins
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.